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791 words match “COVERED”

OVERSCENTED a.
Covered or concealed by a different odor. Fuller.
OVERSHOT a.
om Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly by its we'ght.
PACINIAN a.
Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century.
PAINTED a.
Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge.
PALL n.
A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
PALLADIUM n.
in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.
PALLIATE a.
Covered with a mant [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
PALLIATION n.
That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. [Obs.]
PANGOLIN n.
eral species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater.
PANSIED a.
Covered or adorned with pansies. "The pansied grounds." Darwin.
PAPILLARY a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.
PAPILLOSE a.
Covered with, or bearing, papillæ; resembling papillæ; papillate; papillar; papillary.
PAPULAR a.
Covered with papules.
PAPULOUS a.
Covered with, or characterized by, papulæ; papulose.
PARGETORY n.
Something made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster. [Obs.] Milton.
PARTHENOPE; PARTENOPE n.
One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.
PATCH n.
g a crack in a metallic vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast.
PATCHY a.
Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
PAXILLUS n.
the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.
PEBBLE v.
To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
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