A box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists' paint.

A brush used to apply paint.

Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.

Same as African wild dog.

One whose occupation is to paint One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint. An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.

Like a painter's work.

The state or position of being a painter.

The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

Not capable of being painted or described.

The art of painting.

Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.

To impair.

Organized into compatible pairs; -- used of gloves, socks, etc. See pair{1}, v. t.

One who impairs.

The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.

Impairment.

The country; the people of the neighborhood.

The chaparral cock; the roadrunner.

See Poise.

Originally, in India, loose drawers or trousers, such as those worn, tied about the waist, by Mohammedan men and women; by extension, a similar garment adopted among Europeans, Americans, etc., for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit consisting of drawers and a loose upper garment for such wear.

A garment, similar to the Oriental pyjama (which see), adopted among Europeans, Americans, and other Occidentals, for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit of drawers and blouse for such wear.

A peacock.

An Asiatic plant (Brassica rapa chinensis) grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves.

See Packfong.

A country in South Asia formerly part of British India.

A native or inhabitant of Pakistan.

A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate.

Palatial.

A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.

Same as Paleographer.

Same as Paleographic.

Same as paleolithic.

The study of (especially prehistoric) antiquities.

A specialist in paleontology.

The branch of archeology that studies fossil organisms and related remains.

The study of diseases of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence).

The paleobiology of birds.

A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use.

The study of fossil animals.

See Palestra.

See Palestric.

One versed in pal/tiology.

The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth; the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes, such as geological causes.

A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.

Web-footed.

An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

See Palempore.

A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place.

A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand.

Palatableness.

Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice. Opposite of unpalatable.

The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness.

In a palatable manner.

A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y.

Same as palatalize.

To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; to pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate; as, to palatalize a letter or sound; to palatize. See palatalized.

Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".

To perceive by the taste.

A palatal letter.

The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine.

To make a palatinate of.

Of or pertaining to the palate; palatal.

A palatine bone.

One of the "seven hills" of Rome, situated southeast of the Capitoline and north-northeast of the Aventine. It borders on the Roman Forum; is the traditional seat of the city founded by Romulus; was the seat of private and later of imperial residences; and contains many antiquities.

Pleasing to the taste; palatable.

To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; to palatalize; as, to palatize a letter or sound.

The posterior nares. See Nares.

Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.

To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver; to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully.

One who palavers; a flatterer.

To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

Chaffy; resembling or consisting of pale/, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.

Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

Striped.

An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini.

The more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; it includes most structures other than the cerebral cortex.

A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.

A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids.

In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.

A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings.

The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.

A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.

One versed in paleobotany.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Same as Merostomata.

A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.

Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere.

The study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs.

The study of geologic features once at the surface of the earth but now buried beneath rocks.

An ancient manuscript.

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

Of or pertaining to paleography.

One versed in paleography; a paleographer.

An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography.

A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

A relic of the Paleolithic era.

Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the /Stone Age;/ the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.

One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.

The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; arch/ology .

Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.

The description of fossil remains.

Of or pertaining to paleontology.

One versed in paleontology.

The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.

A paleobotanist.

Paleobotany.

The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.

A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.

Belonging to, or connected with, ancient art.

Any species of Paleotherium.

Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.

An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama.

Resembling Paleotherium. An animal resembling, or allied to, the paleothere.

See Pal/otype.

Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.

The Paleozoic time or strata.

The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.

Of or pertaining to Palestine.