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Palette
() One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
Palette
() A breastplate for a breast drill.
Palewise
() In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.
Palfrey
() A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse.
Palfrey
() A small saddle horse for ladies.
Palfreyed
() Mounted on a palfrey.
Palgrave
() See Palsgrave.
Pali
() pl. of Palus.
Pali
() 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
() The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
Paliform
() Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
Palilogy
() 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
() A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
Palindrome
() 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
() Alt. of Palindromical
Palindromical
() Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.
Palindromist
() A writer of palindromes.
Paling
() Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
Paling
() The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves.
Palingenesia
() See Palingenesis.
Palingenesis
() Alt. of Palingenesy
Palingenesy
() A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
Palingenesy
() 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
() Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process.
Palinode
() An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
Palinode
() A retraction; esp., a formal retraction.
Palinodial
() Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction.
Palinody
() See Palinode.
Palinurus
() An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass
Palisade
() 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
() Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
Palisaded
() of Palisade
Palisading
() of Palisade
Palisade
() To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
Palisading
() A row of palisades set in the ground.
Palisadoes
() of Palisado
Palisado
() A palisade.
Palisado
() To palisade.
Palish
() Somewhat pale or wan.
Palissander
() Violet wood.
Palissander
() Rosewood.
Palissy
() Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.
Palkee
() A palanquin.
Pall
() Same as Pawl.
Pall
() An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
Pall
() A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
Pall
() Same as Pallium.
Pall
() A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
Pall
() A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
Pall
() A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.