Webster's Dictionary 1828

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PAPAW

PAPAW', noun 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 ...

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PAPE

PAPE, noun The pope.

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PAPER

PA'PER, noun [Latin papyrus, the name of an Egyptian plant, from which was made a kind of paper]1. A substance formed into thin sheets on which letters and figures are written o...

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PAPER-CREDIT

PAPER-CRED'IT, noun Evidences of debt; promissory notes, etc. passing current in commercial transactions.1. Notes or bills emitted by public authority, promising the payment of ...

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PAPER-FACED

PA'PER-FACED, adjective Having a face as white as paper.

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PAPER-KITE

PA'PER-KITE, noun A light frame covered with paper for flying in the air like a kite.

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PAPER-MAKER

PA'PER-MAKER, noun One that manufactures paper.

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PAPER-MILL

PA'PER-MILL, noun A mill in which paper is manufactured.

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PAPER-MONEY

PAPER-MONEY, noun Notes or bills issued by authority, and promising the payment of money, circulated as the representative of coin. We apply the word to notes or bills issued by...

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PAPESCENT

PAPES'CENT, adjective [from pap.] Containing pap; having the qualities of pap.

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PAPESS

PA'PESS, noun A female pope.

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PAPIL

PAP'IL, noun [Latin papilla.] A small pap or nipple.

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PAPILIO

PAPIL'IO, noun [Latin] A butterfly. In zoology a genus of insects of numerous species. These insects are produced from the caterpillar. The chrysalis is the tomb of the caterpil...

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PAPILIONACEOUS

PAPILIONA'CEOUS, adjective Resembling the butterfly; a term in botany, used to describe the corols of plants which have the shape of a butterfly, such as that of the pea. The pa...

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PAPILLARY

PAP'ILLARYPAP'ILLATE, verb intransitive To grow into a nipple.

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PAPILLATE

PAP'ILLATE, v.i. To grow into a nipple.

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PAPILLOSE

PAP'ILLOSE, adjective Nipply; covered with fleshy dots or points; verrucose; warty; as a papillose leaf.Covered with soft tubercles, as the ice-plant.

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PAPILLOUS

PAP'ILLOUS, adjective Pertaining to the pap or nipple; resembling the nipple; covered with papils.

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PAPISM

PA'PISM, noun Popery.

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PAPIST

PA'PIST, noun A Roman catholic; one that adheres to the church of Rome and the authority of the pope.

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PAPISTIC

PAPIS'TICPAPIS'TICAL, adjective Popish; pertaining to popery; adherent to the church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies.

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PAPISTICAL

PAPIS'TICAL, a. Popish; pertaining to popery; adherent to the church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies.

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PAPISTRY

PA'PISTRY, noun Popery; the doctrines and ceremonies of the church of Rome.

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PAPIZED

PA'PIZED, adjective Conformed to popery.

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PAPPOUS

PAP'POUS, adjective [from Latin pappus.] Downy; furnished with a pappus, as the seeds of certain plants, such as thistles, dandelions, etc.

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PAPPUS

PAP'PUS, noun [Latin from Gr. an old man or grandfather, hence a substance resembling gray hairs.] The soft downy substance that grows on the seeds of certain plants, as on thos...

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PAPPY

PAP'PY, adjective [from pap.] Like pap; soft; succulent.