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An easy-paced horse; a padnag. Addison An abbot on an ambling pad. Tennyson.

An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display. The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day ! Pope. We love the man, the paltry pageant you. Cowper.

The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage.

Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap. [Colloq. & Contemptuous]

A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.

The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.

of a couple who dance together. (c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business. My other self, the partner of my life. Milton.

A parsonage; -- so called in some Baptist churches. [Southern U. S.]

ision of their business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own afffairs.

The right or duty of a patron; patronage. [R.] Westm. Rev.

The act of patronizing; patronage; support. [R.]

by his side. Dryden. To peck at, to attack with petty and repeated blows; to carp at; to nag; to tease.

public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.

Same as Peonage. D. Webster.

One who managed a petard.

ter the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.

Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather. Water pimpernel. (Bot.) See Brookweed.

The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

s are theaters where some men play. Donne. To play into a person's hands, to act, or to manage matters, to his advantage or benefit. -- To play off, to affect; to feign; to practice artifice. -- To play upon. (a) To make sport of; to deceive. Art thou alive Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight. Shak.…