PPage 140
- English Word Payee Definition The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.
- English Word Payen Definition Pagan.
- English Word Payer Definition One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
- English Word Paying Definition of Pay
- English Word Paymaster Definition One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.
- English Word Payment Definition The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.
- English Word Payment Definition That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.
- English Word Payment Definition Punishment; chastisement.
- English Word Payn Definition Bread. Having
- English Word Payndemain Definition The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman.
- English Word Paynim Definition See Painim.
- English Word Paynize Definition To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.
- English Word Payor Definition See Payer.
- English Word Payse Definition To poise.
- English Word Paytine Definition An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.
- English Word Pea Definition The sliding weight on a steelyard.
- English Word Pea Definition See Peak, n., 3.
- English Word Pea Definition A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.
- English Word Pea Definition A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.
- English Word Pea-jacket Definition A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather.