Pallidly (adv.) In a pallid manner.
Pallidness (n.) The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
Palliobranchiata (n. pl.) Same as Brachiopoda.
Palliobranchiate (a.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.
Pallia (pl. ) of Pallium
Palliums (pl. ) of Pallium
Pallium (n.) 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.
Pallium (n.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.
Pallium (n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.
Pallium (n.) The mantle of a bird.
Pall-mall (n.) 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.
Pallone (n.) An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.
Pallor (a.) Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion.
Palm (n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.
Palm (n.) 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.
Palm (n.) 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.
Palm (n.) 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.
Palm (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
Palm (n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree.
Palm (n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
Palm (n.) Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy.
Palmed (imp. & p. p.) of Palm
Palming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palm
Palm (v. t.) To handle.
Palm (v. t.) To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle.
Palm (v. t.) To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with off.
Palmaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.
Palma Christi () 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.
Palmacite (n.) A fossil palm.
Palmar (a.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.
Palmar (a.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
Palmaria (pl. ) of Palmarium
Palmarium (n.) One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.
Palmary (a.) Palmar.
Palmary (a.) Worthy of the palm; palmy; preeminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work.
Palmate (n.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.
Palmate (a.) Alt. of Palmated
Palmated (a.) Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
Palmated (a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.
Palmated (a.) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.
Palmated (a.) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.
Palmately (adv.) In a palmate manner.
Palmatifid (a.) Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.
Palmatilobed (a.) Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.
Palmatisect (a.) Alt. of Palmatisected
Palmatisected (a.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.
Palmcrist (n.) The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)
Palmed (a.) Having or bearing a palm or palms.
Palmer (v. t.) One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
Palmer (n.) 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.
Palmer (n.) A palmerworm.
Palmer (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle.
Palmerworm (n.) 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.
Palmerworm (n.) 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 (n.) A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.
Palmetto (n.) 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 Chamaerops, / Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.
Palmic (a.) 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.
Palmidactyles (n. pl.) A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.
Palmiferous (a.) Bearing palms.
Palmigrade (a.) Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.
Palmin (n.) A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil.
Palmin (n.) Ricinolein.
Palmiped (a.) Web-footed, as a water fowl.
Palmiped (n.) A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.
Palmipedes (n. pl.) Same as Natatores.
Palmister (n.) One who practices palmistry
Palmistry (n.) 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.
Palmistry (n.) A dexterous use or trick of the hand.
Palmitate (n.) A salt of palmitic acid.
Palmite (n.) A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.
Palmitic (a.) 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 62¡ C.
Palmitin (n.) 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 (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.
Palmitone (n.) The ketone of palmitic acid.
Palm Sunday () 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 (a.) Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore.
Palmy (a.) Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous.
Palmyra (n.) 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.
Palola (n.) An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food.
Pallometa (n.) A pompano.
Palp (n.) Same as Palpus.
Palp (v. t.) To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.
Palpability (n.) The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.
Palpable (a.) Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
Palpable (a.) Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.
Palpation (n.) Act of touching or feeling.
Palpation (n.) Examination of a patient by touch.
Palpator (n.) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
Palpebrae (pl. ) of Palpebra
Palpebra (n.) The eyelid.
Palpebral (a.) Of or pertaining to the eyelids.
Palprbrate (a.) Having eyelids.
Palped (a.) Having a palpus.
Palpi (n.) pl. of Palpus. (Zool.) See Palpus.
Palpicorn (n.) One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennae, and long maxillary palpi.
Palpifer (n.) Same as Palpiger.
Palpiform (a.) Having the form of a palpus.
Palpiger (n.) That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.
Palpigerous (a.) Bearing a palpus.
Palpitant (a.) Palpitating; throbbing; trembling.