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fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule." Milton.

The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal. London Times.

In a paternal manner.

tion of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity. The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership. Sir W. Raleigh.

A line with a row of hooks and bead Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.

type; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. I will be the pattern of all patience. Shak.

To take profit of; to make profitable. [Obs.] Sylvester.

A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits. Blackstone.

See Pimpernel. [Obs.]

Destruction; perdition. [Obs.] hudibras.

injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott.

Swiftness; celerity. [R.] Ray.

Finical or fussy; full of petty details. [Colloq.]

A chilblain.

One who watches or keeps awake all night.

The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. "Pernoctation in prayer." Jer. Taylor.

One who receives the profits, as of an estate.

A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.

A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.

es purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather. Water pimpernel. (Bot.) See Brookweed.