Pāl'let1, n.
n. [Fr. palette, It. paletta, Sp. paleta, properly and originally a fire-shovel, diminutive of It., Sp., & Lat. pala, a shovel, spade.]
Sense 1. (Paint.) A little oval board or piece of ivory. See PALETTE.
Sense 2. A wooden instrument used by potters, crucible-makers, &c., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
Sense 3. (Gilding.) An instrument to take up the gold leaves from the pillow, and to apply and extend them.
Sense 4. (Her.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, of less breadth than the pale; — a diminutive of pale. See PALE.
Sense 5. 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. [Sometimes written also pallat.] Brande.
Sense 6. A measure formerly used by surgeons, containing three ounces. Hakewill.
