PAINLESS
PA'INLESS, adjective Free from pain.1. Free from trouble.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PAINSTAKER
PA'INSTAKER, noun A laborious person.
PAINSTAKING
PA'INSTAKING, adjective Laborious; industrious.PA'INSTAKING, noun Labor; great industry.
PAINT
PA'INT, verb transitive [Latin pingo, pictus.]1. To form a figure or likeness in colors; as, to paint a hero or a landscape.2. To cover or besmear with color or colors, either w...
PAINTED
PA'INTED, participle passive Colored; rubbed over with paint; as a painted house or cloth.1. Represented in form by colors.2. Described.
PAINTER
PA'INTER, noun One whose occupation is to paint; one skilled in representing things in colors.PA'INTER, noun A rope used to fasten a boat to a ship or other object.
PAINTING
PA'INTING, participle present tense Representing in colors; laying on colors.PA'INTING, noun The art of forming figures or resembling objects in colors on canvas or other materi...
PAINTURE
PA'INTURE, noun The art of painting.
PAIR
PAIR, noun [Latin par; Heb. to join, couple or associate.]1. Two things of a kind, similar in form, applied to the same purpose, and suited to each other or used together; as a ...
PAIR-ROYAL
PAIR-ROYAL, noun Three of a sort in certain games of cards.
PAIRED
PA'IRED, participle passive Joined in couples, fitted; suited.
PAIRING
PA'IRING, participle present tense Uniting in pairs; fitting.
PALACE
PAL'ACE, noun [Latin palatium.]1. A magnificent house in which an emperor, a king or other distinguished person resides; as an imperial palace; a royal palace; a pontifical pala...
PALACE-COURT
PAL'ACE-COURT, noun The domestic court of the kings of Great Britain, which administers justice between the king's domestic servants. It is held once a week before the steward o...
PALACIOUS
PALA'CIOUS, adjective [from palace.] Royal; noble; magnificent. [Not used.]
PALANKEEN
PALANKEE'NPALAN'QUIN, noun A covered carriage used in India, China, etc. borne on the shoulders of men, and in which a single person is conveyed from place to place.
PALANQUIN
PALAN'QUIN, n. A covered carriage used in India, China, &c. borne on the shoulders of men, and in which a single person is conveyed from place to place.
PALATABLE
PAL'ATABLE, adjective [from palate.] Agreeable to the taste; savory.1. That is relished.
PALATABLENESS
PAL'ATABLENESS, noun The quality of being agreeable to the taste; relish.
PALATAL
PAL'ATAL, adjective Pertaining to the palate; uttered by the aid of the palate.PAL'ATAL, noun A letter pronounced by the aid of the palate, or an articulation of the root of the...
PALATE
PAL'ATE, noun [Latin palatum, properly the arch or cope of heaven.]1. The roof or upper part of the mouth. The glands in this part of the mouth secrete a mucous fluid, which lub...
PALATIAL
PALA'TIAL, adjective [from palate.] Pertaining to the palate; as the palatial retraction of the tongue.PALA'TIAL, adjective [from Latin palatium, palace.] Pertaining to a palace...
PALATIC
PAL'ATIC, a Belonging to the palate. [Not used.]
PALATINATE
PALAT'INATE, noun [Latin palatinus. See Palatine.]The province or seignory of a palatine; as the palatinate of the Rhine in Germany, called the upper and lower palatinate
PALATINE
PAL'ATINE, adjective [Latin palatinus, from palatium, palace.] Pertaining to a palace; an epithet applied originally to persons holding an office or employment in the king; s pa...
PALATIVE
PAL'ATIVE, adjective Pleasing to the taste. [Not used.]
PALAVER
PAL'AVER, noun1. Idle talk.2. Flattery; adulation. [This is used with us in the vulgar dialect.]3. Talk; conversation; conference; a sense used in Africa, as appears by the rela...