Palmerworm - PALMER-WORM, n. p`amer-worm. A worm covered with hair; supposed to be so called because he wanders over all plants. Joel 1.
Pang - PANG, n. Extreme pain; anguish; agony of body; particularly, a sudden paroxysm of extreme pain, as in spasm, or childbirth. Isa 21.
I saw the hoary traitor,
Grin in the pangs of death, and bit the ground.
PANG, v.t. To torture; to give extreme pain to.
Parable - PAR'ABLE, n. [L. parabilis.] Easily procured. [Not used.]
PAR'ABLE, n. [L. parabola; Gr. to throw forward or against, to compare to or against; as in confero, collatum, to set together, or one thing with another.] A fable or allegorical relation or representation of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction; such as the parable of the trees choosing a king, Judg 9; the parable of the poor man and his lamb. 2 Sam 12; the parable of the ten virgins, Mat 25.
PAR'ABLE, v.t. To represent by fiction or fable.
Partaker - PARTA'KER, n. One who has or takes a part, share or portion in common with others; a sharer; a participator; usually followed by of.
If the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things-- Rom 15.
Sometimes followed by in.
Wish me partaker in thy happiness--
If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Mat 23.
1. An accomplice; an associate.
When thou sawest a thief,thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Psa 1.
Patience - PATIENCE, n. pa'shens. [L. patientia, from patior, to suffer.]
1. The suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation or other evil, with a calm, unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness. Patience may spring from constitutional fortitude, from a kind of heroic pride, or from Christian submission to the divine will.
2. A calm temper which bears evils without murmuring or discontent.
3. The act or quality of waiting long for justice or expected good without discontent.
Have patience with me,and I will pay thee all. Mat 18.
4. Perseverance; constancy in labor or exertion.
He learnt with patience, and with meekness taught.
5. The quality of bearing offenses and injuries without anger or revenge.
His rage was kindled and his patience gone.
6. Sufferance; permission. [Not used.]
7. A plant, a species of rumex of dock.