Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 28
Pavilion (n.) 大帳蓬，觀眾席，樓閣，亭子 A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.
Pavilion (n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
Pavilion (n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
Pavilion (n.) Same as Tent (Her.)
Pavilion (n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
Pavilion (n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
Pavilion (n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
Pavilioned (imp. & p. p.) of Pavilion.
Pavilioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pavilion.
Pavilion (v. t.) 搭帳蓬，籠罩 To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.
Pavilion (n.) Large and often sumptuous tent [syn: {pavilion}, {marquee}].
Pavin (n.) See Pavan.
Paving (n.) The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.
Paving (n.) A pavement.
Pavior (n.) One who paves; a paver.
Pavior (n.) A rammer for driving paving stones.
Pavior (n.) A brick or slab used for paving.
Pavise (n.) A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it.
Pavisor (n.) A soldier who carried a pavise.
Pavo (n.) A genus of birds, including the peacocks.
Pavo (n.) The Peacock, a constellation of the southern hemisphere.
Pavon (n.) A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.
Pavone (n.) A peacock.
Pavonian (a.) Of or pertaining to a peacock.
Pavonine (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.
Pavonine (a.) Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent.
Paw (n.) The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
Paw (n.) The hand.
Paw (v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
Pawed (imp. & p. p.) of Paw.
Pawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paw.
Paw (v. t.) To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.
Paw (v. t.) To scrape or beat with the forefoot.
Pawk (n.) A small lobster.
Pawky (a.) Arch; cunning; sly.
Pawl (n.) 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.
Pawl (v. t.) To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.
Pawn (n.) See Pan, the masticatory.
Pawn (n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
Pawn (n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
Pawn (n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
Pawn (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
Pawned (imp. & p. p.) of Pawn.
Pawning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pawn.
Pawn (v. t.) 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.
Pawn (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Pawnable (a.) Capable of being pawned.
Pawnbroker (n.) One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
Pawnbroking (n.) The business of a pawnbroker.
Pawnee (n.) One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
Pawnees (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.
Pawner (n.) Alt. of Pawnor.
Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
Pawpaw (n.) See Papaw.
Pax (n.) The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.
Pax (n.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc.
Paxillose (a.) Resembling a little stake.
Paxilli (n. pl. ) of Paxillus.
Paxillus (n.) One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.
Paxlovid (n.) Paxlovid is an antiviral medicine that works by stopping the virus that causes coronavirus (COVID-19) from growing and spreading in the body.
It's used to treat early COVID-19 infection and help to prevent more severe symptoms.
Paxlovid is a combination of 2 medicines called nirmatrelvir and ritonavir. Nirmatrelvir stops the virus from growing and spreading, and ritonavir helps nirmatrelvir from being broken down in your body long enough to do its job.
Paxlovid is only available on prescription. However, you will only be eligible to have the medicine if you're in the highest risk group.
If you are in the highest risk group you may be sent a letter and a lateral flow test that you can do at home. This is in case you develop symptoms of COVID-19.
If you test positive for COVID-19 and are eligible, you will usually be contacted by the NHS within 24 hours of your positive test result. If you have not been contacted within 24 hours of your positive test but you are eligible for COVID-19 treatments, call your GP surgery or specialist, or call 111. They can make an urgent referral if needed.
You will then be assessed (over the phone) to see if Paxlovid is right for you. If it's suitable, they'll tell you how you will get your medicine. It may be sent to you at home, or it can also be collected by someone else such as a friend, relative or NHS volunteer responder.
Paxlovid comes as tablets. You'll need to start taking them as soon as possible after you have tested positive for COVID-19 and within 5 days (or 7 days, if advised by a health professional) of your symptoms starting.
Paxwax (n.) The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.
Paxywaxy (n.) See Paxwax.
Pay (v. i.) To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again. -- Ps. xxxvii. 21.
Pay (v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
To pay for. (a) To make amends for; to atone for; as, men often pay for their mistakes with loss of property or reputation, sometimes with life.
To pay for. (b) To give an equivalent for; to bear the expense of; to be mulcted on account of.
'T was I paid for your sleeps; I watched your wakings. -- Beau. & Fl.
To pay off. [Etymol. uncertain.] (a) (Naut.) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.
To pay off. (b) To repay (a debt).
To pay on. [Etymol. uncertain.] To beat with vigor; to redouble blows. [Colloq.]
To pay round [Etymol. uncertain.] (Naut.) To turn the ship's head.
Pay (v. t.) (Naut.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
Paid (imp. & p. p.) of Pay.
Paying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pay.
Pay (v. t.) To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy]. -- P. Plowman.
[She] pays me with disdain. -- Dryden.
Pay (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. -- B. Jonson.
Pay (v. t.) To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed). "Pay me that thou owest." -- Matt. xviii. 28.
Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. -- Matt. xviii. 26.
If they pay this tax, they starve. -- Tennyson.
Pay (v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
This day have I paid my vows. -- Prov. vii. 14.
Pay (v. t.) To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
Not paying me a welcome. -- Shak.
To pay off. (a) To make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship.
To pay off. (b) To allow (a thread, cord, etc.) to run off; to unwind.
To pay off. (c) To bribe.
To pay one's duty, To render homage, as to a sovereign or other superior.
To pay out (Naut.), To pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under Cable.
To pay the piper, To bear the cost, expense, or trouble. [Colloq.]
Pay (n.) Satisfaction; content. -- Chaucer.
Pay (n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
Where only merit constant pay receives. -- Pope.
There is neither pay nor plunder to be got. -- L'Estrange.
Full pay, The whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay; especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or military officers of a certain rank, without deductions.
Half pay. See under Half.
Pay day, The day of settlement of accounts.
Pay dirt (Mining), Earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.]
Pay office, A place where payment is made.
Pay roll, (a) A roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due; now usually one word, payroll.
Pay roll, (b) the total sum of money which is paid to all employees on payday.
Pay (n.) Something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" [syn: wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary].
Pay (v.) give money, usually in exchange for goods or services; "I paid four dollars for this sandwich"; "Pay the waitress, please."
Pay (v.) Convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow; "Don't pay him any mind"; "give the orders"; "Give him my best regards"; "pay attention" [syn: give, pay].
Pay (v.) Cancel or discharge a debt; "pay up, please!" [syn: pay up, ante up, pay] [ant: default, default on].
Pay (v.) Bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?" [syn: yield, pay, bear].
Pay (v.) Do or give something to somebody in return; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?" [syn: pay, pay off, make up, compensate].
Pay (v.) Dedicate; "give thought to"; "give priority to"; "pay attention to" [syn: give, pay, devote].
Pay (v.) Be worth it; "It pays to go through the trouble."
Pay (v.) Render; "pay a visit"; "pay a call."
Pay (v.) Bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action; "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later."
Pay (v.) Make a compensation for; "a favor that cannot be paid back."
Pay (v.) Discharge or settle; "pay a debt"; "pay an obligation."
Payable (a.) That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. -- Drayton.
Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. -- South.
Payable (a.) (Law) That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.
Payable (a.) (Law) Matured; now due.
Payable (a.) Subject to or requiring payment especially as specified; "a collectible bill"; "a note payable on demand"; "a check payable to John Doe" [syn: collectible, collectable, payable].
Payable (n.) A liability account showing how much is owed for goods and services purchased on credit; "the problem was to match receivables and payables in the same currency" [syn: account payable, payable].
Payee (n.) The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.
Payee (n.) A person to whom money is paid.
PAYEE. () The person in whose favor a bill of exchange is made payable. Vide Bills of Exchange.
Payen (n. & a.) Pagan. [F.] [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Payer (n.) One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
Payer (n.) A person who pays money for something [syn: payer, remunerator].
Paymaster (n.) One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.
Compare: Purser
Purser (n.) [See Purse, and cf. Bursar.] (Naut.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster.
Purser (n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.
Purser (n.) Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier.
Purser's name (Naut.), A false name. [Slang]
Paymaster (n.) A person in charge of paying wages.
Payment (n.) 支付，付款 [U]；支付的款項（或實物）[C] ；報償；懲罰 [U] The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.
No man envieth the payment of a debt. -- Bacon.
Compare: Compensation
Compensation (n.) [Mass noun] [U] 補償，彌補；賠償 [（+for/ on）]；賠償金；補償金 [S1] [（+for）] Something, typically money, awarded to someone in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury.
‘He is seeking compensation for injuries suffered at work.’
[As modifier] ‘A compensation claim.’
Compensation (n.) [Mass noun] The action or process of awarding compensation.
‘The compensation of victims.’
Compensation (n.) [Mass noun] Something that counterbalances or makes up for an undesirable or unwelcome state of affairs.
‘The grey streets of London were small compensation for the loss of her beloved Africa.’
[Count noun] ‘Getting older has some compensations.’
Compensation (n.) [Mass noun] The process of concealing or offsetting a psychological difficulty by developing in another direction.
Compensation (n.) [Mass noun] [North American] The money received by an employee from an employer as a salary or wages.
‘Send your CV and current compensation to Executive Search Consultant.’
Compare: Obligation
Obligation (n.)（道義上或法律上的）義務；責任 [C] [U] [（+to）] [+to-v]；恩惠 [C] [（+to/ toward）；合約，契約；證券 [C] An act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment.
[With infinitive] ‘I have an obligation to look after her.’
Obligation (n.) [Mass noun] The condition of being morally or legally bound to do something.
‘They are under no obligation to stick to the scheme.’
Obligation (n.) A debt of gratitude for a service or favour.
‘She didn't want to be under an obligation to him.’
Obligation (n.) (Law) A binding agreement committing a person to a payment or other action.
Day of obligation (ph.) (In the Roman Catholic Church) 每人需停止工作參加禮拜的日子 A day on which all are required to attend Mass.
Payment (n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return. -- Shak.
Payment (n.) [U] Punishment; chastisement. [R.]
Compare: Chastisement
Chastisement (n.) 懲戒，責罰；斥責 [C] [U] See Chastise.
Chastisement (n.) Severe criticism; a rebuke or strong reprimand.
Chastisement (n.) 體罰 Corporal punishment; a beating.
Compare: Chastise
Chastise (v.) [With object] 懲戒，責罰；鞭打；申斥，責罵；【古】抑制，節制；使和緩 Rebuke or reprimand severely.
‘He chastised his colleagues for their laziness.’
Chastise (v.) [With object] [Dated] Punish, especially by beating.
‘Her mistress chastised her with a whip for blasphemy.’
Payment (n.) A sum of money paid or a claim discharged [ant: {default}, {nonpayment}, {nonremittal}].
Payment (n.) The act of paying money [syn: {payment}, {defrayal}, {defrayment}] [ant: {evasion}, {nonpayment}].
Payment (n.) An act of requiting; returning in kind [syn: {requital}, {payment}].
Payment (n.), Contracts. That which is given to execute what has been promised; or it is the fulfillment of a promise. Solvere dicimus cum quis fecit, quod facere promisit. But though this is the general acceptation of the word, yet by payment is understood, every way by which the creditor is satisfied or ought to be, and the debtor, liberated for example, an accord and satisfaction will operate as a payment. If I owe you a sum of money, for the security of which I give you a mortgage, and afterwards you consent to receive in payment a tract of land, from the moment the sale is complete, the first obligation, with all its accessories, is extinct, although you should be afterwards evicted of the property sold. 7 Toull. n. 46 2 Mart. Lo. Rep. N. S. 144; S. C. 2 Harr. Cond. Lo. R. 621, 624.
Payment (n.) This subject will be considered by taking a separate view of the person by whom the payment may be made; to whom it may be made; when and where it ought to be made; how it ought to be made; the effect of the payment.
Payment (n.) The payment may be made by the real debtor and other persons from whom the creditor has a right to demand it; an agent may make payment for his principal; and any mode of payment by the agent, accepted and received as such by the creditor, as an absolete payment will have the effect to discharge the principal, whether known or unknown, and whether it be in the usual course of business or not. If, for example, a factor or other agent should be employed to purchase goods for his principal, or should be entrusted, with money to be paid for him, and, instead of receiving the money, the creditor or seller should take the note of the factor or agent; payable at a future day, as an absolute payment, the principal would be discharged from the debt. 3 Chit. Com. Law, 204; 1 B. & Ald. 14; 6 B. & C. 160; 7 B. & C. 17. When such note has been, received conditionally and not as an absolute payment, it would not have the effect of a payment by the principal; and whether so received or not is a fact to be decided by the jury. 1 Cowen, R, 259, 383; 9 John. R:, 310; 6 Cowen, R. 181; 7 John. R. 311; 15 John. R. 276; 3 Wend. R. 83; 6 Wend. R. 475; 10 Wend. R. 271; 5 John., R. 68; 1 Liverm. Ag. 207.
Payment (n.) Payment may also be made by a third person a stranger to the contract.
Payment (n.) In the payment of mortgages, it is a20rule, that the personal estate shall be applied to discharge them when made by the testator or intestate himself, to secure the payment of a debt due by him, because the personal estate was benefited by the money borrowed; and it makes no difference whether the mortgaged lands have been devised, or come to the heir by descent. 2 Cruise, 1 Dig. 147. The testator may, however, exempt the personal estate from the payment, and substitute the real in its place. But when the mortgage was not given by the deceased, but be acquired the real estate subject to it, it never was his debt, and therefore his personal estate is not bound to pay the mortgage debt, but it must be paid by the real estate. 2 Cruise, Dig. 164-8; 3 John. Chan. R. 252; 2 P. Wms. 664, n. 1; 2 Bro. C. C. 57; 2 Bro. C. C. 101, 152; 5 Ves. jr. R. 534; 14 Ves. 417.
Payment (n.) It must be made by the creditor himself, or his assigns, if known, or some person authorized by him, either expressly or by implication; as to his factor; Cowp. 251: to his broker, 1 Maul. & Selw. 576; 4 Id. 566; 4 Taunt. 242; 1 Stark. Ca. 238.
Payment (n.) In the case of partners and other joint creditors, or joint executors or administrators, payment to one is generally a valid payment. When an infant is a creditor, payment must be made to his guardian. A payment may be good when made to a person who had no authority to receive it, if the creditor shall afterwards ratify it. Poth. Obl. n. 528.
Payment (n.) Time and place of payment: first, as to the time. When the contract is, that payment shall be made at a future time, it is clear that nothing can be demanded until after it has elapsed, or until any other condition to which the payment is subject, has been fulfilled; and in a case where the goods had been sold at six or nine months, the debtor had the option as to those two terms. 5 Taunt, 338. When no time of payment is mentioned in the agreement, the money is payable immediately. 1 Pet. 455; 4 Rand. 346.
Payment (n.) Secondly, the payment must be made at the place agreed upon in the contract; but in the absence of such agreement, it must be made agreeably to the presumed intention of the parties, which, among other things, may be ascertained by the nature of the thing to be paid or delivered, or by the custom in such cases.
Payment (n.) How the payment ought to be made. To make a valid payment, so as to compel the receiver to take it, the whole amount due must be paid; Poth. Obl. n. 499, or n. 534, French edition; when a part is accepted, it is a payment pro tanto. The payment must be made in the thing agreed upon; but when it ought to be made in money, it must be made in the lawful coin of the country, or in bank notes which are of the value they are represented to be. A payment made in bills of an insolvent bank, though both parties may be ignorant of its insolvency, it has been held, did not discharge the debt; 11 Vern. 676; 6 Hill, 340; but see 1 W. & S. 92; 8 Yerg. 175; and a payment in counterfeit bank notes is a nullity. 2 Hawks, 326; 3 Hawks, 568, 6 Hill, 840. In general, the payment of a part of a debt, after it becomes due, will not discharge the whole, although there may be an agreement by the debtor that it should have that effect, because there is no consideration for such agreement. But see 3 Kelly's R. 210, contra. A payment of a part, before it is due, will discharge the whole, when so agreed.
Payment (n.) The payment, when properly made, discharges the debtor from his obligation. Sometimes a payment extinguishes several obligations; this happens when the thing given to discharge an obligation was the same which is the object of another obligation. Poth. Obl. 552.
Payment (n.) A single payment may discharge several debts; as, for example if Peter be indebted to Paul one thousand dollars, and Paul being indebted to James, Paul give an order to Peter to pay Tames this money; the payment made by Peter to James discharges both the obligations due by Peter to Paul, and by Paul to James. Poth. Ob. n. 553. This rule, that a payment made in order to acquit or discharge an obligation, extinguishes the other obligations which have the same object, takes place also when there are several debtors as regards the whole of them. If, for example, Peter trust Paul on the credit of James, a payment by Paul discharges both himself and James. Poth. Obl. n. 554.
Payment (n.) But in case money or other things have been delivered to a person who was supposed to be entitles to them as a creditor, when he was not, this is not a payment, and the whole, if nothing was due, or if the debt was less than the amount paid, the surplus, may be recovered in action for money bad and received. Vide, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; Com. Dig. 473; 8 Com. Dig. 607; 16 Vin 6; 1 Vern. by Raith. 3, 150 n. Yelv. 11 a; 1 Salk. 22; 15 East, 12; 8 East, R. 111; 2 Ves. jr. 11; Phil. Ev. Index, b, t,; Stark. Ev. h.t.; Louis. Code, art. 2129; Ayl. Pand. 565; 1 Sell. Pr. 277; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; Toull. lib. 3, tit. 3, c. 5; Pardes. part 2, tit. 2, c. 1 Merl. Repert. h.t.; Chit. Contr. Index, h.t.; 3 Eng. C. L. Rep. 130. As to what transfer will amount to an assignment or a payment and extinguishment of a claim, see 6 John. Ch. R. 395; Id. 425; 2 Ves. jr. 261 18 Ves. jr. 384; 1 N. H. Rep. 167; 1 N. H. Rep. 252; 2 N. H. Rep. 300; 3 John. Ch. R. 53.
Payment (n.), Pleadings. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that he has paid the debt claimed in the declaration; this plea must conclude to the country. 4 Call, 371; Minor, 137. Vide Solvit ad them; Solvit post diem.
Payment (n.) (B2) [ C or U ] 支付的金額 An amount of money paid.
// Usually we ask for payment on receipt of the goods.
// We need a deposit of ￡165 followed by twelve monthly payments of ￡60.
// When is the first payment due?
Payment (n.) [ S or U ] 報償，報答 Reward.
// Verbal abuse was hardly the payment I expected for my troubles.
Back payment (ph.) （因早些時候漲工資而得到的）補發工資An amount of money received by an employee because of a pay rise at an earlier time.
Payn (n.) Bread. Having -- Piers Plowman.
Payndemain (n.) The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. [Obs.]
Compare: Painim
Painim (n.) A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively. [Written also panim and paynim.] -- Peacham.
Paynim (n. & a.) See Painim.
Paynim (n.) A heathen; a person who is not a Christian (especially a Muslim).
Compare: Payne's process
Payne's process, () A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. -- Payn"ize, v. t.
Paynize (v. t.) To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.
Payor (n.) (Law) See Payer. [R.]
Payse (v. t.) To poise. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Paytine (n.) (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.
Pea (n.) The sliding weight on a steelyard. [Written also pee.]
Pea (n.) (Naut.) See Peak, n., 3.
Peas (n. pl. ) of Pea.
Pease (n. pl. ) of Pea.
Pea (n.) [C] (Bot.) 【植】豌豆；豌豆莢 [P]；豌豆般的東西 A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.
Note: When a definite number, more than one, is spoken of, the plural form peas is used; as, the pod contained nine peas; but, in a collective sense, the form pease is preferred; as, a bushel of pease; they had pease at dinner. This distinction is not always preserved, the form peas being used in both senses.
Pea (n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.
Note: The name pea is given to many leguminous plants more or less closely related to the common pea. See the Phrases, below.
Beach pea (Bot.), A seashore plant, Lathyrus maritimus.
Black-eyed pea, A West Indian name for Dolichos sph[ae]rospermus and its seed.
Butterfly pea, The American plant Clitoria Mariana, having showy blossoms.
Chick pea. See Chick-pea.
Egyptian pea. Same as Chick-pea.
Everlasting pea. See under Everlasting.
Glory pea. See under Glory, n.
Hoary pea, Any plant of the genus Tephrosia; goat's rue.
Issue pea, Orris pea. (Med.) See under Issue, and Orris.
Milk pea. (Bot.) See under Milk.
Pea berry, A kind of a coffee bean or grain which grows single, and is round or pea-shaped; often used adjectively; as, pea-berry coffee.
Pea bug. (Zool.) Same as Pea weevil.
Pea coal, A size of coal smaller than nut coal.
Pea crab (Zool.), Any small crab of the genus Pinnotheres, living as a commensal in bivalves; esp., the European species ({Pinnotheres pisum) which lives in the common mussel and the cockle.
Pea dove (Zool.), The American ground dove.
Pea-flower tribe (Bot.), A suborder ({Papilionace[ae]"> Pea-flower tribe (Bot.), a suborder ({Papilionace[ae]) of leguminous plants having blossoms essentially like that of the pea. -- G. Bentham.
Pea maggot (Zool.), The larva of a European moth ({Tortrix pisi), which is very destructive to peas.
Pea ore (Min.), Argillaceous oxide of iron, occurring in round grains of a size of a pea; pisolitic ore.
Pea starch, The starch or flour of the common pea, which is sometimes used in adulterating wheat flour, pepper, etc.
Pea tree (Bot.), The name of several leguminous shrubs of the genus Caragana, natives of Siberia and China.
Pea vine. (Bot.) (a) Any plant which bears peas.
Pea vine. (Bot.) (b) A kind of vetch or tare, common in the United States ({Lathyrus Americana, and other similar species).
Pea weevil (Zool.), A small weevil ({Bruchus pisi"> Pea weevil (Zool.), a small weevil ({Bruchus pisi) which destroys peas by eating out the interior.
Pigeon pea. (Bot.) See Pigeon pea.
Sweet pea (Bot.), The annual plant Lathyrus odoratus; also, its many-colored, sweet-scented blossoms.
Compare: Peak
Peak (n.) [C] 山頂，山峰；（有尖峰的）山；高峰，頂端，最高點 A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. "Run your beard into a peak." -- Beau. & Fl.
Peak (n.) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.
Silent upon a peak in Darien. -- Keats.
Peak (n.) (Naut.) (a) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
Peak (n.) (Naut.) (b) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
Peak (n.) (Naut.) (c) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. [In the last sense written also pea and pee.]
Fore peak. (Naut.) See under Fore.
Pea (n.) Seed of a pea plant used for food.
Pea (n.) The fruit or seed of a pea plant.
Pea (n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds [syn: pea, pea plant].
PEA, () Pocket Ethernet Adapter (LAN, ethernet)
Peabird (n.) (Zool.) The wryneck; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.]
Compare: Wryneck
Wryneck (n.) (Med.) 【醫】歪脖 A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.
Wryneck (n.) A person suffering from torticollis.
Wryneck (n.) (Zool.) 鶇鵛 Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx or subfamily Jynginae, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species ({Jynx torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck.
Wryneck (n.) An unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted [syn: torticollis, wryneck].
Wryneck (n.) Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck.
Compare: Woodpecker
Woodpecker (n.) (Zool.) 啄木鳥 [C] Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.
Note: These birds have the tail feathers pointed and rigid at the tip to aid in climbing, and a strong chisellike bill with which they are able to drill holes in the bark and wood of trees in search of insect larvae upon which most of the species feed. A few species feed partly upon the sap of trees (see Sap sucker, under Sap), others spend a portion of their time on the ground in search of ants and other insects.
The most common European species are the greater spotted woodpecker ({Dendrocopus major), the lesser spotted woodpecker ({Dendrocopus minor), and the green woodpecker, or yaffle (see Yaffle).
The best-known American species are the pileated woodpecker (see under Pileated), the ivory-billed woodpecker ({Campephilus principalis), which is one of the largest known species, the red-headed woodpecker, or red-head ({Melanerpes erythrocephalus), the red-bellied woodpecker ({Melanerpes Carolinus) (see Chab), the superciliary woodpecker ({Melanerpes superciliaris), the hairy woodpecker ({Dryobates villosus), the downy woodpecker ({Dryobates pubescens), the three-toed, woodpecker ({Picoides Americanus), the golden-winged woodpecker (see Flicker), and the sap suckers. See also Carpintero.
Woodpecker hornbill (Zool.), A black and white Asiatic hornbill ({Buceros pica) which resembles a woodpecker in color.
Woodpecker (n.) Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects [syn: woodpecker, peckerwood, pecker].
Peabody bird () (Zool.) An American sparrow ({Zonotrichia albicollis) having a conspicuous white throat. The name is imitative of its note. Called also White-throated sparrow.
Peace (n.) 和平；和約；和睦 [S]；（社會）治安，秩序 [the S]；（心的）平靜，安詳；寧靜 [U] A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose ; specifically:
Peace (n.) Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies.
Peace (n.) Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law.