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wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.

See Wallaby.

See Paduasoy.

The barn owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge owl. [Prov. Eng.]

Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.

that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.

An ambling nag. "An easy padnag." Macaulay.

A paddock, or toad. Padow pipe. (Bot.) See Paddock pipe, under Paddock.

A Christian priest or monk; -- used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Spanish America.

A patron; a protector.

A rich and heavy silk stuff. [Written also padesoy.]

See Comanches.

An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.

Pedobaptism.

Reproduction by young or larval animals.

Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.

A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. [Written also, less correctly, pæan.]

An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.

See Peony.

ohammedan, nor a Jew. Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man. Shak.