Painstaking (n.) The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance.
Painsworthy (a.) Worth the pains or care bestowed.
Painted (imp. & p. p.) of Paint
Painting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paint
Paint (v. t.) To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.
Paint (v. t.) Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.
Paint (v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.
Paint (v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.
Paint (v. t.) To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.
Paint (v. t.) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
Paint (n.) A pigment or coloring substance.
Paint (n.) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.
Paint (n.) A cosmetic; rouge.
Painted (a.) Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.
Painted (a.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.
Painter (n.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.
Painter (n.) The panther, or puma.
Painter (n.) One whose occupation is to paint
Painter (n.) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.
Painter (n.) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.
Painterly (a.) Like a painter's work.
Paintership (n.) The state or position of being a painter.
Painting (n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
Painting (n.) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.
Painting (n.) Color laid on; paint.
Painting (n.) A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.
Paintless (a.) Not capable of being painted or described.
Painture (v. t.) The art of painting.
Painty (a.) Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.
Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
Pair (n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
Pair (n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
Pair (n.) A married couple; a man and wife.
Pair (n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
Pair (n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
Pair (n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
Pairs Royal (pl. ) of Pair
Paired (imp. & p. p.) of Pair
Pairing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pair
Pair (v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
Pair (v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
Pair (v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
Pair (v. t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
Pair (v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
Pair (v. t.) To impair.
Pairer (n.) One who impairs.
Pairing (v. i.) The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.
Pairing (v. i.) See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.
Pairment (n.) Impairment.
Pais (n.) The country; the people of the neighborhood.
Paisano (n.) The chaparral cock.
Paise (n.) See Poise.
Pajock (n.) A peacock.
Pakfong (n.) See Packfong.
Pal (n.) A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate.
Palace (n.) The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception.
Palace (n.) The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage.
Palace (n.) Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house.
Palacious (a.) Palatial.
Paladin (n.) A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.
Palaeo- () See Paleo-.
Palaeographer (a.) Alt. of Palaeographic
Palaeographic (a.) See Paleographer, Paleographic, etc.
Palaeotype (n.) A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use.
Palaestra (n.) See Palestra.
Palaestric (a.) See Palestric.
Palaetiologist (n.) One versed in palaetiology.
Palaetiology (n.) The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth.
Palamme (pl. ) of Palama
Palama (n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.
Palamedeae (n. pl.) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.
Palampore (n.) See Palempore.
Palanka (n.) A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.
Palanquin (n.) An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place.
Palapteryx (n.) A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand.
Palatability (n.) Palatableness.
Palatable (a.) Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.
Palatableness (n.) The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness.
Palatably (adv.) In a palatable manner.
Palatal (a.) Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones.
Palatal (a.) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.
Palatal (n.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y.
Palatalize (v. t.) To palatize.
Palate (n.) The roof of the mouth.
Palate (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
Palate (n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.
Palate (n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
Palate (v. t.) To perceive by the taste.
Palatial (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures.
Palatial (a.) Palatal; palatine.
Palatial (n.) A palatal letter.
Palatic (a.) Palatal; palatine.
Palatic (n.) A palatal.
Palatinate (n.) The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine.
Palatinate (v. t.) To make a palatinate of.
Palatine (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
Palatine (n.) One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.
Palatine (n.) The Palatine hill in Rome.
Palatine (a.) Of or pertaining to the palate.
Palatine (n.) A palatine bone.