Pagurian Pa·gu"ri·an noun [ Latin pagurus a kind of crab, Greek ... .] (Zoology) Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab , under Hermit .

Pah Pah interj. An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah .

Fie! fie! fie! pah ! pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

Shak.

Pah Pah noun [ From native name.] A kind of stockaded intrenchment. [ New Zealand.] Farrow.

Pahi Pa"hi noun (Nautical) A large war canoe of the Society Islands.

Pahlevi Pah"le·vi noun Same as Pehlevi .

Pahoehoe Pa·ho"e·ho`e noun (Min.) 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 Pah"·Utes` noun plural (Ethnol.) See Utes .

Paid Paid imperfect , past participle , & adjective of Pay . 1. Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.

2. Satisfied; contented. [ Obsolete] " Paid of his poverty." Chaucer.

Paideutics Pai·deu"tics noun [ Greek ... , from ... to teach, from ... , ... , a boy.] The science or art of teaching.

Paien Pai"en noun & adjective Pagan. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Paigle Pai"gle noun [ Etymol. uncertain.] (Botany) A species of Primula , either the cowslip or the primrose. [ Written also pagle , pagil , peagle , and pygil .]

Paijama Pai·ja"ma noun Pyjama.

Pail Pail noun [ Middle English paile , Anglo-Saxon pægel a wine vessel, a pail, akin to D. & German pegel a watermark, a gauge rod, a measure of wine, Danish pægel half a pint.] 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. Shak.

Pailful Pail"ful noun ; plural Pailfuls The quantity that a pail will hold. "By pailfuls ." Shak.

Paillasse Pail·lasse" noun [ French, from paille straw. See Pallet a bed.] An under bed or mattress of straw. [ Written also palliasse .]

Paillon Pail`lon" noun ; plural - lions . [ French, from paille straw.] A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.

Pailmall Pail`mall" noun & adjective See Pall-mall . [ Obsolete]

Pain Pain noun [ Middle English peine , French peine , from Latin poena , penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Greek ... penalty. Confer Penal , Pine to languish, Punish .] 1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. Chaucer.

We will, by way of mulct or pain , lay it upon him.

Bacon.

Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.

Dryden.

None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.

Addison.

2. 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. "The pain of Jesus Christ." Chaucer.

» Pain may occur in any part of the body where sensory nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally referred to the peripheral end of the nerve.

3. plural Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.

1 Sam. iv. 19.

4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Chaucer.

In rapture as in pain .

Keble.

5. See Pains , labor, effort.

Bill of pains and penalties . See under Bill . -- To die in the pain , to be tortured to death. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Pain Pain transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Pained ; present participle & verbal noun Paining .] [ Middle English peinen , Old French pener , French peiner to fatigue. See Pain , noun ] 1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [ Obsolete] Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).

2. 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.

Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us.

Locke .

3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

I am pained at my very heart.

Jer. iv. 19.

To pain one's self , to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [ Obsolete] "She pained her to do all that she might." Chaucer.

Syn. -- To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.

Painable Pain"a·ble adjective [ Confer French pénible .] Causing pain; painful. [ Obsolete]

The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and painable for being composed of gold or silver.

Evelyn.

Painful Pain"ful adjective 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. Addison.

2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [ Obsolete] Fuller.

A very painful person, and a great clerk.

Jer. Taylor.

Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.

Dryden.

Syn. -- Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous.

-- Pain"ful*ly , adverb -- Pain"ful*ness , noun

Painim Pai"nim noun [ Middle English painime pagans, paganism, from Old French paienisme paganism, Late Latin paganismus . See Paganism , Pagan .] A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively. [ Written also panim and paynim .] Peacham.

Painless Pain"less adjective Free from pain; without pain. -- Pain"less*ly , adverb - - Pain"less*ness , noun

Pains Pains noun Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.

And all my pains is sorted to no proof.

Shak.

The pains they had taken was very great.

Clarendon.

The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled.

Dryden.

Painstaker Pains"tak`er noun One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.

Painstaking Pains"tak`ing adjective Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. " Painstaking men." Harris.

Painstaking Pains"tak`ing noun The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance. Beau. & Fl.

Painsworthy Pains"wor`thy adjective Worth the pains or care bestowed.

Paint Paint (pānt) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Painted ; present participle & verbal noun Painting .] [ Middle English peinten , from French peint , past participle of peindre to paint, from Latin pingere , pictum ; confer Greek poiki`los many-colored, Sanskrit piç to adorn. Confer Depict , Picture , Pigment , Pint .] 1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

Jezebel painted her face and tired her head.

2 Kings ix. 30.

2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.

Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.

Shak.

Cuckoo buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight.

Shak.

3. To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.

Disloyal?
The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.

Shak.

If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

Pope.

Syn. -- To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe.

Paint Paint transitive verb 1. To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.

2. To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

Let her paint an inch thick.

Shak.

Paint Paint noun 1. (a) A pigment or coloring substance. (b) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.

2. A cosmetic; rouge. Praed.

Painted Paint"ed adjective 1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.

As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Coleridge.

2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.

Painted beauty (Zoology) , a handsome American butterfly ( Vanessa Huntera ), having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup (Botany) , any plant of an American genus of herbs ( Castilleia ) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in meadows. -- Painted finch . See Nonpareil . -- Painted lady (Zoology) , a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly . -- Painted turtle (Zoology) , a common American freshwater tortoise ( Chrysemys picta ), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.

Painter Paint"er (pānt"ẽr) noun [ OE, pantere a noose, snare, French pantière , Late Latin panthera , Latin panther a hunting net, from Greek panqh`ra ; pa^s all + qh`r beast; confer Ir. painteir a net, gin, snare, Gael. painntear .] (Nautical) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten.

Painter Paint"er noun [ Corrupt. of panther .] (Zoology) The panther, or puma. [ A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.] J. F. Cooper.

Painter Paint"er noun [ See lst Paint .] One whose occupation is to paint ; esp.: (a) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint. (b) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.

Painter's colic . (Medicine) See Lead colic , under Colic . -- Painter stainer . (a) A painter of coats of arms. Crabb. (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.

Painterly Paint"er·ly adjective Like a painter's work. [ Obsolete] "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney.

Paintership Paint"er·ship noun The state or position of being a painter. [ R.] Br. Gardiner.

Painting Paint"ing noun 1. The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

2. (Fine Arts) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.

3. Color laid on; paint. [ R.] Shak.

4. A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.

Syn. -- See Picture .

Paintless Paint"less adjective Not capable of being painted or described. "In paintless patience." Savage.

Painture Pain"ture noun [ French peinture . See Paint , transitive verb , and confer Picture .] The art of painting. [ Obsolete] Chaucer. Dryden.

Painty Paint"y adjective Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface. [ Cant]

Pair Pair noun [ French paire , Late Latin paria , Latin paria , plural of par pair, from par , adj., equal. Confer Apparel , Par equality, Peer an equal.]

1. A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [ Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]

Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards.

Beau. & Fl.

2. Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.

3. Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.

4. A married couple; a man and wife. "A happy pair ." Dryden. "The hapless pair ." Milton.

5. A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.

6. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote. [ Parliamentary Cant]

7. (Kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.

» Pairs are named in accordance with the kind of motion they permit; thus, a journal and its bearing form a turning pair , a cylinder and its piston a sliding pair , a screw and its nut a twisting pair , etc. Any pair in which the constraining contact is along lines or at points only (as a cam and roller acting together), is designated a higher pair ; any pair having constraining surfaces which fit each other (as a cylindrical pin and eye, a screw and its nut, etc.), is called a lower pair .

Pair royal (pl. Pairs Royal ) three things of a sort; -- used especially of playing cards in some games, as cribbage; as three kings, three "eight spots" etc. Four of a kind are called a double pair royal . "Something in his face gave me as much pleasure as a pair royal of naturals in my own hand." Goldsmith. "That great pair royal of adamantine sisters [ the Fates]." Quarles. [ Written corruptly parial and prial .]

Syn. -- Pair , Flight , Set . Originally, pair was not confined to two things, but was applied to any number of equal things ( pares ), that go together. Ben Jonson speaks of a pair (set) of chessmen; also, he and Lord Bacon speak of a pair (pack) of cards. A " pair of stairs" is still in popular use, as well as the later expression, "flight of stairs."

Pair Pair intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Paired ; present participle & verbal noun Pairing .] 1. To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.

2. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.

Rowe.

3. Same as To pair off . See phrase below.

To pair off , to separate from a company in pairs or couples; specif. (Parliamentary Cant), to agree with one of the opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on specified questions or issues. See Pair , noun , 6.

Pair Pair transitive verb 1. To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.

Glossy jet is paired with shining white.

Pope.

2. To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions. [ Parliamentary Cant]

Paired fins . (Zoology) See under Fin .

Pair Pair transitive verb [ See Impair .] To impair. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Pairer Pair"er noun One who impairs. [ Obsolete] Wyclif.

Pairing Pair"ing noun [ See Pair , intransitive verb ] 1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.

2. See To pair off , under Pair , intransitive verb

Pairyng time , the time when birds or other animals pair.

Pairment Pair"ment noun Impairment. [ Obsolete] Wyclif.

Pais Pa`is noun [ Old French puïs , French pays , country.] (O. E. Law) The country; the people of the neighborhood.

» A trial per pais is a trial by the country, that is, by a jury; and matter in pais is matter triable by the country, or jury.

Paisano Pa`i·sa"no noun [ Spanish , of the country, ...ative.] (Zoology) The chaparral cock.

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