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One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera.

Same as Paragnathus.

Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds.

One of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea.

The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.

Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word. Paragogic letters, in the Semitic languages, letters which are added to the ordinary forms of words, to express additional emphasis, or some change in the sense.

A companion; a match; an equal. [Obs.] Spenser. Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister. Sir P. Sidney.

A kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps.

A pun. Puns, which he calls paragrams. Addison.

A punster.

An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr. Knight.

margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character

A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, a paragraph or paragraphs. -- Par`a*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

A paragrapher.

Of or relating to a paragraphist. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms. [France] Knight.

See Mate, the leaf of the Brazilian holly.

Of or pertaining to Paraguay. -- n.

See Apparel. [Obs.] "In the parail of a pilgrim." Piers Plowman.