n. 1. 1 an African fowl genus; both sexes are brightly colored.
Syn. -- Congo peafowl, Afropavo congensis [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To pave. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Impaved with rude fidelity
Of art mosaic. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. impavidus. See In- not, and Pavid. ] Fearless. -- Im*pav"id*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ L., poppy. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, including the poppy. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits.
Syn. -- family Papaveraceae, poppy family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural family of plants (Papaveraceae) of which the poppy, the celandine, and the bloodroot are well-known examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pavage. ] See Paviage. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. pavane; cf. It. & Sp. pavana, and Sp. pavon, pavo, a peacock, L. pavo. ] A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock. [ Written also pavane, paven, pavian, and pavin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., from paver to pave. See Pave. ] The pavement. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖Nymphe du pavé a prostitute who solicits in the street; a streetwalker. [ A low euphemism. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Paved p. pr. & vb. n. Paving. ] [ F. paver to pave, LL. pavare, from L. pavire to beat, ram, or tread down; cf. Gr. pai`ein to beat, strike. ] 1. To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for vehicles, horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court. [ 1913 Webster ]

With silver paved, and all divine with gold. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways. [ Narrower terms: asphalt, macadam, macadamized, tarmac, tarmacadam; blacktopped, brick, cobblestone, cobblestoned ] [ Ant: unpaved ]
Syn. -- hard-surfaced, surfaced, made-up [ British ], sealed [ Australian ]. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., fr. LL. pavamentum, L. pavimentum. See Pave. ] That with which anything is paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pavement teeth (Zool.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [ Obs. ] “How richly pavemented!” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Pavan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who paves; one who lays a pavement. [ Written also pavier and pavior. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Pavise. ] A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. Pavise. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Pavan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pavidus, from pavere to be afraid. ] Timid; fearful. [ R. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Timidity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A paver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. pavillon, fr. L. pavilio a butterfly, also, a tent, because spread out like a butterfly's wings. ] 1. A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. “[ The ] Greeks do pitch their brave pavilions.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Her.) Same as Tent (Her.) [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Anat.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pavilion of heaven is bare. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pavilioned p. pr. & vb. n. Pavilioning. ] To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents. [ 1913 Webster ]

The field pavilioned with his guardians bright. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Pavan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pavement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who paves; a paver. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A machine for laying pavement; a rammer for driving paving stones.
Syn. -- paviour, paving machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A brick or slab used for paving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See pavior{ 2 }.
Syn. -- pavior, paving machine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. pavaix, F. pavois; cf. It. pavese, LL. pavense; perh. named from Pavia in Italy. ] (Mil. Antiq.) A large heavy oblong shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes also screened an archer with it. It was originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position [ Written also pavis, pavais, pavese, and pavesse. ] Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Mil. Antiq.) A soldier who carried a pavise. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. adj. Of or pertaining to Ivan Pavlov, or the principles of conditioned responses that he investigated; as, a Pavlovian response. dog [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖prop. n. [ L., a peacock. See Peacock. ] 1. (Zool.) A genus of birds, including the peacocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) The Peacock, a constellation of the southern hemisphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. It. pavone, Sp. pavon, fr. L. pavo. ] (Zool.) A peacock. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a peacock. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pavoninus, fr. pavo a peacock. See Peacock. ] 1. (Zool.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. P. Cleaveland. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. spaveyne, OF. esparvain, F. éparvin; akin to OF. espervier a sparrow hawk, F. épervier, fr. OHG. sparwāri (G. sperber), fr. OHG. sparo sparrow, because this disease makes the horse raise the infirm leg in the manner of a sparrow hawk or sparrow. See Sparrow. ] (Far.) A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed. Harbaugh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bog spavin, a soft swelling produced by distention of the capsular ligament of the hock; -- called also blood spavin. --
Bone spavin, spavin attended with exostosis; ordinary spavin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with spavin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not paved; not furnished with a pavement. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Castrated. [ Obs. ] “Unpaved eunuch.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]