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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.

The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.

A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.

A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.

Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.

xible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt.

Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. -- n. sing. & pl.

The shoulder. [Scot.]

Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar. To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were called, seemed a strange and half-savage race. Macaulay.

On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14.

onplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny. Jesus, . . . whom Paul affirmed to be alive. Acts xxv. 19.

shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.