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Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.

Paper with a rough surface; esp., handmade paper of great hardness for the use of painters in water colors.

Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

ver; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech. No man wrote abler state papers. Macaulay.

A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

otice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisement.

e is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albuminize paper.

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider. [A French usage] Abbott.

se of; during the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper." Addison. -- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.

ance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.

A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation. Motley.

dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts. Wharton. Burrill. Apostles' creed, a creed of unknown origin, which was formerly ascribed to the apostles. It certainly dates back to the beginning of the sixth century, and some a…

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.

Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenical vapor; arsenical wall papers. Arsenical silver, an ore of silver containing arsenic.