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A spiritual father; specifically, the pope. [Obs.]

A popinjay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society. They brought a paper to me to be signed. Dryden.

See under Paper, n.

Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.

Containing or producing pap; like pap. [R.] Arbuthnot.

A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.

Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites.

A hard and strong substance made of a pulp from paper, mixed with sise or glue, etc. It is formed into various articles, usually by means of molds.

A genus of butterflies.

Belonging to that suborder of leguminous plants (Papilionaceæ) which includes the bean, pea, vetch, clover, and locust.

The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies.

The typical butterflies.

Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillæ of the tongue.

Same as Papillose.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.

To cover with papillæ; to take the form of a papilla, or of papillæ.

Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.

A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillæ of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart. Quain.