Pavilion (n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.
Pavilion (n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
Pavilion (n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
Pavilion (n.) Same as Tent (Her.)
Pavilion (n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
Pavilion (n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
Pavilion (n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
Pavilioned (imp. & p. p.) of Pavilion
Pavilioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pavilion
Pavilion (v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.
Pavin (n.) See Pavan.
Paving (n.) The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.
Paving (n.) A pavement.
Pavior (n.) One who paves; a paver.
Pavior (n.) A rammer for driving paving stones.
Pavior (n.) A brick or slab used for paving.
Pavise (n.) A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it.
Pavisor (n.) A soldier who carried a pavise.
Pavo (n.) A genus of birds, including the peacocks.
Pavo (n.) The Peacock, a constellation of the southern hemisphere.
Pavon (n.) A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.
Pavone (n.) A peacock.
Pavonian (a.) Of or pertaining to a peacock.
Pavonine (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.
Pavonine (a.) Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent.
Paw (n.) The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
Paw (n.) The hand.
Paw (v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
Pawed (imp. & p. p.) of Paw
Pawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paw
Paw (v. t.) To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.
Paw (v. t.) To scrape or beat with the forefoot.
Pawk (n.) A small lobster.
Pawky (a.) Arch; cunning; sly.
Pawl (n.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel.
Pawl (v. t.) To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.
Pawn (n.) See Pan, the masticatory.
Pawn (n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
Pawn (n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
Pawn (n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
Pawn (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
Pawned (imp. & p. p.) of Pawn
Pawning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pawn
Pawn (v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
Pawn (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Pawnable (a.) Capable of being pawned.
Pawnbroker (n.) One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
Pawnbroking (n.) The business of a pawnbroker.
Pawnee (n.) One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
Pawnees (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.
Pawner (n.) Alt. of Pawnor
Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
Pawpaw (n.) See Papaw.
Pax (n.) The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.
Pax (n.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc.
Paxillose (a.) Resembling a little stake.
Paxilli (pl. ) of Paxillus
Paxillus (n.) One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.
Paxwax (n.) The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.
Paxywaxy (n.) See Paxwax.
Pay (v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
Paid (imp. & p. p.) of Pay
Paying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pay
Pay (v. t.) To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
Pay (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
Pay (v. t.) To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
Pay (v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
Pay (v. t.) To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
Pay (v. i.) To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
Pay (v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
Pay (n.) Satisfaction; content.
Pay (n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
Payable (a.) That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due.
Payable (a.) That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.
Payable (a.) Matured; now due.
Payee (n.) The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.
Payen (n. & a.) Pagan.
Payer (n.) One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
Paymaster (n.) One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.
Payment (n.) The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.
Payment (n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.
Payment (n.) Punishment; chastisement.
Payn (n.) Bread. Having
Payndemain (n.) The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman.
Paynim (n. & a.) See Painim.
Paynize (v. t.) To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.
Payor (n.) See Payer.
Payse (v. t.) To poise.
Paytine (n.) An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.
Pea (n.) The sliding weight on a steelyard.
Pea (n.) See Peak, n., 3.
Peas (pl. ) of Pea
Pease (pl. ) of Pea
Pea (n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.
Pea (n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.
Peabird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its note.
Peabody bird () An American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) having a conspicuous white throat. The name is imitative of its note. Called also White-throated sparrow.
Peace (v.) A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose
Peace (v.) Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies.
Peace (v.) Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law.