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 minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

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.

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.

Of or pert. to Panama. A native or citizen of Panama.

A low stingless nettle (Pilea involucrata) of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.

Same as panamica.

A storehouse for bread.

The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.

A genus of perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng.

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.

A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.

The pansy.

See Paunch.

A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers.

Pancratic; athletic.

One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.

Of or pertaining to the pancratium.

Having all or many degrees of power; having a great range of power; -- said of an eyepiece made adjustable so as to give a varying magnifying power.

Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic.

An athlete; a gymnast.

The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.