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the care of a nurse. -- Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse, in the Vocabulary.

ve many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.

longing to itself, and not drawn from anything in our nature. Calderwood (Fleming's Vocabulary).

To bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.

an inquest of office. See under Inquest. -- Office holder. See Officeholder in the Vocabulary

A tree (Olea Europæa) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs.

ent food, and is extensively used by the Indians. -- Sea otter. (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary.

One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennæ, and long maxillary palpi.

h 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.

The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.

Covered with, or bearing, papillæ; resembling papillæ; papillate; papillar; papillary.

Papillary; papillose.

Exemplary. -- Par`a*dig*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]

athers on each side, ending in long, slender filaments. See Bird of paradise in the Vocabulary. -- Paradise fish (Zoöl.), a beautiful fresh-water Asiatic fish (Macropodus viridiauratus) having very large fins. It is often kept alive as an ornamental fish. -- Paradise flycatcher (Zoöl.), any flycatcher of the genus Te…

aldea, as Lagash or Shirpurla, who were conceived to be direct representatives of the tutelary god of the place.

Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary. Dryden. Patron saint (R. C. Ch.), a saint regarded as the peculiar protector of a country, community, church, profession, etc., or of an individual.

Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care. Addison.

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 w…