Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAT'TERN, v.t.

1. To make in imitation of some model; to copy. – Shak.
2. To serve as an example to be followed. – Shak. To pattern after, to imitate; to follow.

PAT'TERN-ED, pp.

Copied; made in imitation of.

PAT'TERN-ING, ppr.

Imitating; following.

PAT'TY, n. [Fr. pâte, paste.]

– A little pie.

PAT'TY-PAN, n.

A pan to bake a little pie in.

PAT'U-LOUS, a. [L. patulus, from pateo, to be open.]

Spreading, as a patulous calyx; bearing the flowers loose or dispersed, as a patulous peduncle. – Lee. Martyn.

PAU-CIL'O-QUY, n. [L. paucus, few, and loquor, to speak.]

The utterance of few words. [Little used.]

PAU'CI-TY, n. [L. paucitas, from paucus, few.]

1. Fewness; smallness of number; as, the paucity of schools. – Hooker.
2. Smallness of quantity; as, paucity of blood. – Brown.

PAU'LINE, a.

Pertaining to Paul. – Ec. Rev.

PAUM, v.t.

To impose by fraud; a corruption of palm. – Swift.

PAUNCH, n. [Fr. panse; It. and Sp. panza; Port. pança; D. pens; Basque, pantza; L. pantex. Qu. G. wanst.]

The belly and its contents. The paunch, in ruminating quadrupeds, is the first and largest stomach, into which the food is received before rumination. – Monro.

PAUNCH, v.t.

To pierce or rip the belly; to eviscerate; to take out the contents of the belly. Shak. Garth.

PAUNCH'ING, ppr.

Eviscerating; taking out the contents of the belly.

PAUP'ER, n. [L. pauper; Fr. pauvre; Sp. pobre; It. povero.]

A poor person; particularly, one so indigent as to depend on the parish or town for maintenance.

PAUP'ER-ISM, n.

The state of being poor or destitute of the means of support; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. The increase of pauperism is an alarming evil.

PAU-PER-IZ-A'TION, n.

The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

PAU'PER-IZE, v.t.

To reduce to pauperism.

PAU'PER-IZE, v.t.

To reduce to pauperism. [1841 Addenda only.]

PAU'PER-IZ-ED, pp.

Reduced to pauperism.

PAU'PER-IZ-ING, ppr.

Reducing to the condition of a pauper.

PAUSE, n. [pauz; L. Sp. and It. pausa; Fr. pause; D. poos; Sw. paus; G. and Dan. pause; Gr. παυσις, from παυω, to cease, or cause to rest.]

1. A stop; a cessation or intermission of action, of speaking, singing, playing or the like; a temporary stop or rest. – Hooker. Locke.
2. Cessation proceeding from doubt; suspense. I stand in pause where I shall first begin. – Shak.
3. Break or paragraph in writing. – Locke.
4. A temporary cessation in reading. The use of punctuation is to mark the pauses in writing. In verse, there are two kinds of pauses, the cesural and the final. The cesural pause divides the verse; the final pause closes it. The pauses which mark the sense, and which may be called sentential, are the same in prose and verse.
5. A mark of cessation or intermission of the voice; a point.

PAUSE, v.i. [pauz.]

1. To make a short stop; to cease to speak for a time; to intermit speaking or action. Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused. – Milton.
2. To stop; to wait; to forbear for a time. Tarry, pause a day or two, / Before you hazard. – Shak.
3. To be intermitted. The music pauses. To pause upon, to deliberate. – Shak. Knolles.

PAUS'ER, n. [s as z.]

One who pauses; one who deliberates. – Shak.

PAUS'ING, ppr.

Stopping for a time; ceasing to speak or act; deliberating.

PAUS'ING-LY, adv.

After a pause; by breaks. – Shak.