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Pancratic

PANCRAT'IC

PANCRAT'ICAL, adjective [Gr. all, and strength.] Excelling in all gymnastic exercises; very strong or robust.

Pancratical

PANCRAT'ICAL, a. [Gr. all, and strength.] Excelling in all gymnastic exercises; very strong or robust.

Pancreas

PAN'CREAS, noun [Gr. all, and flesh.] A gland of the body situated between the bottom of the stomach and the vertebers of the loins, reaching from the liver to the spleen, and attached to the peritonaeum. It is two fingers in breadth, and six in length, soft and supple. It secretes a kind of saliva and pours it into the duodenum.

Pancreatic

PANCREAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to the pancreas; as pancreatic juice.

Pancy

PANCY. [See Pansy.]

Pandect

PAN'DECT, noun [Latin pandectoe, from Gr. all, and to contain, to take.]

1. A treatise which contains the whole of any science.

2. Pandects, in the plural, the digest or collection of civil or Roman law, made by order of the emperor Justinian, and containing 534 decisions or judgments of lawyers, to which the emperor gave the force and authority of law. This compilation consists of fifty books, forming the first part of the civil law.

Pandemic

PANDEM'IC, adjective [Gr. all, and people.] Incident to a whole people; epidemic; as a pandemic disease.

Pander

PAN'DER, noun [Latin mango.] A pimp, a procurer; a male bawd; a mean profligate wretch who caters for the lust of others.

PAN'DER, verb transitive To pimp; to procure lewd women for others.

PAN'DER, verb intransitive To act as agent for the lusts of others.

1. To be subservient to lust or passion.

Panderage

PAN'DERAGE, noun A procuring of sexual connection.

Panderism

PAN'DERISM, noun The employment or vices of a pander; a pimping.

Panderly

PAN'DERLY, adjective Pimping; acting the pander.

Pandiculation

PANDICULA'TION, noun [Latin pandiculor, to yawn, to stretch.]

A yawning; a stretching; the tension of the solids that accompanies yawning, or that restlessness and stretching that accompanies the cold fit of an intermittent.

Pandit

PAN'DIT

PUN'DIT, noun In Hindoostan, a learned man.

Pandoran

PAN'DORAN, noun [Gr.] An instrument of music of the lute kind; a bandore.

Pandore

PAN'DORE

PANE, noun A square of glass.

1. A piece of any thing in variegated works.

Pane

PANE, n. A square of glass. 1. A piece of any thing in variegated works.

Panegyric

PANEGYR'IC, noun [Latin panegyricus, from Gr. a public meeting or celebration, all, and an assembly.]

1. An oration or eulogy in praise of some distinguished person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium.

2. An encomium; praise bestowed on some eminent person, action or virtue.

PANEGYR'IC, adjective Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic.

Panegyris

PANEGY'RIS, noun A festival; a public meeting.

Panegyrist

PANEGYR'IST, noun One who bestows praise; an eulogist; an encomiast, either by writing or speaking.

Panegyrize

PAN'EGYRIZE, verb transitive To praise highly; to write or pronounce an eulogy on.

PAN'EGYRIZE, verb intransitive To bestow praises.

Panegyrized

PAN'EGYRIZED, participle passive Highly praised or eulogized.

Panegyrizing

PAN'EGYRIZING, participle present tense Praising highly; eulogizing.

Panel

PAN'EL, noun

1. A square piece of board, or other piece somewhat similar inserted between other pieces; as the panel of a door.

2. A piece of parchment or schedule, containing the names of persons summoned by the sheriff. Hence more generally,

3. The whole jury.

PAN'EL, verb transitive To form with panels; as, to panel a wainscot.

Paneless

PA'NELESS, adjective Without panes of glass.

Pang

PANG, noun Extreme pain; anguish; agony of body; particularly, a sudden paroxysm of extreme pain, as in spasm, or childbirth. Isaiah 21:3.

I saw the hoary traitor,

Grin in the pangs of death, and bit the ground.

PANG, verb transitive To torture; to give extreme pain to.

Pangolin

PAN'GOLIN, noun A species of Manis or scaly lizard, found only in Hindoostan.

Panic

PAN'IC, noun A sudden fright; particularly, a sudden fright without real cause, or terror inspired by a trifling cause or misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic

PAN'IC, adjective Extreme or sudden; applied to fright; as panic fear.

PAN'IC, noun [Latin panicum.] A plant and its grain, of the genus Panicum. The grain or seed is like millet, and it is cultivated in some parts of Europe for bread.

Panic-Grass

PAN'IC-GRASS, noun A plant of the genus Panicum.

Panicle

PAN'ICLE, noun [Latin panicula, down upon reeds, cat's tail, allied to Latin pannus, cloth.] In botany, a species of inflorescence, in which the flowers or fruits are scattered on peduncles variously subdivided, as in oats and some of the grasses. The panicle is of various kinds, as the dense or close, the spiked, the squeezed, the spreading, the diffused, the divaricating.

Panicled

PAN'ICLED, adjective Furnished with panicles.

Paniculate

PANIC'ULATE

PANIC'ULATED, adjective Having branches variously subdivided; as a paniculate stem.

1. Having the flowers in panicles; as a paniculate inflorescence.

Paniculated

PANIC'ULATED, a. Having branches variously subdivided; as a paniculate stem. 1. Having the flowers in panicles; as a paniculate inflorescence.

Pannade

PAN'NADE, noun The curvet of a horse. [See Panic.]

Pannage

PAN'NAGE, noun [from Latin panis.] The food of swine in the woods; as beach nuts, acorns, etc. called also pawns; also, the money taken by agistors for the mast of the king's forest.

Pannel

PAN'NEL, noun [Latin pannus, cloth.] A kind of rustic saddle.

1. The stomach of a hawk.

Pannellation

PANNELLA'TION, noun The act of impanneling a jury. [Not used.]

Pannier

PANNIER, noun pan'yer. [Latin panis, bread.] A wicker basket; primarily, a bread-basket, but used for carrying fruit or other things on a horse.

Pannikel

PAN'NIKEL, noun The brain pan or skull. [Not in use.]

Panoply

PAN'OPLY, noun [Gr. all, and arms.] Complete armor or defense.

We had need to take the christian panoply to put on the whole armor of God.

Panorama

PANOR'AMA, noun [Gr. all, and view, to see.] Complete or entire view; a circular painting having apparently no beginning or end, from the center of which the spectator may have a complete view of the objects presented.

Pansophical

PANSOPH'ICAL, adjective [See Pansophy.[ Pretending to have a knowledge of every thing.

Pansophy

PAN'SOPHY, noun [Gr. all, and wisdom.] Universal wisdom or knowledge. [Little used.]

Pansy

PAN'SY, noun A plant and flower of the genus Viola; the viola tricolor, or garden violet.

Pant

P'ANT, verb intransitive

1. To palpitate; to beat with preternatural violence or rapidity, as the heart in terror, or after hard labor, or in anxious desire or suspense.

Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake.

2. To have the breast heaving, as in short respiration or want of breath.

Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.

3. To play with intermission or declining strength.

The whispering breeze

Pants on the leaves and dies upon the trees.

4. To long; to desire ardently.

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose.

As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Psalms 42:1.

P'ANT, noun Palpitation of the heart.

Pantaloon

PANTALOON', noun

1. A garment for males in which breeches and stockings are in a piece; a species of close long trowsers extending to the heels.

2. A character in the Italian comedy, and a buffoon in pantomimes; so called from his close dress.

Panter

P'ANTER, noun One that pants.

PANT'ER, noun A net.

Pantess

P'ANTESS, noun [from pant.] The difficulty of breathing in a hawk.

Pantheism

PAN'THEISM, noun [Gr. all, and God, whence theism.] The doctrine that the universe is God, or the system of theology in which it is maintained that the universe is the supreme God.

Pantheist

PANTHE'IST, noun One that believes the universe to be God; a name given to the followers of Spinosa.

The earliest Grecian pantheist of whom we read is Orpheus.

Pantheistic

PANTHEIS'TIC

PANTHEIS'TICAL, noun Pertaining to pantheism; confounding God with the universe.

Pantheistical

PANTHEIS'TICAL, n. Pertaining to pantheism; confounding God with the universe.

Pantheon

PANTHE'ON, noun [Gr. all, and God.] A temple or magnificent edifice at Rome, dedicated to all the gods. It is now converted into a church. It was built or embellished by Agrippa, son-in-law to Augustus, is of a round or cylindrical form, with a spherical dome, and 144 feet in diameter.

Panther

PAN'THER, noun [Latin from Gr.] A fierce, ferocious quadruped of the genus Felis, of the size of a large dog, with short hair, of a yellow color, diversified with roundish black spots. This animal is carnivorous, and will climb trees in pursuit of small animals. It is a native of Africa. The name is also applied to other species of the genus.

Pantile

PAN'TILE, noun A gutter tile.

Panting

P'ANTING, participle present tense [See Pant.] Palpitating; breathing with a rapid succession of inspirations and expirations; longing.

P'ANTING, noun Palpitation; rapid breathing; longing.

Pantingly

P'ANTINGLY, adverb With palpitation or rapid breathing.

Pantler

PANT'LER, noun [Latin panis, bread.] The officer in a great family who has charge of the bread.

Pantofle

PAN'TOFLE, noun A slipper for the foot.

Pantograph

PAN'TOGRAPH, noun [Gr. all, and to describe.] A mathematical instrument so formed as to copy any sort of drawing or design.

Pantographic

PANTOGRAPH'IC

PANTOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a pantograph; performed by a pantograph.

Pantographical

PANTOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a pantograph; performed by a pantograph.

Pantography

PANTOG'RAPHY, noun General description; view of an entire thing.

Pantometer

PANTOM'ETER, noun [Gr. all, and to measure.] An instrument for measuring all sorts of elevations, angles and distances.

Pantometric

PANTOMET'RIC

PANTOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to a pantometer; performed by a pantometer.

Pantometrical

PANTOMET'RICAL, a. Pertaining to a pantometer; performed by a pantometer.

Pantomime

PAN'TOMIME, noun [Latin pantomimus; Gr. all, and a mimic.]

1. One that imitates all sorts of actions and characters without speaking; one that expresses his meaning by mute action. The pantomimes of antiquity used to express in gestures and action, whatever the chorus sung, changing their countenance and behavior as the subject of the song varied.

2. A scene or representation in dumb show.

3. A species of musical entertainment.

PAN'TOMIME, adjective Representing only in mute action.

Pantomimic

PANTOMIM'IC

PANTOMIM'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the pantomime; representing characters and actions by dumb show.

Pantomimical

PANTOMIM'ICAL, a. Pertaining to the pantomime; representing characters and actions by dumb show.

Panton

PAN'TON

PAN'TON-SHOE, noun [Latin pando, to open.] A horse shoe contrived to recover a narrow and hoof-bound heel.

Panton-Shoe

PAN'TON-SHOE, n. [L. pando, to open.] A horse shoe contrived to recover a narrow and hoof-bound heel.

Pantry

PAN'TRY, noun [Latin panarium, from panis, bread.] An apartment or closet in which provisions are kept.

Panurgy

PAN'URGY, noun [Gr. all, and work.] Skill in all kinds or work or business; craft.

Pap

PAP, noun [Latin papilla.] A nipple of the breast; a teat.

PAP, noun [Low Latin papa.]

1. A soft food for infants, made with bread boiled or softened with water.

2. The pulp of fruit.

PAP, verb transitive To feed with pap

Papa

PAP'A, noun [Latin papa ] Father; a word with us used by children.

Papacy

PA'PACY, noun

1. The office and dignity of the pope or bishop of Rome; popedom.

2. Papal authority.

Papal

PA'PAL, adjective Belonging to the pope or pontiff of Rome; popish; as papal authority; the papal chair.

1. Proceeding from the pope; as a papal license or indulgence; a papal edict.

2. Annexed to the bishopric of Rome.

Papalin

PA'PALIN, noun A papist. [Not used.]

Papaverous

PAPAV'EROUS, adjective [Latin papavereus, from papaver, a poppy.]

Resembling the poppy; of the nature or qualities of poppies.

Papaw

PAPAW', noun The carica papaya, a tree growing in warm climates to the highth of eighteen or twenty feet, with a soft herbaceous stem, naked nearly to the top, where the leaves issue on every side on long foot-stalks. Between the leaves grow the flower and the fruit, which is of the size of a melon. The juice is acrid and milky, but the fruit when boiled is eaten with meat, like other vegetables.

1. The papaw of North America belongs to the genus Annona or custard apple.

Pape

PAPE, noun The pope.

Paper

PA'PER, noun [Latin papyrus, the name of an Egyptian plant, from which was made a kind of paper ]

1. A substance formed into thin sheets on which letters and figures are written or printed. paper is made of different materials; but among us it is usually made of linen or cotton rags. A fine paper is made of silk, particularly for bank-notes, which require to be very thin.

2. A piece of paper

3. A single sheet printed or written; as a daily paper; a weekly paper; a periodical paper; referring to essays, journals, newspapers, etc.

4. Any written instrument, whether note, receipt, bill, invoice, bond, memorial, deed, and the like. The papers lie on the speaker's table.

They brought a paper to me to be signed.

5. A promissory note or notes or a bill of exchange; as negotiable paper

6. Hangings printed or stamped; paper for covering the walls of rooms.

PA'PER, adjective Made of paper; consisting of paper

1. Thin; slight; as a paper wall.

PA'PER, verb transitive To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.

1. To register. [Not used.]

2. To fold or inclose in paper

Paper-Credit

PAPER-CRED'IT, noun Evidences of debt; promissory notes, etc. passing current in commercial transactions.

1. Notes or bills emitted by public authority, promising the payment of money. The revolution in noun America was carried on by means of paper-credit

Paper-Faced

PA'PER-FACED, adjective Having a face as white as paper.

Paper-Kite

PA'PER-KITE, noun A light frame covered with paper for flying in the air like a kite.

Paper-Maker

PA'PER-MAKER, noun One that manufactures paper.

Paper-Mill

PA'PER-MILL, noun A mill in which paper is manufactured.

Paper-Money

PAPER-MONEY, noun Notes or bills issued by authority, and promising the payment of money, circulated as the representative of coin. We apply the word to notes or bills issued by a state or by a banking corporation; rarely or never to private notes or bills of exchange, though the latter may be included.

Papescent

PAPES'CENT, adjective [from pap.] Containing pap; having the qualities of pap.

Papess

PA'PESS, noun A female pope.

Papil

PAP'IL, noun [Latin papilla.] A small pap or nipple.

Papilio

PAPIL'IO, noun [Latin] A butterfly. In zoology a genus of insects of numerous species. These insects are produced from the caterpillar. The chrysalis is the tomb of the caterpillar and the cradle of the butterfly.

Papilionaceous

PAPILIONA'CEOUS, adjective Resembling the butterfly; a term in botany, used to describe the corols of plants which have the shape of a butterfly, such as that of the pea. The papilionaceous plants are of the leguminous kind.

The papilionaceous corol is usually four-petaled, having an upper spreading petal, called the banner, two side petals called wings, and a lower petal called the keel.

Papillary

PAP'ILLARY

PAP'ILLATE, verb intransitive To grow into a nipple.

Papillate

PAP'ILLATE, v.i. To grow into a nipple.

Papillose

PAP'ILLOSE, adjective Nipply; covered with fleshy dots or points; verrucose; warty; as a papillose leaf.

Covered with soft tubercles, as the ice-plant.

Papillous

PAP'ILLOUS, adjective Pertaining to the pap or nipple; resembling the nipple; covered with papils.

Papism

PA'PISM, noun Popery.

Papist

PA'PIST, noun A Roman catholic; one that adheres to the church of Rome and the authority of the pope.

Papistic

PAPIS'TIC

PAPIS'TICAL, adjective Popish; pertaining to popery; adherent to the church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies.

Papistical

PAPIS'TICAL, a. Popish; pertaining to popery; adherent to the church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies.

Papistry

PA'PISTRY, noun Popery; the doctrines and ceremonies of the church of Rome.

Papized

PA'PIZED, adjective Conformed to popery.

Pappous

PAP'POUS, adjective [from Latin pappus.] Downy; furnished with a pappus, as the seeds of certain plants, such as thistles, dandelions, etc.

Pappus

PAP'PUS, noun [Latin from Gr. an old man or grandfather, hence a substance resembling gray hairs.] The soft downy substance that grows on the seeds of certain plants, as on those of the thistle.

Pappy

PAP'PY, adjective [from pap.] Like pap; soft; succulent.

Papulae

PAP'ULAE, noun [Latin] Pimples; blisters; eruptions on the skin.

Papulose

PAP'ULOSE, adjective Covered with vesicular points or with little blisters; as a papulose leaf.

Papulous

PAP'ULOUS, adjective Full of pimples or pustules.

Papyrus

PAPY'RUS, noun [Latin] An Egyptian plant, a kind of reed, of which the ancients made paper.

Par

P'AR, noun [Latin par equal, paro.]

1. State of equality; equal value; equivalence without discount or premium. Bills of exchange are at par above par or below par Bills are at par when they are sold at their nominal amount for coin or its equivalent.

2. Equality in condition.

Parable

PAR'ABLE, noun [Latin parabilis.] Easily procured. [Not used.]

PAR'ABLE, noun [Latin parabola; Gr. to throw forward or against, to compare to or against; as in confero, collatum, to set together, or one thing with another.] A fable or allegorical relation or representation of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction; such as the parable of the trees choosing a king, Judges 9:1; the parable of the poor man and his lamb. 2 Samuel 12:1; the parable of the ten virgins, Matthew 25:1.

PAR'ABLE, verb transitive To represent by fiction or fable.

Parabola

PARAB'OLA, noun [Latin See Parable.] A conic section arising from cutting a cone by a plane parallel to one of its sides, or parallel to a plane that touches one of its sides.

Parabole

PARABOLE, noun parab'oly. [See Parable.] In oratory, similitude; comparison.

Parabolic

PARABOL'IC

PARABOL'ICAL, adjective Expressed by parable or allegorical representation; as parabolical instruction or description.

1. [from parabola.] Having the form of a parabola; as a parabolic curve.

Parabolical

PARABOL'ICAL, a. Expressed by parable or allegorical representation; as parabolical instruction or description. 1. [from parabola.] Having the form of a parabola; as a parabolic curve.

Parabolically

PARABOL'ICALLY, adverb By way of parable.

1. In the form of a parabola.

Paraboliform

PARABOL'IFORM, adjective Having the form of a parabola.

Parabolism

PARAB'OLISM, noun [from parabola.] In algebra, the division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved or multiplied in the first term.

Paraboloid

PARAB'OLOID, noun [Gr. form.] In geometry, a paraboliform curve whose ordinates are supposed to be in the subtriplicate, subquadruplicate, etc., ratio of their respective abscissae. Another species is when the parameter multiplied into the square of the abscissae, is equal to the cube of the ordinate. The curve is then called a semi-cubical paraboloid

A parabolic conoid. [See conoid.]

Paracelsian

PARACEL'SIAN, noun A physician who follows the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of celebrity, who lived at the close of the fifteenth century.

PARACEL'SIAN, adjective Denoting the medical practice of Paracelsus.

Paracentesis

PARACENTE'SIS

PARACEN'TESY, noun [Gr. through, and to pierce.] The operation in surgery called tapping.

Paracentesy

PARACEN'TESY, n. [Gr. through, and to pierce.] The operation in surgery called tapping.

Paracentric

PARACEN'TRIC

PARACEN'TRICAL, adjective [Gr. beyond, and center.] Deviating from circularity.

Paracentrical

PARACEN'TRICAL, a. [Gr. beyond, and center.] Deviating from circularity.

Parachment-Maker

P'ARACHMENT-MAKER, noun One who dresses skins for parchment.

Parachronism

PARACH'RONISM, noun [Gr. beyond, and time.] An error in chronology; a mistake in regard to the true date of an event.

Parachute

PAR'ACHUTE, noun [Gr. against.] In aerostation, an instrument to prevent the rapidity of descent.

Paraclete

PAR'ACLETE, noun [Gr. to call.] Properly, an advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the consoler, comforter or intercessor, a term applied to the Holy Spirit.

Parade

PARA'DE, noun [Latin paro.]

1. In military affairs, the place where troops assemble for exercise, mounting guard or other purpose.

2. Show; ostentation; display.

Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade

3. Pompous procession.

The rites performed, the parson paid,

In state return'd the grand parade

4. Military order; array; as warlike parade

5. State of preparation or defense.

6. The action of parrying a thrust.

PARA'DE, verb transitive To assemble and array or marshal in military order. The general gave orders to parade the troops. The troops were paraded at the usual hour.

1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner.

PARA'DE, verb intransitive To assemble and be marshaled in military order.

1. To go about in military procession.

2. To walk about for show.

Paraded

PARA'DED, participle passive Assembled and arrayed.

Paradigm

PARADIGM, noun par'adim. [Gr. example, to show.] An example; a model. In grammar, an example of a verb conjugated in the several modes, tenses and persons.

Paradigmatic

PARADIGMAT'IC

PARADIGMAT'ICAL, adjective Exemplary. [Little used.]

Paradigmatical

PARADIGMAT'ICAL, a. Exemplary. [Little used.]

Paradigmatize

PARADIG'MATIZE, verb transitive To set forth as a model or example. [Little used.]

Parading

PARA'DING, participle present tense Assembling and arraying in due order; making an ostentatious show.

Paradise

PAR'ADISE, noun [Gr.] The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed immediately after their creation.

1. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight.

The earth

Shall all be paradise--

2. Heaven, the blissful seat of sanctified souls after death.

This day shalt thou be with me in paradise Luke 23:43.

3. Primarily, in Persia, a pleasure-garden with parks and other appendages.

Paradisea

PARADIS'EA, noun Bird of Paradise, a genus of fowls, natives of the isles in the East Indies and of New Guinea.

Paradisean

PARADIS'EAN

PARADISI'ACAL, adjective Pertaining to Eden or Paradise, or to a place of felicity.

1. Suiting paradise; like paradise.

Paradisiacal

PARADISI'ACAL, a. Pertaining to Eden or Paradise, or to a place of felicity. 1. Suiting paradise; like paradise.

Paradox

PAR'ADOX, noun [Gr. beyond, and opinion; to or suppose.]

A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion, or seemingly absurd, yet true in fact.

A gloss there is to color that paradox and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable.

Paradoxical

PARADOX'ICAL, adjective Having the nature of a paradox.

1. Inclined to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions; applied to persons.

Paradoxically

PARADOX'ICALLY, adverb In a paradoxical manner, or in a manner seemingly absurd.

Paradoxicalness

PARADOX'ICALNESS, noun State of being paradoxical.

Paradoxology

PARADOXOL'OGY, noun [paradox and Gr.discourse.]

The use of paradoxes. [Not used.]

Paragoge

PARAGOGE, noun par'agojy. [Gr. a drawing out.] The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word; as dicier for dici. This is called a figure in grammar.

Paragogic

PARAGOG'IC

PARAGOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a paragoge; lengthening a word by the addition of a letter or syllable.

Paragogical

PARAGOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a paragoge; lengthening a word by the addition of a letter or syllable.

Paragon

PAR'AGON, noun [Latin par, equal.]

1. A model or pattern; a model by way of distinction, implying superior excellence or perfection; as a paragon of beauty or eloquence.

2. A companion; a fellow.

3. Emulation; a match for trial.

PAR'AGON, verb transitive

1. To compare; to parallel.

The picture of Pamela, in little form, he wore in a tablet, purposing to paragon the little one with Artesia's length. [Little used.]

2. To equal. [Little used.]

PAR'AGON, verb intransitive To pretend comparison or equality. [Little used.]

Paragram

PAR'AGRAM, noun [Gr.] A play upon words or a pun.

Paragrammatist

PARAGRAM'MATIST, noun A punster.

Paragraph

PAR'AGRAPH, noun [Gr. a marginal note; to write near or beyond the text; beyond, and to write.] A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any portion or section of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one sentence or many sentences. A paragraph is sometimes marked, but more generally, a paragraph is distinguished only by a break in the composition or lines.

PAR'AGRAPH, verb transitive To form or write paragraphs.

Paragraphic

PARAGRAPH'IC, adjective Consisting of paragraphs or short divisions, with breaks.

Paragraphically

PARAGRAPH'ICALLY, adverb By paragraphs; with distinct breaks or divisions.

Paralepsis

PARALEP'SIS

PAR'ALEPSY, noun [Gr. omission; beyond or by, and to leave.]

In rhetoric, a pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker pretends to pass by what at the same time he really mentions.

Paralepsy

PAR'ALEPSY, n. [Gr. omission; beyond or by, and to leave.]

In rhetoric, a pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker pretends to pass by what at the same time he really mentions.

Paralipomena

PARALIPOM'ENA, noun [Gr. to omit; beyond, and to leave.]

Things omitted; a supplement containing things omitted in the preceding work. The books of Chronicles are so called.

Paralize

PAR'ALIZE, verb transitive [Gr.] To affect as with palsy; to check action, or destroy the power of action.

Parallactic

PARALLAC'TIC

PARALLAC'TICAL, adjective [See Parallax.] Pertaining to the parallax of a heavenly body.

Parallactical

PARALLAC'TICAL, a. [See Parallax.] Pertaining to the parallax of a heavenly body.

Parallax

PAR'ALLAX, noun [Gr. to vary, to decline or wander; beyond, and to change.] In astronomy, the change of place in a heavenly body in consequence of being viewed from different points.

Diurnal parallax the difference between the place of a celestial body, as seen from the surface, and from the center of the earth, at the same instant.

Annual parallax the change of place in a heavenly body, in consequence of being viewed at opposite extremities of the earth's orbit.

Parallel

PAR'ALLEL, adjective [Gr. against or opposite, and one the other.]

1. In geometry, extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant. One body or line is parallel to another, when the surfaces of the bodies or the lines are at an equal distance throughout the whole length.

2. Having the same direction or tendency; running in accordance with something.

When honor runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.

3. Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; like; similar; equal in all essential parts; as a parallel case; a parallel passage in the evangelists.

PAR'ALLEL, noun A line which throughout its whole extent is equidistant from another line; as parallels of latitude.

Who made the spider parallels design,

Sure as De Moivre without rule or line?

1. A line on the globe marking the latitude.

2. Direction conformable to that of another line.

3. Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; likeness.

'Twixt earthly females and the moon,

All parallels exactly run.

4. Comparison made; as, to draw a parallel between two characters.

5. Any thing equal to or resembling another in all essential particulars.

None but thyself can be thy parallel

PAR'ALLEL, verb transitive To place so as to keep the same direction, and at an equal distance from something else.

1. To level; to equal.

2. To correspond to.

3. To be equal to; to resemble in all essential points.

4. To compare.

Parallelable

PAR'ALLELABLE, adjective That may be equaled. [Not much used.]

Parallelism

PAR'ALLELISM, noun State of being parallel.

1. Resemblance; equality of state; comparison.

Parallelly

PAR'ALLELLY, adverb In a parallel manner; with parallelism.

Parallelogram

PARALLEL'OGRAM, noun [Gr.]

1. In geometry, a right lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel and equal.

2. In common use, this word is applied to quadrilateral figures of more length than breadth, and this is its sense in the passage cited by Johnson from Brown.

Parallelogramic

PARALLELOGRAM'IC

PARALLELOGRAM'ICAL, adjective Having the properties of a parallelogram.

Parallelogramical

PARALLELOGRAM'ICAL, a. Having the properties of a parallelogram.

Parallelopiped

PARALLELOPIP'ED, noun [parallel and Gr. on, and a plain.]

In geometry, a regular solid comprehended under six parallelograms, the opposite ones of which are similar, parallel and equal to each other, or it is a prism whose base is a parallelogram. It is always triple to a pyramid of the same base and highth. Or a parallelopiped is a solid figure bounded by six faces, parallel to each other two and two.

Parallelopipedia

PARALLELOPIPE'DIA, noun A genus of spars, externally of a determinate and regular figure, always found loose and separate from other bodies, and in the form of an oblique parallelopiped, with six parallelogramic sides and eight solid angles.

Paralogism

PARAL'OGISM, noun [Gr. beyond, and reasoning; discourse, reason.]

In logic, a fallacious argument or false reasoning; an error committed in demonstration, when a consequence is drawn from principles which are false, or though true, are not proved; or when a proposition is passed over that should have been proved by the way.

Paralogize

PARAL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To reason falsely.

Paralogy

PARAL'OGY, noun False reasoning. [supra.]

Paralysis

PARAL'YSIS, noun [Gr. to loosen, dissolve or weaken.] Palsy; the loss of the power of muscular motion, or of the command of the muscles.

Paralytic

PARALYT'IC

PARALYT'ICAL, adjective Affected with palsy; deprived of the power of muscular motion; sometimes, weak; trembling; subject to an involuntary shaking; as a paralytic arm.

1. Inclined or tending to palsy.

PARALYT'IC, noun A person affected with palsy.

Paralytical

PARALYT'ICAL, a. Affected with palsy; deprived of the power of muscular motion; sometimes, weak; trembling; subject to an involuntary shaking; as a paralytic arm. 1. Inclined or tending to palsy.

Parameter

PARAM'ETER, noun [ Gr.]

1. The latus rectum of a parabola. It is a third proportional to the abscissa and any ordinate, so that the square of the ordinate is always equal to the rectangle under the parameter and abscissa; but in the ellipsis and hyperbola it has a different proportion.

2. In conic sections, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate. In the parabola, a third proportional to any absciss and its ordinate.

Paramount

PAR'AMOUNT, adjective

1. Superior to all others; possessing the highest title or jurisdiction; as lord paramount the chief lord of the fee, or of lands, tenements and hereditaments. In England, the king is lord paramount of whom all the land in the kingdom is supposed to be held. But in some cases the lord of several manors is called the lord paramount

2. Eminent; of the highest order.

3. Superior to all others; as, private interest is usually paramount to all other considerations.

PAR'AMOUNT, noun The chief; the highest in rank or order.

Paramour

PAR'AMOUR, noun [Latin per, and amour.]

1. A lover; a wooer.

2. A mistress.

Paranthine

PARANTHINE. [See Scapolite.]

Paranymph

PAR'ANYMPH, noun [Gr. by, and a bride or spouse.]

1. A brideman; one who leads the bride to her marriage.

2. One who countenances and supports another.

Parapegm

PARAPEGM, noun par'apem. [Gr.] A brazen table fixed to a pillar, on which laws and proclamations were anciently engraved; also, a table set in a public place, containing an account of the rising and setting of the stars, eclipses, seasons, etc.

Parapet

PAR'APET, noun [Latin pectus.] Literally, a wall or rampart to the breast or breast high; but in practice, a wall, rampart or elevation of earth for covering soldiers from an enemy's shot.

Parapherna

PARAPHER'NA

PARAPHERNAL, adjective Pertaining to or consisting in parapherna; as paraphernal property.

Paraphernal

PARAPHERNAL, a. Pertaining to or consisting in parapherna; as paraphernal property.

Paraphernalia

PARAPHERNA'LIA, noun [Gr. beyond, and dower.] The goods which a wife brings with her at her marriage, or which she possesses beyond her dower or jointure, and which remain at her disposal after her husband's death. Such are her apparel and her ornaments, over which the executors have no control, unless when the assets are insufficient to pay the debts.

Paraphrase

PAR'APHRASE, noun s as z. [Gr. beyond, and phrase.] An explanation of some text or passage in a book, in a more clear and ample manner than is expressed in the words of the author. Such as the paraphrase of the New Testament by Erasmus.

In paraphrase or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense.

PAR'APHRASE, verb transitive To explain, interpret or translate with latitude; to unfold the sense of an author with more clearness and particularity than it is expressed in his own words.

PAR'APHRASE, verb intransitive To interpret or explain amply; to make a paraphrase

Where translation is impracticable, they may paraphrase

Paraphrased

PAR'APHRASED, participle passive Amply explained or translated.

Paraphrasing

PAR'APHRASING, participle present tense Explaining or translating amply and freely.

Paraphrast

PAR'APHRAST, noun [Gr.] One that paraphrases; one that explains or translates in words more ample and clear than the words of the author.

Paraphrastically

PARAPHRAS'TICALLY, adverb In a paraphrastic manner.

Paraphrenitis

PARAPHREN'ITIS, noun [Gr. delirium.] An inflammation of the diaphragm.

Paraplegy

PAR'APLEGY, noun [Gr. beyond, and stroke; to smite.]

That kind of palsy which affects the lower part of the body.

Paraquet

PARAQUET', noun A little parrot.

Parasang

PAR'ASANG, noun A persian measure of length, which Herodotus states to be thirty stadia, nearly four English miles; but in different times and places, it has been 30, 40 or 50 stadia.

Parasceuastic

PARASCEUAS'TIC, adjective Preparatory.

Parasceve

PARASCE'VE, noun [Gr. preparation.] Preparation; the sabbath-eve of the Jews.

Paraselene

PARASELE'NE, noun [Gr. about or near, and the moon.] A mock moon; a luminous ring or circle encompassing the moon, in which sometimes are other bright spots bearing some resemblance to the moon.

Parasite

PAR'ASITE, noun [Latin parasita; Gr. by, and corn.]

1. In ancient Greece, a priest or minister of the gods whose office was to gather of the husbandman the corn allotted for public sacrifices. The parasites also superintended the sacrifices.

2. In modern usage, a trencher friend; one that frequents the tables of the rich and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger on; a fawning flatterer.

3. In botany, a plant growing on the stem or branch of another plant and receiving its nourishment from it, as the mistletoe.

Parasitic

PARASIT'IC

PARASIT'ICAL, adjective Flattering; wheedling; fawning for bread or favors.

1. Growing on the stem or branch of another plant; as a parasitic plant.

Parasitical

PARASIT'ICAL, a. Flattering; wheedling; fawning for bread or favors. 1. Growing on the stem or branch of another plant; as a parasitic plant.

Parasitically

PARASIT'ICALLY, adverb In a flattering or wheedling manner; by dependence on another.

Parasitism

PAR'ASITISM, noun The behavior or manners of a parasite.

Parasol

PAR'ASOL, noun [Latin sol.] A small umbrella used by ladies to defend themselves from rain, or their faces from the sun's rays.

Parat

PAR'AT, noun A fish or the mullet kind, found in Brazil.

Parathesis

PARATH'ESIS, noun [Gr.] In grammar, apposition, or the placing of two or more nouns in the same case.

Paravail

PARAVA'IL, adjective In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant holding under a mean or mediate lord, as distinguished from a tenant in capite, who holds immediately of the king.

Paravant

PAR'AVANT

PAR'AVAUNT, adverb In front; publicly. [Not English nor used.]

Paravaunt

PAR'AVAUNT, adv. In front; publicly. [Not English nor used.]

Parboil

P'ARBOIL, verb transitive

1. To boil in part; to boil in a moderate degree.

2. To cause little pustules or pushes on the skin by means of heat; as parboiled wretches.

Parbreak

P'ARBREAK, verb intransitive [See Break.] To vomit.

Parbuckle

P'ARBUCKLE, noun Among seamen, a rope like a pair of slings for hoisting casks, etc.

Parcel

P'ARCEL, noun [Latin particula, particle, from pars, part.]

1. A part; a portion of any thing taken separately.

The same experiments succeed on two parcels of the white of an egg.

2. A quantity; any mass.

3. A part belonging to a whole; as in law, one piece of ground is part and parcel of a greater piece.

4. A small bundle or package of goods.

5. A number of persons; on contempt.

6. A number or quantity; in contempt; as a parcel of fair words.

P'ARCEL, verb transitive To divide into parts or portions; as, to parcel an estate among heirs.

These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.

1. To make up into a mass. [Little used.]

To parcel a seam, in seamen's language, to lay canvas over it and daub it with pitch.

Parceled

P'ARCELED, participle passive Divided into portions.

Parceling

P'ARCELING, participle present tense Dividing into portions.

P'ARCELING, noun Among seamen, long narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and bound about a rope like a bandage, before it is sewed. It is used also to raise a mouse on the stays, etc.

Parcenary

P'ARCENARY, noun Co-heirship; the holding or occupation of lands of inheritance by two or more persons. It differs from joint-tenancy, which is created by deed or devise; whereas parcenary or co-parcenary, is created by the descent of lands from an ancestor.

Parcener

P'ARCENER, noun [Latin pars.] parcener or co-parcener is a co-heir, or one who holds lands by descent from an ancestor in common with another or with others; as when land descends to a man's daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, or their representatives. In this case, all the heirs inherit as parceners or co-heirs.

Parch

P'ARCH, verb transitive [I know not from what source we have received this word. It corresponds in elements with the Italian bruciare, to burn or roast. Qu. Latin peraresco.]

1. To burn the surface of a thing; to scorch; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.

2. To dry to extremity; as, the heat of the sun's rays parches the ground; the mouth is parched with thirst.

P'ARCH, verb intransitive To be scorched or superficially burnt; as, corn will dry and parch into barley.

1. To become very dry.

Parched

P'ARCHED, participle passive Scorched; dried to extremity.

Parchedness

P'ARCHEDNESS, noun The state of being scorched or dried to extremity.

Parching

P'ARCHING, participle present tense Scorching; drying to extremity.

1. adjective Having the quality of burning or drying; as the parching heat of African sands.

Parchment

P'ARCHMENT, [Latin pergamena; purgo] The skin of a sheep or goat dressed or prepared and rendered fit for writing on. This is done by separating all the flesh and hair, rubbing the skin with pumice stone, and reducing its thickness with a sharp instrument. Vellum is made of the skins of abortive or very young calves.

Pard

P'ARD, noun [Latin pardus.] The leopard; or in poetry, any spotted beast. Instead of pard we generally use leopard, the lion-pard. Pardale, from the Latin pardalis, is not used.

Pardon

P'ARDON, verb transitive [Latin per and dono, to give; per having the sense of the English for in forgive, and re in Latin remitto, properly to give back or away.]

1. To forgive; to remit; as an offense or crime. Guilt implies a being bound or subjected to censure, penalty or punishment. To pardon is to give up this obligation, and release the offender. We apply the word to the crime or to the person. We pardon an offense, when we remove it from the offender and consider him as not guilty; we pardon the offender, when we release or absolve him from his liability to suffer punishment.

I pray thee, pardon my sin. 1 Samuel 15:25.

2. To remit, as a penalty.

I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.

3. To excuse, as for a fault.

4. pardon me, is a phrase used when one asks for excuse, or makes an apology, and it is often used in this sense, when a person means civilly to deny or contradict what another affirms.

P'ARDON, noun Forgiveness; the release of an offense or of the obligation of the offender to suffer a penalty, or to bear the displeasure of the offended party. We seek the pardon of sins, transgressions and offenses.

1. Remission of a penalty. An amnesty is a general pardon

2. Forgiveness received.

Pardonable

P'ARDONABLE, adjective That may be pardoned; applied to persons. The offender is pardonable

1. Venial; excusable; that may be forgiven, overlooked or passed by; applied to things; as a pardonable offense.

Pardonableness

P'ARDONABLENESS, noun The quality of being pardonable; venialness; susceptibility of forgiveness; as the pardonableness of sin.

Pardonably

P'ARDONABLY, adverb In a manner admitting of pardon; venially; excusably.

Pardoned

P'ARDONED, participle passive Forgiven; excused.

Pardoner

P'ARDONER, noun One that forgives; one that absolves an offender.

1. One that sells the pope's indulgences.

Pardoning

P'ARDONING, participle present tense Forgiving; remitting an offense or crime; absolving from punishment.

Pare

PARE, verb transitive [Latin paro; Gr. lame; to mutilate; Heb. to create; to cut off. The primary sense is to thrust or drive, hence to drive off, to separate, to stop by setting or repelling, as in parry, or to drive off or out, as in separating or producing.]

1. To cut off, as the superficial substance or extremities of a thing; to shave off with a sharp instrument; as, to pare an apple or an orange; to pare the nails; to pare a horse's hoof; to pare land in agriculture.

2. To diminish by little and little.

The king began to pare a little the privilege of clergy.

When pare is followed by the thing diminished, the noun is in the objective case; as, to pare the nails. When the thing separated is the object, pare is followed by off or away; as, to pare off the rind of fruit; to pare away redundances.

Pared

PA'RED, participle passive Freed from any thing superfluous on the surface or at the extremities.