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Overweighing; excessive. [Obs.] "Of no overweight worth." Fuller.

g to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish. [R.] "The paganic fables of the goods." Cudworth. -- Pa*gan"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]

The state of being a pagan; paganism. [R.] Cudworth.

coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.

Worthy of the palm; palmy; preëminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work. Br. Horne.

Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous. In the most high and palmy state of Rome. Shak.

To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. [Obs.] "Palter out your time in the penal statutes." Beau. & Fl.

Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron.

The stomach of a hawk. Ainsworth.

Bearing panniers. Wordsworth.

All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders. [R.] John Worthington.

An old Italian silver coin, worth about ten cents.

The pulp of fruit. Ainsworth.

An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] "The paradigms and patterns of all things." Cudworth.

Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.] The worthy dame was parcel-blind. Sir W. Scott. One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded]. Tennyson. Parcel poet, a half poet; a poor poet. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.

Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.

Estimation; character. [Obs.] Common speech gives him a worthy pass. Shak.

a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. Passenger falcon (Zoöl.), a migratory hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon (Zoöl.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations.

Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. I will be the pattern of all patience. Shak.