Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 8
Palpitated (imp. & p. p.) of Palpitate.
Palpitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palpitate.
Palpitate (v. i.) To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.
Palpitate (v.) Cause to throb or beat rapidly; "Her violent feelings palpitated the young woman's heart".
Palpitate (v.) Shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated" [syn: quiver, quake, palpitate].
Palpitate (v.) Beat rapidly; "His heart palpitated" [syn: palpitate, flutter].
Palpitation (n.) A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.
Palpitation (n.) A rapid and irregular heart beat.
Palpitation (n.) A shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitation].
Palpless (a.) (Zool.) Without a palpus.
Palpocil (n.) (Zool.) A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.
Palpi (n. pl. ) of Palpus. (Zool.) See Palpus.
Palpus (n.) (Zool.) A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.
Palsgrave (n.) (Ger. Hist.) A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.
Palsgrave (n.) (Middle Ages) The lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands [syn: palatine, palsgrave].
Palsgravine (n.) The consort or widow of a palsgrave.
Palsical (a.) Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic. [R.] -- Johnson.
Palsied (a.) Affected with palsy; paralyzed.
Palsied (a.) Affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor; "palsied hands".
Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age. -- Dawkins.
Palster (n.) A pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] -- Halliwell.
Palsies (n. pl. ) of Palsy.
Palsy (n.) (Med.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. "One sick of the palsy." -- Mark ii. 3.
Bell's palsy, Paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it.
Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer.
Shaking palsy, (Med.) paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait; now called parkinsonism, or Parkinson's disease.
Palsied (imp. & p. p.) of Palsy.
Palsying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palsy.
Palsy (v. t.) To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
Palsied (a.) Affected with palsy; paralyzed.
Palsied (a.) Affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor; "palsied hands".
Palsywort (n.) (Bot.) The cowslip ({Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers. -- Dr. Prior.
Paltered (imp. & p. p.) of Palter.
Paltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palter.
Palter (v. i.) To haggle. [Obs.] -- Cotgrave.
Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. -- Shak.
Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power. -- Tennyson.
Palter (v. i.) To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
Palter (v. t.) To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. [Obs.] "Palter out your time in the penal statutes." -- Beau. & Fl.
Palter (v.) Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information [syn: beat around the bush, equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter].
Palterer (n.) One who palters. -- Johnson.
Palterly (a. & adv.) Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "In palterly clothes." -- Pepys.
Paltock (n.) A kind of doublet; a jacket.
Paltrily (adv.) In a paltry manner.
Paltriness (n.) The state or quality of being paltry.
Paltry (a.) Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. -- Cowper.
The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. -- Byron.
Syn: See Contemptible.
Paltry (a.) Not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter" [syn: negligible, paltry, trifling].
Paltry (a.) Contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" [syn: measly, miserable, paltry].
Paludal (a.) Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy. [R.]
Paludal fever, malarial fever; -- so called because generated in marshy districts.
Paludament (n.) See Paludamentum.
Paladumenta (n. pl. ) of Paludamentum.
Paludamentum (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.
Paludicolae (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.
Paludicole (a.) (Zool.) Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicolae.
Paludinae (n. pl. ) of Paludina.
Paludinas (n. pl. ) of Paludina.
Paludina (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond.
Paludinal (a.) Inhabiting ponds or swamps.
Paludine (a.) Of or pertaining to a marsh. -- Buckland.
Paludinous (a.) (Zool.) Paludinal.
Paludinous (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the genus Paludina.
Paludinous (a.) Of or pertaining to a marsh or fen. [R.]
Paludism (n.) (Med.) The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.
Paludose (a.) Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.
Palule (n.) (Zool.) See Palulus or Palus.
Paluli (n. pl. ) of Palulus.
Palulus (n.) (Zool.) Same as Palus.
Pali (n. pl. ) of Palus.
Pali (n.) A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.
Palus (n.) (Zool.) One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.
Pali (n.) An ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism.
Palustral (a.) Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy. [R.]
Palustrine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.
Paly (a.) Pale; wanting color; dim. [Poetic] -- Shak. -- Whittier.
Paly (a.) (Her.) Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.
Pam (prop. n.) A form of the female given name Pamela.
Pam (n.) The knave of clubs. [Obs.] -- Pope.
Pam (n.) A card game in which the jack of clubs is trump.
PAM, () Paging Area Memory
PAM, () Pluggable Authentication Module (Linux, LISA)
PAM, () Primary Access Method (BS2000)
PAM, () Pulse Amplification Modulation
PAM, () Programmable Attribute Maps (DRAM, PCI)
Pam, () A toy ALGOL-like language used in "Formal Specification of Programming Languages: A Panoramic Primer", F.G. Pagan, P-H 1981. (1996-12-23)
Pluggable Authentication Module
PAM, ()
(PAM) The new industry standard integrated login framework. PAM is used by system entry components, such as the Common Desktop Environment's dtlogin, to authenticate users logging into a Unix system. It provides pluggability for a variety of system-entry services. PAM's ability to stack authentication modules can be used to integrate login with different authentication mechanisms such as RSA, DCE and Kerberos, and thus unify login mechanisms. PAM can also integrate smart card authentication.
[OSF-RFC 86.0 V. Samar, R. Schemers, "Unified Login with Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)", Oct 1995]. (1997-07-18)
Pament (n.) A pavement.
Pampano (n.) Same as Pompano.
Pampas (n. pl.) Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
Pampered (imp. & p. p.) of Pamper.
Pampering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pamper.
Pamper (v. t.) To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.
Pamper (v. t.) To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination.
Pamper (v.) To treat (someone or something) very well : to give (someone or something) a lot of attention and care.
Pamper (v. t.) pampered, pampering. (archaic) : To cram with rich food : glut.
Pamper (v. t.) To treat with extreme or excessive care and attention <pampered their guests>.
Pamper (v. t.) Gratify, humor <enabled him to pamper his wanderlust -- New Yorker>.
Pampered (a.) Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant.
Pamperer (n.) One who, or that which, pampers.
Pamperize (v. t.) To pamper.
Pampero (n.) A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.
Pamperos (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.
Pamphlet (n.) 小冊子 [C] A writing; a book. -- Testament of love.
Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third. -- Ascham.
Pamphlet (n.) A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.
Pamphlet (v. i.) To write a pamphlet or pamphlets. [R.] -- Howell.
Pamphlet (n.) A small book usually having a paper cover [syn: {booklet}, {brochure}, {folder}, {leaflet}, {pamphlet}].
Pamphlet (n.) A brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet [syn: {tract}, {pamphlet}].
Pamphlet (n.) [ C ] 小冊子 A thin book with only a few pages that gives information or an opinion about something.
Pamphleteer (n.) A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler.
Pamphleteer (v. i.) To write or publish pamphlets.
Pampiniform (a.) In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.
Pampre (n.) An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.
Pamprodactylous (a.) Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.
Pan- () Alt. of Panto-.
Panta- () Alt. of Panto-.
Panto- () Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.
Pan (n.) A part; a portion.
Pan (n.) (Fort.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
Pan (n.) A leaf of gold or silver.
Pan (v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite.
Pan (n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See Betel.
Pan (n.) (Gr. Myth.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
Pan (n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. "A bowl or a pan." -- Chaucer.
Pan (n.) (Manuf.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
Pan (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
Pan (n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. -- Chaucer.
Pan (n.) (Carp.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
Pan (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
Pan (n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
Flash in the pan. See under Flash.
To savor of the pan, To suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical. -- Ridley. Southey.
Panned (imp. & p. p.) of Pan.
Panning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pan.
Pan (v. t.) (Mining) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. [U. S.]
We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand. -- Gen. W. T. Sherman.
Pan (v. t.) To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly.
Pan (v. i.) (Mining) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
Pan (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
Panabase (n.) Same as Tetrahedrite.
Panacea (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.
Panacea (n.) -Panacean (a.), Something that will make everything about a situation better.
Panacea (n.) A remedy for all ills or difficulties : Cure-all.