Pairyng time, the time when birds or other animals pair.
Pair"ment (?), n. Impairment. [Obs.] Wyclif.
||Pa`is (?), n. [OF. puÔs, F. pays, country.] (O. E. Law) The country;
||the people of the neighborhood.
A trial per pais is a trial by the country, that is, by a jury; and
matter in pais is matter triable by the country, or jury.
||Pa`i*sa"no (?), n. [Sp., of the country, &?;ative.] (Zoˆl.) The
||chaparral cock.
Paise (?), n. [Obs.] See Poise. Chapman.
Pa"jock (?), n. A peacock. [Obs.] Shak.
Pak"fong` (?), n. See Packfong.
Pal (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice
or confederate. [Slang]
Pal"ace (?), n. [OE. palais, F. palais, fr. L. palatium, fr. Palatium,
one of the seven hills of Rome, &?; which Augustus had his residence.
Cf. Paladin.]
1. The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high
officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for
ceremony and reception. Chaucer.