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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Pāl'a-tine, a. p. 939Pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace. Count palatine, a count possessing royal jurisdiction. See COUNT. — County palatine, a county in which the proprietor possessed royal rights…Päl'a-tīne, n. p. 939One invested with royal privileges and rights; a count palatine.Pāl'a-tīne, a. p. 939Of, or pertaining to, the palate.Păl'a-tīve, a. p. 939Pleasing to the taste; palatable. [Obs.] Browne.Pa-lä'ver, n. p. 939Idle talk; flattery; adulation. 2. A conference or deliberation; a public and formal discussion. “In this country and epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers.” Carlyle.Pa-lā'vĕr, v. t. or v. i. p. 939To hold a palaver; to deceive by words; to use idle, deceitful talk; to flatter.Pa-lā'ver-er, n. p. 939One who palavers.Pāle, a. p. 939Not ruddy or fresh of color; deficient in intensity or energy of color; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face, a pale red, a pale blue. They are not of complexion red or pale. Randolph. 2. Not…Pāle, n. p. 939Paleness; pallor. [Rare.]Pāle, v. i. p. 939To turn pale. There are men Born tender, apt to pale at a trodden worm. E. B. Browning. No paling of the cheek of bloom Forewarned us of decay. Whittier.Pāle, v. t. p. 939To make pale.Pāle, n. p. 939A narrow board, pointed or sharpened at one end, used in fencing or inclosing; a pointed stake driven into the ground and fastened to a rail at the top; a picket. 2. That which incloses or fences in…Pāle, v. t. p. 939To inclose with pales or stakes; to inclose; to encompass. The English beach Pales in the flood with men, with wives, and boys. Shak.Pā'le-ă, n. p. 939(Bot.) (a.) The interior husk of grasses. (b.) The receptacle of many compound flowers, as the coreopsis, the sunflower, &c. Gray.Pā'le-ā'ceoŭs, a. p. 939(Bot.) Chaffy; resembling chaff, or consisting of it; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.Pāle'ly, adv. p. 939Wanly; not freshly or ruddily.Pāl'en-dar, n. p. 939(Naut.) A kind of coasting-vessel. [Obs.] Knolles.Pāle'ness, n. p. 939The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness of look; defect of color; wanness. The blood the virgin's cheek forsook; A livid paleness spreads o'er all…Pā'le-o-grăph', n. p. 939An ancient manuscript.Pā'le-ŏg'ra-pher, n. p. 939One skilled in paleography.Pā'le-o-grăph'ic, a. p. 939Pā'le-o-grăph'ie-al p. 939Of, or pertaining to, paleography.Pā'le-ŏg'ra-phist, n. p. 939One skilled in paleography.Pā'le-ŏg'ra-phy, n. p. 939An ancient manner of writing; as, Punic paleography. F. Stiles. 2. The study of ancient written or inscribed documents and modes of writing; the art or science of deciphering ancient documents, and…Pā'le-ŏl'o-gist, n. p. 939One conversant with paleology; a student of antiquity.Pā'le-ŏl'o-gy, n. p. 939A discourse or treatise on antiquities, or the knowledge of ancient things; archæology.Pā'le-ŏn’to-grăph'ie-al, a. p. 939Pertaining to the description of fossil remains.Pā/le-on-tŏg'ra-phy, n. p. 939The description of fossil remains.Pā'le-ŏn/to-lŏg'ie-al, a. p. 939Belonging to paleontology.Pā'le-on-tōl'o-ğist, n. p. 939One versed in paleontology.Pā'le-on-tōl'o-gy, n. p. 939The science of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life. Dana.Pā'le-o-sau'rus, n. p. 939(Paleon.) A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation. Dana.Pā'le-o-thēre', n. p. 939See PALEOTHERIUM.Pā'le-o-thē'ri-an, a. p. 939Pertaining to the paleotherium.Pā'le-o-thē'ri-ŭm, n. p. 939(Paleon.) A pachyderm of several species, allied to the tapir, and found fossil in the eocene tertiary. [Written also palæothere and palæotherium.]Pā'le-oŭs, a. p. 939Chaffy; like chaff. [Rare.] Browne.Pā'le-o-zō'ic, a. p. 939(Geol.) Pertaining, or belonging to, the older division of geological time, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. Dana.Pa·lēr'mi·tan, n. p. 940(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Palermo, in Sicily.Pa-lēr'mi-tan, a. p. 940(Geog.) Of, or pertaining to, Palermo, or its inhabitants.Pāl’es-tīn’e-an, a. p. 940(Geog.) Pertaining to Palestine.Pa-lēs'trā, n. p. 940(Antiq.) (a.) A wrestling; exercises of wrestling. (b.) The place of wrestling; a place for athletic exercises in Greece.Pa-lēs'tri-an or Pa-lēs'trie or Pa-lēs'trie-al, a. p. 940Pertaining to the exercise of wrestling. Bryant.Păl'et, n. p. 940The crown of the head. [Obs.] Skelton.Paletot, n. p. 940A loose overcoat.Pāl'ette, n. p. 940(Paint.) A thin, oval-shaped 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.) One of the plates…Pāl'ette-knife, n. p. 940A flat, thin knife, rounded at the end, used by painters to mix colors on the grinding-slab.Pāle'wīse, a. p. 940(Her.) In the manner or form of a pale; by perpendicular lines; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.Pal'frey, n. p. 940A saddle-horse used for the road or other ordinary purposes, as distinguished from the horse used in war. 2. A small horse suitable for ladies. Johnson.Pāl'freyed, a. p. 940Riding on a palfrey.Păl'i-fi-cā'tion, n. p. 940The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground for making it firm. Wotten.Pa-līl'o-gy, n. p. 940(Rhet.) The repetition of a word or part of a sentence for the sake of greater energy.Păl′imp-sest, n. p. 940A manuscript which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. 2. A monumental brass which has been taken up, turned, and engraved on the reverse…Pāl'in-drōme, n. p. 940A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam, or Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor, or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel. Taylor, the Water-poet.Pāl'in-drōm'ic or Pāl'in-drōm'ic-al, a. p. 940Pertaining to, or in the manner of, a palindrome; being the same whether read backward or forward.Pāl'ing, n. p. 940Pales in general; a fence formed with pales; an inclosure formed of pickets; a limit; an inclosure. Refractory as they were, they moved within the paling of order and decorum. De Quincey.Pāl'ing-bōard, n. p. 940One of the outside parts or slabs, sawed from the four sides of a tree to square the log and fit it to be sawed into deals. Simmonds.Pā′lin·ge·ne′sĭ·ă, n. p. 940The same as PALINGENESIS.Pāl'in-gĕn'e-sis or Pāl'in-gĕn'e-sy, n. p. 940A new birth or transformation from one state to another; a regeneration. Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet…Pā'ling-măn, n. p. 940One born within that part of Ireland called the English Pale. See PALE.Pāl'i-nōde, n. p. 940A song repeated a second time; a satirical song or poem retracting a former one; hence, a recantation, or declaration contrary to a former one.