Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Painter (n.) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.
(2) - Painter (n.) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.
(3) - Painter (n.) One whose occupation is to paint
(4) - Painter (n.) The panther, or puma.
(5) - Painter (n.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.

(1) - Painting (n.) A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.
(2) - Painting (n.) Color laid on; paint.
(3) - Painting (n.) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.
(4) - Painting (n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
(5) - Painting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paint

(1) - Painty (a.) Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.

(1) - Pair (v. t.) To impair.
(2) - Pair (v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
(3) - Pair (v. t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
(4) - Pair (v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
(5) - Pair (v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
(6) - Pair (v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
(7) - Pair (n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
(8) - Pair (n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
(9) - Pair (n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
(10) - Pair (n.) A married couple; a man and wife.
(11) - Pair (n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
(12) - Pair (n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
(13) - Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]