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.

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.

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.

To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

A row of palisades set in the ground.

To palisade.

Somewhat pale or wan.

Violet wood. Rosewood.

Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.

A palanquin.

Nausea.

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.

An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.

A follower of the architectural style of Andrea Palladio.

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.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.

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, with a melting point of 1555/ C. It can also be prepared as a finely divided black powder. It is unique in its power of absorbing hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. 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 number, 46. Atomic weight, 106.42. Density 12.0.

To cover or coat with palladium.

A large South African antelope (Aepyceros 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 Athena, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athena, Pallas Athene or Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.

One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.

A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

Same as Palette.

Of or pertaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve.

A dress; a robe.

See Paillasse.

To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.

The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.

That which palliates; a palliative agent.

Palliative; extenuating.

Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.

Pallidness; paleness.

In a pallid manner.

The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Same as Brachiopoda.

Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.

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.

An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.

Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion.

Having the relationship of friends or pals; -- used colloquially.

The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.

To handle.

A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales.

Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.

A fossil palm.

A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs; same as Palmaceae; coextensive with the order Palmales.

A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs coextensive with the family Palmae; -- the palms.

Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.

One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.

Worthy of the palm; palmy; pre/minent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work.

A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.

In a palmate manner.

Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.

Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.

Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.

The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)

Having or bearing a palm or palms.

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.

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. 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.

A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.