Palet Pal"et noun [ See
Palea .]
(Botany) Same as Palea .
Paletot Pal"e·tot noun [ French
paletot , Old French
palletoc , probably from Latin
palla (see
Palla ) + French
toque cap, and so lit., a frock with a cap or hood; confer Spanish
paletoque .]
(a) An overcoat. Dickens. (b) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.
Palette Pal"ette noun [ See
Pallet a thin board.]
1. (Paint.) 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) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. Fairholt. 3. (Mech.) 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` adverb (Her.) In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise .
Palfrey Pal"frey noun [ Middle English
palefrai , Old French
palefrei , French
palefroi , Late Latin
palafredus ,
parafredus , from Latin
paraveredus a horse for extraordinary occasions, an extra post horse; Greek ... along, beside + Latin
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 adjective Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.
Palgrave Pal"grave noun See Palsgrave .
Pali Pa"li noun ,
plural of Palus .
Pali Pa"li noun [ Ceylonese, from Sanskrit
pāli row, line, series, applied to the series of Buddhist sacred texts.]
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 noun [ Latin
palus a stake +
-ficare (in comp.) to make: confer French
palification . See
-fy .]
The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. [ R.]
Sir H. Wotton.
Paliform Pa"li·form adjective (Zoology) Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
Palilogy Pa·lil"o·gy noun [ Latin
palilogia , Greek ...; ... again + ... to speak.]
(Rhet.) 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 noun [ Latin
palimpsestus , Greek ... scratched or scraped again, ... a palimpsest; ... again + ... to rub, rub away: confer French
palimpseste .]
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 noun [ Greek ... running back again; ... again + ... to run: confer French
palindrome .]
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 adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.
Palindromist Pa·lin"dro·mist noun A writer of palindromes.
Paling Pal"ing noun 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. [ Obsolete]
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 noun [ New Latin ]
See Palingenesis .
Palingenesis, Palingenesy Pal`in·gen"e·sis, Pal`in·gen"e·sy noun [ Greek ...; ... again + ... birth: confer French
palingénésie . See
Genesis .]
1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form. 2. (Biol.) 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 adjective Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. - -
Pal`in*ge*net"ic*al*ly adverb
Palinode Pal"i·node noun [ Latin
palinodia , from Greek ...; ... again + ... a song. See
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 adjective Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction. J. Q. Adams.
Palinody Pal"i·no·dy noun See Palinode . [ Obsolete]
Wood.
Palinurus Pal`inu"rus noun [ So called from Latin
Palinurus , the pilot of Æneas.]
(Nautical) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass
Palisade Pal`i·sade" noun [ French
palissade , confer Spanish
palizada , Italian
palizzata ,
palizzo , Late Latin
palissata ; all from Latin
palus a stake, pale. See
Pale a stake.]
1. (Fort.) 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 (Botany) ,
vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. --
Palisade worm (Zoology) ,
a nematoid worm ( Strongylus armatus ), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.
Palisade Pal`i·sade" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Palisaded ;
present participle & verbal noun Palisading .] [ Confer French
palissader .]
To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
Palisade Pal`i·sade" noun A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; -- usually in plural , and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson.
Palisading Pal`i·sad"ing noun (Fort.) A row of palisades set in the ground.
Palisado Pal`i·sa·"do noun ;
plural Palisadoes A palisade. [ Obsolete]
Shak.
Palisado Pal`i·sa"do transitive verb To palisade. [ Obsolete]
Sterne.
Palish Pal"ish adjective Somewhat pale or wan.
Palissander Pal`is·san"der noun [ French
palissandre .]
(Botany) (a) Violet wood. (b) Rosewood.
Palissy Pal"is·sy adjective 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 noun [ Hind.
pālkī ; of the same origin as English
palanquin .]
A palanquin. Malcom.
Pall Pall noun Same as Pawl .
Pall Pall noun [ Middle English
pal , Anglo-Saxon
pæl , from Latin
pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; confer Latin
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. [ Obsolete]
Wyclif (Esther viii. 15). 3. (R. C. Ch.) 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.) 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.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
Pall Pall transitive verb To cloak. [ R.]
Shak
Pall Pall intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Palled ;
present participle & verbal noun Palling .] [ Either shortened from
appall , or from French
pâlir to grow pale. Confer
Appall ,
Pale ,
adjective ]
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 transitive verb 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 noun Nausea. [ Obsolete]
Shaftesbury.
Pall-mall Pall`-mall" noun [ Old French
palemail , Italian
pallamagio ;
palla a ball (of German origin, akin to English
ball ) +
magio hammer, from Latin
malleus . See lst
Ball , and
Mall a beetle.]
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.
Palla Pal"la noun [ Latin See
Pall a cloak.]
(Rom. Antuq.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
Palladian Pal·la"di·an adjective (Architecture) 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 adjective (Chemistry) 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 adjective (Chemistry) 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 noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., from ..., ..., Pallas.]
1. (Gr. Antiq.) 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 safeguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. Blackstone.
Palladium Pal·la"di·um noun [ New Latin ]
(Chemistry) 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 Pd 2 H. 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 Pal·la"di·um·ize transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Palladiumized ;
present participle & verbal noun Palladiumizing .]
To cover or coat with palladium. [ R.]
Pallah Pal"lah noun (Zoology) 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 noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., ....]
(Gr. Myth.) Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene , and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.
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