Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAN-TOPH'A-GIST, n.

An animal or person that eats every thing.

PAN'TRY, n. [Fr. panetière, a shepherd's scrip; L. panarium, from panis, bread.]

An apartment or closet in which provisions are kept.

PAN'UR-GY, n. [Gr. πανουργια; παν, all, and εργον, work.]

Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft. Bailey.

PAP, n.¹ [L. papilla.]

A nipple of the breast; a teat. Dryden.

PAP, n.² [Low L. papa; It. papas; D. pap; Pers. bob, food.]

1. A soft food for infants, made with bread boiled or softened with water. Boyle.
2. The pulp of fruit. Ainsworth.

PAP, v.t.

To feed with pap.

PA-PA', n. [L. and Fr. papa; D. and G. id.; Gr. παππας; It. and Sp. papa, the pope; a word used by the ancient Scythians, as also in the Syriac and Chaldaic.]

Father; a word with us used by children. Swift.

PA'PA-CY, n. [Fr. papauté; It. papato; from papa, the pope.]

1. The office and dignity of the pope or bishop of Rome; popedom. Bacon.
2. Papal authority.

PA'PAL, a. [Fr. from pape, the pope.]

1. Belonging to the pope or pontif of Rome; popish; as, papal authority; the papal chair.
2. Proceeding from the pope; as, a papal license or indulgence; a papal edict.
3. Annexed to the bishopric of Rome.

PA'PA-LIN, n.

A papist. [Not used.] Herbert.

PA'PAL-IST, n.

One who favors papal power or doctrines. Baxter.

PA'PAL-IZE, v.i.

To conform to popery. Cowper.

PA'PAL-IZE, v.t.

To make papal.

PA'PAL-LY, adv.

In a papal manner; popishly.

PA-PAV'ER-OUS, a. [L. papavereus, from papaver, a poppy.]

Resembling the poppy; of the nature or qualities of poppies. Brown.

PA-PAW', n. [Fr. papayer.]

1. The Carica papaya, a tree growing in warm climates to the highth of eighteen or twenty feet, with a soft herbaceous stem, naked nearly to the top, where the leaves issue on every side on long foot-stalks. Between the leaves grow the flower and the fruit, which is of the size of a melon. The juice is acrid and milky, but the fruit when boiled is eaten with meat, like other vegetables. Encyc.
2. The papaw of North America belongs to the genus Annona or custard apple.

PAPE, n.

The pope.

PA'PER, a.

1. Made of paper; consisting of paper.
2. Thin; slight; as, a paper wall. Burnet.

PA'PER, n. [Fr. papier; It. papiro; Port. and Sp. papel; D. and G. papier; W. papyr; Gr. παπυρος; L. papyrus, the name of an Egyptian plant, from which was made a kind of paper. This word is said to be formed from παω, to feed, and πυρ, fire, from the use of the plant as fuel. Elmes. Qu.]

1. A substance formed into thin sheets on which letters and figures are written or printed. Paper is made of different materials; but among us it is usually made of linen or cotton rags. A fine paper is made of silk, particularly for bank-notes, which require to be very thin.
2. A piece of paper. Locke.
3. A single sheet printed or written; as, a daily paper; a weekly paper; a periodical paper; referring to essays, journals, newspapers, &c.
4. Any written instrument, whether note, receipt, bill, invoice, bond, memorial, deed, and the like. The papers lie on the Speaker's table. They brought a paper to me to be signed. Dryden.
5. A promissory note or notes or a bill of exchange; as, negotiable paper. Kent.
6. Hangings printed or stamped; paper for covering the walls of rooms.

PA'PER, v.t.

1. To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.
2. To register. [Not used.] Shak.
3. To fold or inclose in paper.

PA-PER-CRED'IT, n.

1. Evidences of debt; promissory notes, &c. passing current in commercial transactions.
2. Notes or bills emitted by public authority, promising the payment of money. The revolution in North America was carried on by means of paper-credit.

PA'PER-ED, pp.

Covered with paper.

PA'PER-FAC'ED, a.

Having a face as white as paper. Shak.

PA'PER-KITE, n.

A light frame covered with paper for flying in the air like a kite. Warton.

PA'PER-MAK'ER, n.

One that manufactures paper.