Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Palaver (v. t. & i.) To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully.
(2) - Palaver (n.) In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate.
(3) - Palaver (n.) Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

(1) - Pale (v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
(2) - Pale (n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
(3) - Pale (n.) A cheese scoop.
(4) - Pale (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
(5) - Pale (n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment.
(6) - Pale (n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
(7) - Pale (n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
(8) - Pale (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.
(9) - Pale (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
(10) - Pale (v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
(11) - Pale (n.) Paleness; pallor.
(12) - Pale (v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
(13) - Pale (v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

(1) - Paleface (n.) A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.

(1) - Paleness (n.) The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.