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.

A palatal.

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.

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.

A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.

Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.

Palsy.

Same as Palea.

An overcoat. A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.

In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.

Mounted on a palfrey.

See Palsgrave.

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.

The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.

Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.

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./

a form of alimony paid to a former partner in a romantic relationship after a period of living together, even though the two persons involved were not married to each other. The absence of a formal marriage distinguishes it from alimony.

A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. The erasures of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries, to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts, such as copies of church services and lives of the saints. The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing; the original texts on parchments which had been washed with lime-water and dried were easily recovered by a chemical process, but those erased by scraping the parchment and bleaching are difficult to interpret. Most of the manuscripts underlying the palimpsests that have been revived are fragmentary, but some are of great historical value. One Syriac version of the Four Gospels was discovered in 1895 in St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai by Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis. See also the notes below.

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.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.

A writer of palindromes.

Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.

See Palingenesis.

Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process.

An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.

Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction.

See Palinode.

An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.