n. A pacifist.
Syn. -- pacifist, disarmer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A person opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes.
Syn. -- pacificist, disarmer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A person whose strong belief in pacifism causes him/her to refuse to participate in military activities, especially one who refuses to be drafted into the armed forces. [ PJC ]

adj. Adhering to pacifism; opposed to war; -- of people. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Packeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Packeting. ] 1. To make up into a packet or bundle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her husband
Was packeted to France. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See Pack. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Packet boat,
Packet ship, or
Packet vessel. See Packet, n., 2. --
Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. --
Packet note or
Packet post. See under Paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America, especially Neotoma cinerea, which hoard food and other objects in their nests.
Syn. -- trade rat, bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A person who habitually saves items, even those unlikely to be useful. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

n. [ L. pactum, fr. paciscere to make a bargain or contract, fr. pacere to settle, or agree upon; cf. pangere to fasten, Gr. phgny`nai, Skr. pāça bond, and E. fang: cf. F. pacte. Cf. Peace, Fadge, v. ] An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The engagement and pact of society which goes by the name of the constitution. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

. An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic. [ R. ] “He pageants us.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. “Pageant pomp.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pagent, pagen, originally, a movable scaffold or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL. pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L. pagina page, leaf, slab, compaginare to join together, compages a joining together, structure. See Pact, Page of a book. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. “A pageant truly played.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

We love the man, the paltry pageant you. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Painted; p. pr. & vb. n. Painting. ] [ OE. peinten, fr. F. peint, p. p. of peindre to paint, fr. L. pingere, pictum; cf. Gr. poiki`los many-colored, Skr. piç to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, Pigment, Pint. ] 1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cuckoo buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict; as, to paint a political opponent as a traitor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disloyal?
The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To color one's face by way of beautifying it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let her paint an inch thick. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cosmetic; rouge. Praed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Impairment. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A specialist in paleontology.
Syn. -- paleontologist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One versed in palætiology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in paleobotany. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in paleography; a paleographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. paléontologiste. ] One versed in paleontology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A paleobotanist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Palea. ] (Bot.) Same as Palea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. paletot, OF. palletoc, prob. fr. L. palla (see Palla) + F. toque cap, and so lit., a frock with a cap or hood; cf. Sp. paletoque. ] (a) An overcoat. Dickens. (b) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. palimpsestus, Gr. pali`mpshstos scratched or scraped again, pali`mpshston a palimpsest; pa`lin again + psh^n to rub, rub away: cf. F. palimpseste. ] A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. The erasures of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries, to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts, such as copies of church services and lives of the saints. The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing; the original texts on parchments which had been washed with lime-water and dried were easily recovered by a chemical process, but those erased by scraping the parchment and bleaching are difficult to interpret. Most of the manuscripts underlying the palimpsests that have been revived are fragmentary, but some are of great historical value. One Syriac version of the Four Gospels was discovered in 1895 in St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai by Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis. See also the notes below. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Palimpsest is the name given to ancient parchments which have been used more than once for writing purposes. The conquest of Egypt by the Saracens in the 7th century cut off from Europe the papyrus which was used to write on, and parchment could be had only in limited quantities. So through the dark ages, old manuscripts were used, after removing the first writing upon them. Sometimes the writing was washed off with a sponge, and the parchment smoothed with pumice stone; at other times the letters were scraped away with a sharp blade. Nearly all ancient manuscripts, however, were written with an ink which could not be entirely removed, and traces of a former writing could be seen beneath the new copy. In modern times there have been various efforts to restore these ancient writings by some chemical treatment. In this way have been found copies of the Republic of Cicero, the Institutes of Gaius, a part of the Epistle to the Romans, and other parts of the Old and New Testaments. The Republic of Cicero was covered by a commentary on the Psalms, written by St. Augustine. Student's Cyclopedia, 1897. [ PJC ]

☞ In an auction on November 6, 1998, a 12th-century palimpsest of one of Archimedes' works was sold for 2 million dollars. The 174-page book, the oldest known copy of Archimedes' work, had been owned by a French family since the 1920s, and was sold by Christie's auction house in New York to an unidentified private American collector. The palimpsest volume includes notes and calculations for two of the Greek mathematician's most famous theories, On Floating Bodies and Method of Mechanical Theorems. A Christie's spokesperson said the buyer, who was not identified, indicated that the work would be made available to scholars. Also bidding was the Greek government, which claimed the work was stolen from a library in the former Constantinople, now Istanbul, and belonged to Greece. According to the Athens News Agency, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem took Christie's to court claiming that the manuscript was part of its library, which had been transferred to Istanbul and later to Athens for safekeeping. The court, however, ruled that Christie's had the right to auction the manuscript for a French family, which claimed to own it for the last 75 years since one of the family's ancestors bought it from Orthodox monks in Istanbul. According to the court's ruling, French law applied in the case, under which a person who holds any object for more than 30 years becomes its rightful owner. [ PJC ]

n. A writer of palindromes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of pale. See Pale a stake. ] (Her.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel. ] 1. (Paint.) Same as Palette. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pottery) (a) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. (b) A potter's wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gilding) (a) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. (b) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Brickmaking) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mach.) (a) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. (b) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Zool.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A cup containing three ounces, -- formerly used by surgeons. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A low movable platform used for temporary storage of objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and typically has openings in the side into which the blades of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and move the pallet and the objects on it. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. &unr_; fine meal, dust, Skr. pala straw, palāva chaff. Cf. Paillasse. ] A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. palliare to clothe, fr. L. pallium a mantle. See Pall the garment. ] A dress; a robe. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. palmatus palmate + secare to cut. ] (Bot.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.) [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. palpitans, p. pr. ] Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Paludamentum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pavement. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pamflet, pamfilet, paunflet, possibly fr. OF. palme the palm of the hand, F. paume (see Palm) + OF. fueillet a leaf, dim. of fueil, m., F. feuille, f., fr. L. folium, pl. folia, thus meaning, a leaf to be held in the hand; or perh. through old French, fr. L. Pamphila, a female historian of the first century who wrote many epitomes; prob., however, fr. OF. Pamflette, the Old French name given to Pamphilus, a poem in Latin verse of the 12th century, pamphlets being named from the popularity of this poem. ] 1. A writing; a book. Testament of love. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To write a pamphlet or pamphlets. [ R. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An athlete; a gymnast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pandecta, pandectes, Gr. &unr_; all-receiving, all-containing; pa^s, pa^n, all + &unr_; to receive: cf. F. pandectes, pl. ] 1. A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Thou ] a pandect mak'st, and universal book. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Pundit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. panegyrista, Gr. panhgyristh`s, one who attends a panh`gyris: cf. panhgyri`zein to celebrate or attend a public festival, to make a set speech, esp. a panegyric, in a public assembly. See Panegyric. ] One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate of Panhellenism. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. v. i. To succeed; as, the project didn't pan out. [ PJC ]

2. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors Panslavism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Biol.) A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Panted; p. pr. & vb. n. Panting. ] [ Cf. F. panteler to gasp for breath, OF. panteisier to be breathless, F. pantois out of breath; perh. akin to E. phantom, the verb prob. orig. meaning, to have the nightmare. ] 1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pluto plants for breath from out his cell. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; -- often used with for or after. [ 1913 Webster ]

As the hart panteth after the water brooks. Ps. xlii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who pants for glory finds but short repose. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The whispering breeze
Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]