pawn 
pawn 5 t, . [Prob. a var. of panel."] A gallery. 
This house is flue and fifty paces in length, and hath 
three pawnes or walks in it, and forty great pillars gilded, 
which stand betweene the walks. 
Uakluyt's Voyages, II. 261. 
Jet-man's Exchange [London, 1837] was a quadrangular 
building, with a clock-tower of timber on the CornhiU 
side. It had an inner cloister, and spawn, or gallery, above 
for the sale of fancy goods. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 35. 
pawn (pan), n. Same as pan*. 
pawnable (pa'na-bl), a. [< pawn* + -able.'] 
Capable of being pawned. 
pawnbroker (pan'bro"ker), n. [< paioni + 
broker.'] One who is licensed to lend money 
on pledge or the deposit of goods at a legally 
fixed rate of interest. Pawnbroker's balls, the 
three gold-colored balls which usually form the sign of a 
pawnshop. The characteristic feature of the coat of arms 
of the Medici family in Lombardy was a group of balls, or 
disks, variously characterized in different accounts (per- 
haps representing different branches of the family) as six 
red balls, three gold balls or blue balls, and three coins, 
and variously explained as representing pills, by way of 
play upon the family name, or as representing the money 
of bankers, the coins being indicated by spheres so as to 
present a circle in whichever direction looked at. It 
seems to have been from this armorial bearing that three 
golden balls hung in a cluster and three blue balls painted 
on a white ground were early adopted as the sign of money- 
lenders, corresponding to the existing emblem of pawn- 
brokers. 
It is not generally known that the three Blue Balls at 
the Pawn-brokers' shops are the ancient arms of Lombardy. 
The Lombards were the first money-brokers in Europe. 
Lamb, Elia, Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago. 
pawnbroking (pan'br6"king), n. [< pawn 1 + 
broking, ppr. of "broke in broker."] The busi- 
ness of a pawnbroker. 
pawncock (pan'kok), n. A scarecrow. Halli- 
ioett. [Prov. Eng.] 
pawnet, See pawn*. 
pawnee 1 (pa-ne'), . [< pawnl + -ee 1 .] The 
person to whom a pawn is delivered as secu- 
rity; one who takes anything in pawn. 
Pawnee' 2 (pa'ne), n. and a. [< Amer. Ind. Fani, 
native name, said to have been given to them 
by the Illinois Indians.] I. i. One of an Indian 
tribe which formerly dwelt principally in Ne- 
braska and also in Kansas and Texas. Harassed 
by their hereditary enemies the Sioux, they were removed 
to a reservation in the Indian Territory in 1876. 
II. a. Of or relating to the Pawnees. 
pawner (pa'ner), n. [< pawn* + -er 1 ."] One 
who pawns or pledges anything as security for 
the payment of borrowed money. 
The Pawnbroker's all in a blaze, 
And the pledges are frying and singeing, 
Oh ! how the poor pau-ners will craze ! 
Hood, Don't you Smell Fire? 
pawnor (pa'nor), 11. [< pawn 1 + -or 1 .] Same 
as pawner. 
pawnshop (pan'shop), . A pawnbroker's es- 
tablishment ; a place in which pawnbroking is 
carried on. 
pawn-ticket (pan'tik'et), n. A ticket given by 
a pawnbroker to the pledger, bearing the name 
of the article pledged, the amount of money 
lent, the name of the pledger, the name and 
address of the pawnbroker, the conditions of 
the loan, etc. 
pawpaw, n. Seepapaw. 
paw-paw (pa'pa), a. Naughty. Halliwell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
pawt, v. Seepauti. 
pawtenert, n. See pauteneri. 
paw-waw (pa'wa), n. Same as pow-wow. Car- 
Jyle. 
For reasons which we cannot well understand, the red 
gives place to the white man. With their wigwams and 
canoes, their gods and their pawwas, ... they have van- 
ished forever. S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 4. 
pax(paks),. [<L.prti, peace: seepeace.J 1. In 
the Bom. Cath. Ch., a small tablet ornamented 
with a representation of 
some Christian scene or 
symbol. In former times, in 
the celebration of the mass, it 
was kissed by the celebrating 
priest, and was then presented 
by the acolyte to be kissed by 
all the officiating ecclesiastics, 
and by the members of the con- 
gregation; but it is now used, 
except in a few communities, 
only during certain masses cel- 
ebrated on special occasions or 
by high dignitaries. Its use was 
introduced into church worship 
during the thirteenth century, 
taking the place of the then cus- 
tomary form of the kiss of peace, 
which was abrogated on account 
of the confusion and inconve- 
nience involved. Also called 
osculatory. Pax.- Brass of i s th century. 
4333 
The kissing of the pax was set up to signify that the 
peace of Christ should be ever among us. 
Ti/ndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1800), p. 71. 
Innocentius ordained the pax to be given to the people. 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1863), II. 311. 
Who make the pax of their mistresses hands. 
Speeches of Ricort, Progr. of Eliz., II. (Nares.) 
2. The kiss of peace. See kiss. Pax voblscum, 
peace be to you : a salutation common among the early 
Christians. Its use is now confined to officiating clergy- 
men in liturgical churches. 
pax-board (paks'bord), n. [ME. paxborde; < 
pax + board."] Same as pax, 1. 
paxbordet, Same as pax, 1. 
paxbredet, n. [ME., < pax + brede, board: see 
board."] Same as pax, 1. 
The pax-brede used to stand on the altar all through 
mass. Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. ii. 162. 
paxilla 1 (pak-sil'a), ; -pi, paxillie (-). [NL., 
< L. paxillus, a small stake, a peg, < pangere 
(V P a d)i fi x > fasten: see pact."] A bundle of 
movable knobbed or spicular processes at- 
tached to a common stalk in the integument 
of echinoderms. See cut under Asteriidee. 
A handsome new form, of a peculiar leaden grey colour, 
and with paxillte arranged on the dorsal surface of the 
disk in the form of a rosette. 
Sir C. W. Thomson, Depths of the Sea, p. 121. 
paxilla 2 , n. Plural ofpaxillum. 
paxillar (pak'si-lar), a. [t paxilla} + -a>- 3 .] Of 
or pertaining to paxillee. 
paxillate (pak'si-lat), a. [< paxillal + -ate 1 ."] 
Having paxillte. 
paxillose (pak'si-los), a. [< Ij.paxilhts = Gr. 
7rdo-o-a/lof, a small stake, a peg.] In gcol., re- 
sembling a little stake. 
paxillum(pak-sirum),. ; pl.paxilla(-a). [ML.] 
A diminutive of pax. 
paxwax (paks'waks), . [< ME. paxwax, prop. 
"faxwax, fexwax: see faxwax.~\ A butchers' 
name of the ligamentum nuchse or nuchal liga- 
ment of the back of the neck of cattle, etc. It 
is a stout strong cord composed of yellow elastic fibrous 
tissue, assisting in the support of the head without mus- 
cular effort. A similar structure, in various degrees of 
development, exists in most mammals, including man. 
Also called paxytvaxy, packu'ax, faxwax,Jlxfax, and whit- 
leather. See cut under ligamentum. 
pay 1 (pa), v. ; pret. and pp. paid, ppr. paying. 
[<ME. payen,paien, < OP. payer, paier, paer, P. 
payer = Sp. Pg. pagar = It. pagare, < L. paeare, 
quiet, pacify, subdue, soothe, ML. satisfy or 
settle (a debt), pay, < pax (pac-), peace : see 
peace, and cf. pacate.] I. trans. If. To ap- 
pease; satisfy; content; please. 
Ther he harpede so wel, that he payde al the route. 
Rob. of Gloucester, p. 272. 
I. nke thou grucche not on god, thaug he geue luytel, 
Beo payed with thi porcion porore or ricchore. 
Piers Plowman (A), x. 113. 
Do trewe penaunce, & y am payed, 
From eendelees peine y wole make thee free. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. FurnivaU), p. 201. 
Ffor hir to paye he was full glade. 
Thomas of Ersieldoune (Child's Ballads, I. 104). 
2f. To make satisfaction or amends for. 
And operis satisfactio that for synnes payeth. 
Piers Plowman (C), xvii. 81. 
3. To satisfy the claims of; compensate, as 
for goods, etc., supplied, or for services render- 
ed; recompense; requite; remunerate; reward: 
as, to pay workmen or servants; to pay one's 
creditors. 
For all my dangers and my wounds thon hast paid me 
In my own metal. Bean, and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, iv. 1. 
For the carriage of such things as I send you by John 
Mutton you must remember to pay him. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 404. 
He [Pitt] attacked with great violence . . . the practice 
of paying Hanoverian troops with English money. 
Macaulay, William Pitt. 
So pays the devil his liegeman, brass for gold. 
Browning, Ring and Book, iii. 1463. 
4. To discharge, as a debt or an obligation, by 
giving or doing that which is due : as, to pay 
taxes ; to pay vows. 
Sone, vnto thi god pay welle thi tythe, 
And pore men of thy gode thou dele. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. 8., extra ser.), i. 54. 
Tables with fair service set ; 
Cups that had paid the Caesar's debt 
Could he have laid his hands on them. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 355. 
5. To bear; defray: as, who will pay the cost f 
hence, to defray the expense of: as, to pay one's 
way in the world. 
Take ye that, ye belted knight, 
'Twill pay your way till ye come down. 
Willie Wallace (Child's Ballads, VI. 233). 
6. To give; deliver; hand over as in discharge 
of a debt: as, to pay money; to pay the price. 
pay 
So many ounces he should pay 
Of his own flesh, instead of gold. 
Northern Lard and Cruel Jew (( 'hild's Ballads, VIII. 278). 
I hnvepaid death one of my children for my ransom. 
Donne, Letters, xcii. 
Why, 'tis his own, and dear, for he du\ pay 
Ten crowns for it, as I heard Roscius say. 
Marston, Satires, ii. 53. 
Come, my hostess says there is seven shillings to pay. 
I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 181. 
You must not pay this great price for my happiness. 
Jt. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, xlviii. 
7. To give or render, without any sense of obli- 
gation: as, to pay attention; to pay court to a 
woman; to pay a compliment. 
"They 're my attendants," brave Robin did say ; 
" They'll pay a visit to thee." 
Robin llimd Rescuing tlte Widows Three Son* (Child's 
[Ballads, V. 266). 
The next day brought us to Padua. St. Anthony, who 
lived about five hundred years ago, is the great saint to 
whom they here pay their devotions. 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 379. 
He used to pay his duty to me, and ask blessing the 
moment he came in, if admissible. 
Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison, V. 64. 
I'll take another opportunity of paying my respects to 
Mrs. Malaprop. Sheridan, The Rivals, i. 2. 
8. Figuratively, to requite with what is de- 
served; hence, to punish; chastise; castigate: 
still in colloquial use. 
Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms as I have 
done this day. I have paid Percy, I have made him sure. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 3. 48. 
They patiently enduring and receiuing all, defending the 
children with their naked bodies from the vnmercifull 
blowes, that pay them soundly. 
Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 140. 
He paid part of us ; 
Yet I think we fought bravely. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, v. 2. 
Pay (whip) Maidjie as much as you like, and I'll not 
say one word ; but touch Isy, and I'll roar like a bull ! 
Dr. John Brown, JIarjorie Fleming. 
9. To be remunerative to ; be advantageous or 
profitable to ; repay. 
A lecture of an Egyptian priest upon divinity, morality, 
or natural history would not pay the trouble, at this day, 
of engraving it upon stone. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 415. 
God payst, God to payt. See Godi. To pay a bal- 
ance. See balance. TO pay down, to pay on the spot ; 
pay in ready money. 
We cheerfully paid down as the price of its [slavery's] 
abolition twenty millions in cash. 
Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 17. 
To pay hornet. See home, adv. To pay off. (o) To rec- 
ompense and discharge : as, to pay observants or laborers. 
When I arrived at this place [Heraclea] I paid off my 
janizary, and the next day he came and said he was not 
satisfied. Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 143. 
(0) Naut., to cause to fall to leeward, as the head of a ship. 
In a few minutes there was sail enough to pay the brig's 
head of. W. C. Russell, Jack's Courtship, xlv. 
To pay (Off) Old scores, to pay old debts ; hence, figura- 
tively, to "get even" with one's enemies. 
I have been in the country, and have brought wherewith 
to pay old scores, and will deal hereafter with ready mony. 
Sedley, Bellamire (1687). (Narei.) 
To pay one In his own coin. See coini. To pay one 
specially i 
pay out more line. 
His men . . . sprang into a yawl and began paying out 
a heavy line, Captain Joe following with the shore end 
of it. The Century, XZXIX. 226. 
To pay the debt of nature, to pay one's last debt, to 
die. See nature. 
The Sire of these two Babes (poor Creature) 
Paid Ids last Debt to human Kature. 
Prior, The Mice. 
To pay the piper or the fiddler, to bear the expense or 
responsibility. 
They introduce a new tax, and we shall have to pay the 
piper. Brougham, 
Which of you two comes down, as you say, with the 
dust? Who pays the piper for this dance of yours, gentle- 
men? J. S. Le Fanu, Tenants of Mallory, xxxiv. 
To pay the shot, to pay the cost ; bear the expense. 
In this at last we have the Advantage got. 
We give the Treat, but they shall pay the shot. 
Mrs. Centlivre, Gotham Election. 
II. in trans. 1. To make payment or requital; 
meet one's debts or obligations : as. lie pays well 
or promptly. 2. To yield a suitable return or 
reward, as for outlay, expense, or trouble; be 
remunerative, profitable, or advantageous : as, 
litigation does not pay. 
And all speculations as to what it will and what it will 
not pay to learn. Fitch, Lectures on Teaching, p. 191. 
To pay for. (n) To make amends for ; atone for : as, men 
often pay for {\\e\r mistakes with suffering. (6) To give 
equal value for; bear the charge or cost of; give in ex- 
change for. 
