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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Pā'pa-phō'bi-ā, n.p. 944Fear or dread of the pope; hatred of the pope.
  2. Pā'par-chy, n.p. 944The government of the pope.
  3. Pa-pā'ver, n.p. 944(Bot.) A genus of plants, including the poppy.
  4. Pă-pāv’er-ā'ceoŭs, a.p. 944Belonging to the poppy.
  5. Pa-pāv'er-ōŭs, a.p. 944Resembling the poppy; of the nature or qualities of poppies. Browne.
  6. Pa-paw', n.p. 944(Bot.) (a.) A tree (Carica papaya) growing in warm climates, to the height of eighteen or twenty feet, with a soft, herbaceous stem, naked nearly to the top, where the leaves issue on every side, on…
  7. Pāpe, n.p. 944The pope. [Obs.]
  8. Pā'per, n.p. 944A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, to be used in wrapping, &c., and made of a pulp obtained from rags, from straw, from bark, or like materials…
  9. Pā'per, v. t.p. 945To cover with paper; to furnish with paper-hangings; as, to paper a room or a house. 2. To fold or inclose in paper. 3. To put on paper; to put on record; to make a memorandum of; to register. [Obs.]
  10. Pā'per-fāçed, a.p. 945Having a face as white as paper. Shak.
  11. Pā'per-hāng'er, n.p. 945One who covers rooms with paper, pasting it in lengths upon the walls.
  12. Pā'per-hāng'ing, n. pl.p. 945Paper ornamented with colored figures, prepared to be pasted against the walls of apartments, &c.
  13. Pā'per-mūs'lin, n.p. 945Glazed muslin, used for linings, and the like.
  14. Pā'per-stāin'er, n.p. 945One who stains, colors, or stamps, paper for hangings.
  15. Pā'per-weight, n.p. 945A small weight used to prevent loose papers, &c., from being blown away by the wind, or otherwise displaced.
  16. Pā'per-y, a.p. 945Like paper; having the thinness or consistency of paper. Gray.
  17. Pa-pĕs'cent, a.p. 945Containing pap; having the qualities of pap. Arbuthnot.
  18. Pā'pess, n.p. 945A female pope. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  19. Papeterie, n.p. 945An ornamented case or box containing paper and other materials for writing.
  20. Pā'phi-an, a.p. 945(Geog.) Of, or pertaining to, Paphos, a city of Cyprus. 2. Pertaining to Venus, or her rites;—used often in a bad sense.
  21. Pā'phi-an, n.p. 945(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Paphos.
  22. Papier-maché, n.p. 945A hard substance made of a pulp from rags or paper mixed with size or glue, and formed into any chosen object, usually by means of molds.
  23. Pa-pĭl'io, n.p. 945(Entom.) A genus of lepidopterous insects, including many species; the butterfly.
  24. Pa-pil'io-nā'ceōŭs, a.p. 945Resembling the butterfly. 2. (Bot.) Having a winged corolla, somewhat resembling a butterfly, as in the blossoms of the bean and pea; belonging to the group of plants including the bean, pea, and…
  25. Pa-pĭl'la, n.p. 945(Anat.) The minute elevations of the surface of the skin, tongue, &c. They serve to increase the extent of surface for vascular distribution, or subserve sensitive or mechanical purposes. Some…
  26. Pāp'il-la-ry or Pāp'il-lōse', a.p. 945Pertaining to, or resembling, the nipple or the papillae; covered with papillae; verrucose; warty. Derham.
  27. Pāp'īl-lāte, v. i.p. 945To grow into a nipple, or into a form resembling that of a nipple. Fleming.
  28. Pāp'īl-late, a.p. 945(Bot.) Having soft tubercles, or papillæ. Gray.
  29. Pa-pīl'li-fōrm, a.p. 945Shaped like a nipple; as, a papilliform matrix. R. Owen.
  30. Pāp'ĭl-lōte, n.p. 945One of the small pieces of paper on which ladies roll up their hair.
  31. Pāp'īl-loŭs or Pa-pīl'loŭs, a.p. 945The same as PAPILLARY. See PAPILLARY.
  32. Pā'pism, n.p. 945Popery. [Obs.] Bedell.
  33. Pā'pist, n.p. 945A Roman Catholic; one who adheres to the church of Rome and the authority of the pope;—an offensive term applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents; said to have been originally employed by Martin…
  34. Pa-pis'tic or Pa-pis'tic-al, a.p. 945Adherent to the church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish.
  35. Pa-pist'ic-al-ly, adv.p. 945In the manner of, or for the benefit of, papists.
  36. Pā′pist-ry, n.p. 945The doctrines and ceremonies of the church of Rome; popery. Ascham. Whitgift.
  37. Pā′pīzed, a.p. 945Conformed to popery. [Obs.] Fuller.
  38. Pa-pōōse' or Pap-pōōse', n.p. 945A babe or young child;—so called by the North American Indians.
  39. Pap-pōse’ or Pāp’pōŭs, a.p. 945Furnished with a pappus, as the seeds of certain plants, such as thistles, dandelions, and the like; downy. Ray.
  40. Pāp'pus, n.p. 945(Bot.) The hairy, feathery, or membranous calyx of the individual florets, in certain compound flowers of the order Compositæ, as the dandelion, &c.
  41. Pāp'py, a.p. 945Like pap; soft; pulpy; succulent.
  42. Păp'ū-an, n.p. 945(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Papua or New Guinea, and some of the neighboring islands, having a brownish black color and frizzled hair. Pritchard.
  43. Päp'ū-an, a.p. 945(Geog.) Of, or pertaining to, Papua or the Papuans.
  44. Pāp'ū-lā, n.p. 945(Med.) A pimple; a small, acuminated elevation of the cuticle on an inflamed base, seldom containing a fluid, or suppurating, and commonly terminating in a scurf.
  45. Pāp'ū-lar, a.p. 945See PAPULOSE.
  46. Pāp'ū-lōse', a.p. 945Covered with papulæ; as, a papulose leaf. Martyn.
  47. Pāp'ū-lōŭs, a.p. 945Full of pimples.
  48. Pāp'y-rā'ceoŭs or Pa-pī'y're-an, a.p. 945Belonging to the papyrus or papyri; resembling paper in appearance or consistency.
  49. Pāp'y-rīne, n.p. 945A substance closely resembling parchment, made by immersing bibulous paper in partially dilute sulphuric acid; parchment paper.
  50. Pāp'y-rŏg'ra-phy, n.p. 945A method of printing from a kind of pasteboard covered with a calcareous substance, in precisely the same manner as from the stone in lithographic printing. Buchanan.
  51. Pa-pȳ'rus, n.p. 945(Bot.) A species of reed or flag common in many warm countries, and especially in Egypt, from which the ancients made a material for writing upon, by taking the layer between the flesh and thick bark…
  52. Pāque, n.p. 945See Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus).
  53. Pār, n.p. 945State of equality; equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, or other commercial paper. 2. Hence, equality of…
  54. Pär, n.p. 945(Ichth.) See PARR.
  55. Pa-rä', n.p. 945A piece of Turkish money, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one fourth of a cent.
  56. Pär'äp. 945Prefix fr. the Gr., meaning beside, beyond.
  57. Pär'a-ble, a.p. 945Easily procured. [Obs.] Browne.
  58. Păr'a-ble, n.p. 945A fable or allegorical relation or representation of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction. Syn.—See APOLOGUE.
  59. Pär'a-ble, v. t.p. 945To represent by fiction or fable. [Rare.] Milton.
  60. Pā-răb'o-lă, n.p. 945(Geom.) (a.) A curve, one of the conic sections, formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant…