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1. To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another. Glossy jet is paired with shining white. Pope.

2. To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions. [Parliamentary Cant] Paired fins. (Zoöl.) See under Fin.

PAIR Pair, v. t. Etym: [See Impair.]

Defn: To impair. [Obs.] Spenser.

PAIRER Pair"er, n.

Defn: One who impairs. [Obs.] Wyclif.

PAIRING Pair"ing, n. Etym: [See Pair, v. i.]

1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.

2. See To pair off, under Pair, v. i. Pairyng time, the time when birds or other animals pair.

PAIRMENT Pair"ment, n.

Defn: Impairment. [Obs.] Wyclif.

PAIS Pa`is, n. Etym: [OF. puïs, F. pays, country.] (O. E. Law)

Defn: The country; the people of the neighborhood.

Note: A trial per pais is a trial by the country, that is, by a jury; and matter in pais is matter triable by the country, or jury.

PAISANO Pa`i*sa"no, n. Etym: [Sp., of the country, (Zoöl.)

Defn: The chaparral cock.

PAISE Paise, n. Etym: [Obs.]

Defn: See Poise. Chapman.

PAJAMAS Pa*ja"mas, n. pl. [Hind. pa-jama, paejama, lit., leg closing.]

Defn: Originally, in India, loose drawers or trousers, such as those worn, tied about the waist, by Mohammedan men and women; by extension, a similar garment adopted among Europeans, Americans, etc., for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit consisting of drawers and a loose upper garment for such wear.

PAJOCK Pa"jock, n.

Defn: A peacock. [Obs.] Shak.

PAKFONG Pak"fong`, n.

Defn: See Packfong.

PAL Pal, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Defn: A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate. [Slang]

PALACE Pal"ace, n. Etym: [OE. palais, F. palais, fr. L. palatium, fr. Palatium, one of the seven hills of Rome, Paladin.]

1. The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception. Chaucer.

2. The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage.

3. Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house. Palace car. See under Car. -- Palace court, a court having jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. The court was abolished in 1849. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

PALACIOUS Pa*la"cious, a.

Defn: Palatial. [Obs.] Graunt.

PALADIN Pal"a*din, n. Etym: [F., fr.It. paladino, fr. L. palatinus an officer of the palace. See Palatine.]

Defn: A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. Sir W. Scott.

PALAEO- Pa"læ*o-.

Defn: See Paleo-.

PALAEOGRAPHER; PALAEOGRAPHIC Pa`læ*og"ra*pher, n., Pa`læ*o*graph"ic (, a., etc.

Defn: See Paleographer, Paleographic, etc.

PALAEOTYPE Pa"læ*o*type, n. Etym: [Palæo- + -type.] (Phon.)

Defn: A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use. Ellis. -- Pa`læ*o*typ"ic*al, a. -- Pa`læ*o*typ"ic*al*ly, adv.

PALAESTRA Pa*læs"tra, n.

Defn: See Palestra.

PALAESTRIC Pa*læs"tric, a.

Defn: See Palestric.

PALAETIOLOGIST Pa*læ`ti*ol"o*gist, n.

Defn: One versed in palætiology.

PALAETIOLOGY Pa*læ`ti*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Palæo- + ætiology.]

Defn: The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth. -- Pa*læ`ti*o*log"ic*al, a.

PALAMA Pal"a*ma, n.; pl. Palamme. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.

PALAMATE Pal"a*mate, a. [From Palma.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Web-footed.

PALAMEDEAE Pal`a*me"de*æ, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

PALAMPORE Pal`am*pore", n.

Defn: See Palempore.

PALANKA Pa*lan"ka, n. Etym: [Cf. It., Pg., & Sp. palanca, fr.L. palanga, phalanga a pole, Gr. (Mil.)

Defn: A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

PALANQUIN Pal`an*quin", n. Etym: [F. palanquin, Pg. palanquim, Javan. palangki, OJavan. palangkan, through Prakrit fr. Skr. parya, palya, bed, couch; pari around (akin to E. pref. peri-) + a a hook, flank, probably akin to E. angle fishing tackle. Cf. Palkee.]

Defn: An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place. [Written also palankeen.]

PALAPTERYX Pa*lap"te*ryx, n. Etym: [Paleo- + apteryx.] (Paleon.)

Defn: A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand.

PALATABILITY Pal`a*ta*bil"i*ty, n.

Defn: Palatableness.

PALATABLE Pal"a*ta*ble, a. Etym: [From Palate.]

Defn: Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.

PALATABLENESS Pal"a*ta*ble*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness.

PALATABLY Pal"a*ta*bly, adv.

Defn: In a palatable manner.

PALATAL Pal"a*tal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. palatal.]

1. Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones.

2. (Phonetics)

Defn: Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.

PALATAL Pal"a*tal, n. (Phon.)

Defn: A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y.

PALATALIZE Pal"a*tal*ize, v. t. (Phon.)

Defn: To palatize.

PALATE Pal"ate, n. Etym: [L. palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also palat.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: The roof of the mouth.

Note: The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the maxillary and palatine bones, is called the hard palate to distinguish it from the membranous and muscular curtain which separates the cavity of the mouth from the pharynx and is called the soft palate, or velum.

2. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste. Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests. Pope.

3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. T. Baker.

4. (Bot.)

Defn: A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

PALATE Pal"ate, v. t.

Defn: To perceive by the taste. [Obs.] Shak.

PALATIAL Pa*la"tial, a. Etym: [L. palatium palace. See Palace.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures. "Palatial style." A. Drummond.

PALATIAL Pa*la"tial, a. [From Palate.] (Anat.)

Defn: Palatal; palatine. [Obs.] Barrow.

PALATIAL Pa*la"tial, n.

Defn: A palatal letter. [Obs.] Sir W. Jones.

PALATIC Pa*lat"ic, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Palatal; palatine.

PALATIC Pa*lat"ic, n. (Phon.)

Defn: A palatal. [R.]

PALATINATE Pa*lat"i*nate, n. Etym: [F. palatinat. See Palatine.]

Defn: The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine. Howell.

PALATINATE Pa*lat"i*nate, v. t.

Defn: To make a palatinate of. [Obs.] Fuller.

PALATINE Pal"a*tine, a. Etym: [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr. palatium. See Palace, and cf. Paladin.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. -- Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Cæsars. See Palace.

PALATINE Pal"a*tine, n.

1. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.

2. The Palatine hill in Rome.

PALATINE Pal"a*tine, a. Etym: [From Palate.] (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the palate. Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.

PALATINE Pal"a*tine

Defn: , (Anat.) A palatine bone.

PALATIVE Pal"a*tive, a.

Defn: Pleasing to the taste; palatable. [Obs.] "Palative delights." Sir T. Browne.

PALATIZE Pal"a*tize, v. t.

Defn: To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; as, to palatize a letter or sound. -- Pal`a*ti*za"tion, n. J. Peile.

PALATO- Pal"a*to-. Etym: [From Palate.]

Defn: A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.

PALATONARES Pal`a*to*na"res, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Palato-, and Nares.] (Anat.)

Defn: The posterior nares. See Nares.

PALATOPTERYGOID Pal`a*top*ter"y*goid, a. Etym: [Palato- + pterygoid.] (Anat.)

Defn: Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.

PALAVER Pa*la"ver, n. Etym: [Sp. palabra, or Pg. palavra, fr. L. parabola a comparison, a parable, LL., a word. See Parable.]

1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers. Carlyle.

PALAVER Pa*la"ver, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Palavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Palavering.]

Defn: To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully. Palavering the little language for her benefit. C. Bront

PALAVERER Pa*la"ver*er, n.

Defn: One who palavers; a flatterer.

PALE Pale, a. [Compar. Paler; superl. Palest.] Etym: [F. pâle, fr. pâlir to turn pale, L. pallere to be oAppall, Fallow, pall, v. i., Pallid.]

1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer. Speechless he stood and pale. Milton. They are not of complexion red or pale. T. Randolph.

2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon. The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler. Shak.

Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-looking, etc.

PALE Pale, n.

Defn: Paleness; pallor. [R.] Shak.

PALE Pale, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paled; p. pr. & vb. n. Paling.]

Defn: To turn pale; to lose color or luster. Whittier. Apt to pale at a trodden worm. Mrs. Browning.

PALE Pale, v. t.

Defn: To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. The glowpale his uneffectual fire. Shak.

PALE Pale, n. Etym: [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See Pol a stake, and lst Pallet.]

1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. Mortimer.

2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. "Within one pale or hedge." Robynson (More's Utopia).

3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. "To walk the studious cloister's pale." Milton. "Out of the pale of civilization." Macaulay.

4. A stripe or band, as on a garment. Chaucer.

5. (Her.)

Defn: One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

6. A cheese scoop. Simmonds.

7. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. English pale (Hist.), the limits or territory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172. Spencer.

PALE Pale, v. t.

Defn: To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off. [Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. Shak.

PALEA Pa"le*a, n.; pl. Paleæ (-e). Etym: [L., chaff.]

1. (Bot.) (a) The interior chaff or husk of grasses. (b) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

PALEACEOUS Pa`le*a"ceous, a. Etym: [L. palea chaff.] (Bot.)

Defn: Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleæ, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.

PALEARCTIC Pa`le*arc"tic, a. Etym: [Paleo- + arctic.]

Defn: Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

PALED Paled, a. Etym: [See 5th Pale.]

1. Striped. [Obs.] "[Buskins] . . . paled part per part." Spenser.

2. Inclosed with a paling. "A paled green." Spenser.

PALEECHINOIDEA Pa`le*ëch`i*noi"de*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Paleo-, and Echinoidea.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palæechini. [Written also Palæechinoidea.]

PALEFACE Pale"face`, n.

Defn: A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper.

PALEICHTHYES Pa`le*ich"thy*es, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Paleo-, and Ichthyology.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichthyes.]

PALELY Pale"ly, adv. Etym: [From Pale, a.]

Defn: In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily. Thackeray.

PALEMPORE Pal`em*pore", n.

Defn: A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings. [Written also palampore, palampoor, etc.] De Colange.

PALENESS Pale"ness, n.

Defn: The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness. The blood the virgin's cheek forsook; A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look. Pope.

PALENQUE Pa*len"que, n. pl. (Ethnol.)

Defn: A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.

PALEO- Pa"le*o-. Etym: [Gr. , adj.]

Defn: A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography. [Written also palæo-.]

PALEOBOTANIST Pa`le*o*bot"a*nist, n.

Defn: One versed in paleobotany.

PALEOBOTANY Pa`le*o*bot"a*ny, n. Etym: [Paleo- + botany.]

Defn: That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

PALEOCARIDA Pa`le*o*car"ida, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. ancient + , , , a kind of crustacean.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Merostomata. [Written also Palæocarida.]

PALEOCRINOIDEA Pa`le*o*cri*noi"de*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Paleo-, and Crinoidea.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.

PALEOCRYSTIC Pa`le*o*crys"tic, a. Etym: [Paleo- + Gr. ice.]

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.

PALEOGAEAN Pa`le*o*gæ"an, a. Etym: [Paleo- + Gr. the eart] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. [Written also palæogæan.]

PALEOGRAPH Pa"le*o*graph, n.

Defn: An ancient manuscript.

PALEOGRAPHER Pa`le*og"ra*pher, n.

Defn: One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

PALEOGRAPHIC; PALEOGRAPHICAL Pa`le*o*graph"ic, Pa`le*o*graph"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. paléographique.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to paleography.

PALEOGRAPHIST Pa`le*og"ra*phist, n.

Defn: One versed in paleography; a paleographer.

PALEOGRAPHY Pa`le*og"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Paleo- + -graphy: cf. F. paléographie.]

1. An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography.

2. The study of ancient inscriptions and modes of writing; the art or science of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters; diplomatics.

PALEOLA Pa*le"o*la, n.; pl. Paleolæ. Etym: [NL., dim. of L. palea.] (Bot.)

Defn: A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

PALEOLITH Pa"le*o*lith, n. Etym: [Paleo- + -lith.] (Geol.)

Defn: A relic of the Paleolithic era.

PALEOLITHIC Pa`le*o*lith"ic, a. (Geol.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.

PALEOLOGIST Pa`le*ol"ogist, n.

Defn: One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.

PALEOLOGY Pa`le*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Paleo- + -logy.]

Defn: The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; archæology .

PALEONTOGRAPHICAL Pa`le*on`to*graph"ic*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.

PALEONTOGRAPHY Pa`le*on*tog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Paleo- + Gr. -graphy.]

Defn: The description of fossil remains.

PALEONTOLOGICAL Pa`le*on`to*log"ic*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to paleontology. -- Pa`le*on`to*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

PALEONTOLOGIST Pa`le*on*tol"o*gist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. paléontologiste.]

Defn: One versed in paleontology.

PALEONTOLOGY Pa`le*on*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Paleo- + Gr. -logy. Cf. Ontology.]

Defn: The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.

PALEOPHYTOLOGIST Pa`le*o*phy*tol"o*gist, n.

Defn: A paleobotanist.

PALEOPHYTOLOGY Pa`le*o*phy*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Paleo- + phytology.]

Defn: Paleobotany.

PALEORNITHOLOGY Pa`le*or`ni*thol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Paleo- + ornithology.]

Defn: The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.

PALEOSAURUS Pa`le*o*sau"rus, n.Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. ancient + (Paleon.)

Defn: A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.

PALEOTECHNIC Pa`le*o*tech"nic, a. Etym: [Paleo- + technic.]

Defn: Belonging to, or connected with, ancient art. "The paleotechnic men of central France." D. Wilson.

PALEOTHERE Pa"le*o*there, n. Etym: [F. paléothère.] (Paleon.)

Defn: Any species of Paleotherium.

PALEOTHERIAN Pa`le*o*the"ri*an, a. Etym: [F. paléothérien.] (Paleon.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.

PALEOTHERIUM Pa`le*o*the"ri*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.)

Defn: An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama. [Written also Palæotherium.]

PALEOTHEROID Pa`le*o*the"roid, Etym: [Paleothere + -oid.] (Paleon.)

Defn: Resembling Paleotherium. -- n.

Defn: An animal resembling, or allied to, the paleothere.

PALEOTYPE Pa"le*o*type, n.

Defn: See Palæotype.

PALEOUS Pa"le*ous, a. Etym: [L. palea chaff.]

Defn: Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

PALEOZOIC Pa`le*o*zo"ic, a. Etym: [Paleo- + Gr. (Geol.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.

PALEOZOIC ERA Pa`le*o*zo*ic e*ra, n. (Geol.)

Defn: The Paleozoic time or strata.

PALEOZOOLOGY; PALEOZOOELOGY Pa`le*o*zo*öl"o*gy, n. Etym: [Paleo- + zoölogy.]

Defn: The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.

PALESIE; PALESY Pale"sie, Pale"sy, n.

Defn: Palsy. [Obs.] Wyclif.

PALESTINIAN; PALESTINEAN Pal`es*tin"i*an, Pal`es*tin"e*an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Palestine.

PALESTRA Pa*les"tra, n.; pl. L. Palestræ, E. Palestras. Etym: [NL., fr. L. palaestra, Gr. [Written also palæstra.] (Antiq.) (a) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. (b) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.

PALESTRIAN; PALESTRIC; PALESTRICAL Pa*les"tri*an, Pa*les"tric, Pa*les"tric*al, a. Etym: [L. palaestricus, Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.

PALET Pal"et, n. Etym: [See Palea.] (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Palea.

PALET Pa"let, n. Etym: [Dim. of pale. See Pale a stake.] (Her.)

Defn: A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

PALETOT Pal"e*tot, n. Etym: [F. paletot, OF. palletoc, prob. fr. L. palla (see Palla) + F. toque cap, and so lit., a frock with a cap or hood; cf. Sp. paletoque.] (a) An overcoat. Dickens. (b) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.

PALETTE Pal"ette, n. Etym: [See Pallet a thin board.]

1. (Paint.)

Defn: A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also pallet.]

2. (Anc. Armor)

Defn: One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. Fairholt.

3. (Mech.)

Defn: A breastplate for a breast drill. Palette knife, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to mix colors on the grinding slab or palette. -- To set the palette (Paint.), to lay upon it the required pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use of them in a picture. Fairholt.

PALEWISE Pale"wise`, adv. (Her.)

Defn: In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.

PALFREY Pal"frey, n. Etym: [OE. palefrai, OF. palefrei, F. palefroi, LL. palafredus, parafredus, from L. paraveredus a horse for extraordinary occasions, an extra post horse; Gr. veredus a post horse.]

1. A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse. Chaucer.

2. A small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser. Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey. Tennyson.

PALFREYED Pal"freyed, a.

Defn: Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.

PALGRAVE Pal"grave, n.

Defn: See Palsgrave.

PALI Pa"li, n.,

Defn: pl. of Palus.

PALI Pa"li, n. Etym: [Ceylonese, fr. Skr. pali row, line, series, applied to the series of Buddhist sacred texts.]

Defn: A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.

PALIFICATION Pal`i*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. palus a stake + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. palification. See -fy.]

Defn: The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

PALIFORM Pa"li*form, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.

PALILOGY Pa*lil"o*gy, n. Etym: [L. palilogia, Gr. (Rhet.)

Defn: The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee." Is. xxxviii. 19.

PALIMPSEST Pal"imp*sest, n. Etym: [L. palimpsestus, Gr. palimpseste.]

Defn: A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.

PALINDROME Pal"in*drome, n. Etym: [Gr. palindrome.]

Defn: A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

PALINDROMIC; PALINDROMICAL Pal`in*drom"ic, Pal`in*drom"ic*al, a.

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.

PALINDROMIST Pa*lin"dro*mist, n.

Defn: A writer of palindromes.

PALING Pal"ing, n.

1. Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure. They moved within the paling of order and decorum. De Quincey.

2. The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer. Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]

PALINGENESIA Pal`in*ge*ne"si*a, n.Etym: [NL.]

Defn: See Palingenesis.

PALINGENESIS; PALINGENESY Pal`in*gen"e*sis, Pal`in*gen"e*sy, n. Etym: [Gr. palingénésie. See Genesis.]

1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

2. (Biol.)

Defn: That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

PALINGENETIC Pal`in*ge*net"ic, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. -- Pal`in*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

PALINODE Pal"i*node, n. Etym: [L. palinodia, from Gr. Ode.]

1. An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.

2. A retraction; esp., a formal retraction. Sandys.

PALINODIAL Pal`i*no"di*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction. J. Q. Adams.

PALINODY Pal"i*no*dy, n.

Defn: See Palinode. [Obs.] Wood.

PALINURUS Pal`inu"rus, n. Etym: [So called from L. Palinurus, the pilot of Æneas.] (Naut.)

Defn: An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass

PALISADE Pal`i*sade", n. Etym: [F. palissade, cf. Sp. palizada, It. palizzata, palizzo, LL. palissata; all fr. L. palus a stake, pale. See Pale a stake.]

1. (Fort.)

Defn: A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.

2. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes. Palisade cells (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. -- Palisade worm (Zoöl.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.

PALISADE Pal`i*sade", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palisaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Palisading.] Etym: [Cf. F. palissader.]

Defn: To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

PALISADING Pal`i*sad"ing, n. Fort.

Defn: ) A row of palisades set in the ground.

PALISADO Pal`i*sa*"do, n.; pl. Palisadoes (.

Defn: A palisade. [Obs.] Shak.

PALISADO Pal`i*sa"do, v. t.

Defn: To palisade. [Obs.] Sterne.

PALISH Pal"ish, a.

Defn: Somewhat pale or wan.

PALISSANDER Pal`is*san"der, n. Etym: [F. palissandre.] (Bot.) (a) Violet wood. (b) Rosewood.

PALISSY Pal"is*sy, a.

Defn: Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry. Palissy ware, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief.

PALKEE Pal"kee, n. Etym: [Hind. palki; of the same origin as E. palanquin.]

Defn: A palanquin. Malcom.

PALL Pall, n.

Defn: Same as Pawl.

PALL Pall, n. Etym: [OE. pal, AS. pæl, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.]

1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.

2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).

3. (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: Same as Pallium. About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller.

4. (Her.)

Defn: A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.

5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. Warriors carry the warrior's pall. Tennyson.

6. (Eccl.)

Defn: A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.

PALL Pall, v. t.

Defn: To cloak. [R.] Shak

PALL Pall, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled; p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] Etym: [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. pâlir to grow pale. Cf. Appall, Pale, a.]

Defn: To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. Addisin.

PALL Pall, v. t.

1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer. Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury.

2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.

PALL Pall, n.

Defn: Nausea. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.

PALLA Pal"la, n. Etym: [L. See Pall a cloak.] (Rom. Antuq.)

Defn: An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.

PALLADIAN Pal*la"di*an, a. (Arch.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.

PALLADIC Pal*la"dic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds.

PALLADIOUS Pal*la"di*ous, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.

PALLADIUM Pal*la"di*um, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.

1. (Gr. Antiq.)

Defn: Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.

2. Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. Blackstone.

PALLADIUM Pal*la"di*um, n. Etym: [NL.] (Chem.)

Defn: A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.

PALLADIUMIZE Palla"di*um*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palladiumized; p. pr. & vb. n. Palladiumizing.]

Defn: To cover or coat with palladium. [R.]

PALLAH Pal"lah, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A large South African antelope (Æpyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.

PALLAS Pal"las, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Gr. Myth.)

Defn: Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.

PALLBEARER Pall"bear*er, n.

Defn: One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.

PALLET Pal"let, n. Etym: [OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. pala straw, palava chaff. Cf. Paillasse.]

Defn: A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.

PALLET Pal"let, n. Etym: [F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel.]

1. (Paint.)

Defn: Same as Palette.

2. (Pettery) (a) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. (b) A potter's wheel.

3. (Gilding) (a) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. (b) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

4. (Brickmaking)

Defn: A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.

5. (Mach.) (a) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. (b) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Knight.

6. (Horology)

Defn: One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. Brande & C.

7. (Mus.)

Defn: In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.

8. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.

9. A cup containing three ounces, --

PALLIAL Pal"li*al, a. Etym: [L. pallium a mantle. See Pall.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve. Pallial chamber (Zoöl.), the cavity inclosed by the mantle. -- Pallial sinus (Zoöl.), an inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. See Illust. of Bivalve.

PALLIAMENT Pal"li*a*ment, n. Etym: [LL. palliare to clothe, fr. L. pallium a manltle. See Pall the garment.]

Defn: A dress; a robe. [Obs.] Shak.

PALLIARD Pal"liard, n. Etym: [F. paillard, orig., one addicted to the couch, fr. paille straw. See Pallet a small bed.]

1. A born beggar; a vagabond. [Obs.] Halliwell.

2. A lecher; a lewd person. [Obs.] Dryden.

PALLIASSE Pal*liasse", n.

Defn: See Paillasse.

PALLIATE Pal"li*ate, a. Etym: [L. palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak. See Pall the garment.]

1. Covered with a mant [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

PALLIATE Pal"li*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palliated(); p. pr. & vb. n. Palliating().]

1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.] Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert.

2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift.

3. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease. To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. Cowper.

Syn. -- To cover; cloak; hide; extenuate; conceal. -- To Palliate, Extenuate, Cloak. These words, as here compared, are used in a figurative sense in reference to our treatment of wrong action. We cloak in order to conceal completely. We extenuate a crime when we endeavor to show that it is less than has been supposed; we palliate a crime when we endeavor to cover or conceal its enormity, at least in part. This naturally leads us to soften some of its features, and thus palliate approaches extenuate till they have become nearly or quite identical. "To palliate is not now used, though it once was, in the sense of wholly cloaking or covering over, as it might be, our sins, but in that of extenuating; to palliate our faults is not to hide them altogether, but to seek to diminish their guilt in part." Trench.

PALLIATION Pal`li*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. palliation.]

1. The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.

2. Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. Bacon.

3. That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. [Obs.]

PALLIATIVE Pal"li*a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. palliatif.]

Defn: Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

PALLIATIVE Pal"li*a*tive, n.

Defn: That which palliates; a palliative agent. Sir W. Scott.

PALLIATORY Pal"li*a*to*ry, a.

Defn: Palliative; extenuating.

PALLID Pal"lid, a. Etym: [L. pallidus, fr. pallere to be or look pale. See pale, a.]

Defn: Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. Spenser.

PALLIDITY Pal*lid"i*ty, n.

Defn: Pallidness; paleness.

PALLIDLY Pal"lid*ly, adv.

Defn: In a pallid manner.

PALLIDNESS Pal"lid*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

PALLIOBRANCHIATA Pal`li*o*bran`chi*a"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Brachiopoda.

PALLIOBRANCHIATE Pal`li*o*bran"chi*ate, a. Etym: [See Pallium, and Branchia.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.

PALLIUM Pal"li*um, n.; pl. L. Pallia(Palliums. Etym: [L. See Pall the garment.]

1. (Anc. Costume)

Defn: A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.

2. (R.C.Ch.)

Defn: A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.

Note: The wool is obtained from two lambs brought to the basilica of St. Agnes, Rome, and blessed. It is worn by the pope, and sent to patriarchs, primates, and archbishops, as a sign that they share in the plenitude of the episcopal office. Befoer it is sent, the pallium is laid on the tomb of St. Peter, where it remains all night.

3. (Zoöl.) (a) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle. (b) The mantle of a bird.

PALL-MALL Pall`-mall", n. Etym: [OF. palemail, It. pallamagio; palla a ball (of German origin, akin to E. ball) + magio hammer, fr. L. malleus. See lst Ball, and Mall a beetle.]

Defn: A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.

PALLONE Pal*lo"ne, n. Etym: [It., a large ball, fr. palla ball. See Balloon.]

Defn: An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.

PALLOR Pal"lor, n. Etym: [L., fr. pallere to be or look pale. See Pale, a.]

Defn: Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion. Jer. Taylor.

PALM Palm, n. Etym: [OE. paume, F. paume, L. palma, Gr. pani hand, and E. fumble. See Fumble, Feel, and cf. 2d Palm.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. Clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm. Tennyson.

2. A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.

Note: In Greece, the palm was reckoned at three inches. The Romans adopted two measures of this name, the lesser palm of 2.91 inches, and the greater palm of 8.73 inches. At the present day, this measure varies in the most arbitrary manner, being different in each country, and occasionally varying in the same. Internat. Cyc.

3. (Sailmaking)

Defn: A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.

4. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.

5. (Naut.)

Defn: The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

PALM Palm, n. Etym: [AS. palm, L. palma; -- so named fr. the leaf resembling a hand. See lst Palm, and cf. Pam.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: Any endogenous tree of the order Palmæ or Palmaceæ; a palm tree.

Note: Palms are perennial woody plants, often of majestic size. The trunk is usually erect and rarely branched, and has a roughened exterior composed of the persistent bases of the leaf stalks. The leaves are borne in a terminal crown, and are supported on stout, sheathing, often prickly, petioles. They are usually of great size, and are either pinnately or palmately many-cleft. There are about one thousand species known, nearly all of them growing in tropical or semitropical regions. The wood, petioles, leaves, sap, and fruit of many species are invaluable in the arts and in domestic economy. Among the best known are the date palm, the cocoa palm, the fan palm, the oil palm, the wax palm, the palmyra, and the various kinds called cabbage palm and palmetto.

2. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their hands. Rev. vii. 9.

3. Hence: Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy. "The palm of martyrdom." Chaucer. So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. Shak. Molucca palm (Bot.), a labiate herb from Asia (Molucella lævis), having a curious cup-shaped calyx. -- Palm cabbage, the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food. -- Palm cat (Zoöl.), the common paradoxure. -- Palm crab (Zoöl.), the purse crab. -- Palm oil, a vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oil palm (Elæis Guineensis), and used in the manufacture of soap and candles. See Elæis. -- Palm swift (Zoöl.), a small swift (Cypselus Btassiensis) which frequents the palmyra and cocoanut palms in India. Its peculiar nest is attached to the leaf of the palmyra palm. -- Palm toddy. Same as Palm wine. -- Palm weevil (Zoöl.), any one of mumerous species of very large weevils of the genus Rhynchophorus. The larvæ bore into palm trees, and are called palm borers, and grugru worms. They are considered excellent food. -- Palm wine, the sap of several species of palms, especially, in India, of the wild date palm (Phoenix sylvestrix), the palmyra, and the Caryota urens. When fermented it yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also palm toddy. -- Palm worm, or Palmworm. (Zoöl.) (a) The larva of a palm weevil. (b) A centipede.

PALM Palm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Palming.]

1. To handle. [Obs.] Prior.

2. To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle. They palmed the trick that lost the game. Prior.

3. To impose by frand, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with off. For you may palm upon us new for old. Dryden.

PALMACEOUS Pal*ma"ceous, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.

PALMA CHRISTI Pal"ma Chris"ti. Etym: [L., palm of Christ.] (Bot.)

Defn: A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]

PALMACITE Pal"ma*cite, n. (Paleon.)

Defn: A fossil palm.

PALMAR Pal"mar, a. Etym: [L. palmaris, fr. palma the palm of the hand: cf. F. palmaire.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.

PALMARIUM Pal*ma"ri*um, n.; pl. Palmaria. Etym: [NL. See Palmar.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.

PALMARY Pal"ma*ry, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Palmar.

PALMARY Pal"ma*ry, a. Etym: [L. palmarius, palmaris, belonging to palms, deserving the palm or prize, fr. palma a palm.]

Defn: Worthy of the palm; palmy; preëminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work. Br. Horne.

PALMATE Pal"mate, n.

Defn: (Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]

PALMATE; PALMATED Pal"mate, Pal"ma*ted, a. Etym: [L. palmatus marked with the palm of a hand, from palma the palm of the hand.]

1. Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. Gray.

3. (Zoöl.) (a) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. See Illust. (i) under Aves. (b) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.

PALMATELY Pal"mate*ly, adv.

Defn: In a palmate manner.

PALMATIFID Pal*mat"i*fid, a. Etym: [L. palmatus palmate + root of findere to split.] (Bot.)

Defn: Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.

PALMATILOBED Pal*mat"i*lobed, a. Etym: [L. palmatus palmate + E. lobed.] (Bot.)

Defn: Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.

PALMATISECT; PALMATISECTED Pal*mat"i*sect, Pal*mat`i*sect"ed, a. Etym: [L. palmatus palmate + secare to cut.] (Bot.)

Defn: Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.

PALMCRIST Palm"crist, n.

Defn: The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)

PALMED Palmed, a.

Defn: Having or bearing a palm or palms. Paimed deer (Zoöl.), a stag of full growth, bearing palms. See lst Palm, 4.

PALMER Palm"er, n. Etym: [From Palm, v. t.]

Defn: One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.

PALMER Palm"er, n.Etym: [From Palm the tree.]

Defn: A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer. Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. P. Plowman. The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all. T. Staveley.

PALMERWORM Palm"er*worm`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4. (b) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.

PALMETTE Pal*mette", n. Etym: [F., dim. of palme a palm.]

Defn: A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.

PALMETTO Pal*met"to, n. Etym: [Dim. of palm the tree: cf. Sp. palmito.] (Bot.)

Defn: A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States. In the United States, the name is applied especially to the Chamærops, or Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.

Royal palmetto, the West Indian Sabal umbraculifera, the trunk of which, when hollowed, is used for water pipes, etc. The leaves are used for thatching, and for making hats, ropes, etc. -- Saw palmetto, Sabal serrulata, a native of Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. The nearly impassable jungle which it forms is called palmetto scrub.

PALMETTO FLAG Pal*met"to flag.

Defn: Any of several flags adopted by South California after its secession. That adopted in November, 1860, had a green cabbage palmetto in the center of a white field; the final one, January, 1861, had a white palmetto in the center of a blue field and a white crescent in the upper left-hand corner.

PALMETTO STATE Palmetto State.

Defn: South California; -- a nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation of a palmetto tree.

PALMIC Pal"mic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. palmique.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi); -- formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid. [Obsoles.]

PALMIDACTYLES Pal`mi*dac"ty*les, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Palm, and Dactyl.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.

PALMIFEROUS Pal*mif"er*ous, a.Etym: [L. palmifer; palma a palm + ferre to bear: cf. F. palmifère.]

Defn: Bearing palms.

PALMIGRADE Pal"mi*grade, a. Etym: [L. palma palm of the hand + gradi to walk.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.

PALMIN Pal"min, n. Etym: [From palma Christi: cf. F. palmine.] (Chem.) (a) A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil. (b) Ricinolein. [Obs.]

PALMIPED Pal"mi*ped, a.Etym: [L. palmipes, -edis, broad-footed; palma the palm of the hand + pes a foot; cf. F. palmipède.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Web-footed, as a water fowl. -- n.

Defn: A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.

PALMIPEDES Pal*mip"e*des, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Natatores.

PALMISTER Pal"mis*ter, n. Etym: [From Palm of the hand.]

Defn: One who practices palmistry Bp. Hall.

PALMISTRY Pal`mis*try, n.Etym: [See Palmister.]

1. The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy. Ascham. Cowper.

2. A dexterous use or trick of the hand. Addison.

PALMITATE Pal"mi*tate, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of palmitic acid.

PALMITE Pal"mite, n. Etym: [From Palm.] (Bot.)

Defn: A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.

PALMITIC Pal*mit"ic, a. (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62º C.

PALMITIN Pal"mi*tin, n. Etym: [So called because abundant in palm oil.] (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.

PALMITOLIC Pal`mi*tol"ic, a. Etym: [Palmitic + -oleic + ic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.

PALMITONE Pal"mi*tone, n. (Chem.)

Defn: The ketone of palmitic acid.

PALM SUNDAY Palm" Sun`day. (Eccl.)

Defn: The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

PALMY Palm"y, a.

1. Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. Pope. His golden sands and palmy wine. Goldsmith.

2. Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous. In the most high and palmy state of Rome. Shak.

PALMYRA Pal*my"ra, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.

PALO Pa"lo, n. [Sp. See Pale a stake.]

Defn: A pole or timber of any kind; -- in the names of trees. [Sp. Amer.]

PALO BLANCO Pa"lo blan"co. [Sp. blanco white.] (a) A western American hackberry (Celtis reticulata), having light- colored bark. (b) A Mexican mimosaceous tree (Lysiloma candida), the bark of which is used in tanning.

PALOLA Pa*lo"la, n. Etym: [Fr. the native name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pcific Islands, where it is collected for food.

PALOLO; PALOLO WORM Pa*lo"lo, n., or Palolo worm . [From native name.]

Defn: A polystome worm (Palolo viridis) that burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific Islands. A little before the last quarter of the moon in October and November, they swarm in vast numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding, and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives. An allied species inhabits the tropical Atlantic and swarms in June or July.

PALOMETA; PALLOMETA Pa*lo*me"ta, Pal`lo*me"ta, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A pompano.

PALP Palp, n. Etym: [Cf. F. palpe. See Palpable.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Palpus.

PALP Palp, v. t. Etym: [L. palpare: cf. F. palper.]

Defn: To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel. [Obs.] To bring a palpèd darkness o'er the earth. Heywood.

PALPABILITY Pal`pa*bil"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch. Arbuthnot.

PALPABLE Pal"pa*ble, a. Etym: [F. palpable, L. palpabilis, fr. palpare to feel, stroke; cf. palpus the soft palm of the hand.]

1. Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form. Shak. Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness. Milton.

2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors. "Three persons palpable." P. Plowman. [Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Shak. -- Pal"pa*ble*ness, n. -- Pal"pa*bly, adv.

PALPATION Pal*pa"tion, n. Etym: [L. palpatio, fr. palpare. See Palpable.]

1. Act of touching or feeling.

2. (Med.)

Defn: Examination of a patient by touch. Quain.

PALPATOR Pal*pa"tor, n. Etym: [L., a stroker.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

PALPEBRA Pal"pe*bra, n.; pl. Palpebræ. Etym: [L.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The eyelid.

PALPEBRAL Pal"pe*bral, a. Etym: [L. palpebralis, fr. palpebra: cf. F. palpébral.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

PALPEBRATE Pal"pe*brate, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having eyelids.

PALPED Palped, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having a palpus.

PALPI Pal"pi, n.,

Defn: pl. of Palpus. (Zoöl.) See Palpus.

PALPICORN Pal"pi*corn, n. Etym: [See Palpus, and Cornu.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennæ, and long maxillary palpi.

PALPIFER Pal"pi*fer, n. Etym: [Palpus + L. ferre to bear.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Palpiger.

PALPIFORM Pal"pi*form, a. Etym: [Palpus + -form: cf. F. palpiforme.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the form of a palpus.

PALPIGER Pal"pi*ger, n. Etym: [See Palpigerous.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.

PALPIGEROUS Pal*pig"er*ous, a. Etym: [Palpus + -gerous.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Bearing a palpus. Kirby.

PALPITANT Pal"pi*tant, a. Etym: [L. palpitans, p. pr.]

Defn: Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. Carlyle.

PALPITATE Pal"pi*tate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palpitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Palpitating().] Etym: [L. palpitare, palpitatum, v. intens. fr. pappare. See Palpable.]

Defn: To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.

PALPITATION Pal`pi*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. palpitatio: cf. F. palpitation.]

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

PALPLESS Palp"less, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Without a palpus.

PALPOCIL Pal"po*cil, n. Etym: [See Palpus, and Cilium.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

PALPUS Pal"pus, n.; pl. Palpi. Etym: [NL. See Palp.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.

PALSGRAVE Pals"grave`, n. Etym: [D. paltsgraaf; palts palace (l. palatium) + graaf count; cf. G. pfalzgraf. See Palace, and Landgrave.] (Ger. Hist.)

Defn: A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.

PALSGRAVINE Pals"gra*vine`, n.Etym: [D. paltsgravin: cf. G. pfalzgrafin.]

Defn: The consort or widow of a palsgrave.

PALSICAL Pal"si*cal, a.Etym: [From Palsy.]

Defn: Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic. [R.] Johnson.

PALSIED Pal"sied, a.

Defn: Affected with palsy; paralyzed.

PALSTAVE Pal"stave`, n. Etym: [Dan. paalstav.]

Defn: A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age. Dawkins.

PALSTER Pal"ster, n. Etym: [D. palsterstaf.]

Defn: A pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] Halliwell.

PALSY Pal"sy, n.; pl. Palsies. Etym: [OE. palesie, parlesy, OF. paralesie, F. paralysie, L. paralysis. See Paralysis.] (Med.)

Defn: Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. "One sick of the palsy." Mark ii. 3. Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. -- Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer. -- Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait.

PALSY Pal"sy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palsied; p. pr. & vb. n. Palsying.]

Defn: To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.