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Paction
- - An agreement; a compact; a bargain.
Paddies
- noun - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent
- an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
- Informal Brit. A fit of temper.
- rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
Padding
- verb - add details to
- add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair"
- artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort
- line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra"
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
Paining
- verb - cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"
Pairing
- verb - arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers"
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
- engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring"
- form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"
- occur in pairs
- the act of grouping things or people in pairs
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
Pallial
- - Of or pertaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve.
Pallier
- adjective - (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals
Palling
- verb - become friends; act friendly towards
- become less interesting or attractive
- cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
- cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
- cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
- cover with a pall
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"
- lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall"
- lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
Pallium
- noun - (Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back
- (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
- cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome
- the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum
Palmier
- adjective - A French pastry in the shape of a palm.
- very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"