Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PA'PER-MON'EY, n.

Notes or bills issued by authority, and promising the payment of money, circulated as the representative of coin. We apply the word to notes bills issued by a state or by a banking corporation; rarely or never to private notes or bills of exchange, though the latter may be included.

PA'PER-STAIN'ER, n.

One that stains, colors or stamps paper for hangings.

PA-PES'CENT, a. [from pap.]

Containing pap; having the qualities of pap. – Arbuthnot.

PA'PESS, n.

A female pope. – Hall.

PA'PHI-AN, a.

Pertaining to the rites of Venus.

PA'PI-AN, a.

Relating to a law which compelled all foreigners to leave Rome.

PAP'IL, n. [L. papilla.]

A small pap or nipple.

PA-PIL'I-O, n. [L.]

A butterfly. In zoology, a genus of insects of numerous species. These insects are produced from the caterpillar. The chrysalis is the tomb of the caterpillar and the cradle of the butterfly. Barbut.

PA-PIL-I-O-NA'CEOUS, a.

Resembling the butterfly; a term in botany, used to describe the corols of plants which have the shape of a butterfly, such as that of the pea. The papilionaceous plants are of the leguminous kind. Encyc. Quiny. The papilionaceous corol is usually four-petaled, having an upper spreading petal, called the banner, two side petals, called wings, and a lower petal called the keel. – Martyn.

PAP'IL-LA-RY, or PAP'IL-LOUS, a.

Pertaining to the pap or nipple; resembling the nipple; covered with papils. – Derham.

PAP'IL-LATE, v.i.

To grow into a nipple. – Flonia.

PAP'IL-LOSE, a.

Nipply; covered with fleshy dots or points; verrucose; warty; as, a papillose leaf. – Martyn. Covered with soft tubercles, as the ice-plant. – Smith.

PA'PISM, n. [from Fr. pape, pope.]

– Popery. Bedell.

PA'PIST, n. [Fr. papiste; It. papista; from Fr. pape, pope.]

A Roman catholic; one that adheres to the church of Rome and the authority of the pope. – Clarendon.

PA-PIS'TIC, or PA-PIS'TICAL, a.

Popish; pertaining to popery; adherent to the church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies. – Whitgifte.

PA'PIST-RY, n.

Popery; the doctrines and ceremonies of the church of Rome. – Ascham.

PA'PIZ-ED, a.

Conformed to popery. – Fuller.

PAP-POOS', n.

Among the native Indians of New England, a babe or young child.

PAP'POUS, a. [from L. pappus; Gr. παππος.]

Downy; furnished with a pappus, as the seeds of certain plants, such as thistles, dandelions, &c. – Ray.

PAP'PUS, n. [L. from Gr. παππος, an old man or grandfather, hence a substance resembling gray hairs.]

The hairy, feathery, or membranous calyx of the individual florets in certain compound flowers belonging to the Linnean class Syngenesia.

PAP'PY, a. [from pap.]

Like pap; soft; succulent. – Burnet.

PAP'U-LAE, n. [PAP'U-LÆ; L.]

Pimples; a sort of eruption on the skin, consisting of small acuminated elevations of the cuticle, not containing a fluid, nor tending to suppuration commonly terminating in scurf.

PAP'U-LOSE, a.

Covered with papules; as, a papul leaf. – Martyn.

PAP'U-LOUS, a.

Full of pimples.

PA-PY'RUS, n.¹ [plur. papyri. L.]

An Egyptian plant, a kind of reed of which the ancients made a material for writing.