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The number which is to be multiplied by another number called the multiplier. See Note under Multiplication.

A mundificant ointment or plaster.

Having numerous spines, as certain fishes.

A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.

Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy. -- n.

To surpass in canting. Pope.

To cover as with a canopy. Shak.

A species of hickory. See Pecan.

Of or pertaining to both North and South America.

represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the promotion of trade relations.

The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.

rictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.

ch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well- flavored meat. [Written also pacane.]

The quality or state of being peccant.

Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels. Milton.

In a peccant manner.

See Pelican.

Those birds that are related to the pelican; the Totipalmi.

Any large webfooted bird of the genus of Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.

Louisiana; -- a nickname alluding to the device on its seal.