Pa*lu"dism (?), n. (Med.) The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling
among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.
Pal"u*dose` (?), a.[L. paludosus marshy.] Growing or living in marshy
places; marshy.
Pal"ule (?), n. (Zoˆl.) See Palulus or Palus.
||Pal"u*lus (?), n.; pl. Paluli (#). [NL., dim. of L. palus a stake.]
||(Zoˆl.) Same as Palus.
||Pa"lus (?), n.; pl. Pali (#). [L., a stake.] (Zoˆl.) One of several
||upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part
||of the calicle of certain corals.
Pa*lus"tral (?), a. [L. paluster, -ustris.] Of or pertaining to a bog
or marsh; boggy. [R.]
Pa*lus"trine (?), a. Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp;
marshy.
Pal"y (?), a. [From Pale, a.] Pale; wanting color; dim. [Poetic] Shak.
Whittier.
Pal"y, a. [Cf. F. palÈ. See Pale a stake.] (Her.) Divided into four or
more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures
disposed alternately.
Pam (?), n. [From Palm victory; cf. trump, fr. triumph.] The knave of
clubs. [Obs.] Pope.
Pa"ment (?), n. A pavement. [Obs.] Chaucer.
||Pam"pa*no (?), n. [Sp.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Pompano.
Pam"pas (?), n. pl. [Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain.] Vast plains
in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South
America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains
extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
Pampas cat (Zoˆl.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has
oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a
half feet long. Called also straw cat. -- Pampas deer (Zoˆl.), a small,
reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus, or Blastocerus,
campestris). -- Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass
(Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native
of the pampas of South America.
Pam"per (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pampered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pampering.] [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe
thick pap, and E. pap.]
1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the
body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered for corruption." Dr. T.
Dwight.
2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride;
to pamper the imagination. South.
Pam"pered (?), a. Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence,
luxuriant. "Pampered boughs." Milton. "Pampered insolence." Pope. --
Pam"pered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
Pam"per*er (?), n. One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.
Pam"per*ize (?), v. t. To pamper. [R.] Sydney Smith.
||Pam*pe"ro (?), n.[Sp., fr. pampa a plain.] A violent wind from the
||west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and
||the adjacent seas, often doing great damage. Sir W. Parish.
Pam*pe"ros (?), n. pl.; sing. Pampero (&?;). [Sp. American.] (Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.
Pam"phlet (?), n. [OE. pamflet, pamfilet, paunflet, possibly fr. OF.
palme the palm of the hand, F. paume (see Palm) + OF. fueillet a leaf,
dim. of fueil, m., F. feuille, f., fr. L. folium, pl. folia, thus
meaning, a leaf to be held in the hand; or perh. through old French,
fr. L. Pamphila, a female historian of the first century who wrote many
epitomes; prob., however, fr. OF. Pamflette, the Old French name given
to Pamphilus, a poem in Latin verse of the 12th century, pamphlets
being named from the popularity of this poem.] 1. A writing; a book.
Testament of love.
Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third.
Ascham.
2. A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched
together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or
written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.
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Pam"phlet (?), v. i. To write a pamphlet or pamphlets. [R.] Howell.
Pam`phlet*eer" (?), n. A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden.
Macaulay.
Pam`phlet*eer", v. i. To write or publish pamphlets.
By pamphleteering we shall not win.