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dress. [R.] And with poetic trappings grace thy prose, Till it outmantle all the pride of verse. Cowper.

One versed in palætiology.

One versed in paleobotany.

One versed in paleography; a paleographer.

One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.

One versed in paleontology.

A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)

ox was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.

One versed in pantheology.

One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology.

A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.

One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.

Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.

The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.

One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore. [R.] Colridge.

One versed in patristics.

One versed in, or a student of, penology.

A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.

A verse of five feet.