papillitis 
papilla. See choked disk (under rfisA'), and optic 
neuritis (under neuritis). 
papilloma (pap-i-16'ma), .; pi. papillomatu 
(-ma-ta). [NL., < L. papilla, papilla, + -otna.] 
A tumor, usually small, growing on some ex- 
ternal or internal surface, composed of vascu- 
lar connective tissue covered with epidermis 
or epithelium, and formed by the hypertrophy 
of a normal papilla or of a group of several, 
or resembling a structure thus formed. It in- 
cludes corns, warts, condylomata, mucous tubercles, and 
some forms of polypi and villous tumors. Papilloma 
neuropathicum. Same as memts unins lalens (which 
see, under metrus). Zymotic papilloma, frambcesia. 
papillomatous (pap-i-lom'a-tus), a. [< NL. 
papillnma(t-) + -ous.] Of the nature of orchar- 
acterized by papilloma. 
Dr. Newman was then led to remove a small fragment 
of the growth, which presented the microscopic appear- 
ances of a pamllomatous adenoma. 
Lancet, No. 3412, p. 123. 
papillose (pap'i-los), a. [= F. papilleux = Pg. 
It. papilloso, < NL. "papillosus, < L. papilla, a 
nipple : see papilla.'] Full of papillee ; papil- 
liferous; papular; pimply; warty: used loose- 
ly of many studded or bossed surfaces scarcely 
coming within the technical definition of papil- 
late. 
papillote (pap'i-lot), . [P., < OF.papillot, a 
little butterfly, dim. of papillon,< L. papilio(n-), 
butterfly: see Papilio.] A curl-paper : so called 
because appearing like a butterfly on the head. 
I wish you could see him making squibs of his papMotes. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 132. 
papilloUS (pap'i-lus), a. [< NL. "papillosus : 
see papillose.] Same &s papillose. Arbutknot, 
Aliments, i. 
papillula (pa-pil'u-la), n. ; pi. papillulse (-le). 
[NL. : see papillate.]' Same as papillule. 
papillulate (pa-pil'u-lat), a. [< NL. "papillula- 
tus, < papillula, papillule: see papillule.] Be- 
set with papillula? ; finely papillose or papular : 
specifically applied in entomology to a surface 
having scattered rounded elevations or depres- 
sions, each with a small central elevation. 
papillule (pap'i-lul), n. [< NL. papillula, dim. 
of L. pap ilia, a nipple : see papilla.] Inentom.: 
(a) A tubercle or verruca with a small but dis- 
tinct central elevation: also applied to a small 
depression, as a variole, when it has a central 
raised part, (b) A minute papilla, or soft fleshy 
elevation. 
Papin's digester. See digester. 
papion (pap'i-on), n. [< F.papion = Sp. papion, 
< NL. papio(n-), a baboon (cf. ML. papio(n-), a 
kind of wild dog) ; OF. babion, etc., a baboon : 
see baboon.] A baboon of the genus Cynocepha- 
lus, as C. hamadryas (or babum) ; a hamadryad; 
especially, the dog-headed baboon, which was 
revered and mummified by the Egyptians. See 
cut under baboon. 
papish (pa'pish), a. and n. A corrupt or dia- 
lectal form of papist. 
Mark my last words an honest living get; 
Beware of papishen, and learn to knit. 
Gay, The What d 1 ye Call it, ii. 4. 
They were no better than Papishes who did not believe 
in witchcraft Smollett, Sir L. Greaves, vii. 
papisher (pa'pish-er), . [(popish +-CT 1 .] A 
papist or Romanist. [Prov. Eng.] 
All that I could win out of him was that they were " mur- 
dering papishers." R. D. Blackmore, Loraa Doone, iii. 
papismt (pa'pizm), n. [< F. papisme = Sp. Pg. 
It.papismo, < ML. *papisrntts, < LL. (ML.) papa, 
pope: see pope*.] The system of which the 
Pope is the head ; popery. 
When I was gone, they set up the whole Papism again, 
to the contempt of the late King and Council of England, 
without either statute or proclamation. 
Bp. Bale, quoted in B, W. Dixon's Hist Church of Eng., xxi. 
Ye forsake the heavenly teaching of S. Paul for the hell- 
ish Sophistry of Papism. Milton, Church-Government, ii. 2. 
papist (pa'pist), n. and a. [< F. papiste = Sp. 
Pg. It. papista, < ML. "papista, < papa, pope : 
see pope 1 .] I. n. One who acknowledges the 
supreme authority of the Pope or of the Church 
of Rome; a Roman Catholic; a Romanist: usu- 
ally a term of opprobrium. 
Now t iii)iMn are to us as those nations were unto Israel. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iv. 6. 
On the throat of the Papist 
He fastened his hand. Whittier, St. John. 
II. . Of or pertaining to Roman Catholics 
or Roman Catholicism. 
papistic (pa-pis'tik), a. [= F. papistiyue = It. 
liii/iistico; as papist + -ic.] Same as papisti- 
cal. 
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papistical (pa-pis'ti-kal), a. [_<papistic + -al.] 
Of or pertaining to popery or the papal system ; 
of, pertaining to, or adherent to the Church of 
Rome and its doctrines, ceremonies, traditions, 
etc.; popish: commonly used opprobriously. 
Others, forsooth, will haue a congregation, 
But that must be after another fashion 
Then our Church doth allow no church at all 
For that they say is too papistical!. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 14. 
Whose [St. Sebastian's] picture ... I have often observed 
erected over the Altars of many pajAsticall Churches. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 129. 
Even Henry the Fourth of France was not unfriendly to 
this papistical project of placing an Italian cardinal on the 
English throne. /. D' 'Israeli, Curios, of Lit., III. 271. 
= Syn. See papal. 
papistically (pa-pis'ti-kal-i), adv. In a papisti- 
cal manner. 
papistry (pa'pis-tri), n. [< papist + -ry.~\ The 
system, doctrines, and ceremonies of the Church 
of Rome; popery: usually a term of opprobrium. 
papizedt (pa'pizd), a. [< pope* + -ize + -erf 2 .] 
Conformed to popery. 
Protestants cut off the authority from all papiz'd writers 
of that age. Fuller, Holy War, p. 10. 
papier (pap'ler), n. [< papz.] Milk-pottage. 
Ralliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
papmeat (pap'met), n. [< ME. papmete; <.pap 2 
+ meat.] Soft food for infants; pap. 
I cannot bide Sir Baby ; . . . keep him off, 
And pamper him with papineat. 
Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. 
papmouth (pap'mouth), n. An effeminate man. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
papoose, pappoose(pa-pos'),. [Amer.Ind.] A 
North American Indian babe or young child, 
papyre 
The appearances in Ceely's and my own drawings are 
suggestive of a possible origin of the term Cow-pox or 
Pap-pox. Lancet, No. 3419, p. 503. 
pappus (pap'us), n. [= F. pappe = Sp. papo = 
It. pappo, < NL. pap- 
pus, down, pappus,< Gr. 
n-dTTTrof, down, as that 
on seeds of certain 
plants (cf. 7TGJT7rO(T7rtYJ- 
[iara, seeds with down), 
or the first down on the 
chin: so called in allu- 
sion to its whiteness 
(as if 'white hair'), < 
jraTTTrof, a grandfather: 
see papal.] Down, as 
that on the seeds of 
some plants. Specifical- 
ly () In bot., a tuft on an 
achene or other fruit ; any 
form or structure which takes 
the place of the limb of the 
calyx on the achenes of the 
Composites. It may exist in 
the form of a rudimentary 
cap, scales, bristles, or hairs, 
or in various modifications. 
See also cut under Onopor- 
don. (b) In entom., fine thick 
down covering a surface, (c) 
The first downy hair on the 
chin. 
pappy 1 (pap'i), a. [< papl + 
soft; succulent. 
Tender and pappy flesh. Wiseman, Surgery, v. 9. 
The loosened earth [of a marshl swelled into a soft and 
pappy substance. T. Burnet, Theory of the Earth, i. 8. 
pappy" (pap'i), n. [A childish dim. of papa 1 
Various forms of Pappus. 
(a) Taraxacum officinale; 
its arvensis; (c) Chat- 
Doitglasii ; (tft Status 
ta; (f) Hollonia CIIHI- 
(J)Cetitaurtti Cyatius. 
> C: . 
""fin, 
pfstn 
Like pap; 
pap' 
3.] P 
Apache Papooses. 
commonly carried by its mother bound up and 
strapped to a board, or hung up so as to be out 
of harm's way. 
papoose-root (pa-pos'rot), n. The blue cohosh, 
Caulophyllum thalictroides. Its root is said by 
some to be an emmenagogue. 
papoosh (pa-posh'), n. Same as baboosh. B.F. 
Burton, El-Medinah, p. 183. 
pappan (pap'an), n. [Malay: see mias.] An 
orang-utan. 'See mias. 
pappas, n. See papas. 
Pappea (pap'e-a), n. [NL. (Ecklon and Zey- 
her, 1835), named after Karl W. L. Pappe, who 
wrote on the flora of Leipsic, 1827-8.] A small 
hard-wood tree, a genus of a single South Afri- 
can species, P. Capensis, belonging to the poly- 
petalous order Sapindacese and the tribe Nephe- 
liese, distinguished by the regular flowers, soli- 
tary ovules, deep-lobed or divided fruit, and 
unequally five-lobed calyx. The oblong leaves are 
crowded at the end of the spreading branches, and have 
between them panicled racemes of minute flowers fol- 
lowed by an edible red fruit of two or three hard globose 
lobes, the size of a cherry, and known as wild plmn and 
wild prune, a source of vinegar, wine, and oil. The hand- 
some wood is made into small furniture, etc. 
pappiferous (pa-pif'e-rus), a. [< NL. pappus 
+ L. ferre = E. Sear 1 .] In bot., bearing a pap- 
pus. 
pappoose, >i. See papoose. 
pappose, pappous (pap'os, -us), a. [= Pg. pa- 
poso = It. papposo, < NL. "papposus, < pappus, 
down, pappus: see pappus.] Downy; fur- 
nished with a pappus, as the achenia of many 
composite plants, as thistles and dandelions. 
That pappose plumage growing upon the tips of some of 
them [seeds], whereby they are capable of being wafted 
with the wind. Ray, Works of Creation, i. 
pap-pox (pap'poks), . Same as cowpox. 
or pap*. J Papa; father: a childish word. 
pap-spoon (pap'sppn), n. A spoon for pap; a 
spoon for feeding infants. 
There is a gentleman . . . who . . . should have a sil- 
ver pap-spoon at any rate, if the teaspoon is irrevocably 
accorded to his rival 
Thackeray, Titmarsh among Pictures and Books. 
Papuan (pap'u-an), a. and . [< Papua (see 
def.) + -aw.] 1. a. Of or pertaining to Papua 
or New Guinea, a large island north of Aus- 
tralia, now divided among Great Britain, the 
Netherlands, and Germany. Papuan paradise- 
bird. See Paradwea. Papuan penguin. See penguin. 
Papuan subregion, in zoiigeog., a region embracing 
not only the island of Papua or New Guinea, but also the 
islands zoologically related to that. 
II. n. 1. An inhabitant of Papua. 2. One 
of a savage race of black color, dolichoceph- 
alic, with crisp, frizzled hair, inhabiting many 
islands and island-groups of the Pacific near 
Australia : so called from the island of Papua 
or New Guinea. 
papula (pap'u-la), n.; pi. papules (-le). [= F. 
papule = Sp. papula = Pg.papirta, < L. papula, 
a pustule, pimple. Cf. papilla smA pimple.] 1. 
In med., a small inflammatory elevation of the 
skin not containing liquid visible to the naked 
eye; a pimple. 2. In anat. and zool., same as 
papilla. 
papular (pap'u-lar), a. [< papula + -ar 3 .] Same 
as papulose. 
papulation (pap-u-la'shon), n. [< papule + 
-ation.] The development of papules. 
papule (pap'ul), n. [< F. papule, < L. papula, 
a pimple: see papula.] A papula or pimple. 
The intensely red skin was covered with innumerable 
very small papules. Medical News, LII. 305. 
Nodules approximate, with their papules applanate. 
B. C. Wood, Fresh-Water Algffi, p. 22a 
papuliferous (pap-u-lif'e-rus), a. [< L. papula, 
a pimple, + ferre '= Ej'bear 1 .] Covered with 
papules or pimples ; pimply. 
papulose, papulous (pap'u-los, -lus), a. [= F. 
papuleux, < L. as if *papulosus, < papula, a pus- 
tule: see papula.] Of or pertaining to or cov- 
ered with papula or pimples. 
papwortt (pap'wert), n. The dog's-mercury, 
Mercurialis perennis. 
papyraceous (pap-i-ra'shius), a. [= F. papy- 
race = Pg. papyraeeo, < L. papyraceus, < papy- 
rus, paper, papyrus : see papyrus.] 1. Belong- 
ing to the papyrus or to papyri ; made of or 
resembling papyrus or paper. 2. In zool., 
papery; like parchment; pergamenteous: as, 
the substance of a wasp's nest is papyraceous. 
Also, rarely, papyriaii, papyrean. 
papyral (pap'i-ral), a. [< L. papyrus, paper, 
+ -/.] Made or consisting of paper. [Rare.] 
Uncle Jack, whose pocket was never without a wet 
sheet of some kind or other, drew forth a steaming papy- 
ral monster. Bulwer, Caxtons, vii. !. 
papyret, See papyrus. 
