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[Fr.] A small piece of paper on which ladies curl their hair; a curl-paper. păp-11-lous, a. [PAPILLOSE.] Pap'-In, s. [Denis Papin, a French philosopher, who a isted Boyle in his experiments.] Papin's-digester, s. [DIGESTER.] păp-1-ō, s. [Mod. Lat., from Fr. babouin =a baboon (q. v.).] Zool.: Erxleben's name for the genus Cynocephalus. păp-1-on, s. [PAPIO.] Zool.: Cynocephalus hamadryas , the C. babouin of some French naturalists. [HAMADRYAS.] pāpish, s. & a. [Fr. pape =the pope; Eng suff.- ish .] A. As subst.: A papist. B. As adj.: Popish. pāp-işm, *pap-is me, s. [Fr. papisme. from pape =the pope.] Popery. pāp-Ist, s . [Fr. papiste ; Ital. & Sp. papist a .] One who belongs to the Church of Rome: a Roman Catholic, with special reference to his acknowledg ment of the papal supremacy. "The partial papists would infer from hence Their church, in last resort, should judge the sense." Dryden: Religio Laici, 356. Though the term is designed to be contemptu ous, it found its way into old Acts of Parliament. pā-pist-ic, *pā-pist-Ic-al, adj . [Eng. papist; -ic, -ical .] Pertaining to popery: adhering to the doctrines and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popish. "It may be that many of thys oure churche and congre gation, shall trayueil into some papistical countrey."Calvine: Foure Godlye Sermons. marine; gō, pot, anti quorum , sometimes called Cyperus papyrus , is the plant from which the ancients made paper. [PAPER, etym.] It has an underground stem, at in tervals sending up ordinary stems eight or ten feet high. It grows on the banks of the Nile, the Jor- dan, and in the south of Italy. The paper was made from thin slices of the stem cut vertically. It was made also into boats, and its fibers used for cordage. P. corymbosus , or Pangorei , is manufactured into IMG:content-0624.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0625.png:[blocks in formation] [PARR.] [See def.] An abbreviation for para line be drawn to a given fixed point. the other per- insert a par in the Athenœum. [PARA-.] pa-ra, s . [Turk., from Pers. par ah , pârch =a piece.] The fortieth part of the Egyptian piastre, worth about one-eighth of a cent. It is sometimes called the Fuddah. The Para of Servia is equiva- IMG:content-0626.png:[blocks in formation] para-ellagic acid, s. [RUFIGALLIC-ACID.] para-oxybenzamic acid, s. Chem.: C7HNO2. An acid isomeric with oxyben drochloric acid on nitrodracylic acid. It crystal lizes in shining crystalline tufts, which melt at 187°, and are not colored by contact with air and water. Heated with potash, it is resolved into car- bonic anhydride and aniline. IMG:content-0627.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Bot .: A genus of Cyperese, having the inflores- cence in spikelets, with many flowers, surrounded bamide. Carbonyl-oxamide. It is formed by heat- by long bracts; the seeds three-cornered. Papyrus ing uric acid or alloxan with moderately strong IMG:content-0628.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] an ordinate to the axis. The or- dinate to the axis which pa es through the focus is called the principal parameter, or lat us rectum, of the parabola. The In the parabola xay part of the axis intercepted be- PM and MF are the tween its vertex and the point in equal lines; the which it is intersected by one of its own ordinates is called the sub-tangent of the axis. If a tan- gent be drawn at any point, and a straight line be drawn from the point of contact perpendicular to it and terminated by the axis, IMG:content-0629.png:[blocks in formation] "And eke the paraboles of Salomon." Chaucer: C. T. , 6,261. parabolic