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The native black race of Papua or New Guinea, and the adjacent islands.

f the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. Quain.

Covered with papules.

Same as Papula.

Having papulæ; papillose; as, a papulose leaf.

Covered with, or characterized by, papulæ; papulose.

Made of papyrus; of the consistency of paper; papery.

Of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.

Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

An apparatus for multiplying writings, drawings, etc., in which a paper stencil, formed by writing or drawing with corrosive ink, is used. The word is also used of other means of multiplying copies of writings, drawings, etc. See Copygraph, Hectograph, Manifold.

The process of multiplying copies of writings, etc., by means of the papyrograph. -- Pap`y*ro*graph"ic, a.

A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton.

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.

See Cap-a-pie. Shak.

From head to foot; at all points. "He was armed cap-a-pie." Prescott.

See cap, n., also Paper, n.