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.

Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.

To examine for medical purposes by touching, as of body parts; as, the nurse palpated the patient's stomach.

Act of touching or feeling.

One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

The eyelid.

Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

Having eyelids.

Having a palpus.

pl. of Palpus. (Zool.) See Palpus.

One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antenn/, and long maxillary palpi.

Same as Palpiger.

Having the form of a palpus.

That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.

Bearing a palpus.

Palpitating; throbbing; trembling.

To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.

Beating irregularly; -- of the heart.

A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.

Without a palpus.

A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.

A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.

The consort or widow of a palsgrave.

Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic.

Affected with palsy; paralyzed.

A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age.

A pilgrim's staff.

To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.

The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers.

To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.

One who palters.

Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily.

A kind of doublet; a jacket.

In a paltry manner.

The state or quality of being paltry.

Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.

Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy.

See Paludamentum.

A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.

A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.

Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicol/

Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond.

Inhabiting ponds or swamps.

Of or pertaining to a marsh.

Paludinal. Like or pertaining to the genus Paludina.

The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.

Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.

See Palulus or Palus.

Same as Palus.

One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy.

Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.

Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.

The knave of clubs.

A form of the female given name Pamela.

A pavement.

A plain. See pampas.

Same as Pompano.

Vast grass-covered plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains east of the Andes extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.

Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant; as, pampered children.

One who, or that which, pampers.

To pamper.

A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.

A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.

To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.

To write or publish pamphlets.

In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.

Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.

To scan (a movie camera), usu. in a horizontal direction, to obtain a panoramic effect; also, to move the camera so as to keep the subject in view.

To succeed; as, the project didn't pan out.

Of or pertaining to both North and South America.

The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.

Belonging to, or representing, the whole Church of England; used less strictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.

To fry in a pan.

Same as Tetrahedrite.

Having the properties of a panacea.

A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.

A dagger.

Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored.