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‖n. [ F. appaumé; &unr_; (l. ad) + paume the palm, fr. L. palma. ] (Her.) A hand open and extended so as to show the palm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also crapawd, crapald, crepaud, etc. ] [ F. crapaud. ] 1. A toad. [ Obs. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Pronounced As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. large toothed frog of South and Central America (Leptodactylus pentadactylus) resembling the bullfrog.
Syn. -- South American bullfrog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ F., n. ] (Arch.) Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Far.) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Depauperated p. pr. & vb. n. Depauperating ] [ LL. depauperatus, p. p. depauperare to impoverish; L. de- + pauperare to make poor, pauper poor. ] To make poor; to impoverish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Liming does not depauperate; the ground will last long, and bear large grain. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Humility of mind which depauperates the spirit. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. depauperatus, p. p. ] (Bot.) Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. épaule shoulder, shoulder of a bastion. See Epaulet, and cf. Spall the shoulder. ] (Fort.) The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. épaulement. ] (Fort.) A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.

{ } n. [ F. épaulette, dim. of épaule shoulder, fr. L. spatula a broad piece (LL., shoulder), dim. of spatha abroad, flat instrument, fr. Gr. &unr_;, also, a broad rib, shoulder blade. See Spade the instrument, and cf. Epaule, Spatula. ] (Mil.) A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States service the epaulet is reserved for full dress uniform. Its use was abolished in the British army in 1855.

{ } a. Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ OF. & F. épaulière. See Espalier. ] A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An intermission. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. mh`n month + &unr_; to cause to cease. See Menses. ] (Med.) The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Nepal (formerly written Nepaul), a kingdom North of India; same as Nepalese. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Nepal. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See Pah. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Uttering few words; brief in speech. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pauciloquium; paucus little + loqui to speak. ] Brevity in speech. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. paucus few + E. spiral. ] (Zool.) Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. paucité See Few. ] 1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity; rarity. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Smallness of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. Paugies [ Corrupted from Amer. Indian mishcuppauog. See Scup. ] (Zool.) The scup. See Porgy, and Scup. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ North Amer. Indian. ] (Zool.) The menhaden; -- called also poghaden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Pawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An Italian silver coin. See Paolo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Powldron. ] (Mil. Antiq.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) See Tarpaulin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Paulinus, fr. Paulus Paul. ] Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine. [ 1913 Webster ]

My religion had always been Pauline. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R. C. Ch.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL. So named from the Russian princess Anna Pavlovna. ] (Bot.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceæ, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The tree is native to Japan, and has immense heart-shaped leaves, and large purplish flowers in panicles. The capsules contain many little winged seeds, which are beautiful microscopic objects. The tree is hardy in America as far north as Connecticut. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ See Palm to cheat. ] To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Pansy. ] (Bot.) The pansy. “The pretty paunce.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. panch, pance, F. panse, L. pantex, panticis. ] 1. (Anat.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A noticeably protruding belly; a potbelly. [ PJC ]

Paunch mat (Naut.), a thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Paunched p. pr. & vb. n. Paunching. ] 1. To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stuff with food. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pot-bellied. [ R. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of bread. See Pone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Poor. ] A very poor person; one without any means of support, especially one dependent on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pauper immigrants, pauper labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. paupérisme. ] The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. Whatly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See Poverty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pauperized p. pr. & vb. n. Pauperizing ] To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. pay^ros small + -poda. ] (Zool.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. pausa. See Pose. ] 1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. [ 1913 Webster ]

I stand in pause where I shall first begin. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A break or paragraph in writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mus.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Stop; cessation; suspension. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Paused p. pr. & vb. n. Pausing. ] [ Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare. See Pause, n., Pose. ] 1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. “Tarry, pause a day or two.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. [ R. ] “Take time to pause.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pause upon, to deliberate concerning. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To intermit; stop; stay; wait; delay; tarry; hesitate; demur. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who pauses. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]