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Paulin (p�lĭn), n. (Naut.) See .
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Pauline (p�līn), a. [L. Paulinus, fr. Paulus Paul.] Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.
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My religion had always been Pauline. J. H. Newman.
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Paulist (?), n. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
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Paulownia (?), prop. n. [NL. So named from the Russian princess Anna Pavlovna.] (Bot.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceæ, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.
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☞ The tree is native to Japan, and has immense heart-shaped leaves, and large purplish flowers in panicles. The capsules contain many little winged seeds, which are beautiful microscopic objects. The tree is hardy in America as far north as Connecticut.
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Paum (?), v. t. & i. [See to cheat.] To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards. [Obs.] Swift.
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Paunce (?), n. [See .] (Bot.) The pansy. “The pretty paunce.” Spenser.
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Paunch (p�nch or pänch; 277), n. [OF. panch, pance, F. panse, L. pantex, panticis.] 1. (Anat.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See .
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2. (Naut.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch.
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3. The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
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4. A noticeably protruding belly; a potbelly.
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Coloq. Paunch mat (Naut.), a thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing.
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Paunch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paunched (p�ncht or päncht); p. pr. & vb. n. Paunching.] 1. To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. Shak.
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2. To stuff with food. [Obs.] Udall.
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Paunchy (p�nch�), a. Pot-bellied. [R.] Dickens.
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Paune (?), n. A kind of bread. See .
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Pauper (?), n. [L. See .] 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.
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Pauperism (?), n. [Cf. F. paupérisme.] The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. Whatly.
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Syn. -- Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See .
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Pauperization (?), n. The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley.
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Pauperize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pauperized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pauperizing (?).] To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.
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Pauropoda (?), prop. n. pl. [NL., from Gr. pay^ros small + -poda.] (Zoöl.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheæ.
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Pause (p�z), n. [F., fr. L. pausa. See .] 1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
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2. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
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I stand in pause where I shall first begin. Shak.
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3. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
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4. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
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5. A break or paragraph in writing.
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He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. Locke.
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6. (Mus.) A hold. See 4th , 7.
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Syn. -- Stop; cessation; suspension.
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Pause, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paused (p�zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Pausing.] [Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare. See , n., .] 1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. “Tarry, pause a day or two.” Shak.
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Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused. Milton.
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2. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
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3. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [R.]
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Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. Shak.
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4. To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. [R.] “Take time to pause.” Shak.
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Coloq. To pause upon , to deliberate concerning. Shak.
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Syn. -- To intermit; stop; stay; wait; delay; tarry; hesitate; demur.
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Pause, v. t. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. [R.] Shak.
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Pauser (?), n. One who pauses. Shak.
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Pausingly, adv. With pauses; haltingly. Shak.
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Pauxi (?), n. [From the native name: cf. Sp. pauji.] (Zoöl.) A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.
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Pavage (?), n. [Cf. F. pavage.] See . [R.]
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Pavan (?), n. [F. pavane; cf. It. & Sp. pavana, and Sp. pavon, pavo, a peacock, L. pavo.] 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. [Written also pavane, paven, pavian, and pavin.]
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Pavé (?), n. [F., from paver to pave. See .] The pavement.
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Coloq. Nymphe du pavé (�), a prostitute who solicits in the street; a streetwalker. [A low euphemism.]
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Pave (pāv), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paved (pāvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Paving.] [F. paver to pave, LL. pavare, from L. pavire to beat, ram, or tread down; cf. Gr. paiein to beat, strike.] 1. 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.
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With silver paved, and all divine with gold. Dryden.
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To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways. Gay.
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2. Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.
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It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title. Bacon.
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paved adj. 1. covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways. [Narrower terms: asphalt, macadam, macadamized, tarmac, tarmacadam] [Narrower terms: blacktopped, brick, cobblestone, cobblestoned] [Ant: unpaved]
Syn. -- hard-surfaced, surfaced, made-up [British], sealed [Australian].
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Pavement (?), n. [F., fr. LL. pavamentum, L. pavimentum. See .] That with which anything is paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
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The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton.
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Coloq. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.
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Pavement, v. t. To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] “How richly pavemented!” Bp. Hall.
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Paven (?), n. See .
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Paver (?), n. One who paves; one who lays a pavement. [Written also pavier and pavior.]
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Pavesade (?), n. [F. See .] 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.
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{ Pavese (?), Pavesse (?) }, n. Pavise. [Obs.]
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Paviage (?), n. (Law) A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways. Bouvier.
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Pavian (?), n. See Pavan.
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Pavid (?), a. [L. pavidus, from pavere to be afraid.] Timid; fearful. [R.] Thackeray.
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Pavidity (?), n. Timidity. [R.]
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Pavier (?), n. A paver.
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Paviin (pāvĭĭn), n. (Chem.) A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.
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Pavilion (?), n. [F. pavillon, fr. L. pavilio a butterfly, also, a tent, because spread out like a butterfly's wings.] 1. A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. “[The] Greeks do pitch their brave pavilions.” Shak.
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2. (Arch.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
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3. (Mil.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
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4. (Her.) Same as (Her.)
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5. That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of .
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6. (Anat.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
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7. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
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The pavilion of heaven is bare. Shelley.
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Pavilion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pavilioned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pavilioning.] To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.
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The field pavilioned with his guardians bright. Milton.
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Pavin (?), n. See .
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Paving (?), n. 1. The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.
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2. A pavement.
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Pavior (?), n. 1. One who paves; a paver.
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2. A machine for laying pavement; a rammer for driving paving stones.
Syn. -- paviour, paving machine.
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3. A brick or slab used for paving.
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paviour n. See pavior{2}.
Syn. -- pavior, paving machine.
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Pavis, Pavise (?), n. [OF. pavaix, F. pavois; cf. It. pavese, LL. pavense; perh. named from Pavia in Italy.] (Mil. Antiq.) 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 [Written also pavis, pavais, pavese, and pavesse.] Fairholt.
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Pavisor (?), n. (Mil. Antiq.) A soldier who carried a pavise.
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Pavlovian prop. adj. Of or pertaining to Ivan Pavlov, or the principles of conditioned responses that he investigated; as, a Pavlovian response. dog
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Pavo (?), prop. n. [L., a peacock. See .] 1. (Zoöl.) A genus of birds, including the peacocks.
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2. (Astron.) The Peacock, a constellation of the southern hemisphere.
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Pavon (?), n. A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.
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Pavone (?), n. [Cf. It. pavone, Sp. pavon, fr. L. pavo.] (Zoöl.) A peacock. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Pavonian (?), a. Of or pertaining to a peacock. [R.] Southey.
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Pavonine (?), a. [L. pavoninus, fr. pavo a peacock. See .] 1. (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.
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2. Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. P. Cleaveland.
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Paw (p�), n. [OE. pawe, poue, OF. poe: cf. patte, LG. pote, D. poot, G. pfote.] 1. The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
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2. The hand. [Jocose] Dryden.
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Coloq. Paw clam (Zoöl.), the tridacna; -- so called because shaped like an animal's paw.
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Paw, v. i. To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. Job xxxix. 21.
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Paw, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pawed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pawing.] 1. To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.
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2. To scrape or beat with the forefoot.
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His hot courser pawed the Hungarian plane. Tickell.
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Pawk (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small lobster. Travis.
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Pawky (?), a. [Cf. AS. pæcean to deceive.] Arch; cunning; sly. [Scot.] Jamieson.
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Pawl (?), n. [W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf. a stake.] (Mach.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of . [Written also paul, or pall.]
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Coloq. Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. -- Coloq. Pawl rim or Coloq. Pawl ring (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in.
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Pawl, v. t. To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.
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Coloq. To pawl the capstan . See under .
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Pawn (?), n. See , the masticatory.
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Pawn, n. [OE. paune, poun, OF. peon, poon, F. pion, LL. pedo a foot soldier, fr. L. pes, pedis, foot. See , and cf. , .] (Chess) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
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Pawn, n. [OF. pan pledge, assurance, skirt, piece, F. pan skirt, lappet, piece, from L. pannus. See .] 1. Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See , n., 1.
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As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [i. e., interest]. Bacon.
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2. State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise. [R.]
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Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown. Shak.
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As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness. Donne.
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3. A stake hazarded in a wager. [Poetic]
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My life I never held but as a pawn
To wage against thy enemies. Shak.
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Coloq. In pawn , Coloq. At pawn , in the state of being pledged. “Sweet wife, my honor is at pawn.” Shak. -- Coloq. Pawn shop , a shop where a pawnbroker does business. -- Coloq. Pawn ticket , a receipt given by the pawnbroker for an article pledged.
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Pawn, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pawned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pawning.] 1. 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.
Syn. -- hock [colloq].
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And pawned the last remaining piece of plate. Dryden.
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2. To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
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Pawning his honor to obtain his lust. Shak.
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Pawnable (?), a. Capable of being pawned.
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Pawnbroker (?), n. One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
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Pawnbroking, n. The business of a pawnbroker.
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Pawnee (?), n. (Law) One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
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Pawnees (?), prop. n. pl.; sing. Pawnee (�). (Ethnol.) 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.
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{ Pawner (?), Pawnor (?), } n. (Law) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
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Pawpaw (?), n. (Bot.) Same as .
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Pax (?), n. [L. pax peace. See .] 1. (Eccl.) The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.
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2. (R. C. Ch.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediæval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc.
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Kiss the pax, and be quiet like your neighbors. Chapman.
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3. Friendship, or a friend; -- esp. in the phrases to make pax with, to make friends with, to be good pax, to be good friends; also, truce; -- used esp. interjectionally. [Eng. Schoolboy Slang]
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Paxillose (?), a. [L. paxillus a small stake.] (Geol.) Resembling a little stake.
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Paxillus (?), n.; pl. Paxilli (#). [L., a peg.] (Zoöl.) 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.
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Paxwax (?), n. [For faxvax, fr. AS. feax hair (akin to OHG. fahs) + weaxan to grow. See to grow, and cf. , .] (Anat.) The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebræ, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.
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Paxywaxy (?), n. (Anat.) See .
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Pay (pā), v. t. [OF. peier, fr. L. picare to pitch, pix pitch: cf. OF. peiz pitch, F. poix. See a black substance.] (Naut.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
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Pay, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paid (pād); p. pr. & vb. n. Paying.] [OE. paien, F. payer, fr. L. pacare to pacify, appease, fr. pax, pacis, peace. See .] 1. To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
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May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy]. P. Plowman.
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[She] pays me with disdain. Dryden.
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2. Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
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For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. B. Jonson.
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3. To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed). “Pay me that thou owest.” Matt. xviii. 28.
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Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt. xviii. 26.
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If they pay this tax, they starve. Tennyson.
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4. To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
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This day have I paid my vows. Prov. vii. 14.
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5. To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
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Not paying me a welcome. Shak.
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Coloq. To pay off . (a) To make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship. (b) To allow (a thread, cord, etc.) to run off; to unwind. (c) to bribe. -- Coloq. To pay one's duty , to render homage, as to a sovereign or other superior. -- Coloq. To pay out (Naut.), to pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under . -- Coloq. To pay the piper , to bear the cost, expense, or trouble. [Colloq.]
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