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One who proposes a paradox.

Of the nature of a paradox.

A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.

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

Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See Musang.

A paradoxical statement; a paradox.

A pass or thrust. Shak.

A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.

A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea.

it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.

A poniard. [Obs.] Lyly.

A private friend; a confidential friend; a confidant. [Obs.] Fuller.

To adopt again. Young.

To adorn again or anew.

Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.…

A monk of a reformed order. [Obs.] Weever.

See Renegade.

- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. W. Irving. Whose dancing dogs in rigadoons excel. Wolcott.

Rodomontade.