Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 5
Palative (a.) Pleasing to the taste; palatable. [Obs.] "Palative delights." -- Sir T. Browne.
Palatize (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- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.
Palatonares (n. pl.) (Anat.) The posterior nares. See Nares.
Palatopterygoid (a.) (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 (n.) Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.
Palaver (n.) 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.
Palavered (imp. & p. p.) of Palaver.
Palavering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palaver.
Palaver (v. t. & i.) 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['e]
Palaver (n.) Flattery intended to persuade [syn: blandishment, cajolery, palaver].
Palaver (n.) Loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" [syn: palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric].
Palaver (v.) Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble].
Palaver (v.) Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along" [syn: wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle].
Palaver (v.) Have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds.
Palaverer (n.) One who palavers; a flatterer.
Compare: Ordinary
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries.) (Law) (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries.) (Law) (b) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries.) (Law) (c) (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries.) The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework. -- Shak.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered
a settled establishment or institution. [R.]
Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary. -- Bacon.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries.) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries. -- Sir W. Scott.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries.) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'h[^o]te; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room. -- Shak.
All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. -- Swift.
He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. -- Bancroft.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries.) (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.
In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court.
In ordinary. (b) (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; -- said of a naval vessel.
Ordinary of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), The part of the Mass which is the same every day; -- called also the canon of the Mass.
Pale (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. -- Shak.
Pale (n.) 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.
Pale (n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. "Within one pale or hedge." -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Pale (n.) 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.
Pale (n.) Hence: A region within specified bounds, whether or not enclosed or demarcated.
Pale (n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment. -- Chaucer.
Pale (n.) (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.
Pale (n.) A cheese scoop. -- Simmonds.
Pale (n.) (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
English pale, Irish pale (Hist.), The limits or territory in Eastern Ireland within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country by Henry II in 1172. See note, below.
Beyond the pale, Outside the limits of what is allowed or proper; also, outside the limits within which one is protected. -- Spencer.
Note: The English Pale. That part of Ireland in which English law was acknowledged, and within which the dominion of the English was restricted, for some centuries after the conquests of Henry II. John distributed the part of Ireland then subject to England into 12 counties palatine, and this region became subsequently known as the Pale, but the limits varied at different times. [Century Dict., 1906]
Pale (a.) 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.
Pale (a.) 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.
Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-looking, etc.
Pale (n.) Paleness; pallor. [R.] -- Shak.
Paled (imp. & p. p.) of Pale.
Paling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pale.
Pale (v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster. -- Whittier.
Apt to pale at a trodden worm. -- Mrs. Browning.
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.
Pale (a.) Very light colored; highly diluted with white; "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes."
Pale (a.) (Of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick].
Pale (a.) Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance" [syn: pale, pallid].
Pale (a.) Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid, wan].
Pale (a.) Not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song."
Pale (n.) A wooden strip forming part of a fence [syn: picket, pale].
Pale (v.) Turn pale, as if in fear [syn: pale, blanch, blench].
Pale (a.) (B2) （臉色或膚色）蒼白的，白的 Used to describe a person's face or skin if it has less colour than usual, for example when the person is or ill or frightened, or if it has less colour than people generally have.
// You're looking pale - are you feeling well?
// She has a naturally pale complexion and dark hair.
Pale (a.) (A2) 暗淡的；淺的，淡的 A pale light or colour is not bright or strong.
// She wore a pale blue hat.
// Pale winter sunlight.
Pale (v.) [ I ] 變蒼白，失去血色 If a person's face pales, it loses its usual colour.
// His face paled and he looked as if he might faint.
Idiom: Pale in comparison (also Pale beside sth/ sb)
Pale in comparison (also Pale beside sth/ sb) 相形見絀 To seem much less serious or important when compared with someone or something else.
// I thought I was badly treated but my experiences pale in comparison with yours.
Idiom: Pale into insignificance
Pale into insignificance （與其他事情比起來）無足輕重，相形失色 To seem not important when compared with something else.
// Everything else that happened in my life pales into insignificance beside that one event.
Paleae (n. pl. ) of Palea.
Palea (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
Palea (n.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
Paleaceous (a.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.
Palearctic (a.) Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.
Paled (a.) Striped.
Paled (a.) Inclosed with a paling.
Paleechinoidea (n. pl.) An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini.
Paleface (n.) A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.
Paleichthyes (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids.
Palely (a.) In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.
Palempore (n.) A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings.
Paleness (n.) The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.
Palenque (n. pl.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.
Paleo- () A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography.
Paleobotanist (n.) One versed in paleobotany.
Paleobotany (n.) That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.
Paleocarida (n. pl.) Same as Merostomata.
Paleocrinoidea (n. pl.) A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.
Paleocrystic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.
Paleogaean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere.
Paleograph (n.) An ancient manuscript.
Paleographer (n.) One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.
Paleographic (a.) Alt. of Paleographical.
Paleographical (a.) Of or pertaining to paleography.
Paleographist (n.) One versed in paleography; a paleographer.
Paleography (n.) An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography.
Paleography (n.) 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.
Paleolae (n. pl. ) of Paleola.
Paleola (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.
Paleolith (n.) A relic of the Paleolithic era.
Paleolithic (a.) (Geol.) 【考古】舊石器時代的 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.
Paleolithic (a.) Of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic); "paleolithic artifacts" [syn: paleolithic, palaeolithic].
Paleolithic (n.) Second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC [syn: Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic].
Paleologist (n.) One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.
Paleology (n.) The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; arch[ae]ology.
Paleology (n.) The study of (especially prehistoric) antiquities [syn: paleology, palaeology].
Paleontographical (a.) Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.
Paleontography (n.) The description of fossil remains.
Paleontological (a.) Of or pertaining to paleontology. -- Pa`le*on`to*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Paleontological (a.) Of or relating to paleontology [syn: paleontological, palaeontological].
Paleontologist (n.) 古生物學者 One versed in paleontology.
Paleontologist (n.) A specialist in paleontology [syn: paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist].
Paleontology (n.) 古生物學 The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.
Paleontology (n.) The earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains [syn: paleontology, palaeontology, fossilology].
Paleophytologist (n.) A paleobotanist.
Paleophytology (n.) 古植物學 Paleobotany.
Compare: Phytolithology
Phytolithology (n.) The branch of science which treats of fossil plants; -- usually called paleobotany, sometimes paleophytology.
Paleornithology (n.) The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.
Paleosaurus (n.) A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.
Paleotechnic (a.) Belonging to, or connected with, ancient art.
Paleothere (n.) Any species of Paleotherium.
Paleotherian (a.) Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.
Paleotherium (n.) 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.
Paleotheroid () Resembling Paleotherium.
Paleotheroid (n.) An animal resembling, or allied to, the paleothere.
Paleotype (n.) See Palaeotype.
Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.
Paleozoic (a.) 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 Geology.
Paleozoology (n.) The Paleozoic time or strata.
Paleozooogy (n.) The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.
Palesie (n.) Alt. of Palesy.
Palesy (n.) Palsy.
Palestine (region) 巴勒斯坦地區，巴勒斯坦，是中東的一個地區，從地中海東岸一直延伸進入亞歐大陸內部。由於該地域隨時間的不同而不斷變化，所以至今還沒有完全確定的邊界。 Palestine (Arabic: فلسطين Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn; Greek: Παλαιστίνη, Palaistinē; Latin: Palaestina; Hebrew: פלשתינה Palestina) is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is sometimes considered to include adjoining territories. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, and it was later used for the Roman province Syria Palaestina, the Byzantine Palaestina Prima, and the Islamic provincial district of Jund Filastin. The region comprises most of the territory claimed for the biblical regions known as the Land of Israel (Hebrew: ארץ־ישראל Eretz-Yisra'el), the Holy Land or Promised Land. Historically, it has been known as the southern portion of wider regional designations such as Canaan, Syria, ash-Sham, and the Levant.
Situated at a strategic location between Egypt, Syria and Arabia, and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, the region has a long and tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. The region has been controlled by numerous peoples, including Ancient Egyptians, Canaanites, Israelites and Judeans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Achaemenids, Ancient Greeks and Macedonians, the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom, Romans, Parthians, Sasanians, Byzantines, the Arab Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates, Crusaders, Ayyubids, Mamluks, Mongols, Ottomans, the British, and modern Israelis, Jordanians, Egyptians and Palestinians.
The boundaries of the region have changed throughout history. Today, the region comprises the State of Israel and the Palestinian territories in which the State of Palestine was declared.
Palestinian (a.) 巴勒斯坦的；巴勒斯坦人的 Alt. of Palestinean.
Palestinian (a.) Of or pertaining to Palestine.
Palestinian (a.) Of or relating to the area of Palestine and its inhabitants; "Palestinian guerrillas".
Palestinian (n.) 巴勒斯坦人（或居民） A descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine [syn: {Palestinian}, {Palestinian Arab}].
Palestinean (a.) Of or pertaining to Palestine.
Palestrae (n. pl. ) of Palestra.
Palestras (n. pl. ) of Palestra.
Palestra (n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.
Palestra (n.) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.
Palestrian (a.) Alt. of Palestrical.
Palestric (a.) Alt. of Palestrical.
Palestrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.
Palet (n.) Same as Palea.
Paletot (n.) An overcoat.
Paletot (n.) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.
Palette (n.) 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.
Palette (n.) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
Palette (n.) A breastplate for a breast drill.
Palette (n.) [ C ] 調色板 A thin board with curved edges and a hole for your thumb, used by artists to mix their paints on while they are painting.
Palette (n.) [ C usually singular ] (Specialized) (Art) 用色風格 The range of colours that an artist usually paints with.
// Matisse's palette typically consists of bright blues, greens and oranges.
Palewise (adv.) In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.
Palfrey (n.) A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse. -- Chaucer.