n. (Zool.) A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Naut.) (a) A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air. (b) A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dupe; a tool; one who, or that which, is used by another as an instrument to a accomplish his purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense the term refers to the fable of the monkey using the cat's paw to draw the roasting chestnuts out of the fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Shipbuilding) Same as Cross-spale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- + pawn. Cf. Impawn. ] To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Impawned p. pr. & vb. n. Impawning. ] [ Pref. im- + pawn: cf. Empawn. ] To put in pawn; to pledge; to pawn. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from the native name in the West Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw. ] [ Written also pawpaw. ] 1. (Bot.) Same as papaya, senses 1 and 2. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Bot.) A tree of the genus Asimina (Asimina triloba), growing in the western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pawe, poue, OF. poe: cf. patte, LG. pote, D. poot, G. pfote. ] 1. The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The hand. [ Jocose ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Paw clam (Zool.), the tridacna; -- so called because shaped like an animal's paw. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. Job xxxix. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pawed p. pr. & vb. n. Pawing. ] 1. To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To scrape or beat with the forefoot. [ 1913 Webster ]

His hot courser pawed the Hungarian plane. Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small lobster. Travis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. AS. pæcean to deceive. ] Arch; cunning; sly. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf. Pole a stake. ] (Mach.) 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. [ Written also paul, or pall. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. --
Pawl rim or
Pawl ring (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pawl the capstan. See under Capstan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Pan, the masticatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. paune, poun, OF. peon, poon, F. pion, LL. pedo a foot soldier, fr. L. pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and cf. Pioneer, Peon. ] (Chess) A man or piece of the lowest rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. pan pledge, assurance, skirt, piece, F. pan skirt, lappet, piece, from L. pannus. See Pane. ] 1. Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [ i. e., interest ]. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A stake hazarded in a wager. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My life I never held but as a pawn
To wage against thy enemies. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In pawn,
At pawn, in the state of being pledged. “Sweet wife, my honor is at pawn.” Shak. --
Pawn shop, a shop where a pawnbroker does business. --
Pawn ticket, a receipt given by the pawnbroker for an article pledged. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pawned p. pr. & vb. n. Pawning. ] 1. 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.
Syn. -- hock [ colloq ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

And pawned the last remaining piece of plate. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pawning his honor to obtain his lust. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being pawned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of a pawnbroker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. pl.; sing. Pawnee (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now (1890) live mostly in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Law) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Papaya. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Supawn. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pitcher who pitches with the left hand. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Baseball) Using the left hand in pitching; said of a pitcher. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Spa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. spātl, fr. sp&aemacr_;tan to spit; probably akin to spīwan, E. spew. Cf. Spew. ] Scattered or ejected spittle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ imp. & p. p. Spawled p. pr. & vb. n. Spawling. ] [ Cf. AS. spātlian. ] To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it
In vain, against the people's favorite. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is spawled, or spit out. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Spawned p. pr. & vb. n. Spawning. ] [ OE. spanen, OF. espandre, properly, to shed, spread, L. expandere to spread out. See Expand. ] 1. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

One edition [ of books ] spawneth another. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ √170. See Spawn, v. t. ] 1. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Hort.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spawn eater (Zool.), a small American cyprinoid fish (Notropis Hudsonius) allied to the dace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) A mature female fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The barbel, for the preservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Whatever produces spawn of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of American Indian origin. ] Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush. [ Written also sepawn, sepon, and suppawn. ] [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Supawn. [ 1913 Webster ]