Palfrey (n.) A small saddle horse for ladies.
Palfreyed (a.) Mounted on a palfrey.
Palgrave (n.) See Palsgrave.
Pali (n.) pl. of Palus.
Pali (n.) 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.
Palification (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
Paliform (a.) Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
Palilogy (n.) 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."
Palimpsest (n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
Palindrome (n.) 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.
Palindromic (a.) Alt. of Palindromical
Palindromical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.
Palindromist (n.) A writer of palindromes.
Paling (n.) Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
Paling (n.) The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves.
Palingenesia (n.) See Palingenesis.
Palingenesis (n.) Alt. of Palingenesy
Palingenesy (n.) A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
Palingenesy (n.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.
Palingenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process.
Palinode (n.) An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
Palinode (n.) A retraction; esp., a formal retraction.
Palinodial (a.) Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction.
Palinody (n.) See Palinode.
Palinurus (n.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass
Palisade (n.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.
Palisade (n.) Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
Palisaded (imp. & p. p.) of Palisade
Palisading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palisade
Palisade (v. t.) To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
Palisading (n.) A row of palisades set in the ground.
Palisadoes (pl. ) of Palisado
Palisado (n.) A palisade.
Palisado (v. t.) To palisade.
Palish (a.) Somewhat pale or wan.
Palissander (n.) Violet wood.
Palissander (n.) Rosewood.
Palissy (a.) Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.
Palkee (n.) A palanquin.
Pall (n.) Same as Pawl.
Pall (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
Pall (n.) A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
Pall (n.) Same as Pallium.
Pall (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
Pall (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
Pall (n.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
Pall (v. t.) To cloak.
Palled (imp. & p. p.) of Pall
Palling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pall
Pall (a.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
Pall (v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
Pall (v. t.) To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
Pall (n.) Nausea.
Palla (n.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
Palladian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.
Palladic (a.) 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.
Palladious (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.
Palladium (n.) Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
Palladium (n.) Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights.
Palladium (n.) 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. It is unique in its power of occluding 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 weight, 106.2.
Palladiumized (imp. & p. p.) of Paladiumize
Palladiumizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paladiumize
Paladiumize (v. t.) To cover or coat with palladium.
Pallah (n.) 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 (n.) Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.
Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Pallet (n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
Palet (n.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
Pallet (n.) Same as Palette.
Pallet (n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
Pallet (n.) A potter's wheel.
Pallet (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
Pallet (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
Pallet (n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
Pallet (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
Pallet (n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
Pallet (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
Pallet (n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
Pallet (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
Pallet (n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
Pallial (a.) Of or pretaining 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.
Palliament (n.) A dress; a robe.
Palliard (n.) A born beggar; a vagabond.
Palliard (n.) A lecher; a lewd person.
Palliasse (n.) See Paillasse.
Palliate (a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
Palliate (a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
Palliated (imp. & p. p.) of Palliate
Palliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palliate
Palliate (v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
Palliate (v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
Palliate (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
Palliation (n.) The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.
Palliation (n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease.
Palliation (n.) That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised.
Palliative (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Palliative (n.) That which palliates; a palliative agent.
Palliatory (a.) Palliative; extenuating.
Pallid (a.) Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.
Pallidity (n.) Pallidness; paleness.