See Popinjay, 1 (b).

A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.

A papist.

The papacy.

To conform to popery.

In a papal manner; popishly.

The papacy.

Intense fear or dread of the pope, or of the Roman Catholic Church.

A free-lance photographer that specializes in following and photographing celebrities such as movie stars, especially to obtain candid photographs in private situations; as, her dogged pursuit by the paparazzi was believed to be a major factor in Princess Diana's death.

Government by a pope; papal rule.

A genus of plants, including the poppy.

A natural family of herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural family of plants (Papaveraceae) of which the poppy, the celandine, and the bloodroot are well-known examples.

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Of or pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy.

Same as papaya, senses 1 and 2.

A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passiflore/; called also papaw and pawpaw. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender.

A kind of sauce boat or dish.

A spiritual father; specifically, the pope.

A popinjay.

A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.

To cover or line with paper, especially with wallpaper; to furnish with paper hangings; to wallpaper; as, to paper a room or a house.

A boy who sells or delivers newspapers.

To ignore or conceal (a disagreement or dispute) so as to continue friendly or productive relations; as, to paper over differences.

having a flexible binding; -- of books. Contrasted to hardcover or hardbacked or hardbound.

same as paperback.

A folder wire or plastic fastener for holding sheets of paper together.

One whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper.

The application of wallpaper to walls for decorative purposes.

Same as paperhanging.

A dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books.

Documents providing information, esp. of an official nature about a person, vehicle, business, etc. See paper{9}, n.

See under Paper, n.

Work that involves handling or writing documents such as forms, letters, reports, sales records, etc.

Like paper; having the thinness or consistency of paper.

Containing or producing pap; like pap.

A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan.

A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.

A native or inhabitant of Paphos.

A hard and strong substance made of a pulp from paper, mixed with size or glue, etc. It is formed into various articles, usually by means of molds.

A genus of butterflies.

Resembling the butterfly.

The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies.

The typical butterflies.

Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papill/ of the tongue.

Same as Papillose.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papill/; bearing, or covered with, papill/; papillose.

Same as Papillose.

Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.

A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papill/ of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, papillomata.

Covered with, or bearing, papill/; resembling papill/; papillate; papillar; papillary.

A small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.

Papillary; papillose.

Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.

A West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.

Popery; -- an offensive term.

A Roman Catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.

Of or pertaining to the Church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish; -- used disparagingly.

The doctrine and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery.

A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.

A tall herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the Cohosh. See also Cohosh.

Resembling the pappus of composite plants.

Same as Papoose.

Furnished with a pappus; downy.

Pappose.

The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Composit/; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.

Like pap; soft; succulent; tender.

The dried ripened fruit of Capsicum annuum or various other species of pepper; also, the mildly pungent condiment prepared from it.

A Pacific island north of Australia; governed by Australia and Indonesia.

Of or pertaining to Papua.

The native black race of Papua or New Guinea, and the adjacent islands.

Covered with papules.

Same as Papula.

Having papul/; papillose; as, a papulose leaf.

Covered with, or characterized by, papul/; papulose.

Made of papyrus; of the consistency of paper; papery.

Of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.

Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

An apparatus for multiplying writings, drawings, etc., in which a paper stencil, formed by writing or drawing with corrosive ink, is used. The word is also used of other means of multiplying copies of writings, drawings, etc. See Copygraph, Hectograph, Manifold.

The process of multiplying copies of writings, etc., by means of the papyrograph.

A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.

See Pasch and Easter.

By; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.

An/sthesia of both sides of the lower half of the body.

The southern arm of the Amazon in Brazil; also, a seaport on this arm.

Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl urea.

A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels.

Of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells.

To represent by parable.

A kind of 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 from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus. One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.

Similitude; comparison.

By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.

Resembling a parabola in form.

The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term.

A narrator of parables.

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.

One of the branches of an ectobronchium or entobronchium.

A follower of Paracelsus or his practice or teachings.

A Paracelsian.

Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (originally Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, also called Theophrastus Paracelsus and Theophrastus von Hohenheim). Born at Maria-Einsiedeln, in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, Dec. 17 (or 10 Nov.), 1493: died at Salzburg, Sept. 23 (or 24), 1541. A celebrated German-Swiss physician, reformer of therapeutics, iatrochemist, and alchemist. He attended school in a small lead-mining district where his father, William Bombast von Hohenheim, was a physician and teacher of alchemy. The family originally came from W/rtemberg, where the noble family of Bombastus was in possession of the ancestral castle of Hohenheim near Stuttgart until 1409. He entered the University of Basel at the age of sixteen, where he adopted the name Paracelsus, after Celsius, a noted Roman physician. But he left without a degree, first going to Wurtzburg to study under Joannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim (1462-1516), a famous astrologer and alchemist, who initiated him into the mysteries of alchemy. He then spent many years in travel and intercourse with distinguished scholars, studied and practiced medicine and surgery, and at one point attended the Diet of Worms. He was appointed to the office of city physician of Basel, which also made him a lecturer on medicine at Basel about 1526, where, through the publisher Johan Frobenius he made friends with the scholar Erasmus; and there he fulminated against the medical pseudo-science of his day, and against the blind adherence to ancient medical authorities such as Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna, which was still the prevalent philosophy of medicine in the sixteenth century. But soon, in 1528, he was driven from the city by the medical corporations, whose methods he had severely criticized. He found refuge with friends, and traveled and practiced medicine, but could not find a publisher willing to print his books. He preached frequently the need for experimentation in medicine. He is important in the history of medicine chiefly on account of the impetus which he gave to the development of pharmaceutical chemistry. He was also the author of a visionary and theosophic system of philosophy. The first collective edition of his works appeared at Basel in 1589-91. Among the many legends concerning him is that concerning his long sword, which he obtained while serving as barber-surgeon during the Neapolitan wars. It was rumored that in the hilt of the sword he kept a familiar or small demon; some thought he carried the elixer of life in the sword. He is buried in the cemetary of the Hospital of St. Sebastian in Salzburg. For more detailed information about Paracelsus, there is a special project, the Zurich Paracelsus Project available on the Web.

The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping.

Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center.

Situated on either side of the notochord; -- applied especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each side of the anterior part of the notochord. A parachordal cartilage.

An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence.

Changing color by exposure

TO descend to th ground from an airplane or other high place using a parachute; as, when the plane stalled, he parachuted safely to the ground.

The act or process of descending from a high altitude to the ground by means of a parachute.

One who descends from a high altitude to the ground by means of a parachute, especially one who does so for sport or in a military operation.

An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor; -- a term applied to the Holy Spirit.

See Parclose.

Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper.

Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained as a deliquescent white crystalline substance, and isomeric with itaconic, citraconic, and mesaconic acids.

A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.

A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus.

A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem.

A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.

Same as Cymene.

The side of a toe or finger.