Pattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Patter
Patter (v. i.) To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
Patter (v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
Patter (v. i.) To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.
Patter (v. t.) To spatter; to sprinkle.
Patter (v. i.) To mutter; as prayers.
Patter (n.) A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.
Patter (n.) Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.
Patter (n.) The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.
Patterer (n.) One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler.
Pattern (n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
Pattern (n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
Pattern (n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
Pattern (n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
Pattern (n.) Something made after a model; a copy.
Pattern (n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
Pattern (n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
Patterned (imp. & p. p.) of Pattern
Patterning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pattern
Pattern (v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
Pattern (v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
Patties (pl. ) of Patty
Patty (n.) A little pie.
Pattypan (n.) A pan for baking patties.
Pattypan (n.) A patty.
Patulous (a.) Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.
Pau (n.) See Pah.
Pauciloquent (a.) Uttering few words; brief in speech.
Pauciloquy (n.) Brevity in speech.
Paucispiral (a.) Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.
Paucity (n.) Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.
Paucity (n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.
Paugies (pl. ) of Paugy
Paugie (n.) Alt. of Paugy
Paugy (n.) The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.
Pauhaugen (n.) The menhaden; -- called also poghaden.
Paul (n.) See Pawl.
Paul (n.) An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.
Pauldron (n.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.
Paulian (n.) Alt. of Paulianist
Paulianist (n.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.
Paulician (n.) One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.
Paulin (n.) See Tarpaulin.
Pauline (a.) Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.
Paulist (n.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.
Paulownia (n.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceae, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.
Paum (v. t. & i.) To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards.
Paunce (n.) The pansy.
Paunch (n.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
Paunch (n.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch.
Paunch (n.) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
Paunched (imp. & p. p.) of Paunch
Paunching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paunch
Paunch (v. t.) To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
Paunch (v. t.) To stuff with food.
Paunchy (a.) Pot-bellied.
Paune (n.) A kind of bread. See Pone.
Pauper (n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
Pauperism (n.) The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.
Pauperization (n.) The act or process of reducing to pauperism.
Pauperized (imp. & p. p.) of Pauperize
Pauperizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pauperize
Pauperize (v. t.) To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.
Pauropoda (n. pl.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae.
Pause (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Pause (n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
Pause (n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
Pause (n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
Pause (n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
Pause (n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
Paused (imp. & p. p.) of Pause
Pausing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pause
Pause (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
Pause (n.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
Pause (n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
Pause (n.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
Pause (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
Pauser (n.) One who pauses.
Pausingly (adv.) With pauses; haltingly.
Pauxi (n.) A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.
Pavage (n.) See Pavage.
Pavan (n.) A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
Pave (n.) The pavement.
Paved (imp. & p. p.) of Pave
Paving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pave
Pave (v. t.) To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.
Pave (v. t.) Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.
Pavement (n.) That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
Pavement (v. t.) To furnish with a pavement; to pave.
Paven (n.) See Pavan.
Paver (n.) One who paves; one who lays a pavement.
Pavesade (n.) A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.
Pavese (n.) Alt. of Pavesse
Pavesse (n.) Pavise.
Paviage (n.) A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways.
Pavian (n.) See Pavan.
Pavid (a.) Timid; fearful.
Pavidity (n.) Timidity.
Pavier (n.) A paver.
Paviin (n.) A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.