pampestriet

A corrupt form of palmistry. pamphagous (pam'fa-gus), a. [ [ Pamphila leonard us. butterflies or skippers, belonging to the family Hesperiidæ, founded by Fabric i us in 1808. There are many species, some of which have English names, as P. comma, the pearl-skipper; P. sylvan us, the clouded skipper; P. panisc us, the chequered skipper. 4253 3. In the sixteenth century, in England, a fascicle comprising a few printed sheets stitched together, containing news-ballads and short poems on popular subjects: also known as a news book, which developed later into the newspa per. Suppre ing the printing and publishing of unlicensed news-books and pamphlets of news. Proclamation of Charles I., 1680. 4. A short treatise or e ay, generally controversial, especially one on some subject of temporary interest which excites public attention at the time of its appearance; a writing intended to publish one's views on a particular question, or to attack the views of another. pan vein is derived, or, in the female, a plexus of the corresponding ovarian veins, in the broad ligament, near the uterus. Also called, respectively, spermatic plexus and ovarian plexus. = [NL., πᾶς (παν-), all, + πρό, forward, + δάκτυλος, finger.] In ornith ., having all four toes Comest thou with deep premeditated lines, With written pamphlets studiously devised? Dar'st thou presume in verse to meet thy foes, Thou whom the penny pamphlet foil'd in prose? Dryden, Abs. and Achit., ii. 491. Instead of a peaceful sermon, the simple seeker after righteousne has often a political pamphlet thrust down his throat, labelled with a pious text from Scripture. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 300. The brief forms of these novelettes [tales of Greene and Nash imitated from the Italian] soon led to the appearance of the pamphlet , and new world of readers was seen in the rapidity with which the stories or scurrilous libels which pa ed under this name were i ued. J. R. Green, Short Hist. Eng. People, p. 404. newst, a news-letter. Encyc. Brit., XVIII. Ernestine pamphlet. See Ernestine. Pamphlet of pamphlett (pam'flet), v. i. [ Who [is] like Elderton for ballading, Greene for pam phleting ; both for good fellowship and bad conditions? G. Harvey, Four Letters, ii. pamphlet ary (pam'flet-ā-ri), a . [ pamphlet + -ary.] Pertaining to or of the nature of a pamphlet. Might serve as newspaper or pamphlet ary introduction. Carlyle, in Froude.