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Defn: A light produced by the incandescence of some substances, esp. lime, in the oxyhydrogen flame. Coal gas (producing the oxygas light), or the vapor of ether (oxyether light) or methylated spirit (oxyspirit light), may be substituted for hydrogen.

OXYMEL Ox"y*mel, n. Etym: [L. oxymeli, Gr. (Med.)

Defn: A mixture of honey, water, vinegar, and spice, boiled to a sirup. Sir T. Elyot.

OXYMETHYLENE Ox`y*meth"yl*ene, n. Etym: [Oxy- (a) + methylene.] (Chem.)

Defn: Formic aldehyde, regarded as a methylene derivative.

OXYMORON Ox`y*mo"ron, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)

Defn: A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.

OXYMURIATE Ox`y*mu"ri*ate, n. (Old Chem.)

Defn: A salt of the supposed oxymuriatic acid; a chloride. Oxymuriate of lime, chloride of lime.

OXYMURIATIC Ox`y*mu`ri*at"ic, a. Etym: [Oxy- (a) + muriatic: cf. F. oxymuriatique.] (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or consisting of, oxygen and muriatic acid, that is, hydrochloric acid. [Archaic.] Oxymuriatic acid, chlorine, formerly so called on the supposition that it was a compound of oxygen and muriatic acid. [Obs.]

OXYNEURINE Ox`y*neu"rine, n. (Chem.)

Defn: See Betaine.

OXYNTIC Ox*yn"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Physiol.)

Defn: Acid; producing acid; -applied especially to certain glands and cells in the stomach.

OXYOPIA; OXYOPY Ox`y*o"pi*a, Ox"y*o`py, n. Etym: [NL. oxyopia, from Gr. (Med.)

Defn: Excessive acuteness of sight.

OXYPHENIC Ox`y*phe"nic, a. Etym: [Oxy- (b) + phenol.] (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, the phenol formerly called oxyphenic acid, and now oxyphenol and pyrocatechin. See Pyrocatechin.

OXYPHENOL Ox`y*phe"nol, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A phenol, oxyphenic acid, and now pyrocatechin.

OXYPHONY Ox*yph"o*ny, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Acuteness or shrillness of voice.

OXYQUINOLINE Ox`y*quin"o*line, n. Etym: [Oxy- (b) + quinoline.] (Chem.)

Defn: Hydroxy quinoline; a phenol derivative of quinoline, -- called also carbostyril.

OXYRHYNCHA Ox`y*rhyn"cha, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The maioid crabs.

OXYRRHODINE Ox*yr"rho*dine, n. Etym: [Gr. 'oxy`s acid + (Med.)

Defn: A mixture of two parts of the oil of roses with one of the vinegar of roses. Floyer.

OXYSALT Ox"y*salt, n. Etym: [Oxy- (a) + salt.] (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.

OXYSULPHIDE Ox`y*sul"phide, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.

OXYSULPHURET Ox`y*sul"phu*ret, n. (Chem.)

Defn: An oxysulphide. [Obsolescent]

OXYTOCIC Ox`y*toc"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)

Defn: Promoting uterine contractions, or parturition. -- n.

Defn: An oxytocic medicine or agent.

OXYTOLUENE Ox`y*tol"u*ene, n. Etym: [Oxy- (a) + toluene.]

Defn: One of three hydroxy derivatives of toluene, called the cresols. See Cresol.

OXYTONE Ox"y*tone, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.

OXYTONE Ox"y*tone, n.

1. An acute sound.

2. (Gr. Gram.)

Defn: A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.

OXYTONICAL Ox`y*ton"ic*al, a. (Gr. Gram.)

Defn: Oxytone.

OYER O"yer, n. Etym: [Anglo F., a hearing, from OF. oïr, F. ouïr, to hear, L. audire. See Audible.] (Law)

Defn: A hearing or an inspection, as of a deed, bond, etc., as when a defendant in court prays oyer of a writing. Blackstone. Oyer and terminer (Law), a term used in England in commissions directed to judges of assize about to hold court, directing them to hear and determine cases brought before them. In the U.S. the phrase is used to designate certain criminal courts.

OYEZ O"yez` (oyês; 277), interj. Etym: [Anglo-F. oyez hear ye. See Oyer.]

Defn: Hear; attend; -- a term used by criers of courts to secure silence before making a proclamation. It is repeated three times. [Written also oyes.]

OYLET Oy"let, n. Etym: [See Eyelet.]

1. See Eyelet.

2. (Arch.)

Defn: Same as Oillet.

OYNOUN Oy"noun, n.

Defn: Onion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

OYSTER Oys"ter, n. Etym: [OF. oistre, F. huître, L. ostrea, ostreum,Gr. Osseous, Ostracize.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.

2. A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl. Fresh-water oyster (Zoöl.), any species of the genus Etheria, and allied genera, found in rivers of Africa and South America. They are irregular in form, and attach themselves to rocks like oysters, but they have a pearly interior, and are allied to the fresh-water mussels. -- Oyster bed, a breeding place for oysters; a place in a tidal river or other water on or near the seashore, where oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. See lst Scalp, n. -- Oyster catcher (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wading birds of the genus Hæmatopus, which frequent seashores and feed upon shellfish. The European species (H. ostralegus), the common American species (H. palliatus), and the California, or black, oyster catcher (H. Bachmani) are the best known. -- Oyster crab (Zoöl.) a small crab (Pinnotheres ostreum) which lives as a commensal in the gill cavity of the oyster. -- Oyster dredge, a rake or small dragnet of bringing up oyster from the bottom of the sea. -- Oyster fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The tautog. (b) The toadfish. -- Oyster plant. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Tragopogon (T. porrifolius), the root of which, when cooked, somewhat resembles the oyster in taste; salsify; -- called also vegetable oyster. (b) A plant found on the seacoast of Northern Europe, America and Asia (Mertensia maritima), the fresh leaves of which have a strong flavor of oysters. -- Oyster plover. (Zoöl.) Same as Oyster catcher, above. -- Oyster shell (Zoöl.), the shell of an oyster. -- Oyster wench, Oyster wife, Oyster women, a women who deals in oysters. -- Pearl oyster. (Zoöl.) See under Pearl. -- Thorny oyster (Zoöl.), any spiny marine shell of the genus Spondylus.

OYSTER-GREEN Oys"ter-green`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc.

OYSTERING Oys"ter*ing, n.

Defn: Gathering, or dredging for, oysters.

OYSTERLING Oys"ter*ling, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A young oyster.

OZENA O*ze"na, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. ozaena, Gr. (Med.)

Defn: A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose.

OZOCERITE O`zo*ce"rite, n. Etym: [Gr. (Min.)

Defn: A waxlike mineral resin; -- sometimes called native paraffin, and mineral wax.

OZONATION O`zo*na"tion, n. (Chem.)

Defn: The act of treating with ozone; also, the act of converting into, or producing, ozone; ozonization.

OZONE O"zone, n. Etym: [Gr. Odor.] (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless gaseous substance (O

OZONE PAPER O"zone pa"per. (Chem.)

Defn: Paper coated with starch and potassium iodine. It turns blue when exposed to ozone.>-- also called starch-iodide paper -->

P.

OZONIC O*zon"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, ozone.

OZONIFICATION O*zo`ni*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Ozone + L. -ficare to make. See fy. ] (Chem.)

Defn: The act or process of producing, or of subjecting to the action of, ozone.

OZONIZATION O`zo*ni*za"tion, n. (Chem.)

Defn: Ozonation.

OZONIZE O"zo*nize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ozonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Ozonizing.] (Chem.) (a) To convert into ozone, as oxygen. (b) To treat with ozone.

OZONIZER O"zo*ni`zer, n. (Chem.)

Defn: An apparatus or agent for the production or application of ozone.

OZONOMETER O`zo*nom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Ozone + -meter.]

Defn: An instrument for ascertaining the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, or in any gaseous mixture. Faraday.

OZONOMETRIC O`zo*no*met"ric, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or used for, the determination of the amount of ozone; of or relating to ozonometry.

OZONOMETRY O`zo*nom"e*try, n. (Chem.)

Defn: The measurement or determination of the quantity of ozone.

OZONOSCOPE O*zo"no*scope, n. Etym: [Ozone + -scope.] (Chem.)

Defn: An apparatus employed to indicate the presence, or the amount, of ozone.

OZONOSCOPIC O*zo`no*scop"ic, a. Etym: [Ozone + Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: Serving to indicate the presence or the amount of ozone.

OZONOUS O"zo*nous, a.

Defn: Pertaining to or containing, ozone.

P P (pe),

Defn: the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phonician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M.

See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 247, 248, and 184-195.

PA Pa (pä), n.

Defn: A shortened form of Papa.

PAAGE Pa"age (pa"ayj; 48), n. [OF. paage, paiage, F. péage, fr. (assumed) LL. pedaticum, fr. L. pes, pedis, foot. See Pedage, Pedal.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A toll for passage over another person's grounds. [Written also peage and pedage.] Burke.

PAARD Paard (pärd), n. [D., a horse.]

Defn: The zebra. [S. Africa]

PAAS Paas (pals), n. [D. paash. See Pasch.]

Defn: The Easter festival. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

Paas egg. See Easter egg, under Easter.

PAAS Paas (päs), n.

Defn: Pace [Obs.] Chaucer

PABULAR Pab"u*lar, a. [L. pabularis.]

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or fit for, pabulum or food; affording food.

PABULATION Pab`u*la"tion, n. [L. pabulatio, fr. pabulari to feed, fr. pabulum food. See Pabulum.]

1. The act of feeding, or providing food. [Obs.] Cockeram.

2. Food; fodder; pabulum. [Obs.]

PABULOUS Pab"u*lous, a. [L. pabulosus.]

Defn: Affording pabulum, or food; alimental. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

PABULUM Pab"u*lum, n. [L., akin to pascere to pasture. See Pastor.]

Defn: The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.

PAC Pac, n.

Defn: A kind of moccasin, having the edges of the sole turned up and sewed to the upper. Knight.

PACA Pa"ca, n. [Pg., from the native name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small South American rodent (Cologenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig.

PACABLE Pa"ca*ble, a. [L. pacare to pacify.]

Defn: Placable. [R.] Coleridge.

PACANE Pa*cane", n. (Bot.)

Defn: A species of hickory. See Pecan.

PACATE Pa"cate, a. [L. pacatus, p. p. of pacare to pacify, fr. pax, pacis, peace. See Pay to requite, Peace.]

Defn: Appeased; pacified; tranquil. [R.]

PACATED Pa"ca*ted, a.

Defn: Pacified; pacate.

PACATION Pa*ca"tion, n. [L. pacatio.]

Defn: The act of pacifying; a peacemaking. Coleridge.

PACER Pa"cer, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.

PACHACAMAC Pa`cha*ca*mac", n.

Defn: A divinity worshiped by the ancient Peruvians as the creator of the universe.

PACHAK Pa*chak", n. (Bot.)

Defn: The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients. [Written also putchuck.]

PACHALIC Pa*cha"lic, a. & n.

Defn: See Pashalic.

PACHISI; PARCHESI; PARCHISI; PARCHEESI Pa*chi"si, n. Commonly spelt Par*che"si, Par*chi"si, Par*chee"si.

Defn: A game adopted from the Indian game, using disks, as of pasteboard, and dice. [U. S. & Eng.]

PACHISI; PARCHESI Pa*chi"si, Par*che"si, n. [Hind., fr. pachis twenty-five, the highest throw in the game.]

Defn: A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.

PACHOMETER Pa*chom"e*ter, n. [Gr. pa`chos thickness + -meter.] (Physics)

Defn: An instrument for measuring thickness, as of the glass of a mirror, or of paper; a pachymeter.

PACHONTA Pa*chon"ta, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata.

PACHUCA TANK Pa*chu"ca tank. (Metallurgy)

Defn: A high and narrow tank, with a central cylinder for the introduction of compressed air, used in the agitation and settling of pulp (pulverized ore and water) during treatment by the cyanide process; -- so named because, though originally devised in New Zealand, it was first practically introduced in Pachuca, Mexico.

PACHY- Pach"y-. [Gr. thick.]

Defn: A combining form meaning thick; as, pachyderm, pachydactyl.

PACHYCARPOUS Pach`y*car"pous, a. [Pachy- + Gr. fruit.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having the pericarp thick.

PACHYDACTYL Pach`y*dac"tyl, n. [Pachy- + dactyl.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A bird or other animal having thick toes.

PACHYDACTYLOUS Pach`y*dac"tyl*ous, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having thick toes.

PACHYDERM Pach"y*derm, n. [Cf. F. pachyderme.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Pachydermata.

PACHYDERMAL Pach`y*der"mal, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or relating to the pachyderms; as, pachydermal dentition.

PACHYDERMATA Pach`y*der"ma*ta, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. thick-skinned; pachy`s thick + skin.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial group.

PACHYDERMATOUS Pach`y*der"ma*tous, a.

1. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the pachyderms.

2. Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule.

PACHYDERMOID Pach`y*der"moid, a. [Pachyderm + -oid.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Related to the pachyderms.

PACHYGLOSSAL Pach`y*glos"sal, a. [Pachy- + Gr. tongue.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having a thick tongue; --applied to a group of lizards (Pachyglossæ), including the iguanas and agamas.

PACHYMENINGITIS Pach`y*men`in*gi"tis, n. [Pachy-+ meningitis.] (Med.)

Defn: Inflammation of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain.

PACHYMETER Pa*chym"e*ter, n. [Pachy- + -meter.]

Defn: Same as Pachometer.

PACHYOTE Pach"y*ote, n. [Pachy- + Gr. , , ear.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of a family of bats, including those which have thick external ears.

PACIFIABLE Pac"i*fi`a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable.

PACIFIC Pa*cif"ic, a. [L. pacificus: cf. F. pacifique. See Pacify.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition.

Pacific Ocean, the ocean between America and Asia, so called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on account of the exemption from violent tempests which he enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the Pacific, and, formerly, the South sea.

Syn. -- Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil; calm; quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle.

PACIFICABLE Pa*cif"ic*a*ble, a.

Defn: Placable. [R.] Bp. Hall.

PACIFICAL Pa*cif"ic*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to peace; pacific. [R.] Sir H. Wotton. -- Pa*cif"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]

PACIFICATION Pa*cif`i*ca"tion, n. [L. pacificatio: cf. F. pacification. See Pacify.]

Defn: The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.

PACIFICATOR Pa*cif"i*ca`tor, n. [L.]

Defn: One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker. Bacon.

PACIFICATORY Pa*cif"i*ca*to*ry, a. [L. pacificatorius.]

Defn: Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow.

PACIFICO Pa*ci"fi*co, n. [Sp. See Pacific.]

Defn: A peaceful person; -- applied specif. by the Spaniards to the natives in Cuba and the Philippine Islands who did not oppose the Spanish arms.

While we were going through the woods one of the pacificos pointed to a new grave. Harper's Weekly.

PACIFIER Pac"i*fi`er, n.

Defn: One who pacifies.

PACIFY Pac"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pacified; p. pr. & vb. n. Pacifying.] [F. pacifier, L. pacificare; pax, pacis, peace + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Peace, and -fy.]

Defn: To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity. "Pray ye, pacify yourself." Shak.

To pacify and settle those countries. Bacon.

PACINIAN Pa*cin"i*an, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century.

Pacinian corpuscles, small oval bodies terminating some of the minute branches of the sensory nerves in the integument and other parts of the body. They are supposed to be tactile organs.

PACK Pack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Packed; p. pr. & vb. n. Packing.] Etym: [Akin to D. pakken, G. packen, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakka. See Pack, n.]

1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish. Strange materials packed up with wonderful art. Addison. Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed. Shak.

2. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

3. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. Pope.

4. Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes. The expected council was dwindling into . . . a packed assembly of Italian bishops. Atterbury.

5. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. [Obs.] He lost life . . . upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies. Fuller.

6. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse. Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey. Shack.

7. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school. He . . . must not die Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven. Shak.

8. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts). [Western U.S.]

9. (Hydropathy)

Defn: To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.

10. (Mech.)

Defn: To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

PACK Pack, v. i.

1. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

2. To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.

3. To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack. [Eng.]

4. To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away. Poor Stella must pack off to town Swift. You shall pack, And never more darken my doors again. Tennyson.

5. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion. [Obs.] "Go pack with him." Shak. To send packing, to drive away; to send off roughly or in disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously. "The parliament . . . presently sent him packing. South.

PACKAGE Pack"age, n.

1. Act or process of packing.

2. A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.

3. A charge made for packing goods.

4. A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

PACKER Pack"er, n.

Defn: A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.

PACKET Pack"et, n. Etym: [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See Pack.]

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

2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, or vessel. See Packet, n., 2. -- Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. -- Packet note or post. See under Paper.

PACKET Pack"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Packeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Packeting.]

1. To make up into a packet or bundle.

2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. Her husband Was packeted to France. Ford.

PACKET Pack"et, v. i.

Defn: To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

PACKFONG Pack"fong`, n. Etym: [Chin. peh tung.] (Metal.)

Defn: A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German silver.

PACK HERSE Pack herse.

Defn: See under 2d Pack.

PACKHOUSE Pack"house`, n.

Defn: Warehouse for storing goods.

PACKING Pack"ing, n.

1. The act or process of one who packs.

2. Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close. Specifically (Mach.):

Defn: A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious; as: (a) A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint. (b) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides. (c) A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.

3. (Masonry)

Defn: Same as Filling. [Rare in the U. S.]

4. A trick; collusion. [Obs.] Bale. Cherd packing (Bridge Building), the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. Waddell. -- Packing box, a stuffing box. See under Stuffing. -- Packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. -- Packing ring. See Packing, 2 (c), and Illust. of Piston. -- Packing sheet. (a) A large cloth for packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.

PACKMAN Pack"man, n.; pl. Packmen (.

Defn: One who bears a pack; a peddler.

PACK SADDLE; PACK THREAD Pack saddle, Pack thread.

Defn: See under 2d Pack.

PACKWAX Pack"wax`, n. (Anat.)

Defn: Same as Paxwax.

PACKWAY Pack"way`, n.

Defn: A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.

PACO; PACOS Pa"co, Pa"cos, n. Etym: [Sp. paco, fr. Peruv. paco. Cf. Alpaca.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Alpaca.

2. Etym: [Peruv. paco, pacu, red, reddish, reddish ore containing silver; perh. a different word.] (Min.)

Defn: An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver. Ure.

PACT Pact, n. Etym: [L. pactum, fr. paciscere to make a bargain or contract, fr. pacere to settle, or agree upon; cf. pangere to fasten, Gr. paca bond, and E. fang: cf. F. pacie. Cf. Peace, Fadge, v.]

Defn: An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant. Bacon. The engagement and pact of society whish goes by the name of the constitution. Burke.

PACTION Pac"tion, n. Etym: [L. pactio: cf. F. paction. See Pact.]

Defn: An agreement; a compact; a bargain. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

PACTIONAL Pac"tion*al, a.

Defn: Of the nature of, or by means of, a paction. Bp. Sanderson.

PACTITIOUS Pac*ti"tious, a. Etym: [L. pactitius, pacticius.]

Defn: Setted by a pact, or agreement. [R.] Johnson.

PACTOLIAN Pac*to"li*an, a.

Defn: Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands.

PACU Pa"cu, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A South American freah-water fish (Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidæ. It is highly esteemed as food.

PAD Pad, n. Etym: [D. pad. sq. root21. See Path.]

1. A footpath; a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag. Addison An abbot on an ambling pad. Tennyson.

3. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad. Gay. Byron.

4. The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.]

PAD Pad, v. t.

Defn: To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.] Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.

PAD Pad, v. i.

1. To travel heavily or slowly. Bunyan.

2. To rob on foot. [Obs.] Cotton Mather.

3. To wear a path by walking. [Prov. Eng.]

PAD Pad, n. Etym: [Perh. akin to pod.]

1. A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.

2. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.

3. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

4. A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

5. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.

6. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

7. (Med.)

Defn: A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.

8. (Naut.)

Defn: A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck. W. C. Russel.

9. A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles. [Eng.] Simmonds. Pad cloth, a saddlecloth; a housing. -- Pad saddle. See def. 3, above. -- Pad tree (Harness Making), a piece of wood or metal which gives rigidity and shape to a harness pad. Knight.

PAD Pad, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Padded; p. pr. & vb. n. Padding.]

1. To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.

2. (Calico Printing)

Defn: To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. Ure.

PADAR Pad"ar, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Defn: Groats; coarse flour or meal. [Obs.] Sir. H. Wotton.

PADDER Pad"der, n.

1. One who, or that which, pads.

2. A highwayman; a footpad. [Obs.]

PADDING Pad"ding, n.

1. The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

2. The material with which anything is padded.

3. Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. London Sat. Rev.

4. (Calico Printing)

Defn: The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

PADDLE Pad"dle, v. i. Etym: [Prob. for pattle, and a dim. of pat, v.; cf. also E. pad to tread, Prov. G. paddeln, padden, to walk with short steps, to paddle, G. patschen to splash, dash, dabble, F. patouiller to dabble, splash, fr. patte a paw.

1. To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. [Obs.] Shak.

2. To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. As the men were paddling for their lives. L'Estrange. While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. Gay.

PADDLE Pad"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Paddling]

1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. Shak.

2. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.

3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]

PADDLE Pad"dle, n. Etym: [See Paddle, v. i.]

1. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

2. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle. Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. Deut. xxiii. 13.

3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.

4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; - - also called clough.

5. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

6. A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.

7. Etym: [In this sense prob. for older spaddle, a dim. of spade.]

Defn: See Paddle staff (b), below. [Prov. Eng.] Paddle beam (Shipbuilding), one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel. -- Paddle board. See Paddle, n., 3. -- Paddle box, the structure inclosing the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. -- Paddle shaft, the revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. -- Paddle staff. (a) A staff tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers. [Prov. Eng.] (b) A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; -- called also plow staff. [Prov. Eng.] -- Paddle steamer, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller. -- Paddle wheel, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length.

PADDLECOCK Pad"dle*cock`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The lumpfish. [Prov. Eng.]

PADDLEFISH Pad"dle*fish`, n. (Zoöl)

Defn: A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.

PADDLER Pad"dler, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, paddles.

PADDLER Pad"dler, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, paddles.

PADDLEWOOD Pad"dle*wood`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.

PADDOCK Pad"dock, n. Etym: [OE. padde toad, frog + -ock; akin to D. pad, padde, toad, Icel. & Sw. padda, Dan. padde.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A toad or frog. Wyclif. "Loathed paddocks." Spenser Paddock pipe (Bot.), a hollow-stemmed plant of the genus Equisetum, especially E. limosum and the fruiting stems of E. arvense; -- called also padow pipe and toad pipe. See Equisetum. -- Paddock stone. See Toadstone. -- Paddock stool (Bot.),a toadstool.

PADDOCK Pad"dock, n. Etym: [Corrupted fr. parrock. See Parrock.]

1. A small inclosure or park for sporting. [Obs.]

2. A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable. Evelyn. Cowper.

PADDY Pad"dy, a. Etym: [Prov. E. paddy worm-eaten.]

Defn: Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. "Such pady persons." Digges (1585). "The paddy persons." Motley.

PADDY Pad"dy, n.; pl. Paddies. Etym: [Corrupted fr. St. Patrick, the tutelar saint of Ireland.]

Defn: A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

PADDY Pad"dy, n. Etym: [Either fr. Canarese bhatta or Malay padi.] (Bot.)

Defn: Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies. Paddy bird. (Zoöl.) See Java sparrow, under Java.

PAD ELEPHANT Pad elephant.

Defn: An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers.

PADELION Pad`e*li"on, n. Etym: [F. pas de lionon's foot.] (Bot.)

Defn: A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.

PADELLA Pa*del"la, n. Etym: [It., prop., a pan, a friing pan, fr. L. patella a pan.]

Defn: A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.

PADEMELON Pad`e*mel"on, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Wallaby.

PADESOY Pad"e*soy`, n.

Defn: See Paduasoy.

PADGE Padge, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The barn owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge owl. [Prov. Eng.]

PADISHAH Pa`di*shah", n. Etym: [Per. padishah. Cf. Pasha.]

Defn: Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.

PADLOCK Pad"lock`, n. Etym: [Perh. orig., a lock for a pad gate, or a gate opening to a path, or perh., a lock for a basket or pannier, and from Prov. E. pad a pannier. Cf. Pad a path, Paddler.]

1. A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.

2. Fig.: A curb; a restraint.

PADLOCK Pad"lock`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Padlocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Padlocking.]

Defn: To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock. Milton. Tennyson.

PADNAG Pad"nag`, n. Etym: [lst pad + nag.]

Defn: An ambling nag. "An easy padnag." Macaulay.

PADOW Pad"ow, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A paddock, or toad. Padow pipe. (Bot.) See Paddock pipe, under Paddock.

PADRE Pa"dre, n.; pl. Sp. & Pg. Padres (#); It. Padri (#). [Sp., Pg., & It., fr. L. pater father. See Father.]

1. A Christian priest or monk; -- used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Spanish America.

2. In India (from the Portuguese), any Christian minister; also, a priest of the native region. Kipling.

PADRONE Pa*dro"ne, n.; pl. It. Padroni, E. Padrones. Etym: [It. See Patron.]

1. A patron; a protector.

2. The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.

3. A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.

PADUASOY Pad`u*a*soy", n. Etym: [From Padua, in Italy + F. soie silk; or cf. F. pou-de-soie.]

Defn: A rich and heavy silk stuff. [Written also padesoy.]

PADUCAHS Pa*du"cahs, n. pl.; sing. Paducah (. (Ethnol.)

Defn: See Comanches.

PAEAN Pæ"an, n. Etym: [L. paean, Gr. Pæon, Peony.] [Written also pean.]

1. An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.

2. Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. Dryden. "Public pæans of congratulation." De Quincey.

3. See Pæon.

PAEDOBAPTISM Pæ`do*bap"tism, n.

Defn: Pedobaptism.

PAEDOGENESIS Pæ`do*gen"esis, n. Etym: [Gr. , , child + E. genesis.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Reproduction by young or larval animals.

PAEDOGENETIC Pæ`do*ge*net"ic, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.

PAEON Pæ"on, n. Etym: [L. paeon, Gr. a solemn song, also, a pæon, equiv. to Pæan.] (Anc. Poet.)

Defn: A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. [Written also, less correctly, pæan.]

PAEONINE Pæ"o*nine, n. (Chem.)

Defn: An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.

PAEONY Pæ"o*ny, n. (Bot.)

Defn: See Peony.

PAGAN Pa"gan, n. Etym: [L. paganus a countryman, peasant, villager, a pagan, fr. paganus of or pertaining to the country, rustic, also, pagan, fr. pagus a district, canton, the country, perh. orig., a district with fixed boundaries: cf. pangere to fasten. Cf. Painim, Peasant, and Pact, also Heathen.]

Defn: One who worships false goods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew. Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man. Shak.

Syn. -- Gentile; heathen; idolater. -- Pagan, Gentile, Heathen. Gentile was applied to the other nations of the earth as distinguished from the Jews. Pagan was the name given to idolaters in the early Christian church, because the villagers, being most remote from the centers of instruction, remained for a long time unconverted. Heathen has the same origin. Pagan is now more properly applied to rude and uncivilized idolaters, while heathen embraces all who practice idolatry.

PAGAN Pa"gan, a. Etym: [L. paganus of or pertaining to the country, pagan. See Pagan, n.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions. And all the rites of pagan honor paid. Dryden.

PAGANDOM Pa"gan*dom, n.

Defn: The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism. [R.]

PAGANIC; PAGANICAL Pa*gan"ic, Pa*gan"ic*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish. [R.] "The paganic fables of the goods." Cudworth. -- Pa*gan"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]

PAGANISH Pa"gan*ish, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish. "The old paganish idolatry." Sharp

PAGANISM Pa"gan*ism, n. Etym: [L. paganismus: cf. F. paganisme. See Pagan, and cf. Painim.]

Defn: The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.

PAGANITY Pa*gan"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. Paganitas.]

Defn: The state of being a pagan; paganism. [R.] Cudworth.

PAGANIZE Pa"gan*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paganized; p. pr. & vb. n. Paganizing.]

Defn: To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism. Hallywell.

PAGANIZE Pa"gan*ize, v. i.

Defn: To behave like pagans. Milton.

PAGANLY Pa"gan*ly, adv.

Defn: In a pagan manner. Dr. H. More.

PAGE Page, n. Etym: [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.]

1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doin errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one. Bacon.

2. A boy child. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

4. (Brickmaking.)

Defn: A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

5. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.

PAGE Page, v. t.

Defn: To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] Shak.

PAGE Page, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.]

1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow.

2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.

3. (Print.)

Defn: The type set up for printing a page.

PAGE Page, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paged; p. pr. & vb. n. Paging.]

Defn: To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with folios.

PAGEANT Pag"eant, n. Etym: [OE. pagent, pagen, originally, a movable scaffold or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL. pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L. pagina page, leaf, slab, compaginare to join together, compages a joining together, structure. See Pact, Page of a book.]

1. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. "A pageant truly played." Shak. To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser.

2. An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display. The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day ! Pope. We love the man, the paltry pageant you. Cowper.

PAGEANT Pag"eant, a.

Defn: Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. "Pageant pomp." Dryden.

PAGEANT Pag"eant, v. t.

Defn: To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic. [R.] "He pageants us." Shak.

PAGEANTRY Pag"eant*ry, n.

Defn: Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectivelly; spectacular guality; splendor. Such pageantry be to the people shown. Dryden. The pageantry of festival. J. A. Symonds.

Syn. -- Pomp; parade; show; display; spectacle.

PAGEHOOD Page"hood, n.

Defn: The state of being a page.

PAGINA Pag"i*na, n.; pl. Paginæ. Etym: [L.] (Bot.)

Defn: The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.

PAGINAL Pag"i*nal, a. Etym: [L. paginalis.]

Defn: Consisting of pages. "Paginal books." Sir T. Browne.

PAGINATION Pag`i*na"tion, n.

Defn: The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number. Lowndes.

PAGING Pa"ging, n.

Defn: The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

PAGOD Pa"god, n. Etym: [Cf. F. pagode. See Pagoda.]

1. A pagoda. [R.] "Or some queer pagod." Pope.

2. An idol. [Obs.] Bp. Stillingfleet.

PAGODA Pa*go"da, n. Etym: [Pg. pagoda, pagode, fr.Hind. & Per. but-kadah a house of idols, or abode of God; Per. but an idol + kadah a house, a temple.]

1. A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower- like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.

2. An idol. [R.] Brande & C.

3. Etym: [Prob. so named from the image of a pagoda or a deity (cf. Skr. bhagavat holy, divine) stamped on it.]

Defn: A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.

PAGODA SLEEVE Pa*go"da sleeve. (Costume)

Defn: A funnel-shaped sleeve arranged to show the sleeve lining and an inner sleeve.

PAGODITE Pa*go"dite, n. (Min.)

Defn: Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.

PAGUMA Pa*gu"ma, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form.

PAGURIAN Pa*gu"ri*an, n. Etym: [L. pagurus a kind of crab, Gr. .] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.

PAH Pah, interj.

Defn: An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah. Fie! fie! fie! pah! pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. Shak.

PAH Pah, n. Etym: [From native name.]

Defn: A kind of stockaded intrenchment. [New Zealand.] Farrow.

PAHI Pa"hi, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A large war canoe of the Society Islands.

PAHLEVI Pah"le*vi, n.

Defn: Same as Pehlevi.

PAHOEHOE Pa*ho"e*ho`e, n. (Min.)

Defn: A name given in the Sandwich Islands to lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called a-a.

PAHUTES Pah"*Utes`, n. pl. (Ethnol.)

Defn: See Utes.

PAID Paid, imp., p. p., & a. of Pay.

1. Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.

2. Satisfied; contented. [Obs.] "Paid of his poverty." Chaucer.

PAIDEUTICS Pai*deu"tics, n. Etym: [Gr. , fr. to teach, fr. ,, a boy.]

Defn: The science or art of teaching.

PAIEN Pai"en, n. & a.

Defn: Pagan. [Obs.] Chaucer.

PAIGLE Pai"gle, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.)

Defn: A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose. [Written also pagle, pagil, peagle, and pygil.]

PAIJAMA Pai*ja"ma, n.

Defn: Pyjama.

PAIL Pail, n. Etym: [OE. paile, AS. pægel a wine vessel, a pail, akin to D. & G. pegel a watermark, a gauge rod, a measure of wine, Dan. pægel half a pint.]

Defn: A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. Shak.

PAILFUL Pail"ful, n.; pl. Pailfuls (.

Defn: The quantity that a pail will hold. "By pailfuls." Shak.

PAILLASSE Pail*lasse" (; F. , n. Etym: [F., fr. paille straw. See Pallet a bed.]

Defn: An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also palliasse.]

PAILLON Pail`lon", n.; pl. -lions (#). [F., fr. paille straw.]

Defn: A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.

PAILMALL Pail`mall", n. & a.

Defn: See Pall-mall. [Obs.]

PAIN Pain, n. Etym: [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. penalty. Cf. Penal, Pine to languish, Punish.]

1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. Chaucer. We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. Bacon. Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. Dryden. None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. Addison.

2. Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart. "The pain of Jesus Christ." Chaucer.

Note: Pain may occur in any part of the body where sensory nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally referred to the peripheral end of the nerve.

3. pl.

Defn: Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. 1 Sam. iv. 19.

4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Chaucer. In rapture as in pain. Keble.

5. See Pains, labor, effort. Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill. -- To die in the pain, to be tortured to death. [Obs.] Chaucer.

PAIN Pain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained; p. pr. & vb. n. Paining.] Etym: [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See Pain, n.]

1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.] Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).

2. To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him. Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. Lock

3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents. I am pained at mJer. iv. 19. To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] "She pained her to do all that she might." Chaucer.

Syn. -- To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.

PAINABLE Pain"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. pénible.]

Defn: Causing pain; painful. [Obs.] The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and painable for being composed of gold or silver. Evelyn.

PAINFUL Pain"ful, a.

1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison.

2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden.

Syn. -- Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. -- Pain"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain"ful*ness, n.

PAINIM Pai"nim, n.Etym: [OE. painime pagans, paganism, fr. OF. paienisme paganism, LL. paganismus. See Paganism, Pagan.]

Defn: A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively. [Written also panim and paynim.] Peacham.

PAINLESS Pain"less, a.

Defn: Free from pain; without pain. -- Pain"less*ly, adv. -- Pain"less*ness, n.

PAINS Pains, n.

Defn: Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak. The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. Dryden.

PAINSTAKER Pains"tak`er, n.

Defn: One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.

PAINSTAKING Pains"tak`ing, a.

Defn: Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." Harris.

PAINSTAKING Pains"tak`ing, n.

Defn: The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance. Beau. & Fl.

PAINSWORTHY Pains"wor`thy, a.

Defn: Worth the pains o

PAINT Paint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Painted; p. pr. & vb. n. Painting.] Etym: [OE. peinten, fr. F. peint, p. p. opeindre to paint, fr. L. pingere, pictum; cf. Gr. many-colored, Skr. pic to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, Pigment, Pint.]

1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30.

2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. Shak. Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight. Shak.

3. To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict. Disloyal The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. Shak. If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Pope.

Syn. -- To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe.

PAINT Paint, v. t.

1. To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.

2. To color one's face by way of beautifying it. Let her paint an inch thick. Shak.

PAINT Paint, n.

1. (a) A pigment or coloring substance. (b) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.

2. A cosmetic; rouge. Praed.

PAINTED Paint"ed, a.

1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge.

2. (Nat. Hist.)

Defn: Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty (Zoöl.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in meadows. -- Painted finch. See Nonpareil. -- Painted lady (Zoöl.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly. -- Painted turtle (Zoöl.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.

PAINTER Paint"er, n. Etym: [OE, pantere a noose, snare, F. pantière, LL. panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin, snare, Gael. painntear.] (Naut.)

Defn: A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten.

PAINTER Paint"er, n. Etym: [Corrupt. of panther.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.] J. F. Cooper.

PAINTER Paint"er, n. Etym: [See lst Paint.]

Defn: One whose occupation is to paint; esp.: (a) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint. (b) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like. Painter's colic. (Med.) See Lead colic, under Colic. -- Painter stainer. (a) A painter of coats of arms. Crabb. (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.

PAINTERLY Paint"er*ly, a.

Defn: Like a painter's work. [Obs.] "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney.

PAINTERSHIP Paint"er*ship, n.

Defn: The state or position of being a painter. [R.] Br. Gardiner.

PAINTING Paint"ing, n.

1. The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

2. (Fine Arts)

Defn: The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.

3. Color laid on; paint. [R.] Shak.

4. A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.

Syn. -- See Picture.

PAINTLESS Paint"less, a.

Defn: Not capable of being painted or described. "In paintless patience." Savage.

PAINTURE Pain"ture, n. Etym: [F. peinture. See Paint, v. t., and cf. Picture.]

Defn: The art of painting. [Obs.] Chaucer. Dryden.

PAINTY Paint"y, a.

Defn: Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface. [Cant]

PAIR Pair, n. Etym: [F. paire, LL. paria, L. paria, pl. of par pair, fr. par, adj., equal. Cf. Apparel, Par equality, Peer an equal.]

1. A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay.

Note: [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.] Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards. Beau. & Fl.

2. Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.

3. Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.

4. A married couple; a man and wife. "A happy pair." Dryden. "The hapless pair." Milton.

5. A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.

6. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote. [Parliamentary Cant]

7. (Kinematics)

Defn: In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.

Note: Pairs are named in accordance with the kind of motion they permit; thus, a journal and its bearing form a turning pair, a cylinder and its piston a sliding pair, a screw and its nut a twisting pair, etc. Any pair in which the constraining contact is along lines or at points only (as a cam and roller acting together), is designated a higher pair; any pair having constraining surfaces which fit each other (as a cylindrical pin and eye, a screw and its nut, etc.), is called a lower pair. Pair royal (pl. Pairs Royal) three things of a sort; -- used especially of playing cards in some games, as cribbage; as three kings, three "eight spots" etc. Four of a kind are called a double pair royal. "Something in his face gave me as much pleasure as a pair royal of naturals in my own hand." Goldsmith. "That great pair royal of adamantine sisters [the Fates]." Quarles. [Written corruptly parial and prial.]

Syn. -- Pair, Flight, Set. Originally, pair was not confined to two things, but was applied to any number of equal things (pares), that go together. Ben Jonson speaks of a pair (set) of chessmen; also, he and Lord Bacon speak of a pair (pack) of cards. A "pair of stairs" is still in popular use, as well as the later expression, "flight of stairs."

PAIR Pair, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paired; p. pr. & vb. n. Pairing.]

1. To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.

2. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart. My heart was made to fit and pair with thine. Rowe.

3. Same as To pair off. See phrase below. To pair off, to separate from a company in pairs or couples; specif. (Parliamentary Cant), to agree with one of the opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on specified questions or issues. See Pair, n., 6.

PAIR Pair, v. t.