7. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
The pavilion of heaven is bare.
Shelley. Pavilion
(Pa*vil"ion), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pavilioned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pavilioning.] To furnish or cover
with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.
The field pavilioned with his guardians bright.
Milton. Pavin
(Pav"in) n. See Pavan.
Paving
(Pav"ing) n.
1. The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.
2. A pavement.
Pavior
(Pav"ior) n.
1. One who paves; a paver.
2. A rammer for driving paving stones.
3. A brick or slab used for paving.
Pavise
(Pa*vise) n. [OF. pavaix, F. pavois; cf. It. pavese, LL. pavense; perh. named from Pavia in
Italy.] (Mil. Antiq.) A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened
also an archer with it. [Written also pavais, pavese, and pavesse.] Fairholt.
Pavisor
(Pa*vis"or) n. (Mil. Antiq.) A soldier who carried a pavise.
Pavo
(||Pa"vo) n. [L., a peacock. See Peacock.]
1. (Zoöl.) A genus of birds, including the peacocks.
2. (Astron.) The Peacock, a constellation of the southern hemisphere.
Pavon
(Pa"von) n. A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.
Pavone
(Pa*vone") n. [Cf. It. pavone, Sp. pavon, fr. L. pavo.] (Zoöl.) A peacock. [Obs.] Spenser.
Pavonian
(Pa*vo"ni*an) a. Of or pertaining to a peacock. [R.] Southey.
Pavonine
(Pav"o*nine) a. [L. pavoninus, fr. pavo a peacock. See Peacock.]
1. (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.
2. Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. P. Cleaveland.
Paw
(Paw) n. [OE. pawe, poue, OF. poe: cf. patte, LG. pote, D. poot, G. pfote.]
1. The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
2. The hand. [Jocose] Dryden.
Paw clam (Zoöl.), the tridacna; - - so called because shaped like an animal's paw.
