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The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.

Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.

See Palulus or Palus.

Same as Palus.

One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.

Pale; wanting color; dim. [Poetic] Shak. Whittier.

The knave of clubs. [Obs.] Pope.

A pavement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Pompano.

Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia. Pampas cat (Zoöl.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about…

To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered for corruption." Dr. T. Dwight.

Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant. "Pampered boughs." Milton. "Pampered insolence." Pope. -- Pam"pered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.

One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.

To pamper. [R.] Sydney Smith.

A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage. Sir W. Parish.

A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.

A writing; a book. Testament of love. Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third. Ascham.

A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.