Paunch"y (?), a. Pot-bellied. [R.] Dickens.
Paune (?), n. A kind of bread. See Pone.
Pau"per (?), n. [L. See Poor.] A poor person; especially, one
development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as,
pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
Pau"per*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. paupÈrisme.] The state of being a pauper;
the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.
Whatly.
Syn. -- Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See
Poverty.
Pau`per*i*za"tion (?), n. The act or process of reducing to pauperism.
C. Kingsley.
Pau"per*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pauperized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pauperizing (?).] To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the
peasantry.
||Pau*rop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; small + -poda.] (Zoˆl.)
||An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and
||destitute of tracheÊ.
Pause (?), n. [F., fr. L. pausa. See Pose.] 1. A temporary stop or
rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.