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Pageant
() An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
Pageant
() Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.
Pageant
() To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
Pageantry
() Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectively; spectacular quality; splendor.
Pagehood
() The state of being a page.
Paginae
() of Pagina
Pagina
() The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.
Paginal
() Consisting of pages.
Pagination
() The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number.
Paging
() The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.
Pagod
() A pagoda. [R.] \"Or some queer pagod.\"
Pagod
() An idol.
Pagoda
() A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.
Pagoda
() An idol.
Pagoda
() A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.
Pagodite
() Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.
Paguma
() Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form.
Pagurian
() Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.
Pah
() An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah.
Pah
() A kind of stockaded intrenchment.
Pahi
() A large war canoe of the Society Islands.
Pahlevi
() Same as Pehlevi.
Pahoehoe
() A name given in the Sandwich Islands to lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called a-a.
PahUtes
() See Utes.
Paid
() Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.
Paid
() Satisfied; contented.
Paideutics
() The science or art of teaching.
Paien
() Pagan.
Paigle
() A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose.
Paijama
() Pyjama.
Pail
() A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.
Pailfuls
() of Pailful
Pailful
() The quantity that a pail will hold.
Paillasse
() An under bed or mattress of straw.
Pailmall
() See Pall-mall.
Pain
() Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
Pain
() Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
Pain
() Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
Pain
() Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
Pain
() See Pains, labor, effort.
Pained
() of Pain
Paining
() of Pain
Pain
() To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Pain
() To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
Pain
() To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
Painable
() Causing pain; painful.
Painful
() Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
Painful
() Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
Painful
() Painstaking; careful; industrious.
Painim
() A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively.