Panurgy
(Pan"ur*gy) n. [Gr. fr. properly, ready to do anything; hence, knavish, roguish; all + work.] Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft. [R.] Bailey.

Panyard
(Pan"yard) n. See Pannier. [Obs.] Pepys.

Panym
(Pa"nym) n. & a. See Panim. [Obs.]

Panzoism
(Pan*zo"ism) n. [Pan- + Gr. an animal.] (Biol.) A term used to denote all of the elements or factors which constitute vitality or vital energy. H. Spencer.

Paolo
(||Pa"o*lo) n. [It. Cf. Paul.] An old Italian silver coin, worth about ten cents.

Pap
(Pap) n. [Cf. OSw. papp. Cf. Pap soft food.]

1. (Anat.) A nipple; a mammilla; a teat. Dryden.

The paps which thou hast sucked.
Luke xi. 27.

2. A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon. Macaulay.

Pap
(Pap), n. [Cf. D. pap, G. pappe, both perh. fr. L. papa, pappa, the word with which infants call for food: cf. It. pappa.]

1. A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.

2. Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap. [Colloq. & Contemptuous]

3. The pulp of fruit. Ainsworth.

Pap
(Pap), v. t. To feed with pap. Beau. & Fl.

Papa
(Pa*pa") n. [F. papa, L. papa; cf. Gr. a child's word meaning father. Cf. Pope.]

1. A child's word for father.

2. A parish priest in the Greek Church. Shipley.

Papabote
(Pa`pa*bo"te) n. [Probably of Creole origin.] (Zoöl.) The upland plover. [Local, U. S.]

Papacy
(Pa"pa*cy) n. [LL. papatia, fr. L. papa a father, bishop. See Pope.]

1. The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.

2. The popes, collectively; the succession of popes.

3. The Roman Catholic religion; — commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.

Papagay
(Pap"a*gay) n. (Zoöl.) See Popinjay, 1 (b).

Papain
(Pa*pa"in) n. [From Papaw.] (Physiol. Chem.) A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.

Papal
(Pa"pal) a. [F., fr. L. papa bishop. See Papacy.]

1. Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction. Milman.

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