Few or none could . . . paragon with her.
Shelton.
Pa*rag"o*nite (?), n. [From Gr. &?;, p. pr. of &?; to mislead.] (Min.)
A kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of
potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps.
Par"a*gram (?), n. [Gr. &?; that which one writes beside. See
Paragraph.] A pun.
Puns, which he calls paragrams.
Addison.
Par`a*gram"ma*tist (?), n. A punster.
||Pa`ra*gran"di*ne (?), n. [It., from parare to parry + grandine hail.]
||An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See ParagrÍle.
||Knight.
Par"a*graph (?), n. [F. paragraphe, LL. paragraphus, fr. Gr.
para`grafos (sc. grammh`) a line or stroke drawn in the margin, fr.
paragra`fein to write beside; para` beside + gra`fein to write. See
Para- , and Graphic, and cf. Paraph.] 1. Originally, a marginal mark or
note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e.
g., a change of subject; now, the character ∂, commonly used in the
text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a
division into sections.
This character is merely a modification of a capital P (the initial of
the word paragraph), the letter being reversed, and the black part made
white and the white part black for the sake of distinctiveness.
2. A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or
subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular
point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is
sometimes noted by the mark &?;, but usually, by beginning the first
sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual
distance from the margin.
3. A brief composition complete in one typographical section or
paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines
forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial
paragraph.
Par"a*graph, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paragraphed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Paragraphing.]