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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.

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, 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.

-- also called starch-iodide paper -->

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.

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.