2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.
Sir T. Browne.
{ Pau"gie, Pau"gy } (?), n.; pl. Paugies (#). [Corrupted from Amer.
Indian mishcuppauog. See Scup.] (Zoˆl.) The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.
Pau*hau"gen (?), n. [North Amer. Indian.] (Zoˆl.) The menhaden; --
called also poghaden.
Paul (?), n. See Pawl.
Paul, n. An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.
Paul"dron (?), n. [See Powldron.] (Mil. Antiq.) A piece of armor
covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.
{ Pau"li*an (?), Pau"li*an*ist (?), } n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of
Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was
deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.
Pau"li*cian (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of
Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They
rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.
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Pau"lin (?), n. (Naut.) See Tarpaulin.
Pau"line (?), a. [L. Paulinus, fr. Paulus Paul.] Of or pertaining to
the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the
writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.
My religion had always been Pauline.
J. H. Newman.
Paul"ist (?), n. (R. C. Ch.) A member of The Institute of the
Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev.
I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly
Protestants.
||Pau*low"ni*a (?), n. [NL. So named from the Russian princess Anna
||Pavlovna.] (Bot.) A genus of trees of the order ScrophulariaceÊ,
||consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.
The tree is native to Japan, and has immense heart-shaped leaves, and
large purplish flowers in panicles. The capsules contain many little
winged seeds, which are beautiful microscopic objects. The tree is
hardy in America as far north as Connecticut.
Paum (?), v. t. & i. [See Palm to cheat.] To palm off by fraud; to
cheat at cards. [Obs.] Swift.
Paunce (?), n. [See Pansy.] (Bot.) The pansy. "The pretty paunce."
Spenser.
Paunch (?), n. [OF. panch, pance, F. panse, L. pantex, panticis.] 1.
(Anat.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first
stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.