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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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Păl'i-no-dy, n. p. 940Same as PALINODE. [Obs.]Păl'i-nū'ras, n. p. 940(Zoöl.) A genus of crustaceans; the sea craw-fish or spiny lobster.Pāl'i-sāde', n. p. 940(Fort.) A strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of palisades, used as a means of defense.Pāl'i-sāde', v. t. p. 940To surround, inclose, or fortify, with stakes or posts.Pāl'i-sā'do, n. p. 940Palisade. [Obs.]Pāl'i-sā'do, v. t. p. 940To palisade. [Obs.]Pāl'ish, a. p. 940Somewhat pale or wan; as, a palish blue. Arbuthnot.Pal'kee, n. p. 940A palanquin. Malcom.Pall, n. p. 940An outer garment; a cloak; a mantle. His lion’s skin he changed to a pall of gold. Spencer. 2. A kind of rich stuff formerly used for making mantles. 3. A consecrated vestment worn by the pope, and…Pall, n. p. 940A detent or click, that is, a small piece of metal or wood, which falls between the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, or of a windlass, to prevent its revolving backward, or to move it forward; a pawl.Pall, v. t. p. 940To cloak; to cover or invest. Shak.Pall, v. i. p. 940To become vapid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; to become insipid; as, the liquor palls. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. Addison.Pall, v. t. p. 940To make vapid or insipid. Reason and reflection . . . blunt the edge of the keenest desires, and pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury. 2. To make spiritless; to dispirit; to depress. The more we raise…Pall, n. p. 940Nausea or nauseating. Shaftesbury.Pall, n. p. 940The same as PAL, q. v.Păl'lȧ, n. p. 940(Antiq.) An oblong, rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Grecian and Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.Pal-lā'di-üm, n. p. 940(Antiq.) A statue of the goddess Pallas, which represented her as sitting with a pike in her right hand, and in her left a distaff and spindle. On the preservation of this statue depended the safety…Pal·lā'di·um·īze, v. t. p. 940To cover or coat with palladium; as, the palladiumizing process.Păl'lah, n. p. 940(Zoöl.) A large antelope of South Africa (Antilope melampus), of a rusty red color, and having twisted, black horns.Păl'las, n. p. 940(Gr. Myth.) The Grecian goddess of wisdom, identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.Pāl'lat, n. p. 940See PALLET.Pall'-beâr'er, n. p. 940One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral, so called from the pall or covering of the body which they formerly carried.Pāl'let, n. p. 940(Paint.) A little oval board or piece of ivory. See PALETTE. 2. A wooden instrument used by potters, crucible-makers, &c., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of…Pāl'let, n. p. 940A small and poor or rude bed. Milton.Pāl'li-al, a. p. 940Pertaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial impression which marks the outline of the mantle in the inner surface of a bivalve shell. Dana.Pāl'li-a-ment, n. p. 940A dress; a robe. [Obs.]Pāll'iard, n. p. 940A lecher; a lewd person. 2. A beggar. Halliwell.Pāl'liard-īze, n. p. 940Formication. (Obs.) Sir G. Buck.Pal-liässe', n. p. 940An under bed of straw.Pāl'li-āte, v. t. p. 940To cover with a mantle or dress; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.] “Being palliated with a pilgrim’s coat, and hypocritic sanctity.” Sir T. Herbert. “Not enough to cover the cheat or palliate the…Păl'li-ate, a. p. 940Covered with a mantle or dress; hidden; disguised. Bp. Hall. 2. Eased; mitigated.Păl'li-ā'tion, n. p. 940That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. [Obs.] 2. The act of palliating, or the state of being palliated; concealment of the most flagrant circumstances…Păl'li-a-tīve, a. p. 941Serving to extenuate by excuses or favorable representation; palliating; extenuating. 2. Mitigating; alleviating; relieving, as pain or disease. Arbuthnot.Păl'li-a-tīve, n. p. 941That which extenuates. In his early years he had been what is called, by manner of palliative, a very gay young man. W. Scott. 2. That which mitigates, alleviates, or abates the violence of pain…Păl'li-a-to-ry, a. p. 941Palliative.Păl′lid, a. p. 941Deficient in color; not high colored; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.Pal-lid'i-ty, n. p. 941The quality of being pallid; paleness; pallidness.Pā'lid-ly, adv. p. 941Palely; wanly.Păl'li-dness, n. p. 941Paleness; wanness.Păl'li-o-brāŋ'chi-ate, a. p. 941(Zoöl.) Having the pallium or mantle acting as gills, as in brachio-pod mollusks. Dana.Păl'li-ŭm, n. p. 941(Anc. Costume.) A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks, corresponding to the toga of the Romans. 2. (Rom. Cath. Church.) An archbishop’s pall. See PALL.Pall-mall', n. p. 941A game once common in England, but now disused, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet or club through an arch or ring of iron placed at the end of a walk. The person who drove the ball…Păl'lor, n. p. 941Paleness; pallidity.Pālm (päm), n. p. 941The inner part of the hand; the interior part of the metacarpus from the wrist to the base of the fingers. 2. A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist…Pālm, v. t. p. 941To handle or touch with the hand. Prior. 2. To conceal in the palm of the hand. They palmed the trick that lost the game. Prior. 3. To impose by fraud; to put off by unfair means; — especially with…Pal-mā'ceous, a. p. 941(Bot.) Belonging to the palm tribe.Păl'mā Chris'ti p. 941(Bot.) The castor-oil plant;—so called from its hand-shaped leaves.Pāl'mar or Pāl'ma-ry, a. p. 941Belonging to the palm; pertaining to the interior of the hand. 2. Having the breadth of a palm.Pāl'ma-ry, a. p. 941Worthy of the palm; pre-eminent; superior; palmy; chief.Pāl'mate, n. p. 941(Chem.) A salt formed by the combination of palmic acid with a base.Pāl'mate or Pāl'mā-ted, a. p. 941Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread; especially, (a.) (Bot.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the…Păl'mate-ly, adv. p. 941In a palmate manner.Pal-māt'ĭ-fīd, a. p. 941(Bot.) Palmate, but having the divisions only half way through.Păl'ma-tĭ-sēct'ed, a. p. 941(Bot.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, when the parenchyma is interrupted.Pălm'-cāb'/bage, n. p. 941See CABBAGE-TREE.Pālmed, a. p. 941Having or bearing a palm or palms. Palmed deer, a deer of full growth, and bearing palms. See PALM, 4. “The proud, palmed deer.” Drayton.Pām'er, n. p. 941One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice. 2. A wandering religious votary; especially, one who visited the Holy Land and its sacred places, and bore a branch of palm in token thereof; an…Pälm’er-worm, n. p. 941A kind of hairy worm; — a name loosely applied to various hairy caterpillars which travel or wander, as it were, like a palmer or pilgrim, and devour leaves and herbage; — applied also to other…Pal-mĕt'to, n. p. 941(Bot.) (a.) A species of palm-tree growing in the West Indies and Southern United States, of the genus Chamaerops (C. palmetto). (b.) A palm of the genus Areca; the cabbage-tree. See CABBAGE-TREE.Pālm'-house, n. p. 941A glass house for raising palms and other tropical productions.