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A jester; a buffoon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Jesting; buffoonery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.

One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.

See Landlouper.

One who, or that which, leaps.

A malapert person. Are you growing malapert! Will you force me to make use of my authority Dryden. -- Mal"a*pert`ly, adv. -- Mal"a*pert`ness, n.

Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general. [Obs.] Gayton.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper. Naperian logarithms. See under Logarithms.

A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc.

Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.

Excessively malapert or impudent. [Obs.] Prynne.

-- also called starch-iodide paper -->

A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society. They brought a paper to me to be signed. Dryden.

See under Paper, n.

Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.

One who reaps. The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. Macaulay.

Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.

An instrument with which anything is scraped. Specifically:

One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell.