The state of being a page.

A small electronic communication device which signals when a telephone call has been received at a base station. Each such device receives radio signals from the base station specifically coded for the individual to whom it is registered; the signal given by the device to the registered user may be a beeping sound, indicating that the user should call the base station to receive a message; or it may display a telephone number to which the user may call directly to return the incoming call, or may display a short message. Such devices are small enough to carry in the pocket or pocketbook, or to clip onto a belt or other part of the clothing. Also called beeper.

The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.

Consisting of pages.

To number the pages of (a book or manuscript).

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

The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

A pagoda.

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.

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

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

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

The type genus of the crustacean family Paguridae.

A kind of stockaded intrenchment.

See Utes.

An evergreen tree (Libocedrus bidwillii) of New Zealand resembling the kawaka.

A large war canoe of the Society Islands.

The language of Sassanian Persia. See Pehlevi.

A name given in Hawaii (formerly the Sandwich Islands) to lava having a relatively smooth or billowing surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called aa.

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

The science or art of teaching.

Pagan.

A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose.

Pyjama.

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.

The quantity that a pail will hold.

An under bed or mattress of straw.

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

See Pall-mall.

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Causing pain; painful.

Made to suffer mental pain.

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

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.

A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively.

A medicine used in to relieve pain.

Free from pain; without pain.

Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.

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

The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance.

Worth the pains or care bestowed.

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

A device designed to rapidly cover a surface with paint by ejecting a spray of paint from a reservoir onto the surface by means of compressed air or other special mechanism. Also called a paint sprayer. Use of a paint gun is an efficient method to rapidly paint large surface areas.

Lending itself to being painted; as, a highly paintable landscape; made of sturdy eminently paintable wood. Opposite of unpaintable.

A box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists' paint.

A brush used to apply paint.

Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.

Same as African wild dog.

One whose occupation is to paint One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint. An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.

Like a painter's work.

The state or position of being a painter.

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

Not capable of being painted or described.

The art of painting.

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

To impair.

Organized into compatible pairs; -- used of gloves, socks, etc. See pair{1}, v. t.

One who impairs.

The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.

The country; the people of the neighborhood.

The chaparral cock; the roadrunner.

See Poise.

Originally, in India, loose drawers or trousers, such as those worn, tied about the waist, by Mohammedan men and women; by extension, a similar garment adopted among Europeans, Americans, etc., for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit consisting of drawers and a loose upper garment for such wear.

A garment, similar to the Oriental pyjama (which see), adopted among Europeans, Americans, and other Occidentals, for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit of drawers and blouse for such wear.

A peacock.

An Asiatic plant (Brassica rapa chinensis) grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves.

See Packfong.

A country in South Asia formerly part of British India.

A native or inhabitant of Pakistan.

A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate.

Palatial.

A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.

Same as Paleographer.

Same as Paleographic.

Same as paleolithic.

The study of (especially prehistoric) antiquities.

A specialist in paleontology.

The branch of archeology that studies fossil organisms and related remains.

The study of diseases of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence).

The paleobiology of birds.

A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use.

The study of fossil animals.

See Palestra.

See Palestric.

One versed in pal/tiology.

The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth; the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes, such as geological causes.

A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.

Web-footed.

An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

See Palempore.

A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place.

A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand.

Palatableness.

Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice. Opposite of unpalatable.

The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness.

In a palatable manner.

A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y.

Same as palatalize.

To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; to pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate; as, to palatalize a letter or sound; to palatize. See palatalized.

Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".

To perceive by the taste.

A palatal letter.

A palatal.

The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine.

To make a palatinate of.

Of or pertaining to the palate; palatal.

A palatine bone.

One of the "seven hills" of Rome, situated southeast of the Capitoline and north-northeast of the Aventine. It borders on the Roman Forum; is the traditional seat of the city founded by Romulus; was the seat of private and later of imperial residences; and contains many antiquities.

Pleasing to the taste; palatable.

To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; to palatalize; as, to palatize a letter or sound.

The posterior nares. See Nares.

Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.

To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver; to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully.

One who palavers; a flatterer.

To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

Chaffy; resembling or consisting of pale/, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.

Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

Striped.