A small lobster.

Arch; cunning; sly.

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

To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.

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.

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.

Of the delicate purplish pink color likened to that of peach blooms; -- applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.

One who peaches.

The chicken of the peacock.

A tropical tree Caesalpinia echinata, having a prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry.

Resembling a peach or peaches.

The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies.

A bright greenish blue.

The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.

A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. See also wampum.

See Paage.

A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite.

The hen or female peafowl.

To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular.

Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.

Mean; sneaking.

Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.

Having a peak or peaks.

To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.

To give off a loud pealing sound; to peal.

A song of praise and triumph. See P/an.

The song or shout of praise, of battle, or of triumph.

The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypog/a); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.

The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.

Of the form of a pear.

See Perch.

To resemble pearl or pearls.

Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with a cataract or cataracts.

Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.

A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.

A diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls; a pearl diver.

Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.

Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.

A kind of lace of silk or thread.

A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.

A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.

Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.

an American everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly-white scarious involucres.

White like a pearl; very white.

The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.

Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.

Rustic, rural.

Rude; clownish; illiterate.

Peasantlike.

Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.

The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.

A pea.

Pisolite.

The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.

A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.

Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.

A cant hook having the end of its lever armed with a spike; it is used for handling logs.

An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.

To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

Abounding in pebbles.

Full of pebbles; pebbled.

An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.

A species of hickory (Carya oliv/formis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.