Defn: Brevity in speech. [R.]
PAUCISPIRAL
Pau`ci*spi"ral, a. Etym: [L. paucus few + E. spiral.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.
PAUCITY Pau"ci*ty, n. Etym: [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. paucité See Few.]
1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.
2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T. Browne.
PAUGIE; PAUGY Pau"gie, Pau"gy, n.; pl. Paugies. Etym: [Corrupted from Amer. Indian mishcuppauog. See Scup.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.
PAUHAUGEN
Pau*hau"gen, n. Etym: [North Amer. Indian.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The menhaden; — called also poghaden.