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The hand. [Jocose] Dryden. Paw clam (Zoöl.), the tridacna; -- so called because shaped like an animal's paw.

A small lobster. Travis.

Arch; cunning; sly. [Scot.] Jamieson.

s; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. [Written also paul, or pall.] Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. -- Pawl rim or ring (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in.…

ayment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1. As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [i.e., interest]. Bacon.

Capable of being pawned.

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

The business of a pawnbroker.

One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.

A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.

One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.

See Papaw.

A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.

To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [Obs.] Milton.

A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.

Same as Cross-spale.

To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn. To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman.

To put in pawn; to pledge. Shak.

A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreæ. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, me…

See Supawn. [Local, U.S.]