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A spiritual father; specifically, the pope. [Obs.]

A popinjay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society. They brought a paper to me to be signed. Dryden.

See under Paper, n.

Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.

Containing or producing pap; like pap. [R.] Arbuthnot.

A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.

See Cap-a-pie. Shak.

See cap, n., also Paper, n.

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.

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.

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