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Palmerworm
- - Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4. (b) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.
Palsgraves
- noun - (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
Palterings
- noun - a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear
Pamperings
- noun - the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
Pandermite
- - A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.
Para River
- noun - an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows
Paragraphs
- noun - divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed"
- one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line
- write about in a paragraph; "All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper"
- write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher
Parapraxes
- noun - a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
Parapraxis
- noun - a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
Paratroops
- noun - infantry trained and equipped to parachute