Uttering few words; brief in speech.

Brevity in speech.

Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity; rarity.

The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.

The menhaden; -- called also poghaden.

An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.

A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.

A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.

One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.

See Tarpaulin.

Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.

A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariace/, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.

To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards.

The pansy.

To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Pot-bellied.

A kind of bread. See Pone.

A very poor person; one without any means of support, especially one dependent on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pauper immigrants, pauper labor.

The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.

The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.

An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of trache/.

To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.

One who pauses.

With pauses; haltingly.

A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.

See Paviage.

A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.

To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for vehicles, horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.

covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways.

To furnish with a pavement; to pave.

See Pavan.

One who paves; one who lays a pavement.

A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.

Pavise.

A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways.

See Pavan.

Timid; fearful.

Timidity.

A paver.

A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.

To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.

See Pavan.

The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.

One who paves; a paver.

See pavior{2}.

A large heavy oblong shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes also screened an archer with it. It was originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position

A soldier who carried a pavise.

Of or pertaining to Ivan Pavlov, or the principles of conditioned responses that he investigated; as, a Pavlovian response.

A genus of birds, including the peacocks.

A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.

A peacock.

Of or pertaining to a peacock.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.

To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.

A small lobster.

Arch; cunning; sly.

To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.

Capable of being pawned.

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

The business of a pawnbroker.

One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.

A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now (1890) live mostly in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.

One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.

Same as Papaya.

The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.

Resembling a little stake.

One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.

The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebr/, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.

See Paxwax.

Satisfaction; content.

a coin-operated telephone.

a coin-operated telephone.

That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due.

money that a person or organization expects and is obligated to pay on notes and accounts.

same as retribution.

the British system of withholding tax.

The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.

Pagan.

One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

yielding material gain or profit; as, paying investments.

The part of a missile or torpedo that carries the explosive charge.

One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

Bread. Having

The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman.

A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo.

See Painim.

To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.

profit or gain from an action; -- used broadly; as, lots of effort with little payoff.

See Payer.

To poise.

the total amount of money paid in wages; as, the company had a large paysheet.

a slip of paper included with a person's salary payment, that records how much money the person has earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out.

An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.

Phosphate-buffered saline, a saline solution containing a phosphate buffer.

An initialism for politically correct.

A drug originally taken in the form of powder ("dust") for its hallucinogenic effects.

Percent; a fractional proportion, multiplied by 100.

The chemical symbol for palladium, an element of the platinum group, of atomic number 46.

The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

A plant with an elongated celerylike head of broadstalked leaves used as a vegetable in east Asia.

A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.

A thick loose double-breasted woolen jacket, or coat, commonly worn by sailors in cold weather; a pea-jacket.

A thick loose double-breasted woolen jacket, or coat, commonly worn by sailors in cold weather.

The wryneck; -- so called from its note.

To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop.

Inclined or disposed to peace; as, peace-loving citizens. Opposed to warlike or belligerent.

Begin in or at peace; tranquil; quiet; free from, or not disposed to, war, disorder, or excitement; not quarrelsome.

One who disturbs the public peace.

Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.

a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area.

Without peace; disturbed.

One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance.

someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations.

A period of time during which there is no war; as, civil liberties are valued more highly in peacetime than in war.

A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone. In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

Of the color of a peach blossom.