- Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
- (v.t.) To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.
- (v.t.) To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.
- (n.) A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.
- (n.) Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.
- (n.) A printed or written instrument; a document, essay or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society.
- (v.t.) To fold or inclose in paper.
- (n.) A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
- (n.) A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper.
- (n.) Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below.
- (n.) A sheet, leaf or piece of such substance.
- (n.) A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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