Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 6
Palfrey (n.) A small saddle horse for ladies. -- Spenser.
Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey. -- Tennyson.
Palfrey (n.) Especially a light saddle horse for a woman.
Palfreyed (a.) Mounted on a palfrey. -- Tickell.
Palgrave (n.) See Palsgrave.
Palgrave (n.) English poet (1824-1897) [syn: Palgrave, Francis Turner Palgrave].
Pali (n.) pl. of Palus.
Pali (n.) 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.
Compare: Palus
Palus (n.; pl. Pali.) [L., a stake.] (Zool.) One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.
Pali (n.) An ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism.
Palification (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. [R.] -- Sir H. Wotton.
Paliform (a.) (Zool.) Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
Palilogy (n.) (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.
Palimpsest (n.) 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.
Note: 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.
Note: 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.
Palimpsest (n.) A manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.
Palindrome (n.) 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 Palindrome comes from Greek palindromos, literally "running back (again)," from palin, "back, again" + dromos, "running."
Palindrome (n.) A word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward.
Palindromic (a.) Alt. of Palindromical.
Palindromical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.
Palindromist (n.) A writer of palindromes.
Paling (n.) Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
They moved within the paling of order and decorum. -- De Quincey.
Paling (n.) The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Paling board, One of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]
Paling (n.) A fence made of upright pickets [syn: picket fence, paling].
Palingenesia (n.) [NL.] See Palingenesis. Palingenesis
Palingenesis (n.) Alt. of Palingenesy.
Palingenesy (n.) A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
Palingenesy (n.) 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.
Palingenesy (n.) (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; -- cenogenesis+({kenogenesis">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 Zoology, the term is applied to the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc. See also the note under recapitulation.
Compare: Recapitulation
Recapitulation (n.) [LL. recapitulatio: cf. F. recapitulation.] The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.
Recapitulation (n.) (Zool.) That process of development of the individual organism from the embryonic stage onward, which displays a parallel between the development of an individual animal (ontogeny) and the historical evolution of the species (phylogeny). Some authors recognize two types of recapitulation, palingenesis, in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced cenogenesis+({kenogenesis">during development; and cenogenesis ({kenogenesis or coenogenesis), the mode of individual development in which alterations in the development process have changed the original process of recapitulation and obscured the evolutionary pathway.
This parallel is explained by the theory of evolution, according to which, in the words of Sidgwick, "the developmental history of the individual appears to be a short and simplified repetition, or in a certain sense a recapitulation, of the course of development of the species."
Examples of recapitulation may be found in the embryological development of all vertebrates. Thus the frog develops through stages in which the embryo just before hatching is very fish-like, after hatching becomes a tadpole which exhibits many newt-like characters; and finally reaches the permanent frog stage. This accords with the comparative rank of the fish, newt and frog groups in classification; and also with the succession appearance of these groups. Man, as the highest animal, exhibits most completely these phenomena. In the earliest stages the human embryo is indistinguishable from that of any other creature. A little later the cephalic region shows gill-slits, like those which in a shark are a permanent feature, and the heart is two-chambered or fish-like. Further development closes the gill-slits, and the heart changes to the reptilian type. Here the reptiles stop, while birds and mammals advance further; but the human embryo in its progress to the higher type recapitulates and leaves features characteristic of lower mammalian forms -- for instance, a distinct and comparatively long tail exists. Most of these changes are completed before the embryo is six weeks old, but some traces of primitive and obsolete structures persist throughout life as "vestiges" or "rudimentary organs," and others appear after birth in infancy, as the well-known tendency of babies to turn their feet sideways and inward, and to use their toes and feet as grasping organs, after the manner of monkeys. This recapitulation of ancestral characters in ontogeny is not complete, however, for not all the stages are reproduced in every case, so far as can be perceived; and it is irregular and complicated in various ways among others by the inheritance of acquired characters. The most special students of it, as Haeckel, Fritz M["u]tter, Hyatt, Balfour, etc., distinguish two sorts of recapitulation palingenesis, exemplified in amphibian larvae and coenogenesis, the last manifested most completely in the metamorphoses of insects. Palingenesis is recapitulation without any fundamental changes due to the later modification of the primitive method of development, while in coenogenesis, the mode of development has suffered alterations which obscure the original process of recapitulation, or support it entirely. -- Encyclopedia Americana, 1961.
Palingenesis (n.) Emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species [syn: palingenesis, recapitulation] [ant: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis].
Palingenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. -- Pal`in*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.
Palingenetic (a.) Of or relating to palingenesis [ant: cenogenetic].
Palinode (n.) An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
Palinode (n.) A retraction; esp., a formal retraction. -- Sandys.
Palinodial (a.) Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction. -- J. Q. Adams.
Palinody (n.) See Palinode. [Obs.] -- Wood.
Palinurus (n.) (Naut.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.
Palinurus (n.) Type genus of the family Palinuridae [syn: Palinurus, genus Palinurus].
Palisade (n.) (Fort.) 木柵 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 (n.) Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
Palisade (n.) 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.
Palisade cells (Bot.), Vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves.
Palisade worm (Zool.), A nematoid worm ({Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.
Palisaded (imp. & p. p.) of Palisade.
Palisading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palisade.
Palisade (v. t.) 用柵欄圍護 To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
Palisade (n.) 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.
Palisade (n.) Fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground.
Palisade (v.) Surround with a wall in order to fortify [syn: {wall}, {palisade}, {fence}, {fence in}, {surround}].
Palisade, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 386
Housing Units (2000): 188
Land area (2000): 0.356859 sq. miles (0.924260 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.356859 sq. miles (0.924260 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38130
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.348408 N, 101.107126 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 69040
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Palisade, NE
Palisade
Palisade, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 2579
Housing Units (2000): 1117
Land area (2000): 1.074809 sq. miles (2.783743 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.010805 sq. miles (0.027986 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.085614 sq. miles (2.811729 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56970
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 39.109335 N, 108.354277 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 81526
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Palisade, CO
Palisade
Palisade, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 118
Housing Units (2000): 67
Land area (2000): 0.454019 sq. miles (1.175903 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.454019 sq. miles (1.175903 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49498
Located
within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.712784 N, 93.489425 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56469
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Palisade, MN
Palisade
Palisading (n.) (Fort.) A row of palisades set in the ground.
Palisadoes (n. pl. ) of Palisado.
Palisado (n.) A palisade [1]. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Palisado (v. t.) To palisade. [Obs.] -- Sterne.
Palish (a.) Somewhat pale or wan.
Palish (a.) Slightly pale.
Palissander (n.) (Bot.) Violet wood.
Palissander (n.) (Bot.) Rosewood.
Palissy (a.) Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.
Palissy ware, Glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief. See Palissy, below.
Pallissy (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.
Palkee (n.) A palanquin. -- Malcom.
Palanquin (n.) 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.]
Palanquin (n.) A closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers [syn: palanquin, palankeen].
Palkee (n.) A palanquin.
Pall (n.) Same as Pawl.
Pall (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. -- Spenser.
Pall (n.) A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] -- Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).
Pall (n.) (R. C. Ch.) Same as Pallium.
About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. -- Fuller.
Pall (n.) (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
Pall (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
Warriors carry the warrior's pall. -- Tennyson.
Pall (n.) (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
Pall (v. t.) To cloak. [R.] -- Shak
Palled (imp. & p. p.) of Pall.
Palling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pall.
Pall (v. i.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. -- Addisin.
Pall (v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. -- Chaucer.
Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. -- Atterbury.
Pall (v. t.) To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
Pall (n.) Nausea. [Obs.] -- Shaftesbury.
Pawl (n.) (Mach.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. Of Ratchet Wheel. [Written also paul, or pall.]
Pawl
bitt (Naut.), A
heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the
pawls.
Pawl rim or Pawl ring (Naut.), A stationary metallic ring surrounding
the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in.
Pall (n.) A sudden numbing dread [syn: chill, pall].
Pall (n.) Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes].
Pall (n.) Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall].
Pall (v.) Become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull].
Pall (v.) Cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare].
Pall (v.) Cover with a pall.
Pall (v.) Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: cloy, pall].
Pall (v.) Cause to become flat; "pall the beer."
Pall (v.) Lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: die, pall, become flat].
Pall (v.) Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her."
Pall (v.) Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade].
Palla (n.) (Rom. Antiq.)
An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
Palladian (prop. a. ) Of or pertaining to the Greek goddess Athena, also called
Pallas.
Palladian (prop. a. ) Pertaining to wisdom or knowledge; -- Athena being the goddess of wisdom.
Palladian (prop. n.) (Arch.) A follower of the architectural style of Andrea Palladio.
Palladian (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.
Palladian (a.) Referring to or relating to or having the style of architecture created by Andrea Palladio; "the much imitated arch and column compositions known as the Palladian motif."
Palladic (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.
Palladious (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.
Palladium (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
Palladium (n.) Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. -- Blackstone.
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. It is unique in its power of occluding 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 weight, 106.2. Density 12.0.
Pd (prop. n.) The chemical symbol for palladium, an element of the platinum group, of atomic number 46.
Syn: palladium.
Palladium (n.) A silver-white metallic element
of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper
and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures
and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry [syn: palladium, Pd, atomic
number 46].
Palladiumized (imp. & p. p.) of Paladiumize.
Palladiumizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paladiumize.
Palladiumize (v. t.) To cover or coat with palladium. [R.]
Compare: Impala
Impala (n.) An antelope ({Aepyceros melampus) of Southeastern Africa, the male of which has ringed lyre-shaped horns, which curve first backward, then sideways, then upwards. ALso called impalla and pallah.
Impala (n.) African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps [syn: impala, Aepyceros melampus].
Pallah (n.) (Zool.) A large South African antelope ({Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.
Pallas (n.) (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.
Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Palette (n.) [See Pallet a thin board.] (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.]
Palette (n.) 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.
Palette (n.) Hence: The complete range of resources and techniques used in any art, such as music.
Palette (n.) (Anc. Armor) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. -- Fairholt.
Palette (n.) (Mech.) A breastplate for a breast drill.
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.
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.
Pallet (n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. -- Milton.
Pallet (n.) (Her.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
Palet (n.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
Pallet (n.) (Paint.) Same as Palette.
Pallet (n.) (Pottery) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
Pallet (n.) (Pottery) A potter's wheel.
Pallet (n.) (Gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
Pallet (n.) (Gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
Pallet (n.) (Brickmaking) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. -- Knight.
Pallet (n.) (Mach.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
Pallet (n.) (Mach.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. -- Knight.
Pallet (n.) (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.
Pallet (n.) (Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
Pallet (n.) (Zool.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
Pallet (n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- formerly used by surgeons.
Pallet (n.) 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.
Pallet (n.) The range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art [syn: palette, pallet].
Pallet (n.) A portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it.
Pallet (n.) A hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay.
Pallet (n.) A mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed.
Pallet (n.) Board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used [syn: palette, pallet].
Pallial (a.) (Zool.) Of or pretaining 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 Bivalve.
Pallial chamber (Zool.), The cavity inclosed by the mantle.
Pallial sinus (Zool.), An inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. See Illust. of Bivalve.
Palliament (n.) A dress; a robe. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Palliard (n.) A born beggar; a vagabond. [Obs.] -- Halliwell.
Palliard (n.) A lecher; a lewd person. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Paillasse (n.) An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also palliasse.]
Palliasse (n.) See Paillasse..
Palliate (a.) Covered with a mantle; cloaked; disguised. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Palliate (a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.] -- Bp. Fell.
Palliated (imp. & p. p.) of Palliate.
Palliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palliate.
Palliate (v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.]
Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Palliate (v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
They never hide or palliate their vices. -- Swift.
Palliate (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. -- Cowper.
Syn: To cover; cloak; hide; extenuate; conceal.
Usage: To Palliate, Extenuate, Cloak. 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.
Palliate (v.) Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime" [syn: extenuate, palliate, mitigate].
Palliate (v.) Provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" [syn: relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage].
Palliation (n.) The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.
Palliation (n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. -- Bacon.
Palliation (n.) That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. [Obs.]
Palliation (n.) Easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause.
Palliation (n.) To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious [syn: extenuation, mitigation, palliation].
Palliative (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate, mitigate, or alleviate.
Palliative (n.) That which palliates; a palliative agent. -- Sir W. Scott.
Palliative (a.) Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear [syn: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative]
Palliative (n.) Remedy that alleviates pain without curing [syn: palliative, alleviant, alleviator].
Palliatory (a.) Palliative; extenuating.
Pallid (a.) Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. -- Spenser.
Pallid (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].
Pallid (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].
Pallid (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].
Pallid (a.) Very pale in a way that suggests poor health ; dull and uninteresting.
Pallid (a.) V ery pale in a way that suggests poor health.
// The patient's pallid face.
Pallid (a.) Dull and uninteresting.
// A pallid performance.
// The movie is a pallid version of the classic novel.
Pallidity (n.) Pallidness; paleness.
Pallidity (n.) Being deficient in color [syn: paleness, pallidity].