Chapter 1094

Pal"a*din (?) , n. [F., fr.It. paladino , fr. L. palatinus an officer of the palace. See Palatine .] A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne .

Sir W. Scott.

Pal\'91o- <Xpage=1031>

Pa"l\'91*o- (?) . See Paleo- .

Pal\'91ographer, n., Pal\'91ographic <Xpage=1031>

Pa`l\'91*og"ra*pher (?) , n. , Pa`l\'91*o*graph"ic (<?/) , a. , etc. See Paleographer , Paleographic , etc.

Pal\'91otype <Xpage=1031>

Pa"l\'91*o*type (?) , n. [ Pal\'91o- + -type .] (Phon.) A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use. Ellis . -- Pa`l\'91*o*typ"ic*al (#) , a. -- Pa`l\'91*o*typ"ic*al*ly , adv.

Pal\'91stra <Xpage=1031>

Pa*l\'91s"tra (?) , n. See Palestra .

Pal\'91stric <Xpage=1031>

Pa*l\'91s"tric (?) , a. See Palestric .

Pal\'91tiologist <Xpage=1031>

Pa*l\'91`ti*ol"o*gist (?) , n. One versed in pal\'91tiology.

Pal\'91tiology <Xpage=1031>

Pa*l\'91`ti*ol"o*gy (?) , n. [ Pal\'91o- + \'91 tiology .] The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth. -- Pa*l\'91`ti*o*log"ic*al (#) , a.

Palama <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*ma (?) , n. ; pl. Palamme (#) . [NL., fr. Gr. <?/ the palm.] (Zo\'94l.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.

Palamede\'91 <Xpage=1031>

Pal`a*me"de*\'91 (?) , n. pl. [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers . In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

Palampore <Xpage=1031>

Pal`am*pore" (?) , n. See Palempore .

Palanka <Xpage=1031>

Pa*lan"ka (?) , n. [Cf. It., Pg., & Sp. palanca , fr.L. palanga , phalanga a pole, Gr.<?/ ] (Mil.) A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

Palanquin <Xpage=1031>

Pal`an*quin" (?) , n. [F. palanquin , Pg. palanquim , Javan. palangki , OJavan. palangkan , through Prakrit fr. Skr. parya<?/ka , palya<?/ka , bed, couch; pari around (akin to E. pref. peri- ) + a<?/ka a hook, flank, probably akin to E. angle fishing tackle. Cf. Palkee .] An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place. [Written also palankeen .]

Palapteryx <Xpage=1031>

Pa*lap"te*ryx (?) , n. [ Paleo- + apteryx .] (Paleon.) A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand.

Palatability <Xpage=1031>

Pal`a*ta*bil"i*ty (?) , n. Palatableness.

Palatable <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*ta*ble (?) , a. [From Palate .] Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.

Palatableness <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*ta*ble*ness , n. The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness.

Palatably <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*ta*bly , adv. In a palatable manner.

Palatal <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*tal (?) , a. [Cf. F. palatal .] 1. Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones .

2. (Phonetics) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk .

Palatal <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*tal , n. (Phon.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y .

Palatalize <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*tal*ize (?) , v. t. (Phon.) To palatize.

Palate <Xpage=1031>

Pal"ate (?) , n. [L. palatum : cf. F. palais , Of. also palat .] 1. (Anat.) The roof of the mouth.

&hand; The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the maxillary and palatine bones, is called the hard palate to distinguish it from the membranous and muscular curtain which separates the cavity of the mouth from the pharynx and is called the soft palate , or velum .

2. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.

Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests. Pope.

3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.

T. Baker.

4. (Bot.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

Palate <Xpage=1031>

Pal"ate , v. t. To perceive by the taste. [Obs.]

Shak.

Palatial <Xpage=1031>

Pa*la"tial (?) , a. [L. palatium palace. See Palace .] Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures . " Palatial style."

A. Drummond.

Palatial <Xpage=1031>

Pa*la"tial , a. [ From Palate .] (Anat.) Palatal; palatine. [Obs.]

Barrow.

Palatial <Xpage=1031>

Pa*la"tial , n. A palatal letter. [Obs.]

Sir W. Jones.

Palatic <Xpage=1031>

Pa*lat"ic (?) , a. (Anat.) Palatal; palatine.

Palatic <Xpage=1031>

Pa*lat"ic , n. (Phon.) A palatal. [R.]

Palatinate <Xpage=1031>

Pa*lat"i*nate (?) , n. [F. palatinat . See Palatine .] The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine.

Howell.

Palatinate <Xpage=1031>

Pa*lat"i*nate (?) , v. t. To make a palatinate of. [Obs.]

Fuller.

Palatine <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*tine (?) , a. [F. palatin , L. palatinus , fr. palatium . See Palace , and cf. Paladin .] Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.

Count palatine , County palatine . See under Count , and County . -- Palatine hill , &or; The palatine , one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the C\'91sars. See Palace .

Palatine <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*tine (?) , n. 1. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine , under 4th Count .

2. The Palatine hill in Rome.

Palatine <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*tine , a. [From Palate.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the palate.

Palatine bones (Anat.) , a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.

Palatine <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*tine , (Anat.) A palatine bone.

Palative <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*tive (?) , a. Pleasing to the taste; palatable. [Obs.] " Palative delights."

Sir T. Browne.

Palatize <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*tize (?) , v. t. To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; as, to palatize a letter or sound . -- Pal`a*ti*za"tion (#) , n.

J. Peile.

Palato- <Xpage=1031>

Pal"a*to- (?) . [From Palate .] A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to , or connection with , the palate ; as in palatolingual .

Palatonares <Xpage=1031>

Pal`a*to*na"res (?) , n. pl. [NL. See Palato- , and Nares .] (Anat.) The posterior nares. See Nares .

Palatopterygoid <Xpage=1031>

Pal`a*top*ter"y*goid (?) , a. [ Palato- + pterygoid .] (Anat.) Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed .

Palaver <Xpage=1031>

Pa*la"ver (?) , n. [Sp. palabra , or Pg. palavra , fr. L. parabola a comparison, a parable, LL., a word. See Parable .]

1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate.

This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers . Carlyle.

Palaver <Xpage=1031>

Pa*la"ver , v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Palavered (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Palavering .] To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully .

Palavering the little language for her benefit. C. Bront<?/

Palaverer <Xpage=1031>

Pa*la"ver*er (?) , n. One who palavers; a flatterer.

Pale <Xpage=1031>

Pale (?) , a. [ Compar. Paler (?) ; superl. Palest .] [F. p\'83le , fr. p\'83lir to turn pale, L. pallere to be o<?/ look pale. Cf. Appall , Fallow , pall , v. i. , Pallid .]

1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. " Pale as a forpined ghost."

Chaucer.

Speechless he stood and pale . Milton.

They are not of complexion red or pale . T. Randolph.

2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon .

The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler . Shak.

&hand; Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, pale -colored, pale -eyed, pale -faced, pale -looking, etc.

Pale <Xpage=1031>

Pale , n. Paleness; pallor. [R.]

Shak.

Pale <Xpage=1031>

Pale , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Paled (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Paling .] To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

Whittier.

Apt to pale at a trodden worm. Mrs. Browning.

Pale <Xpage=1031>

Pale , v. t. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

The glow<?/worm shows the matin to be near, And gins to pale his uneffectual fire. Shak.

Pale <Xpage=1031>

Pale , n. [F. pal , fr. L. palus : cf. D. paal . See Pol<?/ a stake, and lst Pallet .] 1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.

Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. Mortimer.

2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. "Within one pale or hedge."

Robynson (More's Utopia).

3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. "To walk the studious cloister's pale ." Milton . "Out of the pale of civilization."

Macaulay.

4. A stripe or band, as on a garment.

Chaucer.

5. (Her.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

6. A cheese scoop.

Simmonds.

7. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

English pale (Hist.) , the limits or territory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172.

Spencer.

Pale <Xpage=1031>

Pale , v. t. To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. Shak.

Palea <Xpage=1031>

Pa"le*a (?) , n. ; pl. Pale\'91 (-&emac;) . [L., chaff.]

1. (Bot.) (a) The interior chaff or husk of grasses. (b) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.

2. (Zo\'94l.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

Paleaceous <Xpage=1031>

Pa`le*a"ceous (?) , a. [L. palea chaff.] (Bot.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of pale\'91, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle .

Palearctic <Xpage=1031>

Pa`le*arc"tic (?) , a. [ Paleo- + arctic .] Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

Paled <Xpage=1031>

Paled (?) , a. [See 5th Pale .] 1. Striped. [Obs.] "[Buskins] . . . paled part per part."

Spenser.

2. Inclosed with a paling. "A paled green."

Spenser.

Pale\'89chinoidea <Xpage=1031>

Pa`le*\'89ch`i*noi"de*a (?) , n. pl. [NL. See Paleo- , and Echinoidea .] (Zo\'94l.) An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Pal\'91echini . [Written also Pal\'91echinoidea .]

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Paleface <Xpage=1032>

Pale"face` (?) , n. A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.

J. F. Cooper.

Paleichthyes <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*ich"thy*es (?) , n. pl. [NL. See Paleo- , and Ichthyology .] (Zo\'94l.) A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Pal\'91ichthyes .]

Palely <Xpage=1032>

Pale"ly (?) , adv. [From Pale , a. ] In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.

Thackeray.

Palempore <Xpage=1032>

Pal`em*pore" (?) , n. A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings. [Written also palampore , palampoor , etc.]

De Colange.

Paleness <Xpage=1032>

Pale"ness (?) , n. The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.

The blood the virgin's cheek forsook; A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look. Pope.

Palenque <Xpage=1032>

Pa*len"que (?) , n. pl. (Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.

Paleo- <Xpage=1032>

Pa"le*o- (?) . [Gr. <?/ , adj.] A combining form meaning old , ancient ; as, pale arctic, pale ontology, paleo there, paleo graphy . [Written also pal\'91o -.]

Paleobotanist <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*o*bot"a*nist (?) , n. One versed in paleobotany.

Paleobotany <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*o*bot"a*ny (?) , n. [ Paleo- + botany .] That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Paleocarida <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*o*car"ida (?) , n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/ ancient + <?/ , <?/ , <?/ , a kind of crustacean.] (Zo\'94l.) Same as Merostomata . [Written also Pal\'91ocarida .]

Paleocrinoidea <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*o*cri*noi"de*a (?) , n. pl. [NL. See Paleo- , and Crinoidea .] (Zo\'94l.) A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.

Paleocrystic <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*o*crys"tic (?) , a. [ Paleo- + Gr. <?/ ice.] Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.

Paleog\'91an <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*o*g\'91"an (?) , a. [ Paleo- + Gr. <?/ the eart] (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. [Written also pal\'91og\'91an .]

Paleograph <Xpage=1032>

Pa"le*o*graph (?) , n. An ancient manuscript.

Paleographer <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*og"ra*pher (?) , n. One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

Paleographic, Paleographical <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*o*graph"ic (?) , Pa`le*o*graph"ic*al (?) , a. [Cf. F. pal\'82ographique .] Of or pertaining to paleography.

Paleographist <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*og"ra*phist (?) , n. One versed in paleography; a paleographer.

Paleography <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*og"ra*phy , n. [ Paleo- + -graphy : cf. F. pal\'82ographie .] 1. An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography .

2. The study of ancient inscriptions and modes of writing; the art or science of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters; diplomatics.

Paleola <Xpage=1032>

Pa*le"o*la (?) , n. ; pl. Paleol\'91 (#) . [NL., dim. of L. palea .] (Bot.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

Paleolith <Xpage=1032>

Pa"le*o*lith (?) , n. [ Paleo- + -lith .] (Geol.) A relic of the Paleolithic era.

Paleolithic <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*o*lith"ic (?) , a. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.

Paleologist <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*ol"ogist (?) , n. One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.

Paleology <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*ol"o*gy (?) , n. [ Paleo- + -logy .] The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; arch\'91ology .

Paleontographical <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*on`to*graph"ic*al (?) , a. Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.

Paleontography <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*on*tog"ra*phy (?) , n. [ Paleo- + Gr. <?/ existing things + -graphy .] The description of fossil remains.

Paleontological <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*on`to*log"ic*al (?) , a. Of or pertaining to paleontology. -- Pa`le*on`to*log"ic*al*ly , adv.

Paleontologist <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*on*tol"o*gist (?) , n. [Cf. F. pal\'82ontologiste .] One versed in paleontology.

Paleontology <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*on*tol"o*gy (?) , n. [ Paleo- + Gr. <?/ existing things + -logy . Cf. Ontology .] The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.

Paleophytologist <Xpage=1032>

Pa`le*o*phy*tol"o*gist (?) , n. A paleobotanist.

Paleophytology <Xpage=1032>