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Too much quietness. Sir. T. Browne.

To project or impend over threateningly. His louering brows o'erwhelming his fair sight. Shak.

who owls; esp., one who conveys contraband goods. See Owling, n. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] T. Brown.

Affording pabulum, or food; alimental. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A small South American rodent (Cologenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig.

An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver. Ure.

Consisting of pages. "Paginal books." Sir T. Browne.

Pleasing to the taste; palatable. [Obs.] "Palative delights." Sir T. Browne.

To turn pale; to lose color or luster. Whittier. Apt to pale at a trodden worm. Mrs. Browning.

Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

tho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond.

, a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also straw cat. -- Pampas deer (Zoöl.), a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus, or Blastocerus, campestris). -- Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass…

Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic. Sir T. Browne

ominous or prophetic voices; divining. [R.] We want no half gods, panomphean Joves. Mrs. Browning.

Of or pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy. Sir T. Browne.

Procurable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.

The use of paradoxes. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

hing else. The needle . . . doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian. Sir T. Browne.

Containing paralogism; illogical. "Paralogical doubt." Sir T. Browne.