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A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.

The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. Whatly.

The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley.

To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.

An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheæ.

Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. I stand in pause where I shall first begin. Shak.

One who pauses. Shak.

With pauses; haltingly. Shak.

A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.

See Appaum.

A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.

(Pronounced kra`po") As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.

Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.

To make poor; to impoverish. Liming does not depauperate; the ground will last long, and bear large grain. Mortimer. Humility of mind which depauperates the spirit. Jer. Taylor.

To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. [R.]

To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.

To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers. J. S. Mill.

The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.

A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.

A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.