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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Pa-pĭl'io, n. p. 945(Entom.) A genus of lepidopterous insects, including many species; the butterfly.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…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…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.Pāp'īl-lāte, v. i. p. 945To grow into a nipple, or into a form resembling that of a nipple. Fleming.Pāp'īl-late, a. p. 945(Bot.) Having soft tubercles, or papillæ. Gray.Pa-pīl'li-fōrm, a. p. 945Shaped like a nipple; as, a papilliform matrix. R. Owen.Pāp'ĭl-lōte, n. p. 945One of the small pieces of paper on which ladies roll up their hair.Pāp'īl-loŭs or Pa-pīl'loŭs, a. p. 945The same as PAPILLARY. See PAPILLARY.Pā'pism, n. p. 945Popery. [Obs.] Bedell.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…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.Pa-pist'ic-al-ly, adv. p. 945In the manner of, or for the benefit of, papists.Pā′pist-ry, n. p. 945The doctrines and ceremonies of the church of Rome; popery. Ascham. Whitgift.Pā′pīzed, a. p. 945Conformed to popery. [Obs.] Fuller.Pa-pōōse' or Pap-pōōse', n. p. 945A babe or young child;—so called by the North American Indians.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.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.Pāp'py, a. p. 945Like pap; soft; pulpy; succulent.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.Päp'ū-an, a. p. 945(Geog.) Of, or pertaining to, Papua or the Papuans.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.Pāp'ū-lar, a. p. 945See PAPULOSE.Pāp'ū-lōse', a. p. 945Covered with papulæ; as, a papulose leaf. Martyn.Pāp'ū-lōŭs, a. p. 945Full of pimples.Pāp'y-rā'ceoŭs or Pa-pī'y're-an, a. p. 945Belonging to the papyrus or papyri; resembling paper in appearance or consistency.Pāp'y-rīne, n. p. 945A substance closely resembling parchment, made by immersing bibulous paper in partially dilute sulphuric acid; parchment paper.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.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…Pāque, n. p. 945See Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus).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…Pär, n. p. 945(Ichth.) See PARR.Pa-rä', n. p. 945A piece of Turkish money, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one fourth of a cent.Pär'ä p. 945Prefix fr. the Gr., meaning beside, beyond.Pär'a-ble, a. p. 945Easily procured. [Obs.] Browne.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.Pär'a-ble, v. t. p. 945To represent by fiction or fable. [Rare.] Milton.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…Pā-răb'o-le, n. p. 945(Rhet.) Similitude; comparison.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…Păr'a-bŏl'ie-al-ly, adv. p. 945By way of parable. 2. In the form of a parabola.Pär'-a-bŏl'-i-fōrm, a. p. 945Resembling a parabola in form.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.]Pa-răb'o-list, n. p. 945A writer or narrator of parables.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.…Pär'a-bo-loid'al, a. p. 945Pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.Pär'a-çĕl'si-an, n. p. 945A physician who follows the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of celebrity, who lived at the close of the fifteenth century. Ferrand.Pär'/a-çel'si-an, a. p. 945Belonging or relating to Paracelsus or his practice. Hakewill.Pär'a-çël'sist, n. p. 945A Paracelsian.Pär'a-çen-tē'sis, n. p. 945(Surg.) The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, lancet, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of an effused fluid.Păr'a-çēn'tric or Păr'a-çēn'tric-al, a. p. 945Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center. Paracentric curve (Math.), a curve having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the…Pa-răch'ro-nĭsm, n. p. 946An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is made later than it was in reality.Păr'a-chrōse, a. p. 946(Min.) Changing color by exposure to the weather. Mohs.Păr'a-chute, n. p. 946A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which any thing may be sent down from a balloon without danger of too rapid motion.Păr'a-clēte, n. p. 946An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor; — a term applied to the Holy Spirit.Păr'a-clōse, n. p. 946(Eccl. Arch.) A screen separating a chapel from the body of a church. Hook.Păr'a-crōs'tic, n. p. 946A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, all the letters which commence the remaining verses of the poem. [Rare.] Brande.Păr/a-cȳ-ăn’ō-gen, n. p. 946(Chem.) A brownish-black insoluble substance, which remains after the decomposition of the cyanide of mercury by heat. It is apparently isomeric with cyanogen. Silliman.Pa-rāde', n. p. 946Pompous exhibition; display; ostentation; show. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift. 2. Especially, military display; the assembly and orderly arrangement of troops for show…Pa-rāde', v. t. p. 946To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off; to make a spectacle of. 2. To assemble and array or marshal in military order; as, to parade troops.