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Paleface (pālfās), n. A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper.
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Paleichthyes (?), n. pl. [NL. See , and .] (Zoöl.) A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichthyes.]
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Palely (?), adv. [From Pale, a.] In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily. Thackeray.
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Palempore (pălĕmpōr), n. A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings. [Written also palampore, palampoor, etc.] De Colange.
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Paleness (?), n. The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.
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The blood the virgin's cheek forsook;
A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look. Pope.
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Palenque (?), n. pl. (Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.
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Paleo- (?). [Gr. palaios, adj.] A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography. [Written also palæo-.]
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Paleobotanist (?), n. One versed in paleobotany.
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Paleobotany (?), n. [Paleo- + botany.] That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.
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Paleocarida (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. palaios ancient + karis, -idos, a kind of crustacean.] (Zoöl.) Same as . [Written also Palæocarida.]
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Paleocrinoidea (?), n. pl. [NL. See , and .] (Zoöl.) A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.
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Paleocrystic (?), a. [Paleo- + Gr. krystallos ice.] Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.
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Paleogæan (?), a. [Paleo- + Gr. gai^a the earth.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. [Written also palæogæan.]
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paleogeography n. The study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs.
Syn. -- palaeogeography.
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paleogeology n. The study of geologic features once at the surface of the earth but now buried beneath rocks.
Syn. -- palaeogeology.
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Paleograph (?), n. An ancient manuscript.
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Paleographer (?), n. One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.
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{ Paleographic (?), Paleographical (?), } a. [Cf. F. paléographique.] Of or pertaining to paleography.
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Paleographist (?), n. One versed in paleography; a paleographer.
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Paleography, n. [Paleo- + -graphy: cf. F. paléographie.] 1. An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography.
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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.
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Paleola (?), n.; pl. Paleolæ (#). [NL., dim. of L. palea.] (Bot.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.
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Paleolith (?), n. [Paleo- + -lith.] (Geol.) A relic of the Paleolithic era.
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Paleolithic (?), 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.
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Paleologist (?), n. One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.
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Paleology (?), n. [Paleo- + -logy.] The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; archæology .
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Paleontographical (?), a. Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.
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Paleontography (?), n. [Paleo- + Gr. 'onta existing things + -graphy.] The description of fossil remains.
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Paleontological (?), a. Of or pertaining to paleontology. -- Paleontologically, adv.
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Paleontologist (?), n. [Cf. F. paléontologiste.] One versed in paleontology.
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Paleontology (?), n. [Paleo- + Gr. 'onta existing things + -logy. Cf. .] The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.
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Paleophytologist (?), n. A paleobotanist.
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Paleophytology (?), n. [Paleo- + phytology.] Paleobotany.
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Paleornithology (?), n. [Paleo- + ornithology.] The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.
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Paleosaurus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. palaios ancient + say^ros a lizard.] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.
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Paleotechnic (?), a. [Paleo- + technic.] Belonging to, or connected with, ancient art. “The paleotechnic men of central France.” D. Wilson.
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Paleothere (?), n. [F. paléothère.] (Paleon.) Any species of Paleotherium.
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Paleotherian (?), a. [F. paléothérien.] (Paleon.) Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.
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Paleotherium (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. palaios ancient + qhrion beast.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama. [Written also Palæotherium.]
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Paleotheroid (?), [Paleothere + -oid.] (Paleon.) Resembling Paleotherium. -- n. An animal resembling, or allied to, the paleothere.
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Paleotype (?), n. See .
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Paleous (?), a. [L. palea chaff.] Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
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Paleozoic (?), a. [Paleo- + Gr. zwh life, fr. zh^n to live.] (Geol.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of .
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Paleozoic (?), n. (Geol.) The Paleozoic time or strata.
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Paleozoöogy (?), n. [Paleo- + zoölogy.] The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.
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{ Palesie (?), Palesy }, n. Palsy. [Obs.] Wyclif.
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{ Palestinian (?), Palestinean (?), } a. Of or pertaining to Palestine.
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Palestra (?), n.; pl. L. Palestræ (#), E. Palestras (#). [NL., fr. L. palaestra, Gr. �, fr. � to wrestle.] [Written also palæstra.] (Antiq.) (a) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. (b) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.
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{ Palestrian (?), Palestric (?), Palestrical (?), } a. [L. palaestricus, Gr. �.] Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.
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Palet (?), n. [See .] (Bot.) Same as .
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Paletot (?), n. [F. paletot, OF. palletoc, prob. fr. L. palla (see ) + F. toque cap, and so lit., a frock with a cap or hood; cf. Sp. paletoque.] (a) An overcoat. Dickens. (b) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.
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Palette (?), n. [See a thin board.]
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1. (Paint.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. Hence, any other object, usually one with a flat surface, used for the same purpose. [Written also pallet.]
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2. Hence: The complete set of colors used by an artist or other person in creating an image, in any medium. The meaning of this term has been extended in modern times to include the set of colors used in a particular computer application, or the complete set of of colors available in computer displays or printing techniques.
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3. Hence: The complete range of resources and techniques used in any art, such as music.
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4. (Anc. Armor) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. Fairholt.
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5. (Mech.) A breastplate for a breast drill.
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Coloq. Palette knife , a knife with a very flexible steel blade and no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to mix colors on the grinding slab or palette. -- Coloq. To set the palette (Paint.), to lay upon it the required pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use of them in a picture. Fairholt.
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Palewise (?), adv. (Her.) In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.
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Palfrey (?), n. [OE. palefrai, OF. palefrei, F. palefroi, LL. palafredus, parafredus, from L. paraveredus a horse for extraordinary occasions, an extra post horse; Gr. para along, beside + L. veredus a post horse.]
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1. A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse. Chaucer.
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2. A small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser.
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Call the host and bid him bring
Charger and palfrey. Tennyson.
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Palfreyed (?), a. Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.
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Palgrave (?), n. See .
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Pali (?), n., pl. of .
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Pali (?), n. [Ceylonese, fr. Skr. pāli row, line, series, applied to the series of Buddhist sacred texts.] 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.
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Palification (?), n. [L. palus a stake + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. palification. See .] The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.
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Paliform (?), a. (Zoöl.) Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
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Palilogy (?), n. [L. palilogia, Gr. palillogia; palin again + legein to speak.] (Rhet.) 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.” Is. xxxviii. 19.
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palimony (pălĭmōn�), n. [pal + alimony. (ca. 1975)] a form of alimony paid to a former partner in a romantic relationship after a period of living together, even though the two persons involved were not married to each other. The absence of a formal marriage distinguishes it from alimony.
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palimpsest (pălĭmpsĕst), n. [L. palimpsestus, Gr. palimpshstos scratched or scraped again, palimpshston a palimpsest; palin again + psh^n to rub, rub away: cf. F. palimpseste.] A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. The erasures of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries, to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts, such as copies of church services and lives of the saints. The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing; the original texts on parchments which had been washed with lime-water and dried were easily recovered by a chemical process, but those erased by scraping the parchment and bleaching are difficult to interpret. Most of the manuscripts underlying the palimpsests that have been revived are fragmentary, but some are of great historical value. One Syriac version of the Four Gospels was discovered in 1895 in St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai by Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis. See also the notes below. Longfellow.
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☞ Palimpsest is the name given to ancient parchments which have been used more than once for writing purposes. The conquest of Egypt by the Saracens in the 7th century cut off from Europe the papyrus which was used to write on, and parchment could be had only in limited quantities. So through the dark ages, old manuscripts were used, after removing the first writing upon them. Sometimes the writing was washed off with a sponge, and the parchment smoothed with pumice stone; at other times the letters were scraped away with a sharp blade. Nearly all ancient manuscripts, however, were written with an ink which could not be entirely removed, and traces of a former writing could be seen beneath the new copy. In modern times there have been various efforts to restore these ancient writings by some chemical treatment. In this way have been found copies of the Republic of Cicero, the Institutes of Gaius, a part of the Epistle to the Romans, and other parts of the Old and New Testaments. The Republic of Cicero was covered by a commentary on the Psalms, written by St. Augustine. Student's Cyclopedia, 1897.
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☞ In an auction on November 6, 1998, a 12th-century palimpsest of one of Archimedes' works was sold for 2 million dollars. The 174-page book, the oldest known copy of Archimedes' work, had been owned by a French family since the 1920s, and was sold by Christie's auction house in New York to an unidentified private American collector. The palimpsest volume includes notes and calculations for two of the Greek mathematician's most famous theories, On Floating Bodies and Method of Mechanical Theorems. A Christie's spokesperson said the buyer, who was not identified, indicated that the work would be made available to scholars. Also bidding was the Greek government, which claimed the work was stolen from a library in the former Constantinople, now Istanbul, and belonged to Greece. According to the Athens News Agency, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem took Christie's to court claiming that the manuscript was part of its library, which had been transferred to Istanbul and later to Athens for safekeeping. The court, however, ruled that Christie's had the right to auction the manuscript for a French family, which claimed to own it for the last 75 years since one of the family's ancestors bought it from Orthodox monks in Istanbul. According to the court's ruling, French law applied in the case, under which a person who holds any object for more than 30 years becomes its rightful owner.
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Palindrome (?), n. [Gr. palindromos running back again; palin again + dramei^n to run: cf. F. 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.
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{ Palindromic (?), Palindromical (?), } a. Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.
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Palindromist (?), n. A writer of palindromes.
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Paling (?), n. 1. Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
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They moved within the paling of order and decorum. De Quincey.
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2. The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Coloq. Paling board , one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]
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Palingenesia (?), n. [NL.] See .
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{ Palingenesis (?), Palingenesy (?), } n. [Gr. �; palin again + � birth: cf. F. palingénésie. See .]
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1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
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2. Hence: The passing over of the soul of one person or animal into the body of another person or animal, at the time of the death of the first; the transmigration of souls. Called also metempsychosis.
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3. (Biol.) That form of development of an individual organism in which in which ancestral characteristics occurring during its evolution are conserved by heredity and reproduced, sometimes transiently, in the course of individual development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from cenogenesis (kenogenesis or coenogenesis), in which the mode of individual development has been modified so that the evolutionary process had become obscured. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the term is applied to the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc. See also the note under .
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Palingenetic (?), a. Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. -- Palingenetically (#), adv.
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Palinode (?), n. [L. palinodia, from Gr. �; palin again + � a song. See .] 1. An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
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2. A retraction; esp., a formal retraction. Sandys.
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Palinodial (?), a. Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction. J. Q. Adams.
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Palinody (?), n. See . [Obs.] Wood.
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Palinurus (?), n. [So called from L. Palinurus, the pilot of Æneas.] (Naut.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.
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Palisade (?), n. [F. palissade, cf. Sp. palizada, It. palizzata, palizzo, LL. palissata; all fr. L. palus a stake, pale. See a stake.] 1. (Fort.) 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.
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2. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
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3. A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; -- usually in pl., and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson.
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Coloq. Palisade cells (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. -- Coloq. Palisade worm (Zoöl.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.
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Palisade, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palisaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Palisading.] [Cf. F. palissader.] To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
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Palisading (?), n. (Fort.) A row of palisades set in the ground.
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Palisado (?), n.; pl. Palisadoes (�). A palisade{1}. [Obs.] Shak.
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Palisado, v. t. To palisade. [Obs.] Sterne.
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Palish (?), a. Somewhat pale or wan.
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Palissander (?), n. [F. palissandre.] (Bot.) (a) Violet wood. (b) Rosewood.
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Palissy (?), a. Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.
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Coloq. Palissy ware , glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief. See , below.
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Pallissy (päl�s�), prop. n. Bernard Pallissy, the great French potter, was born in Agen, in 1509, and wandered as a glass and portrait painter until he married and settled in Saintes in 1538. While working here as a surveyor his attention was attracted by an enameled cup, and he determined to discover the process and after 16 years of continuous labor and experiment in which he used all his resources and burned the tables and floors for fuel, he succeeded, and though imprisoned in 1562 as a Huguenot he was released by royal edict and appointed inventor of figulines to the king. He removed to Paris in 1564, and through the aid of Catherine de Medici was saved from the massacre of St. Bartholomew. From 1575 to 1584 he gave a course of lectures on physics and natural history, demonstrating the origin of springs, the formation of fossil shell, and the best method of purifying water. In 1585, however, he was again arrested as a Huguenot and imprisoned in the Bastille, where he died in 1589. See H. Morley's Palissy the Potter. Student's Cyclopedia, 1897.
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Palkee (?), n. [Hind. pālkī; of the same origin as E. palanquin.] A palanquin. Malcom.
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Pall (p�l), n. Same as .
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Pall, n. [OE. pal, AS. pæl, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.] 1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
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His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.
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2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).
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3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as .
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About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller.
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4. (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
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5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
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Warriors carry the warrior's pall. Tennyson.
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6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
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Pall, v. t. To cloak. [R.] Shak
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Pall, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled (p�ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. pâlir to grow pale. Cf. , , a.] To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. Addisin.
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Pall, v. t. 1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer.
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Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury.
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2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
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Pall, n. Nausea. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.
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Palla (?), n. [L. See a cloak.] (Rom. Antiq.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
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Palladian (păllādĭ�n), prop. a. (Arch.) 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; as, a Palladian window.
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Palladian (păllādĭ�n), prop. a. [From Pallas, Athena.] 1. Of or pertaining to the Greek goddess Athena, also called Pallas.
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2. Pertaining to wisdom or knowledge; -- Athena being the goddess of wisdom.
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Palladian (păllādĭ�n), prop. n. (Arch.) A follower of the architectural style of Andrea Palladio.
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Palladic (păllādĭk or păllădĭk), a. (Chem.) 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.
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Palladious (păllādĭŭs), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.
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Palladium (păllādĭŭm), n. [L., fr. Gr. Palladion, fr. Pallas, Pallados, Pallas.]
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1. (Gr. Antiq.) Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
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2. Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a safeguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. Blackstone.
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Palladium, n. [NL.] (Chem.) 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, with a melting point of 1555° C. It can also be prepared as a finely divided black powder. It is unique in its power of absorbing 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 number, 46. Atomic weight, 106.42. Density 12.0.
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