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palladiumize (păllādĭŭmīz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palladiumized (păllādĭŭmīzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Palladiumizing (păllādĭŭmīzĭng).] To cover or coat with palladium. [R.]
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pallah (păllȧ), n. (Zoöl.) A large South African antelope (Æpyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.
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Pallas (păll�s), prop. n. [L., fr. Gr. Pallas, Pallados.] (Gr. Myth.) Pallas Athena, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athena, Pallas Athene or Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.
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pallbearer (p�lbârẽr), n. One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
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pallet (păllĕt), n. [OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. � fine meal, dust, Skr. pala straw, palāva chaff. Cf. .] A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.
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Pallet, n. [Dim. of pale. See a stake.] (Her.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
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Pallet, n. [F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See a shovel.] 1. (Paint.) Same as .
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2. (Pottery) (a) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. (b) A potter's wheel.
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3. (Gilding) (a) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. (b) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
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4. (Brickmaking) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.
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5. (Mach.) (a) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. (b) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Knight.
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6. (Horology) 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. Brande & C.
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7. (Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
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8. (Zoöl.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of .
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9. A cup containing three ounces, -- formerly used by surgeons.
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10. A low movable platform used for temporary storage of objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and typically has openings in the side into which the blades of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and move the pallet and the objects on it.
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Pallial (?), a. [L. pallium a mantle. See .] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining 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 .
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Coloq. Pallial chamber (Zoöl.), the cavity inclosed by the mantle. -- Coloq. Pallial sinus (Zoöl.), an inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. See Illust. of .
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Palliament (?), n. [LL. palliare to clothe, fr. L. pallium a mantle. See the garment.] A dress; a robe. [Obs.] Shak.
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Palliard (?), n. [F. paillard, orig., one addicted to the couch, fr. paille straw. See a small bed.]
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1. A born beggar; a vagabond. [Obs.] Halliwell.
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2. A lecher; a lewd person. [Obs.] Dryden.
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Palliasse (?), n. See .
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Palliate (?), a. [L. palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak. See the garment.] 1. Covered with a mantle; cloaked; hidden; disguised. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
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2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.
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Palliate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palliated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Palliating (?).] 1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.]
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Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert.
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2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
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They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift.
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3. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease without curing; as, to palliate a disease.
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To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. Cowper.
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Syn. -- To cover; cloak; hide; extenuate; conceal. -- To , , . These words, as here compared, are used in a figurative sense in reference to our treatment of wrong action. We cloak in order to conceal completely. We extenuate a crime when we endeavor to show that it is less than has been supposed; we palliate a crime when we endeavor to cover or conceal its enormity, at least in part. This naturally leads us to soften some of its features, and thus palliate approaches extenuate till they have become nearly or quite identical. “To palliate is not now used, though it once was, in the sense of wholly cloaking or covering over, as it might be, our sins, but in that of extenuating; to palliate our faults is not to hide them altogether, but to seek to diminish their guilt in part.” Trench.
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Palliation (?), n. [Cf. F. palliation.] 1. The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.
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2. Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. Bacon.
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3. That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. [Obs.]
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Palliative (?), a. [Cf. F. palliatif.] Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate, mitigate, or alleviate.
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Palliative (?), n. That which palliates; a palliative agent. Sir W. Scott.
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Palliatory (?), a. Palliative; extenuating.
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Pallid (?), a. [L. pallidus, fr. pallere to be or look pale. See , a.] Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. Spenser.
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Pallidity (?), n. Pallidness; paleness.
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Pallidly (?), adv. In a pallid manner.
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Pallidness, n. The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
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Palliobranchiata (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Palliobranchiate (?), a. [See , and .] (Zoöl.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.
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Pallium (?), n.; pl. L. Pallia (�), E. Palliums (#). [L. See the garment.] 1. (Anc. Costume) A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.
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2. (R. C. Ch.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.
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☞ The wool is obtained from two lambs brought to the basilica of St. Agnes, Rome, and blessed. It is worn by the pope, and sent to patriarchs, primates, and archbishops, as a sign that they share in the plenitude of the episcopal office. Before it is sent, the pallium is laid on the tomb of St. Peter, where it remains all night.
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3. (Zoöl.) (a) The mantle of a bivalve. See . (b) The mantle of a bird.
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Pall-mall (?), n. [OF. palemail, It. pallamagio; palla a ball (of German origin, akin to E. ball) + magio hammer, fr. L. malleus. See 1st , and a beetle.] A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.
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Pallone (?), n. [It., a large ball, fr. palla ball. See .] An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.
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pallor (?), n. [L., fr. pallere to be or look pale. See , a.] Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion. Jer. Taylor.
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pally adj. Having the relationship of friends or pals; -- used colloquially.
Syn. -- chummy, matey, palsy-walsy.
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palm (päm), n. [OE. paume, F. paume, L. palma, Gr. palamh, akin to Skr. pāṇi hand, and E. fumble. See , , and cf. 2d .] 1. (Anat.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.
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Clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm. Tennyson.
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2. A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.
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☞ In Greece, the palm was reckoned at three inches. The Romans adopted two measures of this name, the lesser palm of 2.91 inches, and the greater palm of 8.73 inches. At the present day, this measure varies in the most arbitrary manner, being different in each country, and occasionally varying in the same. Internat. Cyc.
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3. (Sailmaking) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn on the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
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4. (Zoöl.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
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5. (Naut.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
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Coloq. to grease the palm of , v. t. To bribe or tip. [Slang]
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Palm, n. [AS. palm, L. palma; -- so named fr. the leaf resembling a hand. See 1st , and cf. .]
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1. (Bot.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmæ or Palmaceæ; a palm tree.
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☞ Palms are perennial woody plants, often of majestic size. The trunk is usually erect and rarely branched, and has a roughened exterior composed of the persistent bases of the leaf stalks. The leaves are borne in a terminal crown, and are supported on stout, sheathing, often prickly, petioles. They are usually of great size, and are either pinnately or palmately many-cleft. There are about one thousand species known, nearly all of them growing in tropical or semitropical regions. The wood, petioles, leaves, sap, and fruit of many species are invaluable in the arts and in domestic economy. Among the best known are the date palm, the cocoa palm, the fan palm, the oil palm, the wax palm, the palmyra, and the various kinds called cabbage palm and palmetto.
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2. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
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A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their hands. Rev. vii. 9.
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3. Hence: Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy. “The palm of martyrdom.” Chaucer.
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So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone. Shak.
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Coloq. Molucca palm (Bot.), a labiate herb from Asia (Molucella lævis), having a curious cup-shaped calyx. -- Coloq. Palm cabbage , the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food. -- Coloq. Palm cat (Zoöl.), the common paradoxure. -- Coloq. Palm crab (Zoöl.), the purse crab. -- Coloq. Palm oil , a vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oil palm (Elæis Guineensis), and used in the manufacture of soap and candles. See . -- Coloq. Palm swift (Zoöl.), a small swift (Cypselus Batassiensis) which frequents the palmyra and cocoanut palms in India. Its peculiar nest is attached to the leaf of the palmyra palm. -- Coloq. Palm toddy . Same as Palm wine. -- Coloq. Palm weevil (Zoöl.), any one of mumerous species of very large weevils of the genus Rhynchophorus. The larvæ bore into palm trees, and are called palm borers, and grugru worms. They are considered excellent food. -- Coloq. Palm wine , the sap of several species of palms, especially, in India, of the wild date palm (Phœnix sylvestrix), the palmyra, and the Caryota urens. When fermented it yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also palm toddy. -- Coloq. Palm worm , or Coloq. Palmworm . (Zoöl.) (a) The larva of a palm weevil. (b) A centipede.
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Palm (päm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palmed (pämd); p. pr. & vb. n. Palming.] 1. To handle. [Obs.] Prior.
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2. To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle.
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They palmed the trick that lost the game. Prior.
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3. Hence: To take (something small) stealthily, especially by concealing it in the palm of the hand; as, he palmed one of the coins and walked out with it.
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4. To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with on or upon; as, to palm a stolen coin on an unsuspecting dealer. See also .
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For you may palm upon us new for old. Dryden.
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Palmaceae n. A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales.
Syn. -- Palmae, family Palmae, family Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, palm family.
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Palmaceous (?), a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.
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Palma Christi (?). [L., palm of Christ.] (Bot.) A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]
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Palmacite (?), n. (Paleon.) A fossil palm.
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Palmae prop. n. A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs; same as ; coextensive with the order Palmales.
Syn. -- family Palmae, Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, palm family.
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Palmales prop. n. A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs coextensive with the family Palmae; -- the palms.
Syn. -- order Palmales.
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Palmar (?), a. [L. palmaris, fr. palma the palm of the hand: cf. F. palmaire.] 1. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.
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2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
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Palmarium (?), n.; pl. Palmaria (#). [NL. See .] (Zoöl.) One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.
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Palmary (?), a. (Anat.) Palmar.
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Palmary, a. [L. palmarius, palmaris, belonging to palms, deserving the palm or prize, fr. palma a palm.] Worthy of the palm; palmy; preëminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work. Br. Horne.
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Palmate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]
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{ Palmate (?), Palmated (?), } a. [L. palmatus marked with the palm of a hand, from palma the palm of the hand.]
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1. Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
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2. (Bot.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. Gray.
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3. (Zoöl.) (a) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. See Illust. (i) under . (b) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.
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Palmately (?), adv. In a palmate manner.
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Palmatifid (?), a. [L. palmatus palmate + root of findere to split.] (Bot.) Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.
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Palmatilobed (?), a. [L. palmatus palmate + E. lobed.] (Bot.) Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.
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{ Palmatisect (?), Palmatisected (?), } a. [L. palmatus palmate + secare to cut.] (Bot.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.
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Palmcrist (?), n. The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)
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Palmed (?), a. Having or bearing a palm or palms.
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Coloq. Palmed deer (Zoöl.), a stag of full growth, bearing palms. See 1st , 4.
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Palmer (?), n. [From , v. t.] One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
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Palmer, n. [From the tree.] A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer.
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Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. P. Plowman.
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The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all. T. Staveley.
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Palmerworm (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4. (b) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.
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Palmette (?), n. [F., dim. of palme a palm.] A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.
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Palmetto (?), n. [Dim. of palm the tree: cf. Sp. palmito.] (Bot.) A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States. In the United States, the name is applied especially to the Chamærops Palmetto, or Sabal Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under .
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