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☞ Paper is often used adjectively or in combination, having commonly an obvious signification; as, paper cutter or paper-cutter; paper knife, paper-knife, or paperknife; paper maker, paper-maker, or papermaker; paper mill or paper-mill; paper weight, paper-weight, or paperweight, etc.
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Coloq. Business paper , checks, notes, drafts, etc., given in payment of actual indebtedness; -- opposed to accommodation paper. -- Coloq. Fly paper , paper covered with a sticky preparation, -- used for catching flies. -- Coloq. Laid paper . See under . -- Coloq. Paper birch (Bot.), the canoe birch tree (Betula papyracea). -- Coloq. Paper blockade , an ineffective blockade, as by a weak naval force. -- Coloq. Paper boat (Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper. -- Coloq. Paper car wheel (Railroad), a car wheel having a steel tire, and a center formed of compressed paper held between two plate-iron disks. Forney. -- Coloq. Paper credit , credit founded upon evidences of debt, such as promissory notes, duebills, etc. -- Coloq. Paper hanger , one who covers walls with paper hangings. -- Coloq. Paper hangings , paper printed with colored figures, or otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against the walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper. -- Coloq. Paper house , an audience composed of people who have come in on free passes. [Cant] -- Coloq. Paper money , notes or bills, usually issued by government or by a banking corporation, promising payment of money, and circulated as the representative of coin. -- Coloq. Paper mulberry . (Bot.) See under Mulberry. -- Coloq. Paper muslin , glazed muslin, used for linings, etc. -- Coloq. Paper nautilus . (Zoöl.) See . -- Coloq. Paper reed (Bot.), the papyrus. -- Coloq. Paper sailor . (Zoöl.) See Argonauta. -- Coloq. Paper stainer , one who colors or stamps wall paper. De Colange. -- Coloq. Paper wasp (Zoöl.), any wasp which makes a nest of paperlike material, as the yellow jacket. -- Coloq. Paper weight , any object used as a weight to prevent loose papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise. -- Coloq. on paper . (a) in writing; as, I would like to see that on paper. (b) in theory, though not necessarily in paractice. (c) in the design state; planned, but not yet put into practice. -- Coloq. Parchment paper . See . -- Coloq. Tissue paper , thin, gauzelike paper, such as is used to protect engravings in books. -- Coloq. Wall paper . Same as Paper hangings, above. -- Coloq. Waste paper , paper thrown aside as worthless or useless, except for uses of little account. -- Coloq. Wove paper , a writing paper with a uniform surface, not ribbed or watermarked. -- Coloq. paper tiger , a person or group that appears to be powerful and dangerous but is in fact weak and ineffectual.
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paper (pāpẽr), a. 1. Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper.
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2. Existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army; a paper tiger.
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paper, v. t. [imp. & p. p. papered (pāpẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n. papering.] 1. To cover or line with paper, especially with wallpaper; to furnish with paper hangings; to wallpaper; as, to paper a room or a house.
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2. To fold or inclose in paper.
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3. To put on paper; to make a memorandum of. [Obs.]
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paperback (pāpẽrbăk), n. A book with paper covers; -- contrasted with hardback or hardcover.
Syn. -- softback, soft-cover.
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paperback adj. having a flexible binding; -- of books. Contrasted to hardcover or hardbacked or hardbound.
Syn. -- paperbacked, soft-bound, softcover, softback.
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paperbacked (pāpẽrbăkt), adj. 1. same as .
Syn. -- paperback.
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paperboy, paper boy (pāpẽrboi), n. A boy who sells or delivers newspapers.
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paperclip (pāpẽrklĭp), n. A folder wire or plastic fastener for holding sheets of paper together.
Syn. -- gem clip.
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paperer (pāpẽrẽr), paperhanger (pāpẽrhăṉẽr), n. One whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper.
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paperhanging (pāpẽrhăṉĭng), n. The application of wallpaper to walls for decorative purposes.
Syn. -- papering.
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papering (pāpẽrĭng), n. Same as .
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paperknife (pāpẽrnīf), n. A dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books.
Syn. -- letter opener.
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paper over (pāpẽrōvẽr), v. t. To ignore or conceal (a disagreement or dispute) so as to continue friendly or productive relations; as, to paper over differences.
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papers n. pl. Documents providing information, esp. of an official nature about a person, vehicle, business, etc. See {9}, n.
Syn. -- document, written document.
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paperweight (pāpẽrwāt), n. See under , n.
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paperwork (pāpẽrwûrk), n. Work that involves handling or writing documents such as forms, letters, reports, sales records, etc.
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papery (pāpẽr�), a. Like paper; having the thinness or consistency of paper. Gray.
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Papescent (?), a. [From soft food.] Containing or producing pap; like pap. [R.] Arbuthnot.
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Papess (?), n. [F. papesse.] A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
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Papeterie (?), n. [F., paper manufacture, fr. papier paper.] A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.
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Paphian (?), a. [L. Paphius, Gr. �, from � the city Paphos.] Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites.
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Paphian, n. A native or inhabitant of Paphos.
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Papier-maché (?), n. [F. papier mâché, lit., chewed or mashed paper.] A hard and strong substance made of a pulp from paper, mixed with size or glue, etc. It is formed into various articles, usually by means of molds.
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Papilio (?), peop. n. [L., a butterfly.] (Zoöl.) A genus of butterflies.
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☞ Formerly it included numerous species which are now placed in other genera. By many writers it is now restricted to the swallow-tailed butterflies, like Papilio polyxenes, syn. Papilio asterias, and related species.
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Papilionaceous (?), a. 1. Resembling the butterfly.
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2. (Bot.) (a) Having a winged corolla somewhat resembling a butterfly, as in the blossoms of the bean and pea. (b) Belonging to that suborder of leguminous plants (Papilionaceæ) which includes the bean, pea, vetch, clover, and locust.
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Papiliones (?), n. pl. [NL. See .] (Zoöl.) The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies.
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Papilionides (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) The typical butterflies.
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Papilla (?), n.; pl. Papillæ (#). [L., a nipple, pimple.] Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillæ of the tongue.
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Papillar (?), a. [Cf. F. papillaire.] Same as .
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Papillary (?), a. [Cf. F. papillaire.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.
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Papillate (?), v. t. & i. To cover with papillæ; to take the form of a papilla, or of papillæ.
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Papillate (?), a. Same as .
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Papilliform (?), a. [Papilla + -form.] Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.
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Papilloma (?), n.; pl. Papillomata (#). [NL. See , and .] (Med.) A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillæ of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart. Quain.
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Papillomatous (?), a. (Med.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, papillomata.
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Papillose (?), a. [Cf. F. papilleux.] Covered with, or bearing, papillæ; resembling papillæ; papillate; papillar; papillary.
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Papillote (?), n. [F., fr. papillon a butterfly.] A small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.
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Papillous (?), a. Papillary; papillose.
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Papillulate (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.
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Papion (?), n. [Prob. from native name: cf. Sp. papion.] (Zoöl.) A West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.
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Papism (?), n. [F. papisme. See , .] Popery; -- an offensive term. Milton.
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Papist (?), n. [F. papiste. See , .] A Roman Catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.
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{ Papistic (?), Papistical (?), } a. [Cf. F. papistique.] Of or pertaining to the Church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish; -- used disparagingly. “The old papistic worship.” T. Warton. -- Papistically, adv.
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Papistry (?), n. The doctrine and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery. [R.] Whitgift.
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Papized (?), a. [From .] Conformed to popery. [Obs.] “Papized writers.” Fuller.
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Papoose (?), n. A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.
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Pappiform (?), a. (Bot.) Resembling the pappus of composite plants.
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Pappoose (?), n. Same as .
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papooseroot, papoose root n. (Bot.) A tall herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the Cohosh. See also .
Syn. -- blue cohosh, blueberry root, papoose root, squawroot, squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides.
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Pappose (?), a. (Bot.) Furnished with a pappus; downy.
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Pappous (?), a. (Bot.) Pappose.
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Pappus (?), n. [L., an old man or grandfather; hence, a substance resembling gray hairs, Gr. �.] (Bot.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositæ; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.
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Pappy (?), a. [From soft food.] Like pap; soft; succulent; tender. Ray.
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{ Paprika (?), n. Also Paprica }. [Hung. paprika Turkish pepper; prob. through G.] The dried ripened fruit of Capsicum annuum or various other species of pepper; also, the mildly pungent condiment prepared from it.
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Papua prop. n. A Pacific island north of Australia; governed by Australia and Indonesia.
Syn. -- New Guinea.
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Papuan (?), prop. a. Of or pertaining to Papua.
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Papuars (?), n. pl.; sing. Papuan (�). (Ethnol.) The native black race of Papua or New Guinea, and the adjacent islands.
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Papula (?), n.; pl. Papulæ (#). [L.]
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1. (Med.) A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. Quain.
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2. (Zoöl.) One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.
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Papular (?), a. 1. Covered with papules.
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2. (Med.) Consisting of papules; characterized by the presence of papules; as, a papular eruption.
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Papule (?), n.; pl. Papules (�). Same as .
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Papulose (?), a. (Biol.) Having papulæ; papillose; as, a papulose leaf.
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Papulous (?), a. [Cf. F. papuleux.] Covered with, or characterized by, papulæ; papulose.
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Papyraceous (?), a. [L. papyraceus made of papyrus.] Made of papyrus; of the consistency of paper; papery.
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Papyrean (?), a. Of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.
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Papyrine (?), n. [Cf. F. papyrin made of paper. See .] Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.
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Papyrograph (?), n. [Papyrus + -graph.] An apparatus for multiplying writings, drawings, etc., in which a paper stencil, formed by writing or drawing with corrosive ink, is used. The word is also used of other means of multiplying copies of writings, drawings, etc. See , , . [Obsolescent]
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Papyrography (?), n. The process of multiplying copies of writings, etc., by means of the papyrograph. -- Papyrographic (#), a.
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Papyrus (?), n.; pl. Papyri (#). [L., fr. Gr. papyros. See .] 1. (Bot.) A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.
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2. The material upon which the ancient Egyptians wrote. It was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and pressed.
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3. A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., pl., written scrolls made of papyrus; as, the papyri of Egypt or Herculaneum.
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Pâque (?), n. [F. pâque.] See and .
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Par (?), n. (Zoöl.) See .
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Par, prep. [F., fr. L. per. See .] By; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.
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Par (?), n. [L. par, adj., equal. See an equal.]
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1. Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
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2. Equality of condition or circumstances.
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3. An amount which is taken as an average or mean. [Eng.]
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4. (Golf) The number of strokes required for a hole or a round played without mistake, two strokes being allowed on each hole for putting. Par represents perfect play, whereas bogey makes allowance on some holes for human frailty. Thus if par for a course is 75, bogey is usually put down, arbitrarily, as 81 or 82. If par for one hole is 5, a bogey is 6, and a score of 7 strokes would be a double bogey.
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Coloq. At par , at the original price; neither at a discount nor at a premium; -- used especially of financial instruments, such as bonds. -- Coloq. Above par , at a premium. -- Coloq. Below par , (a) at a discount. (a) less than the expected or usual quality; -- of the quality of objects and of the performance of people; as, he performed below par in the game. -- Coloq. On a par , on a level; in the same condition, circumstances, position, rank, etc.; as, their pretensions are on a par; his ability is on a par with his ambition. -- Coloq. Par of exchange . See under . -- Coloq. Par value , nominal value; face value; -- used especially of financial instruments, such as bonds.
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Para- (?). [Gr. para beside; prob. akin to E. for- in forgive. Cf. .] 1. A prefix signifying alongside of, beside, beyond, against, amiss; as parable, literally, a placing beside; paradox, that which is contrary to opinion; parachronism.
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2. (Chem.) A prefix denoting: (a) Likeness, similarity, or connection, or that the substance resembles, but is distinct from, that to the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde, paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric modification. (b) Specifically: (Organ. Chem.) That two groups or radicals substituted in the benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene; paroxybenzoic acid. Cf. , and . Also used adjectively.
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Para (?), n. [Turk., fr. Per. pārah a piece.] A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.
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Pará (?), n. 1. The southern arm of the Amazon in Brazil; also, a seaport on this arm.
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2. Short for .
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{ Para-anæsthesia, Par-anesthesia } (?), n. [NL.; para- + anæsthesia.] (Med.) Anæsthesia of both sides of the lower half of the body.
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Parabanic (?), a. [Gr. � to pass over.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl urea.
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Parablast (?), n. [Cf. Gr. � to grow beside. See , and .] (Biol.) A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.
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Parablastic (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells.
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Parable (?), a. [L. parabilis, fr. parare to provide.] Procurable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Parable, n. [F. parabole, L. parabola, fr. Gr. � a placing beside or together, a comparing, comparison, a parable, fr. � to throw beside, compare; para beside + � to throw; cf. Skr. gal to drop. Cf. , , , , , , .] A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. Chaucer.
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Declare unto us the parable of the tares. Matt. xiii. 36.
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Syn. -- See , and Note under .
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Parable, v. t. To represent by parable. [R.]
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Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled. Milton.
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Parabola (?), n.; pl. Parabolas (#). [NL., fr. Gr. �; -- so called because its axis is parallel to the side of the cone. See , and cf. .] (Geom.) (a) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See . (b) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = 3/2. See under , and . The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.
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Parabole (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �. See .] (Rhet.) Similitude; comparison.
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{ Parabolic (?), Parabolical (?), } a. [Gr. parabolikos figurative: cf. F. parabolique. See .]
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1. Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction.
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2. [From .] (Geom.) (a) Having the form or nature of a parabola; pertaining to, or resembling, a parabola; as, a parabolic curve. (b) Having a form like that generated by the revolution of a parabola, or by a line that moves on a parabola as a directing curve; as, a parabolic conoid; a parabolic reflector; a parabolic antenna.
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Coloq. Parabolic conoid , a paraboloid; a conoid whose directing curve is a parabola. See . -- Coloq. Parabolic mirror (Opt.), a mirror having a paraboloidal surface which gives for parallel rays (as those from very distant objects) images free from aberration. It is used in reflecting telescopes. -- Coloq. Parabolic spindle , the solid generated by revolving the portion of a parabola cut off by a line drawn at right angles to the axis of the curve, about that line as an axis. -- Coloq. Parabolic spiral , a spiral curve conceived to be formed by the periphery of a semiparabola when its axis is wrapped about a circle; also, any other spiral curve having an analogy to the parabola.
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