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Padishah
() Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.
Padlock
() A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
Padlock
() Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
Padlocked
() of Padlock
Padlocking
() of Padlock
Padlock
() To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.
Padnag
() An ambling nag.
Padow
() A paddock, or toad.
Padroni
() of Padrone
Padrones
() of Padrone
Padrone
() A patron; a protector.
Padrone
() The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.
Padrone
() A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.
Paduasoy
() A rich and heavy silk stuff.
Paducahs
() See Comanches.
Paean
() An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.
Paean
() Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
Paean
() See Paeon.
Paedobaptism
() Pedobaptism.
Paedogenesis
() Reproduction by young or larval animals.
Paedogenetic
() Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.
Paeon
() A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable.
Paeonine
() An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.
Paeony
() See Peony.
Pagan
() One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
Pagan
() Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.
Pagandom
() The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism.
Paganic
() Alt. of Paganical
Paganical
() Of or pertaining to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish.
Paganish
() Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish.
Paganism
() The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.
Paganity
() The state of being a pagan; paganism.
Paganized
() of Paganize
Paganizing
() of Paganize
Paganize
() To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism.
Paganize
() To behave like pagans.
Paganly
() In a pagan manner.
Page
() A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
Page
() A boy child.
Page
() A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
Page
() A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Page
() Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
Page
() To attend (one) as a page.
Page
() One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
Page
() Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
Page
() The type set up for printing a page.
Paged
() of Page
Paging
() of Page
Page
() To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
Pageant
() A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.