P NWAD P.0

P — PALATINATE NWAD P.1

P is the sixteenth letter of the English Alphabet, and a labial articulation formed by a close compression of the anterior part of the lips, as in ep. It is convertible into b and f, sometimes into v. NWAD P.1

This letter is found int he oriental languages, from which it was received into the Greek and Latin; except however the Arabic, which has not this letter, and the Arabians cannot easily pronounce it. In some words which we have borrowed from the Greek, p is mute, as in psalm, ptisan; but is not silent in English words, unless it may be in receipt, and a few irregular words. P aspirated or followed by h, represents the Greek, which answers to the English f, as in philosophy. NWAD P.2

As an abbreviation, P. stands for Publius, pondo, etc. P.A. DIG for patricia dignitas; P.C. for Patres Conscripti; P.F. for Publius Fabius; P.P. for propositum publice; P.R. for populus Romanus; P.R.S. for praetoris sententia; P.R.S.P. for praeses provinciae. NWAD P.3

P.M. stands for post meridiem, afternoon. NWAD P.4

As a numeral, P, like G, stands for one hundred, and with a dash over it, for four hundred thousand. NWAD P.5

Among physicians, P. Stands for pugil, or the eighth part of a handful; P.AE. For partes aequales, equal parts of the ingredients; P.P. for pulvis patrum, or the Jesuits bark in powder; and ppt. For praeparatus, prepared. NWAD P.6

PAAGE, n. [See Pay.] A toll for passage over another persons grounds. [Not used.] NWAD PAAGE.1

PABULAR, a. [L., food.] Pertaining to food; affording food or aliment. NWAD PABULAR.1

PABULATION, n. [L., to feed.] The act of feeding or procuring provender. NWAD PABULATION.1

PABULOUS, a. [L., food.] Affording aliment or food; alimental. NWAD PABULOUS.1

PABULUM, n. [L.] NWAD PABULUM.1

1. Food; aliment; that which feeds. NWAD PABULUM.2

2. Fuel; that which supplies the means of combustion. NWAD PABULUM.3

PACA, n. A small animal of America, bearing some resemblance to a hare and a pig. It is a species of cavy; called also the spotted cavy. NWAD PACA.1

PACATE, a. [L.] Peaceful; tranquil. [Not used.] NWAD PACATE.1

PACATED, a. Appeased. [Little used.] NWAD PACATED.1

PACATION, n. [L., to calm or appease.] The act of appeasing. NWAD PACATION.1

PACCAN, n. An American tree and its nut. NWAD PACCAN.1

PACE, n. [L., to open, Gr., to tread. See Pass.] NWAD PACE.1

1. A step. NWAD PACE.2

2. The space between the two feet in walking, estimated at two feet and a half. But the geometrical pace is five feet, or the whole space passed over by the same foot from one step to another. Sixty thousand such paces make one degree on the equator. NWAD PACE.3

3. Manner of walking; a gait; as a languishing pace; a heavy pace; a quick or slow pace. NWAD PACE.4

4. Step; gradation in business. [Little used.] NWAD PACE.5

5. A mode of stepping among horses, in which the legs on the same side are lifted together. In a general sense, the word may be applied to any other mode of stepping. NWAD PACE.6

6. Degree of celerity. Let him mend his pace. NWAD PACE.7

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day-- NWAD PACE.8

To keep or hold pace, to keep up; to go or move as fast as something else. NWAD PACE.9

PACE, v.i. NWAD PACE.10

1. To go; to walk; to move. NWAD PACE.11

2. To go, move or walk slowly. NWAD PACE.12

3. To move by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse. NWAD PACE.13

PACE, v.t. NWAD PACE.14

1. To measure by steps; as, to pace a piece of ground. NWAD PACE.15

2. To regulate in motion. NWAD PACE.16

If you ca, pace your wisdom in that good path that I would wish it go-- NWAD PACE.17

PACED, a. NWAD PACED.1

1. Having a particular gait; used chiefly in composition; as slow-paced. NWAD PACED.2

2. In composition, going all lengths; as a thorough-paced intriguer. NWAD PACED.3

PACER, n. One that paces; a horse that paces. NWAD PACER.1

PACHYDERMATOUS, a. [Gr., thick, skin.] Having a thick skin; an epithet applied to an order of animals, called Pachydermata, embracing all the hoofed quadrupeds which do not ruminate, as the elephant, mastodon or North American mammoth, hippopotamus, sus or hog, rhinoceros, tapir, and horse. The horse constitutes a separate order, Solipeda. NWAD PACHYDERMATOUS.1

PACIFIC, a. [L., to make peace. See Peace.] NWAD PACIFIC.1

1. Peace-making; conciliatory; suited to make or restore peace; adapted to reconcile differences; mild; appeasing; as, to offer pacific propositions to a belligerent power. The measures proposed are in their nature pacific. NWAD PACIFIC.2

2. Calm; tranquil; as a pacific state of things. NWAD PACIFIC.3

PACIFIC, n. The appellation given to the ocean situated between America on the west, and Asia; so called on account of its exemption from violent tempests. NWAD PACIFIC.4

PACIFICATION, n. [L. See Pacify.] NWAD PACIFICATION.1

1. The act of making peace between nations or parties at variance. NWAD PACIFICATION.2

2. The act of appeasing or pacifying wrath. NWAD PACIFICATION.3

PACIFICATOR, n. [L.] A peace-maker; one that restores amity between contending parties or nations. NWAD PACIFICATOR.1

PACIFICATORY, a. Tending to make peace; conciliatory. NWAD PACIFICATORY.1

PACIFIED, pp. Appeased; tranquilized. NWAD PACIFIED.1

PACIFIER, n. One who pacifies. NWAD PACIFIER.1

PACIFY, v.t. [L., peace, and to make.] NWAD PACIFY.1

1. To appease, as wrath or other violent passion or appetite; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay agitation or excitement; as, to pacify a man when angry, or to pacify his wrath or rage; the word being applied both to the person and to the passion. So we say, to pacify hunger, to pacify importunate demands. NWAD PACIFY.2

2. To restore peace to; to tranquilize; as, to pacify countries in contention. NWAD PACIFY.3

PACIFYING, ppr. Appeasing; tranquilizing. NWAD PACIFYING.1

PACK, n. [See the Verb.] NWAD PACK.1

1. A bundle of any thing inclosed in a cover or bound fast with cords; a bale; as a pack of goods or cloth. The soldier bears a pack on his back. NWAD PACK.2

2. A burden or load; as a pack of sorrows. NWAD PACK.3

3. A number of cards, or the number used in games; so called from being inclosed together. NWAD PACK.4

4. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together, that is, a crowd or assemblage united. NWAD PACK.5

5. A number of persons united in a bad design or practice; as a pack of thieves or knaves. NWAD PACK.6

6. A great number crowded together; as a pack of troubles. [Not used.] NWAD PACK.7

7. A loose or lewd person. [Not used.] NWAD PACK.8

PACK, v.t. [L. pango, pactum, pactus; impingo, compingo.] NWAD PACK.9

1. To place and press together; to place in close order; as, to pack goods in a box or chest. NWAD PACK.10

2. To put together and bind fast; as, to pack any thing for carriage with cords or straps. NWAD PACK.11

3. To put in close order with salt intermixed; as, to pack meat or fish in barrels. NWAD PACK.12

4. To send in haste. NWAD PACK.13

5. To put together, as cards, in such a manner as to secure the game; to put together in sorts with a fraudulent design, as cards; hence, to unite persons iniquitously, with a view to some private interest; as, to pack a jury, that is, to select persons for a jury who may favor a party; to pack a parliament; to pack an assembly of bishops. NWAD PACK.14

PACK, v.i. To be pressed or close; as, the goods pack well. NWAD PACK.15

1. To close; to shut. NWAD PACK.16

2. To depart in haste; with off. NWAD PACK.17

Poor Stella must pack off to town. NWAD PACK.18

3. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion. NWAD PACK.19

Go, pack with him. NWAD PACK.20

PACKAGE, n. A bundle or bale; a quantity pressed or bound together; as a package of cloth. NWAD PACKAGE.1

1. A charge made for packing goods. NWAD PACKAGE.2

PACKCLOTH, n. A cloth for packing goods, or in which they are tied. NWAD PACKCLOTH.1

PACKED, pp. Put together and pressed; tied or bound in a bundle; put down and salted, as meat; sent off; united iniquitously. NWAD PACKED.1

PACKER, n. One that packs; an officer appointed to pack meat, as beef, port, fish, etc. NWAD PACKER.1

PACKET, n. NWAD PACKET.1

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as a packet of letters. NWAD PACKET.2

2. A dispatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed by government to convey letters from country to country or from port to port. NWAD PACKET.3

3. A vessel employed in conveying dispatches and passengers from place to place, or to carry passengers and goods coastwise. NWAD PACKET.4

PACKET, v.i. To ply with a packet or dispatch-vessel. NWAD PACKET.5

PACKET-BOAT. [See Packet.] NWAD PACKET-BOAT.1

PACKET-SHIP, n. A ship that sails regularly between distant countries for the conveyance of dispatches, letters, passengers, etc. NWAD PACKET-SHIP.1

PACKHORSE, n. A horse employed in carrying packs or goods and baggage. NWAD PACKHORSE.1

1. A beast of burden. NWAD PACKHORSE.2

PACKING, ppr. Laying together in close order; binding in a bundle; putting in barrels with salt, etc.; uniting, as men for a fraudulent purpose. NWAD PACKING.1

PACKING, n. A trick; collusion. NWAD PACKING.2

PACKSADDLE, n. A saddle on which packs or burdens are laid for conveyance. NWAD PACKSADDLE.1

PACKSTAFF, n. A staff on which a traveler occasionally supports his pack. NWAD PACKSTAFF.1

PACKTHREAD, n. Strong thread or twine used in tying up parcels. NWAD PACKTHREAD.1

PACK-WAX, n. A tendinous substance of the neck of an animal. NWAD PACK-WAX.1

PACO, PACOS, n. An animal of South America, resembling the camel in shape, but much smaller. It is sometimes called the Peruvian sheep, on account of its long thick hair. NWAD PACO.1

PACT, n. [L. pactus, from pango. See Pack.] NWAD PACT.1

A contract; an agreement or covenant. NWAD PACT.2

PACTION, n. [L. pactio. See Pack.] An agreement or contract. NWAD PACTION.1

PACTIONAL, a. By way of agreement. NWAD PACTIONAL.1

PACTITIOUS, a. Settled by agreement or stipulation. NWAD PACTITIOUS.1

PAD, n. NWAD PAD.1

1. A foot path; a road. [Not now used.] NWAD PAD.2

2. An easy paced horse. NWAD PAD.3

3. A robber that infests the road on foot; usually called a foot- pad. NWAD PAD.4

PAD, n. A soft saddle, cushion or bolster stuffed with straw, hair or other soft substance. NWAD PAD.5

PAD, v.i. To travel slowly. NWAD PAD.6

1. To rob on foot. NWAD PAD.7

2. To beat a way smooth and level. NWAD PAD.8

PADAR, n. Grouts; coarse flour or meal. [Not used in U. States.] NWAD PADAR.1

PADDER, n. A robber on foot; a highwayman. NWAD PADDER.1

PADDLE, v.i. [L. pes, pedis, the foot, and this is allied to Gr., to tread.] NWAD PADDLE.1

1. To row; to beat the water, as with oars. NWAD PADDLE.2

2. To play in the water with the hands, as children; or with the feet, as fowls or other animals. NWAD PADDLE.3

3. To finger. NWAD PADDLE.4

PADDLE, v.t. To propel by an oar or paddle. NWAD PADDLE.5

PADDLE, n. [In L. batillus is a paddle-staff; in Gr. a pole.] NWAD PADDLE.6

1. An oar, but not a large oar. It is now applied to a sort of short oar used in propelling and steering canoes and boats. NWAD PADDLE.7

2. The blade or the broad part of an oar or weapon. NWAD PADDLE.8

Thou shalt have a paddle on thy weapon. Deuteronomy 23:13. NWAD PADDLE.9

PADDLER, n. On that paddles. NWAD PADDLER.1

PADDLE-STAFF, n. A staff headed with broad iron. NWAD PADDLE-STAFF.1

PADDOCK, n. A toad or frog. NWAD PADDOCK.1

PADDOCK, n. NWAD PADDOCK.2

1. A small inclosure for deer or other animals. NWAD PADDOCK.3

2. An inclosure for races with hounds, etc. NWAD PADDOCK.4

PADDOCK-PIPE, n. A plant of the genus Equisetum. NWAD PADDOCK-PIPE.1

PADDOCK-STOOL, n. A plant of the genus Agaricus; a mushroom, vulgarly toadstool. NWAD PADDOCK-STOOL.1

PADELION, n. A plant. NWAD PADELION.1

PADLOCK, n. A lock to be hung on a staple and held by a link. NWAD PADLOCK.1

PADLOCK, v.t. To fasten with a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine. NWAD PADLOCK.2

PADNAG, n. An ambling nag. NWAD PADNAG.1

PADOW-PIPE, n. A plant. [See Paddock-pipe.] NWAD PADOW-PIPE.1

PADUASOY, n. A particular kind of silk stuff. NWAD PADUASOY.1

PAEAN, PEAN, n. Among the ancients, a song of rejoicing in honor of Apollo; hence, a song of triumph. NWAD PAEAN.1

1. In ancient poetry, a foot of four syllables; written also paeon. Of this there are four kinds; the first consisting of one long and three short syllables, or a trochee and a pyrrhic, as temporibus; the second of a short syllable, a long and two short, or an iambus and a pyrrhic, as potentia; the third of two short syllables, a long and a short one, or a phrrhic and a trochee, as animatus; the fourth of three short syllables and along one, or a pyrrhic and iambus, as celeritus. NWAD PAEAN.2

PAGAN, n. [L. paganus, a peasant or countryman, from pagus, a village.] A heathen; a Gentile; an idolater; one who worships false gods. This word was originally applied to the inhabitants of the country, who on the first propagation of the christian religion adhered to the worship of false gods, or refused to receive christianity, after it had been received by the inhabitants of the cities. In like manner, heather signifies an inhabitant of the heath or woods, and caffer, in Arabic, signifies the inhabitant of a hut or cottage, and one that does not receive the religion of Mohammed. Pagan is used to distinguish one from a Christian and a Mohammedan. NWAD PAGAN.1

PAGAN, a. Heathen; heathenish; Gentile; noting a person who worships false gods. NWAD PAGAN.2

1. Pertaining to the worship of false gods. NWAD PAGAN.3

PAGANISM, n. Heathenism; the worship of false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans. NWAD PAGANISM.1

Men instructed from their infancy in the principles and duties of christianity, never sink to the degradation of paganism. NWAD PAGANISM.2

PAGANIZE, v.t. To render heathenish; to convert to heathenism. NWAD PAGANIZE.1

PAGANIZE, v.i. To behave like pagans. NWAD PAGANIZE.2

PAGANIZED, pp. Rendered heathenish. NWAD PAGANIZED.1

PAGANIZING, ppr. Rendering heathenish; behaving like pagans; adopting heathen principles and practice. NWAD PAGANIZING.1

PAGE, n. [Gr. a boy.] NWAD PAGE.1

1. A boy attending on a great person, rather for formality or show, than for servitude. NWAD PAGE.2

He had two pages of honor, on either hand one. NWAD PAGE.3

2. A boy or man that attends on a legislative body. In Massachusetts, the page is a boy that conveys papers from the members of the house of representatives to the speaker, and from the speaker or clerk to the members. NWAD PAGE.4

PAGE, n. [L. pagina.] One side of a leaf of a book. NWAD PAGE.5

1. A book or writing or writings; as the page of history. NWAD PAGE.6

2. Pages, in the plural, signifies also books or writings; as the sacred pages. NWAD PAGE.7

PAGE, v.t. To mark or number the pates of a book or manuscript. NWAD PAGE.8

1. To attend, as a page. NWAD PAGE.9

PAGEANT, n. pa’jent. [L. pegma; Gr. something showy carried in triumph.] NWAD PAGEANT.1

1. A statue in show, or a triumphal car, chariot, arch or other pompous thing, decorated with flags, etc. and carried in public shows and processions. NWAD PAGEANT.2

2. A show; a spectacle of entertainment; something intended for pomp. NWAD PAGEANT.3

I’ll play my part in fortune’s pageant. NWAD PAGEANT.4

3. Any thing showy, without stability or duration. NWAD PAGEANT.5

Thus unlamented pass the proud away, NWAD PAGEANT.6

The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day. NWAD PAGEANT.7

PAGEANT, a. Showy; pompous; ostentatious. NWAD PAGEANT.8

PAGEANT, v.t. To exhibit in show; to represent. NWAD PAGEANT.9

PAGEANTY, n. Show; pompous exhibition or spectacle. NWAD PAGEANTY.1

Such pageantry to be the people shown. NWAD PAGEANTY.2

PAGINAL, a. Consisting of pages. NWAD PAGINAL.1

PAGOD, PAGODA, n. NWAD PAGOD.1

1. A temple in the East Indies in which idols are worshiped. NWAD PAGOD.2

2. An idol; an image of some supposed deity. NWAD PAGOD.3

PAGODA, n. A gold or silver coin current in Hindoostan, of different values in different parts of India, from $1.75 cts. to $2, or from 8 to 9s. sterling. NWAD PAGODA.1

PAGODITE, n. A name given to the mineral of which the Chinese make their pagodas. It is called also lardite, koreite, and agalmatolite. NWAD PAGODITE.1

PAID, pret. and pp. of pay; paid for payed. NWAD PAID.1

PAIGLE, PAGIL, n. A plant and flower of the genus Primula or primrose; cowslip-primrose. NWAD PAIGLE.1

PAIL, n. An open wooden vessel used in families for carrying liquids, as water and milk, usually containing from eight to twelve quarts. NWAD PAIL.1

PAIL-FULL, n. The quantity that a pail will hold. NWAD PAIL-FULL.1

PAILMAIL. [See Pallmall.] NWAD PAILMAIL.1

PAIN, n. [L. paena; Gr. penalty, and pain, labor.] NWAD PAIN.1

1. An uneasy sensation in animal bodies, of any degree from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from pressure, tension or spasm, separation of parts by violence, or any derangement of functions. Thus violent pressure or stretching of a limb gives pain; inflammation produces pain; wounds, bruises and incisions give pain. NWAD PAIN.2

2. Labor; work; toil; laborious effort. In this sense, the plural only is used; as, to take pains; to be at the pains. NWAD PAIN.3

High without taking pains to rise. NWAD PAIN.4

The same with pains we gain, but lose with ease. NWAD PAIN.5

3. Labor; toilsome effort; task; in the singular. [Not now used.] NWAD PAIN.6

4. Uneasiness of mind; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude for the future; grief, sorrow for the past. We suffer pain when we fear or expect evil; we feel pain at the loss of friends or property. NWAD PAIN.7

5. The throws or distress of travail or childbirth. NWAD PAIN.8

She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. 1 Samuel 4:19. NWAD PAIN.9

6. Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime. NWAD PAIN.10

None shall presume to fly under pain of death. NWAD PAIN.11

Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. NWAD PAIN.12

PAIN, v.t. NWAD PAIN.13

1. To make uneasy or to disquiet; to cause uneasy sensations in the body, of any degree of intensity; to make simply uneasy, or to distress, to torment. The pressure of fetters may pain a limb; the rack pains the body. NWAD PAIN.14

2. To afflict; to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress. We are pained at the death of a friend; grief pains the heart; we are often pained with fear or solicitude. NWAD PAIN.15

I am pained at my very heart. Jeremiah 4:19. NWAD PAIN.16

3. Reciprocally, to pain one’s self, to labor; to make toilsome efforts. [Little used.] NWAD PAIN.17

PAINFUL, a. Giving pain, uneasiness or distress to the body; as a painful operation in surgery. NWAD PAINFUL.1

1. Giving pain to the mind; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. NWAD PAINFUL.2

Evils have been more painful to us in the prospect, than in the actual pressure. NWAD PAINFUL.3

2. Full of pain; producing misery or affliction. NWAD PAINFUL.4

3. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service. The army had a painful march. NWAD PAINFUL.5

4. Laborious; exercising labor; undergoing toil; industrious. NWAD PAINFUL.6

Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. NWAD PAINFUL.7

PAINFULLY, adv. With suffering of body; with affliction, uneasiness or distress of mind. NWAD PAINFULLY.1

1. Laboriously; with toil; with laborious effort or diligence. NWAD PAINFULLY.2

PAINFULNESS, n. Uneasiness or distress of body. NWAD PAINFULNESS.1

1. Affliction; sorrow; grief; disquietude or distress of mind. NWAD PAINFULNESS.2

2. Laborious effort or diligence; toil. NWAD PAINFULNESS.3

PAINIM, n. A pagan. [Not used.] NWAD PAINIM.1

PAINIM, a. Pagan; infidel. [Not used.] NWAD PAINIM.2

PAINLESS, a. Free from pain. NWAD PAINLESS.1

1. Free from trouble. NWAD PAINLESS.2

PAINSTAKER, n. A laborious person. NWAD PAINSTAKER.1

PAINSTAKING, a. Laborious; industrious. NWAD PAINSTAKING.1

PAINSTAKING, n. Labor; great industry. NWAD PAINSTAKING.2

PAINT, v.t. [L. pingo, pictus.] NWAD PAINT.1

1. To form a figure or likeness in colors; as, to paint a hero or a landscape. NWAD PAINT.2

2. To cover or besmear with color or colors, either with or without figures; as, to paint a cloth; to paint a house. NWAD PAINT.3

3. To represent by colors or images; to exhibit in form. NWAD PAINT.4

When folly romantic, we must paint it. NWAD PAINT.5

4. To represent or exhibit to the mind; to present in form or likeness to the intellectual view; to describe. NWAD PAINT.6

Disloyal! NWAD PAINT.7

--The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. NWAD PAINT.8

5. To color; to diversify with colors. NWAD PAINT.9

6. To lay on artificial color for ornament. NWAD PAINT.10

Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings 9:30. NWAD PAINT.11

PAINT, v.i. To lay colors on the face. It is said the ladies in France paint. NWAD PAINT.12

1. To practice painting. The artist paints well. NWAD PAINT.13

PAINT, n. A coloring substance; a substance used in painting; either simple or compound; as a white paint, or red paint. NWAD PAINT.14

1. Color laid on canvas or other material; color representing any thing. NWAD PAINT.15

2. Color laid on the face; rouge. NWAD PAINT.16

PAINTED, pp. Colored; rubbed over with paint; as a painted house or cloth. NWAD PAINTED.1

1. Represented in form by colors. NWAD PAINTED.2

2. Described. NWAD PAINTED.3

PAINTER, n. One whose occupation is to paint; one skilled in representing things in colors. NWAD PAINTER.1

PAINTER, n. A rope used to fasten a boat to a ship or other object. NWAD PAINTER.2

PAINTING, ppr. Representing in colors; laying on colors. NWAD PAINTING.1

PAINTING, n. The art of forming figures or resembling objects in colors on canvas or other material, or the art of representing to the eye by means of figures and colors, any object of sight, and sometimes the emotions of the mind. NWAD PAINTING.2

1. A picture; a likeness or resemblance in colors. NWAD PAINTING.3

2. Colors laid on. NWAD PAINTING.4

PAINTURE, n. The art of painting. NWAD PAINTURE.1

PAIR, n. [L. par; Heb. to join, couple or associate.] NWAD PAIR.1

1. Two things of a kind, similar in form, applied to the same purpose, and suited to each other or used together; as a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes; a pair of oxen or horses. NWAD PAIR.2

2. Two of a sort; a couple; a brace; as a pair of nerves; a pair of doves. Luke 2:24. NWAD PAIR.3

PAIR, v.i. To be joined in pairs; to couple, as, birds pair in summer. NWAD PAIR.4

1. To suit; to fit; as a counterpart. NWAD PAIR.5

Ethelinda, NWAD PAIR.6

My heart was made to fit and pair with thine. NWAD PAIR.7

PAIR, v.t. To unite in couples; as minds paired in heaven. NWAD PAIR.8

1. To unite as correspondent, or rather to contrast. NWAD PAIR.9

Glossy jet is paired with shining white. NWAD PAIR.10

PAIR, v.t. To impair. [See Impair.] NWAD PAIR.11

PAIRED, pp. Joined in couples, fitted; suited. NWAD PAIRED.1

PAIRING, ppr. Uniting in pairs; fitting. NWAD PAIRING.1

PALACE, n. [L. palatium.] NWAD PALACE.1

1. A magnificent house in which an emperor, a king or other distinguished person resides; as an imperial palace; a royal palace; a pontifical palace; a ducal palace. NWAD PALACE.2

2. A splendid place of residence; as the sun’s bright palace. NWAD PALACE.3

PALACE-COURT, n. The domestic court of the kings of Great Britain, which administers justice between the king’s domestic servants. It is held once a week before the steward of the household and knight marshal; its jurisdiction extending twelve miles in circuit from his majesty’s palace. NWAD PALACE-COURT.1

PALACIOUS, a. [from palace.] Royal; noble; magnificent. [Not used.] NWAD PALACIOUS.1

PALANKEEN, PALANQUIN, n. A covered carriage used in India, China, etc. borne on the shoulders of men, and in which a single person is conveyed from place to place. NWAD PALANKEEN.1

PALATABLE, a. [from palate.] Agreeable to the taste; savory. NWAD PALATABLE.1

1. That is relished. NWAD PALATABLE.2

PALATABLENESS, n. The quality of being agreeable to the taste; relish. NWAD PALATABLENESS.1

PALATAL, a. Pertaining to the palate; uttered by the aid of the palate. NWAD PALATAL.1

PALATAL, n. A letter pronounced by the aid of the palate, or an articulation of the root of the tongue with the roof of the mouth; as g hard and k, in eg, ek. NWAD PALATAL.2

PALATE, n. [L. palatum, properly the arch or cope of heaven.] NWAD PALATE.1

1. The roof or upper part of the mouth. The glands in this part of the mouth secrete a mucous fluid, which lubricates the mouth and throat, and facilitates deglutition. NWAD PALATE.2

2. Taste. NWAD PALATE.3

Hard task to hit the palates of such guests. NWAD PALATE.4

[This signification of the word originated in the opinion that the palate is the instrument of taste. This is a mistake. In itself it has no power of taste.] NWAD PALATE.5

3. Mental relish; intellectual taste. NWAD PALATE.6

Men of nice palates could not relish Aristotle, as dressed up by the schoolmen. NWAD PALATE.7

PALATE, v.t. To perceive by the taste. [Not used.] NWAD PALATE.8

PALATIAL, a. [from palate.] Pertaining to the palate; as the palatial retraction of the tongue. NWAD PALATIAL.1

PALATIAL, a. [from L. palatium, palace.] Pertaining to a palace; becoming a palace; magnificent. NWAD PALATIAL.2

PALATIC, a. Belonging to the palate. [Not used.] NWAD PALATIC.1

PALATINATE, n. [L. palatinus. See Palatine.] NWAD PALATINATE.1

The province or seignory of a palatine; as the Palatinate of the Rhine in Germany, called the upper and lower Palatinate. NWAD PALATINATE.2