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A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.

Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, Orphean strains. Cowper.

A fish having a bony skeleton; a teleost.

Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.

An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.

A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. "A pageant truly played." Shak. To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser.

Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectivelly; spectacular guality; splendor. Such pageantry be to the people shown. Dryden. The pageantry of festival. J. A. Symonds.

Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. [Written also palæogæan.]

Of or pertaining to Palestine.

Having the properties of a panacea. [R.] "Panacean dews." Whitehead.

Of or relating to the god Pan. Pandean pipes, a primitive wind instrument, consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; -- said to have been invented by Pan. Called also Pan's pipes and Panpipes.…

Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining. [R.] We want no half gods, panomphean Joves. Mrs. Browning.

Of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.

Paradisiacal.

One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.

The song or shout of praise, of battle, or of triumph. [R.]

The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogæa); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.

A paste made by mixing ground fresh roasted peanuts with a small quantity of water or oil, and used chiefly as a relish on sandwiches, etc.

Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.

Pertaining to the perigee. Perigean tides, those spring tides which occur soon after the moon passes her perigee.