These are the meanings of the letters PAPEY when you unscramble them.
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Ape (n.)
A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.
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Ape (n.)
One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
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Ape (n.)
A dupe.
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Ape (v. t.)
To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
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Aye (adv.)
Alt. of Ay
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Aye (n.)
An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, \"To call for the ayes and noes;\" \"The ayes have it.\"
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Aye (a.)
Alt. of Ay
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Pap (n.)
A nipple; a mammilla; a teat.
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Pap (n.)
A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.
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Pap (n.)
A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.
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Pap (n.)
Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap.
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Pap (n.)
The pulp of fruit.
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Pap (v. t.)
To feed with pap.
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Pay (v. t.)
To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
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Pay (v. t.)
To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
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Pay (v. t.)
Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
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Pay (v. t.)
To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
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Pay (v. t.)
To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
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Pay (v. t.)
To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
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Pay (v. i.)
To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
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Pay (v. i.)
Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
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Pay (n.)
Satisfaction; content.
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Pay (n.)
An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
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Pea (n.)
The sliding weight on a steelyard.
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Pea (n.)
See Peak, n., 3.
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Pea (n.)
A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.
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Pea (n.)
A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.
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Pye (n.)
See 2d Pie (b).
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Yap (v. i.)
To bark; to yelp.
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Yap (n.)
A bark; a yelp.
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Yea (adv.)
Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.
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Yea (adv.)
More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2.
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Yea (n.)
An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays.