Name Report For First Name PAULSON:

PAULSON

First name PAULSON's origin is English. PAULSON means "little. son of paul. surname". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PAULSON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of paulson.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with PAULSON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with PAULSON - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming PAULSON

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PAULSON AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH PAULSON (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (aulson) - Names That Ends with aulson:

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (ulson) - Names That Ends with ulson:

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (lson) - Names That Ends with lson:

adalson alson carlson colson elson eorlson esrlson nelson wilson earlson

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (son) - Names That Ends with son:

harrison pierson rawson aeson iason jason hanson son addyson ailison alyson crimson ellison emerson maddison madison mattison raison addison aliceson alison anderson anson atkinson benson branson brantson brookson bryson carson charleson chayson clayson davidson davison dawson dayson demason dennison dickson eallison eason eddison edson edwardson farquharson ferguson fergusson garrson garson grayson gregson greyson henderson henson jackson jakson jameson jamieson jamison jayson johnson judson kadison kaison larson macpherson mason masson matheson matson morrison neason nickson nicson nikson ourson parkinson pearson perkinson peterson pherson randson robertson rowson ruadson sampson sanderson saunderson simson

NAMES RHYMING WITH PAULSON (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (paulso) - Names That Begins with paulso:

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (pauls) - Names That Begins with pauls:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (paul) - Names That Begins with paul:

paul paula pauline paulita pauloc

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pau) - Names That Begins with pau:

pauwau

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pa) - Names That Begins with pa:

paaveli paavo pabla pablo pacho pachu'a paciencia paco pacorro padarn paddy paden padgett padma padraic padraig padraigin padriac padric padruig paegastun paeivi paella pafko pag page paget pahana paharita paien paige paili paine paislee paiton paityn pajackok paki pakuna pakwa palaemon palamedes palassa palba palban paliki pall pallatin pallaton palmer palmere palmira paloma palomydes palsmedes palt-el palti pamela pamuy pamuya pan panagiota panagiotis pancho pancratius pandara pandareos pandarus pandora pannoowau panphila pansy pant panteleimon panthea panya paola paolo papan papandr paquita parfait paris parisch park parke parker parkin parkins parlan parle parmis parnall parnel

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PAULSON:

First Names which starts with 'pau' and ends with 'son':

First Names which starts with 'pa' and ends with 'on':

patamon paton patton paxton payton

First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'n':

parthalan patten pattin patwin paxtun payden payten pegeen pellean pelltun pemton penarddun pendaran pendragon penn penton pepin peppin perekin perkin perren perrin perryn petron peyton pfeostun phaethon phalyn phaon phelan pheredin philemon phlegethon pin pippin pirmin platon poseidon poston prestin preston pridwyn princeton prydwyn pulan pution pygmalion pyn

English Words Rhyming PAULSON

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PAULSON AS A WHOLE:



ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PAULSON (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (aulson) - English Words That Ends with aulson:



Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (ulson) - English Words That Ends with ulson:



Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (lson) - English Words That Ends with lson:


keelsonnoun (n.) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship.

kelsonnoun (n.) See Keelson.

telsonnoun (n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (son) - English Words That Ends with son:


advowsonnoun (n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

antimasonnoun (n.) One opposed to Freemasonry.

arsonnoun (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship.

basonnoun (n.) A basin.

bawsonnoun (n.) A badger.
 noun (n.) A large, unwieldy person.

benisonnoun (n.) Blessing; beatitude; benediction.

bisonnoun (n.) The aurochs or European bison.
 noun (n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

bissonadjective (a.) Purblind; blinding.

bosonnoun (n.) See Boatswain.

caissonnoun (n.) A chest to hold ammunition.
 noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber.
 noun (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach.
 noun (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.
 noun (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins.
 noun (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it.
 noun (n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits.

caparisonnoun (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative.
 noun (n.) Gay or rich clothing.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse.
 verb (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress.

cargasonnoun (n.) A cargo.

cavessonnoun (n.) Alt. of Cavezon

chansonnoun (n.) A song.

comparisonnoun (n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
 noun (n.) The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.
 noun (n.) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
 noun (n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.
 noun (n.) A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.
 noun (n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
 verb (v. t.) To compare.

crimsonnoun (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.
 adjective (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.
 verb (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
  (b. t.) To become crimson; to blush.

damsonnoun (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

diapasonnoun (n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.
 noun (n.) Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.
 noun (n.) The entire compass of tones.
 noun (n.) A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.
 noun (n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.

disdiapasonnoun (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason.

disherisonnoun (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion.

disputisonnoun (n.) Dispute; discussion.

dobsonnoun (n.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.

dorsimesonnoun (n.) (Anat.) See Meson.

elisonnoun (n.) Division; separation.
 noun (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

empoisonnoun (n.) Poison.
 verb (v. t.) To poison; to impoison.

enchesonnoun (n.) Alt. of Encheason

encheasonnoun (n.) Occasion, cause, or reason.

flotsonnoun (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson.

foisonnoun (n.) Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.

foysonnoun (n.) See Foison.

freemasonnoun (n.) One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.

gambesonnoun (n.) Same as Gambison.

gambisonnoun (n.) A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.

garrisonnoun (n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
 noun (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.
 verb (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
 verb (v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.

geasonadjective (a.) Rare; wonderful.

godsonnoun (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.

grandsonnoun (n.) A son's or daughter's son.

grisonnoun (n.) A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton.
 noun (n.) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.

herissonnoun (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage.

hysonnoun (n.) A fragrant kind of green tea.

intercomparisonnoun (n.) Mutual comparison of corresponding parts.

jetsonnoun (n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy.
 noun (n.) Jettison. See Jettison, 1.

jettisonnoun (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
 noun (n.) See Jetsam, 1.

lessonnoun (n.) Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.
 noun (n.) That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.
 noun (n.) A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.
 noun (n.) A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
 noun (n.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
 verb (v. t.) To teach; to instruct.

lewissonnoun (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.
 noun (n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.

liaisonnoun (n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

livraisonnoun (n.) A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.

malisonnoun (n.) Malediction; curse; execration.

masonnoun (n.) One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.
 noun (n.) A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
 verb (v. t.) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.

mesonnoun (n.) The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PAULSON (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (paulso) - Words That Begins with paulso:



Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (pauls) - Words That Begins with pauls:



Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (paul) - Words That Begins with paul:


paulnoun (n.) See Pawl.
 noun (n.) An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.

pauldronnoun (n.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.

pauliannoun (n.) Alt. of Paulianist

paulianistnoun (n.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.

pauliciannoun (n.) One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.

paulinnoun (n.) See Tarpaulin.

paulineadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.

paulistnoun (n.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

paulownianoun (n.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceae, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pau) - Words That Begins with pau:


paunoun (n.) See Pah.

pauciloquentadjective (a.) Uttering few words; brief in speech.

pauciloquynoun (n.) Brevity in speech.

paucispiraladjective (a.) Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.

paucitynoun (n.) Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.
 noun (n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.

paugienoun (n.) Alt. of Paugy

paugynoun (n.) The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.

pauhaugennoun (n.) The menhaden; -- called also poghaden.

pauncenoun (n.) The pansy.

paunchnoun (n.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
 noun (n.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch.
 noun (n.) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
 verb (v. t.) To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
 verb (v. t.) To stuff with food.

paunchingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paunch

paunchyadjective (a.) Pot-bellied.

paunenoun (n.) A kind of bread. See Pone.

paupernoun (n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.

pauperismnoun (n.) The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.

pauperizationnoun (n.) The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

pauperizingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pauperize

pauropodanoun (n. pl.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae.

pausenoun (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
 noun (n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
 noun (n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
 noun (n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
 noun (n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
 noun (n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
 noun (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
 noun (n.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
 noun (n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
 noun (n.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.

pausingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pause

pausernoun (n.) One who pauses.

pauxinoun (n.) A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PAULSON:

English Words which starts with 'pau' and ends with 'son':



English Words which starts with 'pa' and ends with 'on':

pabulationnoun (n.) The act of feeding, or providing food.
 noun (n.) Food; fodder; pabulum.

pacationnoun (n.) The act of pacifying; a peacemaking.

pacificationnoun (n.) The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.

pactionnoun (n.) An agreement; a compact; a bargain.

padelionnoun (n.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.

pademelonnoun (n.) See Wallaby.

paeonnoun (n.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable.

paginationnoun (n.) The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number.

palificationnoun (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.

palliationnoun (n.) The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.
 noun (n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease.
 noun (n.) That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised.

palpationnoun (n.) Act of touching or feeling.
 noun (n.) Examination of a patient by touch.

palpitationnoun (n.) A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.

pandiculationnoun (n.) A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.

panelationnoun (n.) The act of impaneling a jury.

panificationnoun (n.) The act or process of making bread.

panopticonnoun (n.) A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen.
 noun (n.) A room for the exhibition of novelties.

panpharmaconnoun (n.) A medicine for all diseases; a panacea.

panshonnoun (n.) An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes.

pantaloonnoun (n.) A ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes.
 noun (n.) A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one.
 noun (n.) In recent times, same as Trousers.

pantechniconnoun (n.) A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale.

pantheonnoun (n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.
 noun (n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon.

pantonnoun (n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.

papionnoun (n.) A West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.

paragonnoun (n.) A companion; a match; an equal.
 noun (n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition.
 noun (n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence.
 noun (n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.
 verb (v. t.) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
 verb (v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival.
 verb (v. t.) To serve as a model for; to surpass.
 verb (v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison.

paralipomenonnoun (n. pl.) A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles.

parallelopipedonnoun (n.) A parallelopiped.

paralyzationnoun (n.) The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.

parelconnoun (n.) The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb.

parentationnoun (n.) Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies.

parergonnoun (n.) See Parergy.

parhelionnoun (n.) A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene.

paroophoronnoun (n.) A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.

parsonnoun (n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.
 noun (n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.

parthenonnoun (n.) A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.

participationnoun (n.) The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.
 noun (n.) Distribution; division into shares.
 noun (n.) community; fellowship; association.

particularizationnoun (n.) The act of particularizing.

parturitionnoun (n.) The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.
 noun (n.) That which is brought forth; a birth.

passionnoun (n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
 noun (n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.
 noun (n.) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
 noun (n.) The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
 noun (n.) Disorder of the mind; madness.
 noun (n.) Passion week. See Passion week, below.
 verb (v. t.) To give a passionate character to.
 verb (v. i.) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

pasteurizationnoun (n.) A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140¡ F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.

patacoonnoun (n.) See Pataca.

patefactionnoun (n.) The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.

patrocinationnoun (n.) The act of patrocinating or patronizing.

patronnoun (n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
 noun (n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.
 noun (n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.
 noun (n.) An advocate or pleader.
 noun (n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
 noun (n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
 noun (n.) A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.
 noun (n.) See Padrone, 2.
 adjective (a.) Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.
 verb (v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.

patronizationnoun (n.) The act of patronizing; patronage; support.

patroonnoun (n.) One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

pavilionnoun (n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.
 noun (n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
 noun (n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
 noun (n.) Same as Tent (Her.)
 noun (n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
 noun (n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
 noun (n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.

pavonnoun (n.) A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.

paillonnoun (n.) A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.