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One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.

uma, or cougar, and sometimes to the jaguar. Panther cat (Zoöl.), the ocelot. -- Panther cowry (Zoöl.), a spotted East Indian cowry (Cypræa pantherina); -- so called from its color.

To conform to popery. Cowper.

An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.

At the bottom; lowest. Cowell.

put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet. 'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. Cowper. Bill of parcels. See under 6th Bill. -- Parcel office, an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery. -- Parcel post, that department of the post office concerned with the collection and tra…

Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. Knight.

ted to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. Cowell.

s or threatens harm. Locke. Vice parries wide The undreaded volley with a sword of straw. Cowper.

al umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself. Cow parsnip. See Cow parsnip. -- Meadow parsnip, the European cow parsnip. -- Poison parsnip, the wild stock of the parsnip. -- Water parsnip, any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sium, the species of which are poisonous.…

. Ex. xvi. 36. A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward. Shak.

Having no pass; impassable. Cowley.

supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.

In a patient manner. Cowper.

One who peculates. "Peculators of the public gold." Cowper.

cter, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.

or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column. Build him a pedestal, and say, "Stand there!" Cowper.

To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw. Cowper. Where nature pencils butterflies on flowers. Harte.

he nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. Sir W. Scott.