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under obligation to pay; owed. [Obs.] This due obedience which they ought to the king. Tyndale. The love and duty I long have ought you. Spelman. [He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound. Shak.

th, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone. Tyndall.

to the fresh-water mussels. -- Oyster bed, a breeding place for oysters; a place in a tidal river or other water on or near the seashore, where oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. See lst Scalp, n. -- Oyster catcher (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wading birds of the genus Hæmatopus, which fr…

A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.

A keeper of the pantry; a pantler. [Obs.] Tyndale.

curve is a parabola. See Conoid. -- Parabolic mirror (Opt.), a mirror having a paraboloidal surface which gives for parallel rays (as those from very distant objects) images free from aberration. It is used in reflecting telescopes. -- Parabolic spindle, the solid generated by revolving the portion of a parabola cut…

or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence. Udall. Man, . . . the paragon of animals ! Shak. The riches of sweet Mary's son, Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon. Emerson.

mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]

Bridal; nuptial. [R.] At some paranymphal feast. Ford.

ites were called such smell-feasts as would seek to be free guests at rich men's tables. Udall.

Parricidal. [Obs.]

articles, such as dust, minute germs, etc. [R.] The smallpox is a particulate disease. Tyndall.

cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. Clarendon.

a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.

es to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals. Fairholt.

To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. Tyndale. Etym: [In this sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.]

To stuff with food. [Obs.] Udall.

ds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, or Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. Guinea, or Sierra Leone, peach, the large edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa. -- Palm peach, the fru…

ch pebble, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony, etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.

A sandal. [Obs.] Latimer.