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and in perfect contrast to that beauty 

 exhibited by their plumage, which, in the 

 language of Buffon, " seems to combine 

 all that delights the eye in the soft and 

 delicate tints of the finest flowers, all 

 that dazzles in the sparkling lustre of the 

 gem, and all that astonishes in the grand 

 display of the rainbow." See Aves, 

 Plate XI. fig. 2. 



PAUSE, a stop or cessation of speak- 

 ing, singing, playing, or the like. The 

 use of pointing, in grammar, is to make 

 proper pauses in certain places. There 

 is a pause in the middle of each verse ; 

 in an hemistich it is called a rest or re- 

 pose. 



PAUSE, in music, a character of silence, 

 or rest, calle<l also by some a mute figure, 

 because it shews that some part or per- 

 son is to be silent, while the rest con- 

 tinue the song. Pauses are used either 

 for the sake of some fugue, or imitation, 

 or to give a breathing time ; or to give 

 room for another voice, &c. to answer 

 what this part sung, as in dialogues, 

 echoes, &,c. In military affairs it is es- 

 sentially necessary for all officers to ac- 

 custom themselves to a most minute ob- 

 servance of the several pauses which are 

 prescribed during the firings. According 

 to the regulations, the pause between 

 each of the firing words, "make ready, 

 present, fire," is the same as the ordina- 

 ry time, viz. the seventy -fifth part of a 

 minute, and no other pause is to be made 

 between the words. In firing by compa- 

 nies, by wings, each wing carries on its 

 fire independently, without regard to the 

 other wing, whether it fires from the 

 centre to the flanks, or from the flanks to 

 the centre. If there are five companies 

 in the wing, two pauses will be made be- 

 tween the fire of each, and the make 

 ready of the succeeding one. If there 

 are four companies in the wing, three 

 pauses will be made betwixt the fire of 

 each, and the make ready of the succeed- 

 ing one. This will allow sufficient time 

 for the first company to have again load- 

 ed, and shouldered at the time the last 

 company fires, and will establish proper 

 intervals between each. In firing by 

 grand divisions, three pauses will be 

 made between the fire of each division, 

 and the make ready of the succeeding 

 one. In firing by wings, one wing will 

 make ready the instant the other is 

 shouldering. The commanding officer of 

 the battalion fires the wings. In firing 

 companies by files, each company fires 

 independently. When the right file pre- 

 sents, the next makes ready, and so on. 



After the first fire, each man as he loads 

 comes to the recover, and the file again 

 fires without waiting for any other ; the 

 rear rank men are lo have their eyes on 

 their front rank men, and be guided by, 

 and present with them. 



PAUSLS, in natural history, a genus of 

 insects of the order Coleoptera. Anten- 

 nae two-jointed, the upper joint very 

 large, intiected, hooked, pedicillate ; 

 head pointing forwards, with a convex, 

 jugular triangle; thorax narrow, unequal, 

 scutellate ; shells flexile, deflected, trun- 

 cate ; four feet placed at the fore part of 

 the breast, thighs with minute appen- 

 dages ; tarsi four-jointed. There are 

 five species ; two of which are fully de- 

 scribed in the " Linnsean Transactions," 

 vol. 4. P. microcephalus , head unarm- 

 ed ; club an oblong sphere ; shells as 

 long as the body, not punctured ; shanks 

 linear. It inhabits the Banana islands. 

 P. sphceroccrus: head horned; club glo- 

 bular : shells shorter than the abdomen, 

 punctured ; shanks dilated at the tip. It 

 is found at Sierra Leone ; wanders about 

 in the night-time during the months of 

 January and February, and becomes 

 blind or benumbed on the approach of 

 light ; the globes of the antenna; give 

 a kind of phosphoric light in the dark ; 

 the body is polished, and of chesnut co- 

 lour, a little narrower than the last ; horn 

 between the eyes straight, conic, tipped 

 with a tuft of cartilaginous hairs ; eyes 

 larger ; thorax the same breadth as the 

 head ; wings shining and violet. 



This genus is remarkable for the singu- 

 lar conformation of its antennae, and for 

 the almost prophetic anticipation of the 

 future, under which it received its name. 

 The great Swedish naturalist, foreseeing 

 the termination of his vast labours, and 

 that he would not again be called upon to 

 form any other genus of insects, app ied 

 to this the designation which it now bears, 

 " Pausus," signifying a pause or rest ; it 

 was in reality the last genus he formed, 

 and it is believed that the species of it 

 with which he was acquainted were 

 amongst the last insects, if not the very 

 last, which he described 



PAW,/otfe, in heraldry, the fore foot of 

 a beast, cut off short. If the leg be cut 

 off', it is called gainbe. Lions paws are 

 much used in armory. 



PA WLE, in a ship, a small piece of iron 

 bolted to one end of the beams of the 

 deck close to the capstan ; but yet so 

 easily, as that it can turn about. Its use 

 is to stop the capstan from turning back* 

 by being made to catch hold of the 



