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The pavement. Nymphe du pavé ([A low euphemism.]

That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in…

See Pavan.

One who paves; one who lays a pavement. [Written also pavier and pavior.]

A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.

Pavise. [Obs.]

To pave. [Poetic] Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic. Wordsworth.

A genus of plants, including the poppy.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Papaveraceæ) of which the poppy, the celandine, and the bloodroot are well-known examples.

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Of or pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy. Sir T. Browne.

Not paved; not furnished with a pavement. Hakewill.

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

rble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

Of or pertaining to Appius. Appian Way, the great paved highway from ancient Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312 b. c.

A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. Asphalt stone, Asphalt rock, a limestone found impregnated with asphalt.

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

A nearly cubical block of some tough stone, esp. granite, used as a material for street pavements. Its usual diameter is 5 to 7 inches.

on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.

To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.