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Paludose
() Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.
Palule
() See Palulus or Palus.
Paluli
() of Palulus
Palulus
() Same as Palus.
Pali
() of Palus
Palus
() One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.
Palustral
() Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy.
Palustrine
() Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.
Paly
() Pale; wanting color; dim.
Paly
() Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.
Pam
() The knave of clubs.
Pament
() A pavement.
Pampano
() Same as Pompano.
Pampas
() Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
Pampered
() of Pamper
Pampering
() of Pamper
Pamper
() To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.
Pamper
() To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination.
Pampered
() Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant.
Pamperer
() One who, or that which, pampers.
Pamperize
() To pamper.
Pampero
() A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.
Pamperos
() A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.
Pamphlet
() A writing; a book.
Pamphlet
() A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.
Pamphlet
() To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.
Pamphleteer
() A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler.
Pamphleteer
() To write or publish pamphlets.
Pampiniform
() In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.
Pampre
() An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.
Pamprodactylous
() Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.
Pan-
() Alt. of Panto-
Panta-
() Alt. of Panto-
Panto-
() Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.
Pan
() A part; a portion.
Pan
() The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
Pan
() A leaf of gold or silver.
Pan
() To join or fit together; to unite.
Pan
() The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
Pan
() The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
Pan
() A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.
Pan
() A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
Pan
() The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
Pan
() The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
Pan
() A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
Pan
() The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
Pan
() A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
Panned
() of Pan
Panning
() of Pan
Pan
() To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.