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Painted finch. See Nonpareil. -- Painted lady (Zoöl.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly. -- Painted turtle (Zoöl.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.

A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. English pale (Hist.), the limits or territory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172. Spencer.

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; archæology .

skrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.

A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age. Dawkins.

rticle of matter has a psychical character or aspect. -- Pan*psy"chic (#), a. -- Pan*psy"chist (#), n. -- Pan`psy*chis"tic (#), a.

The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositæ; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.

uscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps.

A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.

mily or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree. [Written also pippul tree, and pipal tree.]

ed on facts disclosed in the petition itself. Mozley & W. -- The Petition of Right (Eng. Hist.), the parliamentary declaration of the rights of the people, assented to by Charles I.

A description, history, or explanation of phenomena. "The phenomenology of the mind." Sir W. Hamilton.

gation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.

Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry. Carlyle.

Clay slate; argillaceous schist.

The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.