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PAXA'ROS, or Bird Island, a fmp.ll ifland near the 
fouth coaft of Cuba. Lat. 19. 56. N. Ion. 78.24. W.—- 
Alfo, an ifland on the coaft of California, in the North 
Pacific Qcean. Lat. 30. 18. N. Ion. 120.45. W.—Alio, 
fmall iflands or rocks in the Pacific ocean, near the coaft 
of Chili. Lat, 29. 40. S. 
PAXIMA'DES, an ifland in the Mediterranean, near 
the fouth coaft of the ifland of Candia. Lat. 34. 54. N. 
Ion. 24. 43. E. 
PAX'O, an ifland in the Mediterranean, about feven 
miles long, and three broad, with a good harbour. Its 
furface is highly beautiful, much inclofed, and nearly 
covered with olive-trees. It is one of the Seven Ionian 
Iflands under the protection of Great Britain. See St. 
Maura, vol.xiv. p. 556. 
Thefe iflands appear to flourifh, though great com¬ 
plaints have been made of mif-government and negleCt ; 
for fir Thomas Maitland, the governor, is governor of 
Malta alfo. Paxo, we are told, has fifty-fix trading vef- 
fels, and exported goods to the value of 96,000 dollars in 
the year 1815; which included 8500 barrels, or 2125 
hogfheads, of oil. The value of the annual produdt of 
the ifland was 23,000k the produce of the taxes was 6957 
dollars, the expenditure 6107. There are thirty-fix 
churches, and 3968 inhabitants, the greater part of 
which are in St. Gago, the capital. It is eight miles 
fouth-eaft of Corfu, the feat of government, and twelve 
miles well of the coaft of Albania. Lat. 39. 21. N. Ion. 
20. 21. E.—Antipaxo, an inlet five or fix miles in circum¬ 
ference, and inhabited by a few fifliermen, lies near it. 
Goodifon’s “Hiftorical Eflay on the Ionian Iflands,” 
juft publifhed (Nov. 1822.) ftates the population of the 
whole of the iflands of this Ionian Republic at 200,000 
fouls; viz. Corfu and Cephalonia, each about 60,000; 
Zante, about 35,000 ; Leucadia, or Santa Maura, 17,000 ; 
and the remainder in Paxo, Ithaca, and Cerigo. See alfo 
Gen. Vaudoncourt’s Mem. of the Ionian Iflands, and Dr. 
Holland’s and Mr. Williams’s Travels in Greece. 
PAX'TON (Upper, Lower, and Middle), three town- 
fliips in Dauphin county, Pennfylvania: the firft contains 
2232, the fecond 2180, and the third, including Swatara, 
2998, inhabitants.—Alfo, a townfhipof Worcefter county, 
Maffachufetts; eight miles weft of Worcefter, incorpo¬ 
rated in 1765, and containing 619 inhabitants.—Alfo, a 
townfhip of Ohio, in Rofs-county, with 661 inhabitants. 
To PAY, v. a. f paier, Fr. apao-ar, Span, png-are, Ital.] 
To difcharge a debt. It is applied to debts of duty, as 
well as debts of commerce.—She does what fhe will, fay 
what fhe will, take all, pap all. Shahefpeare, M. W. of 
Windfor. —An hundred talents of filver did the children 
of Ammon pap. 2 C/iron. xxvii. 5.—I have peace-offerings 
with me; this day have I paid my vows. Prov. vii. 14. 
Your fon has paid a foldier’s debt; 
He only liv’d but till he was a man. Shahefpeare. 
It is oppofed to borrow. — The wicked borroweth, and 
papeth not again. Pj’alms. —To difmifs one to whom any 
thing is due with his money: as. He had paid his la¬ 
bourers.—To atone ; to make amends by fuffering : with 
for before the caufe of payment.—Men of parts, who were 
to aft according to the refult of their debates, and often 
pap for their miftakes with their heads, found thofe fcho- 
laftic forms of little ufe to difcover truth. Loclie. 
Bold Prometheus, whofe untam’d defire 
Rivall’d the fun with his own heav’nly fire, 
Now doom’d the Scythian vulture’s endlefs prey, 
Severely paps for animating clay. RoJ'common. 
To beat.—I follow’d me clofe, and, with a thought, 
feven of the eleven I paid. Shahefpeare’'s Henrp IV. 
Forty things more, my friends, which you know true, 
For which, or pay me quick, or I’ll pay you. B. Jovfon. 
To reward j to recompenfe: 
PAY 
She I love, or.laughs at all my pain, 
Or knows her worth too well, and pays me with difdain. 
Drpden, Kn. Tale. 
To give the equivalent for any thing bought.—Riches 
are got by confirming lefs of foreign commodities than 
what by commodities or labour is paid for. Locke. —It is 
very pofliblefora man that lives by cheating, to be very 
punctual in paying- for wdiat he buys ; but then every 
one is allured that he does not do fo out of any principle 
of true honefty. Law. —[In naval language.] To fmear 
the furfaces of any thing with pitch, refin, turpentine, 
tallow, and the like. 
PAY,/’. Wages; hire; money given in return for 
fervice.—The foldier is willing to be converted, for there 
is neither pay nor plunder to be got. VEftrange. 
Come on, brave foldiers, doubt not of the day ; 
And, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay. ShaheJ'p. 
PAY'-DAY, f. Day on which debts are to be dif- 
charged or wages paid.—Labourers pay away all their 
wages, and live upon truft till next pay-day. Locke. 
PAY-HO', or Pei-ho, a river of China, which rifes in 
the north part of the province of Pe-che-li, and runs into 
the gulf of Leao-tong in lat. 39. 3. N. 
PAY-HOU', a lake of China, in Pe-tche-li: 140 miles 
fouth of Peking. 
PAY'-MASTER, f. One who is to pay; one from 
whom wages or reward is received. If we defire that God 
fhould approve us, it is a fign we do his work, and expert 
him our pay-mufter. Bp. Taylor. 
PA'YA, a town of South-America, in the province 
of Darien : thirty miles eaft of St. Marie de Darien. 
PAYABLE, adj. Due; to be paid.—The marriage- 
money, the princefs brought, was payable ten days after 
the folemnization. Bacon's Henry VII. —Such as there is 
power to pay.—To repay, by a return equivalent, is not 
in every one’s power; but thanks are a tribute payable 
by the pooreft. South. 
PAYASAI 4 See Remedios. 
PAY'AS. See Paias. 
PAYE'E,/. in commerce, the perfon to whom a bill is 
made payable. 
PAY'ER, /’. One that pays.—Ingrateful payer of my 
induftries. Beaum. and FI. Kn. of Malta. 
PAYER'NE, a town of Swiflerland, in the canton of 
Berne, formerly an imperial town under the protection 
of the dukes of Savoy. It fubmitted to Berne in the year 
1536, and is governed by its own magiftrates : twenty- 
two miles fouth-weft of Berne. Lat. 46. 51. N. Ion. 6. 
44. E. ■ 
P AY'ERSDORFF, a town of Germany, in the marg- 
gravate of Bayreuth. Near it is a caftle, built of ftone, in 
a llate of decay. This town and caftle were taken by the 
Swedes under GuftavuS Adolphus. 
PAYJAN', a town of Peru, in the diocefe of Truxillo: 
fifteen miles north of Truxillo. 
PAY'ING,/. TheaCl of difcharging a debt; the aCl 
or procefs of daubing any thing with fome unCluous 
matter in order to preferve it; a levere chaftifement. 
PAY'MENT, J'. TheaCl of paying.—Perfons of emi¬ 
nent virtue, when advanced, are lefs envied, for their for¬ 
tune feemeth but due unto them ; and no man envieth 
the payment of a debt. Bacon. —The thing given in dif¬ 
charge of debt or promife : 
Commits his body 
To painful labour both by fea and land, 
And craves no other tribute at thy hands 
But love, fair looks,and true obedience; 
Too little payment for fo great a debt. Shahefpeare. 
A reward.—The wages that fin bargains with thefinner, 
are life, pleafure, and profit; but the wages it pays him 
with, are death, torment, and deftruCtion: he that would 
underftand the falfehood and deceit of fin thoroughly, 
mu ft. 
