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tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. A very beautiful mosaic pavement. Addison. Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine. -- Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. -- (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and met…

or a badge of somber black. The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid. Dryden. Deep mourning. See under Deep.

The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.

A pavement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

lled from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock. [Written also pavane, paven, pavian, and pavin.]

A paver.

The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.

One who paves; a paver.

arried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it. [Written also pavais, pavese, and pavesse.] Fairholt.

To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. Knight.

Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of Capsule. California poppy (Bot.), any yellow-flowered plant of the ge…

proposed by Lindley for a group of natural orders, including Ranunculaceæ, Magnoliaceæ, Papaveraceæ, and others related to them.

A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. [R.] Elmes.

The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas). Dr. Prior.

To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

That which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like. The riche of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton.

A pavement or stepping-stone. [Prov. Eng.] Johnson.

A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. [U.S.]

me place with force and loud noise; -- usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.