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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

paper
     n 1: a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood
          or rags or certain grasses
     2: an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got
        an A on his composition" [syn: composition, report, theme]
     3: a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains
        news and articles and advertisements; "he read his
        newspaper at breakfast" [syn: newspaper]
     4: a scholarly article describing the results of observations
        or stating hypotheses; "he has written many scientific
        papers"
     5: medium for written communication; "the notion of an office
        running without paper is absurd"
     6: a business firm that publishes newspapers; "Murdoch owns
        many newspapers" [syn: newspaper, newspaper publisher]
     7: a newspaper as a physical object: "when it began to rain he
        covered his head with a newspaper" [syn: newspaper]
     v 1: cover with paper; "paper the box"
     2: cover with wallpaper [syn: wallpaper]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Carborundum cloth \Carborundum cloth\ or paper \paper\ .
   Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
Poonah painting \Poo"nah paint`ing\ [From Poona, in Bombay
   Province, India.]
   A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century,
   in which a thick opaque color is applied without background
   and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing
   flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work.

   Note: Hence:

   Poonah brush,

   paper,

   painter, etc.
Paper \Pa"per\, n. [F. papier, fr. L. papyrus papyrus, from
   which the Egyptians made a kind of paper, Gr. ?. Cf.
   Papyrus.]
   1. 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.

   2. A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.

   3. A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the
      like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific
      society.

            They brought a paper to me to be signed. --Dryden.

   4. A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a
      journal; as, a daily paper.

   5. Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of
      exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount
      of his paper.

   6. Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper.
      See Paper hangings, below.

   7. A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a
      paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

   8. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for
      external application; as, cantharides paper.

   Note: Paper is manufactured in sheets, the trade names of
         which, together with the regular sizes in inches, are
         shown in the following table. But paper makers vary the
         size somewhat.
Paper \Pa"per\, a.
   Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper;
   existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a
   paper army.
Paper \Pa"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Papered; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Papering.]
   1. To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as,
      to paper a room or a house.

   2. To fold or inclose in paper.

   3. To put on paper; to make a memorandum of. [Obs.]
Emery \Em"er*y\, n. [F. ['e]meri, earlier ['e]meril, It.
   smeriglio, fr. Gr. ?, ?, ?, cf. ? to wipe; perh. akin to E.
   smear. Cf. Emeril.] (Min.)
   Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts
   for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is
   mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under
   Corundum.

   Emery board, cardboard pulp mixed with emery and molded
      into convenient.

   Emery cloth or paper, cloth or paper on which the powder
      of emery is spread and glued for scouring and polishing.
      

   Emery wheel, a wheel containing emery, or having a surface
      of emery. In machine shops, it is sometimes called a buff
      wheel, and by the manufacturers of cutlery, a glazer.
Fossil \Fos"sil\, a. [L. fossilis, fr. fodere to dig: cf. F.
   fossile. See Fosse.]
   1. Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.

   2. (Paleon.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in
      rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants,
      shells.

   Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue
      clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable
      resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth.

   Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of
      amianthus.

   Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime.

   Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. --Raymond.

Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary 

Paper
   The expression in the Authorized Version (Isa. 19:7), "the paper
   reeds by the brooks," is in the Revised Version more correctly
   "the meadows by the Nile." The words undoubtedly refer to a
   grassy place on the banks of the Nile fit for pasturage.
   
     In 2 John 1:12 the word is used in its proper sense. The
   material so referred to was manufactured from the papyrus, and
   hence its name. The papyrus (Heb. gome) was a kind of bulrush
   (q.v.). It is mentioned by Job (8:11) and Isaiah (35:7). It was
   used for many purposes. This plant (Papyrus Nilotica) is now
   unknown in Egypt; no trace of it can be found. The unaccountable
   disappearance of this plant from Egypt was foretold by Isaiah
   (19:6, 7) as a part of the divine judgment on that land. The
   most extensive papyrus growths now known are in the marshes at
   the northern end of the lake of Merom.