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||Paux"i (?), n. [From the native name: cf. Sp. pauji.] (Zoˆl.) A ||curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often ||domesticated.

Pav"age (?), n. [Cf. F. pavage.] See Pavage. [R.]

Pav"an (?), 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.]

||Pa`vÈ" (?), n. [F., from paver to pave. See Pave.] The pavement.

||Nymphe du pavÈ (&?;), a prostitute who solicits in the street. [A low ||euphemism.]

Pave (?), 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. &?; 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 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.

With silver paved, and all divine with gold.

Dryden.

To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways.

Gay.

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.

It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title.

Bacon.

Pave"ment (?), n. [F., fr. LL. pavamentum, L. pavimentum. See Pave.] That with which anythingis 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.

The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.

Milton.

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

Pave"ment, v. t. To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] "How richly pavemented!" Bp. Hall.

Pav"en (?), n. See Pavan.

Pav"er (?), n. One who paves; one who lays a pavement. [Written also pavier and pavior.]

Pav`e*sade" (?), 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.

{ Pa*vese" (?), Pa*vesse" (?) }, n. Pavise. [Obs.]

Pa"vi*age (?), n. (Law) A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways. Bouvier.

Pav"i*an (?), n. See Pavan.

Pav"id (?), a. [L. pavidus, from pavere to be afraid.] Timid; fearful. [R.] Thackeray.

Pa*vid"i*ty (?), n. Timidity. [R.]

Pav"ier (?), n. A paver.

Pa"vi*in (p"v*n), n. (Chem.) A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.