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Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.

The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceæ. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.

A grandfather.

A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum, as hæmal spines, and chevron bones. -- Hy`pa*po*phys"i*al, a.

Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.

A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc.

Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.

An extinct order of birds. It includes only the Archæopteryx.

-- also called starch-iodide paper -->

A protopope.

Same as Odontotormæ.

Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.

Paper with a rough surface; esp., handmade paper of great hardness for the use of painters in water colors.

Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

xercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

ver; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech. No man wrote abler state papers. Macaulay.

A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.