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.

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.

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.

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 Cham/rops Palmetto, or Sabal Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.

South Carolina; -- a nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation of a palmetto tree.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi) and other species of the family Euphorbiaceae; -- formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid (d-12-hydroxyoleic acid, C18H34O3).

A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.

Bearing palms.

Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.

A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil. Ricinolein.

Web-footed, as a water fowl. A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.

Same as Natatores.

One who practices palmistry.

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.

A salt of palmitic acid.

A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid (C16H32O2), a white crystalline substance belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62/ C.

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.

Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.

The ketone of palmitic acid.

Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore.

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.

A pole or timber of any kind; -- in the names of trees.

A polystome worm (Palolo viridis) that burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific Islands. A little before the last quarter of the moon in October and November, they swarm in vast numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding, and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives. An allied species inhabits the tropical Atlantic and swarms in June or July.

A type of pompano (Palometa simillima) that is smaller than the Florida pompano; it is common in West Indies. Called also the California pompano.

A horse of light tan or golden color with cream or white mane and tail, and often having white markings on the legs and face.

To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.

The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.