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See Pah.

Uttering few words; brief in speech. [R.]

Brevity in speech. [R.]

Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.

ss; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.

The menhaden; -- called also poghaden.

See Pawl.

A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.

A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.

One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.

See Tarpaulin.

Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine. My religion had always been Pauline. J. H. Newman.

A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceæ, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.

To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards. [Obs.] Swift.

The pansy. "The pretty paunce." Spenser.

A paunch mat; -- called also panch.

Pot-bellied. [R.] Dickens.

A kind of bread. See Pone.