One who proposes a paradox.

The use of paradoxes.

Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See Musang.

A paradoxical statement; a paradox.

A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.

A polymer of formaldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance by concentration of a formaldehyde solution. Formula (CH20)n. It dissolves in hot water with the release of formaldehyde, and is used as a disinfectant.

Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance.

The science which treats of minerals with special reference to their origin.

Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual; -- said of peculiarities of structure, character, etc.

A protein in blood serum, belonging to the group of globulins. See Fibrinoplastin.

One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera.

Same as Paragnathus.

Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds.

One of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea. One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids.

The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.

Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word.

To be equal; to hold comparison.

A kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps.

A pun.

A punster.

An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr/le.

Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character /, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.

A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, a paragraph or paragraphs.

A paragrapher.

Of or relating to a paragraphist.

A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms.

Of or pertaining to Paraguay. A native or inhabitant of Paraguay.

See Apparel.

Same as Parrakeet.

Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

A train or series of kites on one string and flying tandem, used for attaining great heights and for sending up instruments for meteorological observations or a man for military reconnaissance; also, a kite of such a train.

Designating an acid called paralactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.

A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.

A trimer of acetaldehyde (C6H12O3), prepared by polymerization of acetaldehyde with hydrochloric and sulfuric acids. It has sedative and hypnotic properties.

A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, /I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice./

See Paraleipsis.

Disordered sensibility to pain, including absence of sensibility to pain, excessive sensibility to pain, and abnormal painful results of stimuli.

A dweller by the sea.

A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles.

See Paraleipsis.

Of or pertaining to a parallax.

The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.

An annual parallax of one second of an arc; -- applied to celestial objects outside the solar system. It is used to measure the distance of an astronomical object from the Earth. A star which has an annual parallax of one second of an arc is considered to be one parsec (3.26 light years) distant from the earth. See parsec in the vocabulary.

To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.

To park (a vehicle) parallel to the curb; -- contrasted with angle-park; as, to get a driver's license, one needs to be able to parallel-park.

The act or process of parking parallel to the curb; -- contrasted with angle-parking.

Capable of being paralleled, or equaled.

A prism whose bases are parallelograms.

Same as parallelepiped.

Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.

To render parallel.

Matchless.

In a parallel manner; with parallelism.

A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles.

Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.

Having the properties of a parallelogram.

A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.

A parallelopiped.

Containing paralogism; illogical.

To reason falsely; to draw conclusions not warranted by the premises.

False reasoning; paralogism.

Same as Paralyze.

Abolition of function, whether complete or partial; esp., the loss of the power of voluntary motion, with or without that of sensation, in any part of the body; palsy. See Hemiplegia, and Paraplegia. Also used figuratively; as, paralysis of the will.

A person affected with paralysis.

See Paralytic.

The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C2H4N4); -- called also dicyandiamide.

A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.

Having or exhibiting paramagnetism; -- opposed to diamagnetic and contrasted with ferromagnetic. A paramagnetic substance.

A property of materials which are not magnetized in the absence of an external magnetic field, but in which the magnetic moments of their constituents align with and enhance an applied magnetic field; the induced magnetic field of the substance is in direct proportion to the strength of the applied magnetic field; -- opposed to diamagnetic and contrasted with ferromagnetic.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid metameric with malic acid.

Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.

A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino.

A person who is trained to give first aid and other emergency medical assistance in the absence of a physician, and to assist a physician in the administration of health care. Paramedics are often associated with police, firefighting units, or rescue squads.

Of or pertaining to those providing medical care who are not physicians but serve in the capacity of assisting physicians; nurses, physiotherapists, dieticians, Physical Therapy instructors, and respiratory therapy technicians are examples of paramedical personnel.

Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural.

Ornament; decoration.

One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.

A constant number which is part of a theory, function, or calculation, whose value is not determined by the form of the theory or equation itself, and may in some cases be arbitrary assigned.

Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus.

A collector or writer of proverbs.

The fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell.

A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters, by a change in crystal structure without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite; called also allomorph.

The change of one mineral species to another, so as to involve a change in physical characters without alteration of chemical composition.

Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism.

The highest or chief.

In a paramount manner.

A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.

By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words.

A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.

Anthracene; -- called also paranaphthaline.

A stout strait-edged knife used in Malayasia and Indonesia.

A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called /cranks./ Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.

A person affected with paranoia.

Affected with paranoia; as, a paranoid schizophrenic.

Of or pertaining to parapsychology; pertaining to forces or mental processes, such as extrasensory perception or psychokinesis, outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; as, paranormal phenomena.

An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.

Some as Nucleolus.

A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride. The bridesmaid who conducted the bride to the bridegroom.

Bridal; nuptial.

A gelatinous modification of pectin.

An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.

A proteinaceous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.

Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.

Having a parapet.

To add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.

The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own.

Of or pertaining to paraphernalia; as, paraphernal property.

A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.

Pyrophosphoric.

One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea.

To make a paraphrase.

One who paraphrases.

A paraphraser.

A paraphraser.

Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free.

A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.