Your ShelfYour Projects
Library

Dictionary

An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

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

Entries
95,912
Pages
1,538
Illustrations
2,133

Look up a word as the writers of the time used it.

Read it page by page The scan at the Internet Archive
  1. 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…
  2. 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.]
  3. Pā'per-fāçed, a.p. 945Having a face as white as paper. Shak.
  4. Pā'per-hāng'er, n.p. 945One who covers rooms with paper, pasting it in lengths upon the walls.
  5. Pā'per-hāng'ing, n. pl.p. 945Paper ornamented with colored figures, prepared to be pasted against the walls of apartments, &c.
  6. Pā'per-mūs'lin, n.p. 945Glazed muslin, used for linings, and the like.
  7. Pā'per-stāin'er, n.p. 945One who stains, colors, or stamps, paper for hangings.
  8. Pā'per-weight, n.p. 945A small weight used to prevent loose papers, &c., from being blown away by the wind, or otherwise displaced.
  9. Pā'per-y, a.p. 945Like paper; having the thinness or consistency of paper. Gray.
  10. Pa-pĕs'cent, a.p. 945Containing pap; having the qualities of pap. Arbuthnot.
  11. Pā'pess, n.p. 945A female pope. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  12. Papeterie, n.p. 945An ornamented case or box containing paper and other materials for writing.
  13. 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.
  14. Pā'phi-an, n.p. 945(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Paphos.
  15. 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.
  16. Pa-pĭl'io, n.p. 945(Entom.) A genus of lepidopterous insects, including many species; the butterfly.
  17. 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…
  18. 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…
  19. 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.
  20. Pāp'īl-lāte, v. i.p. 945To grow into a nipple, or into a form resembling that of a nipple. Fleming.
  21. Pāp'īl-late, a.p. 945(Bot.) Having soft tubercles, or papillæ. Gray.
  22. Pa-pīl'li-fōrm, a.p. 945Shaped like a nipple; as, a papilliform matrix. R. Owen.
  23. Pāp'ĭl-lōte, n.p. 945One of the small pieces of paper on which ladies roll up their hair.
  24. Pāp'īl-loŭs or Pa-pīl'loŭs, a.p. 945The same as PAPILLARY. See PAPILLARY.
  25. Pā'pism, n.p. 945Popery. [Obs.] Bedell.
  26. 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…
  27. 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.
  28. Pa-pist'ic-al-ly, adv.p. 945In the manner of, or for the benefit of, papists.
  29. Pā′pist-ry, n.p. 945The doctrines and ceremonies of the church of Rome; popery. Ascham. Whitgift.
  30. Pā′pīzed, a.p. 945Conformed to popery. [Obs.] Fuller.
  31. Pa-pōōse' or Pap-pōōse', n.p. 945A babe or young child;—so called by the North American Indians.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. Pāp'py, a.p. 945Like pap; soft; pulpy; succulent.
  35. 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.
  36. Päp'ū-an, a.p. 945(Geog.) Of, or pertaining to, Papua or the Papuans.
  37. 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.
  38. Pāp'ū-lar, a.p. 945See PAPULOSE.
  39. Pāp'ū-lōse', a.p. 945Covered with papulæ; as, a papulose leaf. Martyn.
  40. Pāp'ū-lōŭs, a.p. 945Full of pimples.
  41. Pāp'y-rā'ceoŭs or Pa-pī'y're-an, a.p. 945Belonging to the papyrus or papyri; resembling paper in appearance or consistency.
  42. Pāp'y-rīne, n.p. 945A substance closely resembling parchment, made by immersing bibulous paper in partially dilute sulphuric acid; parchment paper.
  43. 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.
  44. 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…
  45. Pāque, n.p. 945See Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus).
  46. 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…
  47. Pär, n.p. 945(Ichth.) See PARR.
  48. Pa-rä', n.p. 945A piece of Turkish money, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one fourth of a cent.
  49. Pär'äp. 945Prefix fr. the Gr., meaning beside, beyond.
  50. Pär'a-ble, a.p. 945Easily procured. [Obs.] Browne.
  51. 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.
  52. Pär'a-ble, v. t.p. 945To represent by fiction or fable. [Rare.] Milton.
  53. 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…
  54. Pā-răb'o-le, n.p. 945(Rhet.) Similitude; comparison.
  55. Păr'a-bŏl'ic or Păr'a-bŏl'ic-al, a.p. 945Expressed by parable or allegorical representation; as, parabolical instruction or description. 2. [From parabola.] (Geom.) (a.) Having the form or nature of a parabola; pertaining to, or resembling…
  56. Păr'a-bŏl'ie-al-ly, adv.p. 945By way of parable. 2. In the form of a parabola.
  57. Pär'-a-bŏl'-i-fōrm, a.p. 945Resembling a parabola in form.
  58. Pa-rāb'o-lĭsm, n.p. 945(Alg.) The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved or multiplied in the first term. [Obs.]
  59. Pa-răb'o-list, n.p. 945A writer or narrator of parables.
  60. Pa-räb'o-loid, n.p. 945(Geom.) The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; a parabolic conoid. Brande. ☞ The term paraboloid has sometimes been applied also to the parabolas of the higher orders.…