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P

P is the sixteenth letter of the English Alphabet, and a labial articulation formed by a close compression of the anterior part of the lips, as in ep. It is convertible into b and f, sometimes into v.

This letter is found int he oriental languages, from which it was received into the Greek and Latin; except however the Arabic, which has not this letter, and the Arabians cannot easily pronounce it. In some words which we have borrowed from the Greek, p is mute, as in psalm, ptisan; but is not silent in English words, unless it may be in receipt, and a few irregular words. p aspirated or followed by h, represents the Greek, which answers to the English f, as in philosophy.

As an abbreviation, p stands for Publius, pondo, etc. p adjective DIG for patricia dignitas; p C. for Patres Conscripti; p F. for Publius Fabius; p P. for propositum publice; p R. for populus Romanus; p R.S. for praetoris sententia; p R.S.P. for praeses provinciae.

P.M. stands for post meridiem, afternoon.

As a numeral, p like G, stands for one hundred, and with a dash over it, for four hundred thousand.

Among physicians, p Stands for pugil, or the eighth part of a handful; p AE. For partes aequales, equal parts of the ingredients; p P. for pulvis patrum, or the Jesuits bark in powder; and ppt. For praeparatus, prepared.

Paage

PAAGE, noun [See Pay.] A toll for passage over another persons grounds. [Not used.]

Pabular

PABULAR, adjective [Latin , food.] Pertaining to food; affording food or aliment.

Pabulation

PABULATION, noun [Latin , to feed.] The act of feeding or procuring provender.

Pabulous

PABULOUS, adjective [Latin , food.] Affording aliment or food; alimental.

Pabulum

PABULUM, noun [Latin]

1. Food; aliment; that which feeds.

2. Fuel; that which supplies the means of combustion.

Paca

PACA, noun A small animal of America, bearing some resemblance to a hare and a pig. It is a species of cavy; called also the spotted cavy.

Pacate

PACATE, adjective [Latin] Peaceful; tranquil. [Not used.]

Pacated

PACATED, adjective Appeased. [Little used.]

Pacation

PACATION, noun [Latin , to calm or appease.] The act of appeasing.

Paccan

PACCAN, noun An American tree and its nut.

Pace

PACE, noun [Latin , to open, Gr., to tread. See Pass.]

1. A step.

2. The space between the two feet in walking, estimated at two feet and a half. But the geometrical pace is five feet, or the whole space passed over by the same foot from one step to another. Sixty thousand such paces make one degree on the equator.

3. Manner of walking; a gait; as a languishing pace; a heavy pace; a quick or slow pace

4. Step; gradation in business. [Little used.]

5. A mode of stepping among horses, in which the legs on the same side are lifted together. In a general sense, the word may be applied to any other mode of stepping.

6. Degree of celerity. Let him mend his pace

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day--

To keep or hold pace to keep up; to go or move as fast as something else.

PACE, verb intransitive

1. To go; to walk; to move.

2. To go, move or walk slowly.

3. To move by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse.

PACE, verb transitive

1. To measure by steps; as, to pace a piece of ground.

2. To regulate in motion.

If you ca, pace your wisdom in that good path that I would wish it go--

Paced

PACED, adjective

1. Having a particular gait; used chiefly in composition; as slow-paced.

2. In composition, going all lengths; as a thorough-paced intriguer.

Pacer

PACER, noun One that paces; a horse that paces.

Pachydermatous

PACHYDERMATOUS, adjective [Gr., thick, skin.] Having a thick skin; an epithet applied to an order of animals, called Pachydermata, embracing all the hoofed quadrupeds which do not ruminate, as the elephant, mastodon or North American mammoth, hippopotamus, sus or hog, rhinoceros, tapir, and horse. The horse constitutes a separate order, Solipeda.

Pacific

PACIFIC, adjective [Latin , to make peace. See Peace.]

1. Peace-making; conciliatory; suited to make or restore peace; adapted to reconcile differences; mild; appeasing; as, to offer pacific propositions to a belligerent power. The measures proposed are in their nature pacific

2. Calm; tranquil; as a pacific state of things.

PACIFIC, noun The appellation given to the ocean situated between America on the west, and Asia; so called on account of its exemption from violent tempests.

Pacification

PACIFICATION, noun [Latin See Pacify.

1. The act of making peace between nations or parties at variance.

2. The act of appeasing or pacifying wrath.

Pacificator

PACIFICATOR, noun [Latin] A peace-maker; one that restores amity between contending parties or nations.

Pacificatory

PACIFICATORY, adjective Tending to make peace; conciliatory.

Pacified

PACIFIED, participle passive Appeased; tranquilized.

Pacifier

PACIFIER, noun One who pacifies.

Pacify

PACIFY, verb transitive [Latin , peace, and to make.]

1. To appease, as wrath or other violent passion or appetite; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay agitation or excitement; as, to pacify a man when angry, or to pacify his wrath or rage; the word being applied both to the person and to the passion. So we say, to pacify hunger, to pacify importunate demands.

2. To restore peace to; to tranquilize; as, to pacify countries in contention.

Pacifying

PACIFYING, participle present tense Appeasing; tranquilizing.

Pack

PACK, noun [See the Verb.]

1. A bundle of any thing inclosed in a cover or bound fast with cords; a bale; as a pack of goods or cloth. The soldier bears a pack on his back.

2. A burden or load; as a pack of sorrows.

3. A number of cards, or the number used in games; so called from being inclosed together.

4. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together, that is, a crowd or assemblage united.

5. A number of persons united in a bad design or practice; as a pack of thieves or knaves.

6. A great number crowded together; as a pack of troubles. [Not used.]

7. A loose or lewd person. [Not used.]

PACK, verb transitive [Latin pango, pactum, pactus; impingo, compingo.]

1. To place and press together; to place in close order; as, to pack goods in a box or chest.

2. To put together and bind fast; as, to pack any thing for carriage with cords or straps.

3. To put in close order with salt intermixed; as, to pack meat or fish in barrels.

4. To send in haste.

5. To put together, as cards, in such a manner as to secure the game; to put together in sorts with a fraudulent design, as cards; hence, to unite persons iniquitously, with a view to some private interest; as, to pack a jury, that is, to select persons for a jury who may favor a party; to pack a parliament; to pack an assembly of bishops.

PACK, verb intransitive To be pressed or close; as, the goods pack well.

1. To close; to shut.

2. To depart in haste; with off.

Poor Stella must pack off to town.

3. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

Go, pack with him.

Package

PACK'AGE, noun A bundle or bale; a quantity pressed or bound together; as a package of cloth.

1. A charge made for packing goods.

Packcloth

PACK'CLOTH, noun A cloth for packing goods, or in which they are tied.

Packed

PACK'ED, participle passive Put together and pressed; tied or bound in a bundle; put down and salted, as meat; sent off; united iniquitously.

Packer

PACK'ER, noun One that packs; an officer appointed to pack meat, as beef, port, fish, etc.

Packet

PACK'ET, noun

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as a packet of letters.

2. A dispatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed by government to convey letters from country to country or from port to port.

3. A vessel employed in conveying dispatches and passengers from place to place, or to carry passengers and goods coastwise.

PACK'ET, verb intransitive To ply with a packet or dispatch-vessel.

Packet-Boat

PACKET-BOAT. [See Packet.]

Packet-Ship

PACK'ET-SHIP, noun A ship that sails regularly between distant countries for the conveyance of dispatches, letters, passengers, etc.

Packhorse

PACK'HORSE, noun A horse employed in carrying packs or goods and baggage.

1. A beast of burden.

Packing

PACK'ING, participle present tense Laying together in close order; binding in a bundle; putting in barrels with salt, etc.; uniting, as men for a fraudulent purpose.

PACK'ING, noun A trick; collusion.

Packsaddle

PACK'SADDLE, noun A saddle on which packs or burdens are laid for conveyance.

Packstaff

PACK'STAFF, noun A staff on which a traveler occasionally supports his pack.

Packthread

PACK'THREAD, noun Strong thread or twine used in tying up parcels.

PACK'-WAX, noun A tendinous substance of the neck of an animal.

Paco

PA'CO

Pacos

PA'COS, n. An animal of South America, resembling the camel in shape, but much smaller. It is sometimes called the Peruvian sheep, on account of its long thick hair.

Pact

PACT, noun [Latin pactus, from pango. See Pack.]

A contract; an agreement or covenant.

Paction

PAC'TION, noun [Latin pactio. See Pack.] An agreement or contract.

Pactional

PAC'TIONAL, adjective By way of agreement.

Pactitious

PACTI'TIOUS, adjective Settled by agreement or stipulation.

Pad

PAD, noun

1. A foot path; a road. [Not now used.]

2. An easy paced horse.

3. A robber that infests the road on foot; usually called a foot- pad

PAD, noun A soft saddle, cushion or bolster stuffed with straw, hair or other soft substance.

PAD, verb intransitive To travel slowly.

1. To rob on foot.

2. To beat a way smooth and level.

Padar

PAD'AR, noun Grouts; coarse flour or meal. [Not used in U. States.]

Padder

PAD'DER, noun A robber on foot; a highwayman.

Paddle

PAD'DLE, verb intransitive [Latin pes, pedis, the foot, and this is allied to Gr., to tread.]

1. To row; to beat the water, as with oars.

2. To play in the water with the hands, as children; or with the feet, as fowls or other animals.

3. To finger.

PAD'DLE, verb transitive To propel by an oar or paddle

PAD'DLE, noun [In Latin batillus is a paddle-staff; in Gr. a pole.]

1. An oar, but not a large oar. It is now applied to a sort of short oar used in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

2. The blade or the broad part of an oar or weapon.

Thou shalt have a paddle on thy weapon. Deuteronomy 23:13.

Paddle-Staff

PAD'DLE-STAFF, noun A staff headed with broad iron.

Paddler

PAD'DLER, noun On that paddles.

Paddock

PAD'DOCK, noun A toad or frog.

PAD'DOCK, noun

1. A small inclosure for deer or other animals.

2. An inclosure for races with hounds, etc.

Paddock-Pipe

PAD'DOCK-PIPE, noun A plant of the genus Equisetum.

Paddock-Stool

PAD'DOCK-STOOL, noun A plant of the genus Agaricus; a mushroom, vulgarly toadstool.

Padelion

PADELI'ON, noun A plant.

Padlock

PAD'LOCK, noun A lock to be hung on a staple and held by a link.

PAD'LOCK, verb transitive To fasten with a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine.

Padnag

PAD'NAG, noun An ambling nag.

Padow-Pipe

PAD'OW-PIPE, noun A plant. [See Paddock-pipe.]

Paduasoy

PADUASOY', noun A particular kind of silk stuff.

Paean

PAE'AN

PA'ER-STAINER, noun One that stains, colors or stamps paper for hangings.

Paer-Stainer

PA'ER-STAINER, n. One that stains, colors or stamps paper for hangings.

Pagan

PA'GAN, noun [Latin paganus, a peasant or countryman, from pagus, a village.] A heathen; a Gentile; an idolater; one who worships false gods. This word was originally applied to the inhabitants of the country, who on the first propagation of the christian religion adhered to the worship of false gods, or refused to receive christianity, after it had been received by the inhabitants of the cities. In like manner, heather signifies an inhabitant of the heath or woods, and caffer, in Arabic, signifies the inhabitant of a hut or cottage, and one that does not receive the religion of Mohammed. pagan is used to distinguish one from a Christian and a Mohammedan.

PA'GAN, adjective Heathen; heathenish; Gentile; noting a person who worships false gods.

1. Pertaining to the worship of false gods.

Paganism

PA'GANISM, noun Heathenism; the worship of false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans.

Men instructed from their infancy in the principles and duties of christianity, never sink to the degradation of paganism

Paganize

PA'GANIZE, verb transitive To render heathenish; to convert to heathenism.

PA'GANIZE, verb intransitive To behave like pagans.

Paganized

PA'GANIZED, participle passive Rendered heathenish.

Paganizing

PA'GANIZING, participle present tense Rendering heathenish; behaving like pagans; adopting heathen principles and practice.

Page

PAGE, noun [Gr. a boy.]

1. A boy attending on a great person, rather for formality or show, than for servitude.

He had two pages of honor, on either hand one.

2. A boy or man that attends on a legislative body. In Massachusetts, the page is a boy that conveys papers from the members of the house of representatives to the speaker, and from the speaker or clerk to the members.

PAGE, noun [Latin pagina.] One side of a leaf of a book.

1. A book or writing or writings; as the page of history.

2. Pages, in the plural, signifies also books or writings; as the sacred pages.

PAGE, verb transitive To mark or number the pates of a book or manuscript.

1. To attend, as a page

Pageant

PAGEANT, noun pa'jent. [Latin pegma; Gr. something showy carried in triumph.]

1. A statue in show, or a triumphal car, chariot, arch or other pompous thing, decorated with flags, etc. and carried in public shows and processions.

2. A show; a spectacle of entertainment; something intended for pomp.

I'll play my part in fortune's pageant

3. Any thing showy, without stability or duration.

Thus unlamented pass the proud away,

The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day.

PA'GEANT, adjective Showy; pompous; ostentatious.

PA'GEANT, verb transitive To exhibit in show; to represent.

Pageanty

PA'GEANTY, noun Show; pompous exhibition or spectacle.

Such pageantry to be the people shown.

Pagil

PA'GIL, noun A plant and flower of the genus Primula or primrose; cowslip-primrose.

Paginal

PAG'INAL, adjective Consisting of pages.

Pagod

PA'GOD

PAGO'DA, noun

1. A temple in the East Indies in which idols are worshiped.

2. An idol; an image of some supposed deity.

PAGO'DA, noun A gold or silver coin current in Hindoostan, of different values in different parts of India, from $1.75 cts. to $2, or from 8 to 9s.sterling.

Pagoda

PAGO'DA, n. 1. A temple in the East Indies in which idols are worshiped.2. An idol; an image of some supposed deity. PAGO'DA, n. A gold or silver coin current in Hindoostan, of different values in different parts of India, from $1.75 cts. to $2, or from 8 to 9s.sterling.

Pagodite

PA'GODITE, noun A name given to the mineral of which the Chinese make their pagodas. It is called also lardite, koreite, and agalmatolite.

Paid

PAID, preterit tense and participle passive of pay; paid for payed.

Paigle

PA'IGLE

PAIL, noun An open wooden vessel used in families for carrying liquids, as water and milk, usually containing from eight to twelve quarts.

Pail

PAIL, n. An open wooden vessel used in families for carrying liquids, as water and milk, usually containing from eight to twelve quarts.

Pail-Full

PA'IL-FULL, noun The quantity that a pail will hold.

Pailmail

PAILMAIL. [See Pallmall.]

Pain

PAIN, noun [Latin paena; Gr. penalty, and pain labor.]

1. An uneasy sensation in animal bodies, of any degree from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from pressure, tension or spasm, separation of parts by violence, or any derangement of functions. Thus violent pressure or stretching of a limb gives pain; inflammation produces pain; wounds, bruises and incisions give pain

2. Labor; work; toil; laborious effort. In this sense, the plural only is used; as, to take pains; to be at the pains.

High without taking pains to rise.

The same with pains we gain, but lose with ease.

3. Labor; toilsome effort; task; in the singular. [Not now used.]

4. Uneasiness of mind; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude for the future; grief, sorrow for the past. We suffer pain when we fear or expect evil; we feel pain at the loss of friends or property.

5. The throws or distress of travail or childbirth.

She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. 1 Samuel 4:19.

6. Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime.

None shall presume to fly under pain of death.

Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.

PAIN, verb transitive

1. To make uneasy or to disquiet; to cause uneasy sensations in the body, of any degree of intensity; to make simply uneasy, or to distress, to torment. The pressure of fetters may pain a limb; the rack pains the body.

2. To afflict; to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress. We are pained at the death of a friend; grief pains the heart; we are often pained with fear or solicitude.

I am pained at my very heart. Jeremiah 4:19.

3. Reciprocally, to pain one's self, to labor; to make toilsome efforts. [Little used.]

Painful

PA'INFUL, adjective Giving pain, uneasiness or distress to the body; as a painful operation in surgery.

1. Giving pain to the mind; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

Evils have been more painful to us in the prospect, than in the actual pressure.

2. Full of pain; producing misery or affliction.

3. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service. The army had a painful march.

4. Laborious; exercising labor; undergoing toil; industrious.

Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.

Painfully

PA'INFULLY, adverb With suffering of body; with affliction, uneasiness or distress of mind.

1. Laboriously; with toil; with laborious effort or diligence.

Painfulness

PA'INFULNESS, noun Uneasiness or distress of body.

1. Affliction; sorrow; grief; disquietude or distress of mind.

2. Laborious effort or diligence; toil.

Painim

PA'INIM, noun A pagan. [Not used.]

PA'INIM, adjective Pagan; infidel. [Not used.]

Painless

PA'INLESS, adjective Free from pain.

1. Free from trouble.

Painstaker

PA'INSTAKER, noun A laborious person.

Painstaking

PA'INSTAKING, adjective Laborious; industrious.

PA'INSTAKING, noun Labor; great industry.

Paint

PA'INT, verb transitive [Latin pingo, pictus.]

1. To form a figure or likeness in colors; as, to paint a hero or a landscape.

2. To cover or besmear with color or colors, either with or without figures; as, to paint a cloth; to paint a house.

3. To represent by colors or images; to exhibit in form.

When folly romantic, we must paint it.

4. To represent or exhibit to the mind; to present in form or likeness to the intellectual view; to describe.

Disloyal!

--The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.

5. To color; to diversify with colors.

6. To lay on artificial color for ornament.

Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings 9:30.

PAINT, verb intransitive To lay colors on the face. It is said the ladies in France paint

1. To practice painting. The artist paints well.

PAINT, noun A coloring substance; a substance used in painting; either simple or compound; as a white paint or red paint

1. Color laid on canvas or other material; color representing any thing.

2. Color laid on the face; rouge.

Painted

PA'INTED, participle passive Colored; rubbed over with paint; as a painted house or cloth.

1. Represented in form by colors.

2. Described.

Painter

PA'INTER, noun One whose occupation is to paint; one skilled in representing things in colors.

PA'INTER, noun A rope used to fasten a boat to a ship or other object.

Painting

PA'INTING, participle present tense Representing in colors; laying on colors.

PA'INTING, noun The art of forming figures or resembling objects in colors on canvas or other material, or the art of representing to the eye by means of figures and colors, any object of sight, and sometimes the emotions of the mind.

1. A picture; a likeness or resemblance in colors.

2. Colors laid on.

Painture

PA'INTURE, noun The art of painting.

Pair

PAIR, noun [Latin par; Heb. to join, couple or associate.]

1. Two things of a kind, similar in form, applied to the same purpose, and suited to each other or used together; as a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes; a pair of oxen or horses.

2. Two of a sort; a couple; a brace; as a pair of nerves; a pair of doves. Luke 2:24.

PAIR, verb intransitive To be joined in pairs; to couple, as, birds pair in summer.

1. To suit; to fit; as a counterpart.

Ethelinda,

My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.

PAIR, verb transitive To unite in couples; as minds paired in heaven.

1. To unite as correspondent, or rather to contrast.

Glossy jet is paired with shining white.

PAIR, verb transitive To impair. [See Impair.]

Pair-Royal

PAIR-ROYAL, noun Three of a sort in certain games of cards.

Paired

PA'IRED, participle passive Joined in couples, fitted; suited.

Pairing

PA'IRING, participle present tense Uniting in pairs; fitting.

Palace

PAL'ACE, noun [Latin palatium.]

1. A magnificent house in which an emperor, a king or other distinguished person resides; as an imperial palace; a royal palace; a pontifical palace; a ducal palace

2. A splendid place of residence; as the sun's bright palace

Palace-Court

PAL'ACE-COURT, noun The domestic court of the kings of Great Britain, which administers justice between the king's domestic servants. It is held once a week before the steward of the household and knight marshal; its jurisdiction extending twelve miles in circuit from his majesty's palace.

Palacious

PALA'CIOUS, adjective [from palace.] Royal; noble; magnificent. [Not used.]

Palankeen

PALANKEE'N

PALAN'QUIN, noun A covered carriage used in India, China, etc. borne on the shoulders of men, and in which a single person is conveyed from place to place.

Palanquin

PALAN'QUIN, n. A covered carriage used in India, China, &c. borne on the shoulders of men, and in which a single person is conveyed from place to place.

Palatable

PAL'ATABLE, adjective [from palate.] Agreeable to the taste; savory.

1. That is relished.

Palatableness

PAL'ATABLENESS, noun The quality of being agreeable to the taste; relish.

Palatal

PAL'ATAL, adjective Pertaining to the palate; uttered by the aid of the palate.

PAL'ATAL, noun A letter pronounced by the aid of the palate, or an articulation of the root of the tongue with the roof of the mouth; as g hard and k, in eg, ek.

Palate

PAL'ATE, noun [Latin palatum, properly the arch or cope of heaven.]

1. The roof or upper part of the mouth. The glands in this part of the mouth secrete a mucous fluid, which lubricates the mouth and throat, and facilitates deglutition.

2. Taste.

Hard task to hit the palates of such guests.

[This signification of the word originated in the opinion that the palate is the instrument of taste. This is a mistake. In itself it has no power of taste.]

3. Mental relish; intellectual taste.

Men of nice palates could not relish Aristotle, as dressed up by the schoolmen.

PAL'ATE, verb transitive To perceive by the taste. [Not used.]

Palatial

PALA'TIAL, adjective [from palate.] Pertaining to the palate; as the palatial retraction of the tongue.

PALA'TIAL, adjective [from Latin palatium, palace.] Pertaining to a palace; becoming a palace; magnificent.

Palatic

PAL'ATIC, a Belonging to the palate. [Not used.]

Palatinate

PALAT'INATE, noun [Latin palatinus. See Palatine.]

The province or seignory of a palatine; as the palatinate of the Rhine in Germany, called the upper and lower palatinate

Palatine

PAL'ATINE, adjective [Latin palatinus, from palatium, palace.] Pertaining to a palace; an epithet applied originally to persons holding an office or employment in the king; s palace; hence it imports possessing royal privileges; as a count palatine

In England, formerly, were three counties palatine Chester, Durham and Lancaster; the two former by prescription, the latter by grant of Edward III. They were so called, because the proprietors, the earl of Chester, the bishop of Durham and the duke of Lancaster, possessed royal rights, as fully as the king in his palace. Of these, the county of Durham is the only one now remaining in the hands of a subject.

PAL'ATINE, noun One invested with royal privileges and rights. A palatine or count palatine on the continent of Europe, is one delegated by a prince to hold courts of justice in a province, or one who has a palace and a court of justice in his own house. In Poland, a palatine may be regarded as the governor of a province.

Palative

PAL'ATIVE, adjective Pleasing to the taste. [Not used.]

Palaver

PAL'AVER, noun

1. Idle talk.

2. Flattery; adulation. [This is used with us in the vulgar dialect.]

3. Talk; conversation; conference; a sense used in Africa, as appears by the relations of missionaries.

PAL'AVER, verb transitive To flatter. [In vulgar use.]

Pale

PALE, adjective [Latin palleo, pallidus.]

1. White or whitish; wan; deficient in color; not ruddy or fresh of color; as a pale face or skin; pale cheeks. We say also, a pale red, a pale blue, that is, a whitish red or blue. pale is not precisely synonymous with white, as it usually denotes what we call wan, a darkish dun white.

2. Not bright; not shining; of a faint luster; dim; as the pale light of the moon.

The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;

It looks a little paler.

PALE, verb transitive To make pale

PALE, noun [Latin palus; coinciding with Eng. pole, as well as pale It has the elements of Latin pala, a spade or shovel.]

1. A narrow board pointed or sharpened at one end, used in fencing or inclosing. This is with us more generally called a picket.

2. A pointed stake; hence to empale, which see.

3. An inclosure; properly, that which incloses, like fence, limit; hence, the space inclosed. He was born within the pale of the church; within the pale of christianity.

4. District; limited territory.

5. In heraldry, an ordinary, consisting of two perpendicular lines drawn from the top to the base of the escutcheon, and containing the third middle part of the field.

PALE, verb transitive To inclose with pales or stakes.

1. To inclose; to encompass.

Pale-Eyed

PA'LE-EYED, adjective Having eyes dimmed.

Pale-Faced

PA'LE-FACED, adjective Having a pale or wan face.

1. Causing paleness of face; as pale-faced fear.

Pale-Hearted

PA'LE-HE'ARTED, adjective Dispirited.

Paleaceous

PALEA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin palea, straw, chaff.]

1. Chaffy; resembling chaff, or consisting of it; as a paleaceous pappus.

2. Chaffy; furnished with chaff; as a paleaceous receptacle.

Paled

PA'LED, participle passive Inclosed with pales or pickets.

1. Striped.

Palely

PA'LELY, adverb Wanly; not freshly or ruddily.

Palendar

PAL'ENDAR, noun A kind of coasting vessel.

Paleness

PA'LENESS, noun Wanness; defect of color; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness of look.

The blood the virgin's cheek forsook,

A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look.

1. Want of color or luster; as the paleness of a flower.

Paleography

PALEOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. ancient, and writing.]

1. The art of explaining ancient writings. More correctly,

2. An ancient manner of writing; as Punic paleography

Paleologist

PALEOL'OGIST, noun One who writes on antiquity, or one conversant with antiquity.

Paleology

PALEOL'OGY, noun [Gr. ancient, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise on antiquities, or the knowledge of ancient things.

Paleous

PA'LEOUS, adjective [Latin palea, chaff.] Chaffy; like chaff.

Palestrian

PALES'TRIAN

PALES'TRIC, adjective [Gr. a struggling or wrestling, to wrestle, to strive.] Pertaining to the exercise of wrestling.

Palestric

PALES'TRIC, a. [Gr. a struggling or wrestling, to wrestle, to strive.] Pertaining to the exercise of wrestling.

Palet

PAL'ET, noun The crown of the head. [Not used.]

Palette

PALETTE. [See Pallet.]

Palfrey

PAL'FREY, noun [Low Latin paraveredi, [plu of veredus, ] horses of a large size, used for carrying the baggage of an army.]

1. A horse used by noblemen and others for state, distinguished from a war horse.

2. A small horse fit for ladies.

Palfreyed

PAL'FREYED, adjective Riding on a palfrey.

Palification

PALIFICA'TION, noun [from Latin palus, a stake or post.] The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground for making it firm.

Palindrome

PAL'INDROME, noun [Gr. again.] A word, verse or sentence that is the same when read backwards or forwards; as madam, or 'Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.'

Paling

PA'LING, participle present tense Inclosing with pales.

PA'LING, noun A fence formed with pales.

Palinode

PAL'INODE

PAL'INODY, noun [Gr. again, and a song.] A recantation, or declaration contrary to a former one.

Palinody

PAL'INODY, n. [Gr. again, and a song.] A recantation, or declaration contrary to a former one.

Palisade

PALISA'DE, noun A fence or fortification consisting of a row of stakes or posts sharpened and set firmly in the ground. In fortification, the posts are set two or three inches apart, parallel to the parapet in the covered way, to prevent a surprise.

Palisades serve also to fortify the avenues of open forts, gorges, half-moons, the bottom of ditches, etc.

PALISA'DE, verb transitive To surround, inclose or fortify with stakes or posts.

Palish

PA'LISH, adjective [from pale.] Somewhat pale or wan; as a palish blue.

Pall

PALL, noun [Latin pallium.]

1. A cloke; a mantle of state.

2. The mantle of an archbishop.

3. The cloth thrown over a dead body at funerals.

PALL, noun In heraldry, a figure like the Greek.

PALL, verb transitive To cloke; to cover or invest.

PALL, verb intransitive [Gr. old.]

1. To become vapid; to lose strength, life, spirit or taste; to become insipid; as, the liquor palls.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,

Fades in the eye and palls upon the sense.

PALL, verb transitive To make vapid or insipid.

Reason and reflection--blunt the edge of the keenest desires, and pall all his enjoyments.

1. To make spiritless; to dispirit; to depress.

The more we raise our love,

The more we pall and cool and kill his ardor.

2. To weaken; to impair; as, to pall fortune.

3. To cloy; as the palled appetite.

Palladium

PALLA'DIUM, noun [Gr. from Pallas, the goddess.]

1. Primarily, a statue of the goddess Pallas, which represented her as sitting with a pike in her right hand, and in her left a distaff and spindle. On the preservation of this statue depended the safety of Troy. Hence,

2. Something that affords effectual defense, protection and safety; as when we say, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights.

3. A metal found in very small grains, of a steel gray color and fibrous structure, in auriferous and platiniferous sand. It is infusible by ordinary heat, and when native, is alloyed with a litter platina and iridium.

Pallet

PAL'LET, noun [Latin pala.]

1. Among painters, a little oval table or board, or piece of ivroy, on which the painter places the colors to be used. On the middle the colors are mixed to obtain the tints required.

2. Among potters, crucible makers, etc. a wooden instrument for forming, heating and rounding their works. It is oval, round, etc.

3. In gilding, an instrument made of a squirrel's tail, to take up the gold leaves from the pillow, and to apply and extend them.

4. In heraldry, a small pale. [See Pale.]

5. A small part belonging to the balance of a watch; the nut of a watch. It is sometimes written pallat.

6. A measure formerly used by surgeons, containing three ounces.

PAL'LET, noun [Latin palea, straw.] A small bed.

Palliament

PAL'LIAMENT, noun [Latin pallium, a cloke.] A dress; a robe. [Not used.]

Palliard

PAL'LIARD, noun A lecher; a lewd person. [Not used nor English.]

Palliardise

PAL'LIARDISE, noun Fornication. [Not used.]

Palliate

PAL'LIATE, verb transitive [Low Latin pallio, from pallium, a cloke or robe.]

1. To clothe.

2. To cover with excuse; to conceal the enormity of offenses by excuses and apologies; hence, to extenuate; to lessen; to soften by favorable representations; as, to palliate faults, offenses, crimes or vices.

3. To reduce in violence; to mitigate; to lessen or abate; as, to palliate a disease.

PAL'LIATE, adjective Eased; mitigated. [Not used.]

Palliated

PAL'LIATED, participle passive Covered by excuses; extenuated; softened.

Palliating

PAL'LIATING, participle present tense Concealing the enormity or most censurable part of conduct; extenuating; softening.

Palliation

PALLIA'TION, noun The act of palliating; concealment of the most flagrant circumstances of an offense; extenuation by favorable representation; as the palliation of faults, offenses, vices or crimes.

1. Mitigation; alleviation; abatement; as of a disease.

Palliative

PAL'LIATIVE, adjective Extenuating; serving to extenuate by excuses or favorable representation.

1. Mitigating; alleviating; as pain or disease.

PAL'LIATIVE, noun That which extenuates.

1. That which mitigates, alleviates or abates the violence of pain, disease or other evil.

Pallid

PAL'LID, adjective [Latin pallidus, from palleo, to become pale. See Pale.]

Pale; wan; deficient in color; not high colored; as a pallid countenance; pallid blue.

Pallidly

PAL'LIDLY, adverb Palely; wanly.

Pallidness

PAL'LIDNESS, noun Paleness; wanness.

Pallmall

PALL'MALL, noun [Latin pila, a ball, and malleus, mallet.] A play in which a ball is driven through an iron ring by a mallet; also, the mallet.

Pallor

PAL'LOR, noun [Latin] Paleness.

Palm

PALM, noun p'am.. [Latin palma.]

1. The inner part of the hand.

2. A hand or hand's breadth; a lineal measure of three inches.

3. The broad triangular part of an anchor at the end of the arms.

4. The name of many species of plants, but particularly of the date-tree or great palm a native of Asia and Africa.

The palms constitute a natural order of monocotyledonous plants, with a simple cylindric stem, terminating in a crown of leaves or fronds, within which rises a tuft of flowers and fruits; all natives of warm climates. They vary in size from 2 to more than 100 feet in highth.

5. Branches of the palm being worn in token of victory, hence the word signifies superiority, victory, triumph. The palm was adopted as an emblem of victory, it is said, because the tree is so elastic as when pressed, to rise and recover its correct position.

Namur subdued is England's palm alone.

6. Among seamen, an instrument used in sewing canvas instead of a thimble.

PALM, verb transitive p'am. To conceal in the palm of the hand.

They palmed the trick that lost the game.

1. To impose by fraud.

For you may palm upon us new for old.

2. To handle.

3. To stroke with the hand.

Palm-Sunday

PALM-SUNDAY, noun p'am-sunday. The Sunday next before Easter; so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

Palm-Tree

PALM-TREE, noun p'am-tree. The date tree, or Phoenix Lactylifera, a native of Asia and Africa, which grows to the highth of 60 and even of 100 feet, with an upright stem, crowned with a cluster of leaves or branches eight or nine feet long, extending all around like an umbrella. The fruit is in shape somewhat like an acorn. This tree transplanted will grow in Europe, but the fruit never ripens.

This name is applied to other species of palms.

Palmar

PAL'MAR, adjective [Latin palmaris.] Of the breadth of the hand.

Palmated

PAL'MATED, adjective [Latin palmatus, from palma, palm.]

1. Having the shape of a hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread; as palmated leaves or stones.

2. Entirely webbed; as the palmated feet of aquatic fowls.

Palmer

PALMER, noun p'amer. One that returned from the Holy Land bearing branches of palm; a pilgrim or crusader.

Palmer-Worm

PALMER-WORM, noun p'amer-worm. A worm covered with hair; supposed to be so called because he wanders over all plants. Joel 1:1.

Palmetto

PALMET'TO, noun A species of palm-tree, growing in the West Indies, of the genus Chamaerops.

Palmiferous

PALMIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin palma and fero, to bear.] Bearing palms.

Palmiped

PAL'MIPED, adjective [Latin palma and pes, foot.] Web-footed; having the toes connected by a membrane; as a water fowl.

PAL'MIPED, noun A fowl that has webbed feet, or the toes connected by a membrane.

Palmister

PAL'MISTER, noun [Latin palma.] One who deals in palmistry, or pretends to tell fortunes by the palm of the hand.

Palmistry

PAL'MISTRY, noun [Latin palma, palm.] The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; a trick of imposture, much practiced by gypsies.

1. Addison used it humorously for the action of the hand.

Palmy

PALMY, adjective p'amy. Bearing palms.

Palp

PALP, verb transitive to feel. [Not authorized.]

Palpability

PALPABIL'ITY, noun [from palpable.]

The quality of being perceptible by the touch.

Palpable

PAL'PABLE, adjective [Latin palpor, to feel.]

1. Perceptible by the touch; that may be felt; as a palpable substance; palpable darkness.

2. Gross; coarse; easily perceived and detected; as a palpable absurdity.

3. Plain; obvious; easily perceptible; as palpable phenomena; palpable proof.

Palpableness

PAL'PABLENESS, noun The quality of being palpable; plainness; obviousness; grossness.

Palpably

PAL'PABLY, adverb In such a manner as to be perceived by the touch.

1. Grossly; plainly; obviously.

Clodius was acquitted by a corrupt jury that had palpably taken shares of money.

Palpation

PALPA'TION, noun [Latin palpatio, from palpo, to feel, to stroke, from the root of feel, and Gr. to shake. Probably the primary sense is to beat or strike gently, or to touch, or to spring, to leap.]

The act of feeling.

Palpitate

PAL'PITATE, verb intransitive [Latin palpito, from palpo. Palpito illustrates the primary sense of palpo.] To beat gently; to beat, as the heart; to flutter, that is, to move with little throws; as we say, to go pit a pat; applied particularly to a preternatural or excited movement of the heart.

Palpitation

PALPITA'TION, noun [Latin palpitatio.] A beating of the heart; particularly, a preternatural beating or pulsation excited by violent action of the body, by fear, fright or disease.

1 A violent, irregular motion of the heart.

Palsgrave

PALS'GRAVE, noun pawlzgrave. [Latin palatium, palace, and graf, an earl.] A count or earl who has the superintendence of the king's palace.

Palsical

PAL'SICAL, adjective s as z. [from palsy.] Affected with palsy; paralytic.

Palsied

PAL'SIED, adjective [from palsy.] Affected with palsy.

Palsy

PAL'SY, noun s as z. [supposed to be contracted from Gr. relaxation; to loosen or relax.] The loss or defect of the power of voluntary muscular motion in the whole body, or in a particular part; paralysis. When one side only of the body is affected, it is called hemiplegy. When the lower part of the body is paralytic, it is called paraplegy. palsy may be a loss of the power of motion without a loss of sensation, or a loss of sensation without loss of motion, or a loss of both.

PALSY, verb transitive s as z. To paralyze; to deprive of the power of motion; to destroy energy.

Palter

PAL'TER, verb intransitive [Eng. fail.] To shift; to dodge; to play tricks. Rather, to fail; to come short; to balk.

Romans, that have spoke the word

And will not palter

PAL'TER, verb transitive To squander. [Not used.]

Palterer

PAL'TERER, noun One that palters, fails or falls short.

Paltriness

PAL'TRINESS, noun [from paltry.] The state of being paltry, vile or worthless.

Paltry

PAL'TRY, adjective [Gr. vile, and to fail.] Ragged; mean; vile; worthless; despicable; as a paltry boy; a paltry slave; a paltry trifle.

Paly

PA'LY, adjective [from pale.] Pale; wanting color; used only in poetry.

1. In heraldry, divided by pales into four equal parts.

Pam

PAM, noun [supposed to be from palm, victory.] The knave of clubs.

Pamper

PAM'PER, verb transitive [Latin bibo.]

1. To feed to the full; to glut; to saginate; to feed luxuriously; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.

We are proud of a body fattening for worms and pampered for corruption and the grave.

2. To gratify to the full; to furnish with that which delights; as, to pamper the imagination.

Pampered

PAM'PERED, participle passive Fed high; glutted or gratified to the full.

Pampering

PAM'PERING, participle present tense Glutting; feeding luxuriously; gratifying to the full.

PAM'PERING, adjective Luxuriancy.

Pamphlet

PAM'PHLET, noun A small book consisting of a sheet of paper, or of sheets stitched together but not bound.

PAM'PHLET, verb transitive To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.

Pamphleteer

PAMPHLETEE'R, noun A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler.

Pan

PAN, noun

1. A vessel broad and somewhat hollow or depressed in the middle, or with a raised border; used for setting milk and other domestic purposes.

2. The part of a gun-lock or other fire-arms which holds the priming that communicates with the charge.

3. Something hollow; as the brain pan

4. Among farmers, the hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil; called the hard pan

5. The top of the head.

PAN, verb transitive To join; to close together. [Local.]

Panacea

PANACE'A, noun [Latin from Gr. all, and to cure.]

1. A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine.

2. An herb.

Panada

PANA'DA

PANA'DO, noun [Latin panis.] A kind of food made by boiling bread in water to the consistence of pulp and sweetened.

Panado

PANA'DO, n. [L. panis.] A kind of food made by boiling bread in water to the consistence of pulp and sweetened.

Pancake

PAN'CAKE, noun A thin cake fried in a pan.

Some folks think it will never be good times, till houses are tiled with pancakes.

Panch

PANCH, noun Among seamen, a thick and strong mat, to be fastened on yards to prevent friction.