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The knave of clubs. [Obs.] Pope.

A pavement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Pompano.

etimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia. Pampas cat (Zoöl.), 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, Sou…

To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered for corruption." Dr. T. Dwight.

Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant. "Pampered boughs." Milton. "Pampered insolence." Pope. -- Pam"pered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.

One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.

To pamper. [R.] Sydney Smith.

A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage. Sir W. Parish.

A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.

A writing; a book. Testament of love. Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third. Ascham.

A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.

In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.

Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.

Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. W. Gifford.

To pamper excessively; to feed or dress too much. Dryton.

A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed law and arguments for and against it by those favoring and opposing it,…

name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.