3. [Prob. so named from the image of a pagoda or a deity (cf. Skr.
bhagavat holy, divine) stamped on it.] A gold or silver coin, of
various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold
pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.
Pa*go"dite (?), n. (Min.) Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes
carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.
||Pa*gu"ma (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Any one of several species of East Indian
||viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in
||form.
Pa*gu"ri*an (?), n. [L. pagurus a kind of crab, Gr. &?;.] (Zoˆl.) Any
one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the
hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.
Pah (?), interj. An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See
Bah.
Fie! fie! fie! pah! pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good
apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.
Shak.
||Pah (?), n. [From native name.] A kind of stockaded intrenchment.
||[New Zealand.] Farrow.
Pa"hi (?), n. (Naut.) A large war canoe of the Society Islands.
Pah"le*vi (?), n. Same as Pehlevi.
||Pa*ho"e*ho`e (?), n. (Min.) A name given in the Sandwich Islands to
||lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the
||rough-surfaced lava, called a-a.
Pah"*Utes` (?), n. pl. (Ethnol.) See Utes.
Paid (?), imp., p. p., & a. of Pay. 1. Receiving pay; compensated;
hired; as, a paid attorney.