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PAUCIL'OQUENT, adj. [from the Lat. paucus, few, 
and loquor, to fpeak.] Ufing few words. Cole. 
PAUCIL'OQUY, J\ A fpeech in few words, a fparing 
fpeech. Johvfon. 
PAU'CITY, f \paucitas, from paucus, Lat.] Fewnefs; 
fmalinefs of number.—The multitude of pariflies, and 
paucity of fchools. Hooker. —In fuch (lender corpufcles 
as thofe of colour, may eafily be conceived a greater 
paucity, of protuberant corpufcles. Boyle. —Socrates well 
underflood what he faid touching the rarity and paucity 
of friends. L'Eflrange. —Smallnefs of quantity.—This 
paucity of blood is agreeable to many other animals ; as, 
lizards, frogs, and other fillies. Brown's Vu/g. Err. 
PAU'CTON (Alexis), a French mathematician, was 
horn near Lafiay, in Mayenne, in 173 z. He received his 
education in the mathematical and naval academy at 
Nantes; after which he went to Paris, where his inte¬ 
grity and ‘talents obtained for him a confulerable (hare 
of patronage. He died in the year 1799. His works 
are; x. Theory of the Force of Archimedes. 2. A. 
Treatife on the Weights, Meafures, and Moneys, of all 
Countries, ancient and modern. 3. Theory of the Laws 
of Nature; with a DilTertation on the Pyramids of Egypt. 
To PAVE, v. a. [pavio, Lat. paver, Fr.] To lay with 
brick or (tone ; to floor with ftone.—Let not the court 
he paved; for that ftriketh up a great heat in fummer, 
and much cold in winter. Bacon. 
Should (he kneel down, 
Her brother’s ghofl his paved bed would break, 
And take her hence in horrour. Shahejpeare. 
I fee a city of more precious mold, 
With filver pav'd, and all divine with gold. Dryden. 
To make a paflage eafy.—It might open and pave a pre¬ 
pared way to his own title. Bacon. 
PAVEFAC'TION, J'. [from pavefy.'] The a£t of terri¬ 
fying. Cole. 
To PA'VEFY, v. a. [from the Lat. paveo, to be in fear, 
and facia, to make.] To affright. Cole. 
PAV'EL, f. in botany. See Momordica. 
PA'VEMENT, f. [pavimentum, Lat.] Stones or bricks 
laid on the ground; (tone floor; floor is u fed of (tone, 
but pavement never of wood. Joknjbn. —The foundation 
of Roman ways was made of rough (tone joined together 
with cement ; upon this was laid another layer, confiding 
of fmall ltones and cement, to plane the inequalities of 
the lower llratum in which the (tones of the upper pave¬ 
ment were fixed : for there can be no very durable pave¬ 
ment but a double one. Arbuthiot on Coins. 
The marble pavement clofes; lie is enter’d 
Into his radiant roof. Shahejpeare's Cymbeline. 
A broad and ample road, whole dud is gold. 
And pavement ftars, as dars to thee appear. 
Seen in the galaxy. Milton, P. L. 
In England, the pavements of the grand dreets, See. 
are ufually of flint or rubble-done ; courts, ltables, 
kitchens, halls, churches, See. are paved with tiles, bricks, 
flags, or fire dones; fometimes with a kind of free-done, 
and rag-done- In fome cities, as in Venice for indance, 
the dreets, &c.are paved with brick ; churches fometimes 
are paved with marble, and fometimes with mofaic work, 
as the church of St, Mark, at Venice. In France, the 
public roads, dreets, courts, &c. are paved with gres or 
grit, a kind of free-done. In Amfierdam, and the chief 
cities of Holland, they call their brick pavement the 
lurgher-mafier's pavement, to didinguifli it from the done 
or flint pavement, which ufually takes up the middle of 
the fireet, and which ferves for carriages; the brick wdiich 
borders it being dedined for the paflage of people on 
foot. 
Pavements of free-done, flint, and flags, in dreets, See. 
are laid dry; i. e. in a bed of fand ; thofe of courts, 
fiables, ground-rooms, See. are laid in a mortar of lime 
and fand ; or in lime and cement, efpecially if there be 
vaults or cellars underneath. Some mafons, after laying 
a floor dry, efpecially of brick, fpread a thin mortar over 
it; fweeping it backwards and forwards to fill up the 
joints. The feveral kinds of pavement are as various as 
the materials of wdiich they are compofed, and whence 
they derive the name by which they are didinguidied: as, 
1. Pebble-paving, which is done with dones collected 
from the fea-beach, modly brought from the ifiands of 
Guernfey and Jerfey ; they are very durable, indeed the 
mod fo of any done ufed for this purpofe. They are 
ufed of various fizes, but thofe which are from fix to nine 
inches deep, are edeemed the mod ferviceable. When 
they are about three inches deep, they are denominated 
holders, or bowders ; thefe are ufed for paving court¬ 
yards, and other places not accudomed to receive car¬ 
riages with heavy weights; when laid in geometrical 
figures, they have a very pleading appearance. 
2. Rag-paving was formerly much ufed in London, but 
is very inferior to the pebbles ; it is dug in the vicinity 
of Maiddone, in Kent, from wdience it has the name of 
Kentilh rag-done ; there are fquared dones of this mate¬ 
rial for paving coach-tracks and footways. 
3. Purbeck-pitchens, fquared dones ufed in foot-ways; 
they are brought from the ifland of Purbeck, and alfo 
frequently ufed in court-yards; they are in general from 
fix to ten inches fquare, and about five inches deep. 
4. Squared paving, for didinftion by fome called Scotch 
paving, becaufe the fird of the kind paved in the manner 
that has been and continues to be paved, came from 
Scotland; the fird was a clear clofe done, called blue 
wynn, which is now difufed, becaufe it has been found 
inferior to others fince introduced in the order they are 
hereafter placed. 
5. Granite, a hard material, brought alfo from Scotland, 
of a reddifh colour, very fuperior to the blue wynn 
quarry. 
6. Guernfey, which is the bed, and now almod the only 
done in ufe ; it is the fame done with the pebble before 
fpoken of, but broken with iron hammers, and fquared to 
any dimenfions required of a prifmoidical figure, fet with 
its fmalled bafe downwards. The whole of the foregoing 
paving fliould be bedded and paved in fmall gravel. 
7. Purbeck paving, for footways, is in general got in 
large furfaces, about two inches and a half thick; the 
blue fort is the harded and the bed of this kind of paving. 
8. Yorlijhire paving, is an exceeding good material for 
the fame purpofe, and is got of almod any dimenfions of 
the fame thicknefs of the Purbeck ; this done will not 
admit the wet to pafs through it, nor is itafrefted by the 
frod. 
9. Ryegute, or fire-fione paving, is ufed for hearths, 
doves, ovens, and fuch places as are liable to great heat, 
which does not affeft this done, if kept dry. 
10. Neivcaflle flags, are dones about two feet fquare, 
and one and a half or two inches thick; they anfwer 
very well for paving out-ofiices, they are fomewhat like 
the Yorkfhire. 
11. Portland paving, wdtb done from the ifland of Port¬ 
land ; this is fometimes ornamented with black marble 
dots. 
12. Swced/and paving, is a black (late dug in Leicefler- 
fhire, and looks w'ell for paving halls, or in parti-coloured 
paving. 
13. Marble paving, is modly variegated with different 
marbles, fometimes inlaid in mofaic. 
14. Flat brick paving, done with brick laid in farrd, 
mortar, or groute, as when liquid lime is poured into the 
joints. 
15. Brick-on-edge paving, done with brick laid edge¬ 
ways in the fame manner. 
16. Bricks are alfo laid flat or edgeways in herring¬ 
bone. 
17. Bricks are alfo fometimes fet endways in fand, 
mortar, or groute. 
18. Paving is alfo performed with paving-bricks. 
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