Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 7
Pallidly (adv.) In a pallid manner.
Pallidness (n.) The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
Palliobranchiata (n. pl.) Same as Brachiopoda.
Palliobranchiate (a.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.
Pallia (n. pl. ) of Pallium.
Palliums (n. pl. ) of Pallium.
Pallium (n.) (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.
Pallium (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.
Note: 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.
Pallium (n.) (Zool.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.
Pallium (n.) (Zool.) The mantle of a bird.
Pallium (n.) The layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum [syn: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, pallium, cortex].
Pallium (n.) (Zoology) A protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell [syn: mantle, pallium].
Pallium (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) Vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back.
Pallium (n.) Cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome.
Pall-mall (n.) 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.
Pall-mall (n.) A 17th century game; a wooden ball was driven along an alley with a mallet.
Pallone (n.) An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.
Pallor (a.) Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion.
Palm (n.) [C] (Anat.) 手掌，手心；（四足動物的）前足掌 The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.
Clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm. -- Tennyson.
Palm (n.) 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.
Note: 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.
Palm (n.) (Sailmaking) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
Palm (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Palm (n.) (Naut.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
To grease the palm of, (v. t.) To bribe or tip. [Slang]
Palm (n.) (Bot.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree.
Note: 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.
Palm (n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their hands. -- Rev. vii. 9.
Palm (n.) Hence: Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy. "The palm of martyrdom." -- Chaucer.
So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. -- Shak.
Molucca palm (Bot.), A labiate herb from Asia ({Molucella l[ae]vis), having a curious cup-shaped calyx.
Palm cabbage, the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food.
Palm cat (Zool.), The common paradoxure.
Palm crab (Zool.), The purse crab.
Palm oil, A vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oil palm ({El[ae]is Guineensis), and used in the manufacture of soap and candles. See El[ae]is.
Palm swift (Zool.), A small swift ({Cypselus Batassiensis"> Palm swift (Zool.), 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.
Palm toddy. Same as Palm wine.
Palm weevil (Zool.), Any one of mumerous species of very large weevils of the genus Rhynchophorus. The larv[ae] bore into palm trees, and are called palm borers, and grugru worms. They are considered excellent food.
Palm wine, The sap of several species of palms, especially, in India, of the wild date palm ({Ph[oe]nix sylvestrix), the palmyra, and the Caryota urens. When fermented it yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also palm toddy.
Palm worm, or Palmworm. (Zool.) () The larva of a palm weevil.
Palm worm, or Palmworm. (Zool.) () A centipede.
Palmed (imp. & p. p.) of Palm.
Palming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palm.
Palm (v. t.) （變戲法等的）把……藏於手（掌）中；用手掌觸摸；與……握手 To handle. [Obs.] -- Prior.
Palm (v. t.) To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle.
They palmed the trick that lost the game. -- Prior.
Palm (v. t.) 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.
Palm (v. t.) 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 palm off.
For you may palm upon us new for old. -- Dryden.
Palm (n.) The inner surface of
the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers [syn: palm,
thenar].
Palm (n.) A linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand.
Palm (n.) Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves [syn: palm, palm tree].
Palm (n.) An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event [syn: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon].
Palm (v.) Touch, lift, or hold with the hands; "Don't handle the merchandise" [syn: handle, palm].
Palm (n.) A species of tree having several varieties, of which the familiar "itching palm" (_Palma hominis_) is most widely distributed and sedulously cultivated. This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver. The metal will adhere with remarkable tenacity.
The fruit of the itching palm is so bitter and unsatisfying that a considerable percentage of it is sometimes given away in what are known as "benefactions."
Palmaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.
Palma Christi () 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.
Palmacite (n.) A fossil palm.
Palmar (a.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.
Palmar (a.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
Palmaria (n. pl. ) of Palmarium.
Palmarium (n.) One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.
Palmary (a.) Palmar.
Palmary (a.) Worthy of the palm; palmy; preeminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work.
Palmate (n.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.
Palmate (a.) Alt. of Palmated.
Palmated (a.) Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
Palmated (a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.
Palmated (a.) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.
Palmated (a.) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.
Palmately (adv.) In a palmate manner.
Palmatifid (a.) Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.
Palmatilobed (a.) Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.
Palmatisect (a.) Alt. of Palmatisected.
Palmatisected (a.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.
Palmcrist (n.) The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)
Palmed (a.) Having or bearing a palm or palms.
Palmer (v. t.) One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
Palmer (n.) 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.
Palmer (n.) A palmerworm.
Palmer (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle.
Palmerworm (n.) 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.
Palmerworm (n.) 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.
Palmette (n.) A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.
Palmetto (n.) 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 Chamaerops, / Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.
Palmic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi); -- formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
Palmidactyles (n. pl.) A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.
Palmiferous (a.) Bearing palms.
Palmigrade (a.) Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.
Palmin (n.) A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil.
Palmin (n.) Ricinolein.
Palmiped (a.) Web-footed, as a water fowl.
Palmiped (n.) A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.
Palmipedes (n. pl.) Same as Natatores.
Palmister (n.) One who practices palmistry.
Palmistry (n.) The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy.
Palmistry (n.) A dexterous use or trick of the hand.
Palmitate (n.) A salt of palmitic acid.
Palmite (n.) A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.
Palmitic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62?C.
Palmitin (n.) A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.
Palmitolic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.
Palmitone (n.) The ketone of palmitic acid.
Palm Sunday (n.) [C Usually singular] 聖枝主日（即復活節前的星期日）(Eccl.) The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way. The event is commemorated in Christian churches by distribution of blessed palm leaves.
Palm Sunday (n.) Sunday before Easter.
Palmy (a.) 棕櫚的；棕櫚蔭覆蓋的；繁榮的 Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. -- Pope.
His golden sands and palmy wine. -- Goldsmith.
Palmy (a.) Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous.
In the most high and palmy state of Rome. -- Shak.
Palmy (a.) Very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids" [syn: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving].
Palmyra (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.
Palola (n.) An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food.
Pallometa (n.) A pompano.
Palooka (n.) An inexperienced or incompetent boxer.
Palooka (n.) Oaf, Lout.
Palp (n.) Same as Palpus.
Palp (v. t.) To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.
Palpability (n.) The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.
Palpable (a.) Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
Palpable (a.) Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.
Palpate (v. t.) 【醫】觸診 To examine for medical purposes by touching, as of body parts; as, the nurse palpated the patient's stomach.
Syn: feel.
Palpate (v.) Examine (a body part) by palpation; "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse" [syn: palpate, feel].
Palpation (n.) Act of touching or feeling.
Palpation (n.) (Med.) 【醫】觸診 Examination of a patient by touch. -- Quain.
Palpation (n.) A method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional) [syn: palpation, tactual exploration].
Palpator (n.) (Zool.) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
Palpebrae (n. pl. ) of Palpebra.
Palpebra (n.) (Zool.) The eyelid.
Palpebral (a.) Of or pertaining to the eyelids.
Palprbrate (a.) (Zool.) Having eyelids.
Palped (a.) (Zool.) Having a palpus.
Palpi (n.) pl. of Palpus. (Zool.) See Palpus.
Palpicorn (n.) One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennae, and long maxillary palpi.
Palpifer (n.) (Zool.) Same as Palpiger.
Palpiform (a.) (Zool.) Having the form of a palpus.
Palpiger (n.) (Zool.) That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.
Palpigerous (a.) (Zool.) Bearing a palpus. -- Kirby.
Palpitant (a.) Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. -- Carlyle.
Palpitant (a.) Having a slight and rapid trembling motion; "palpitant movements rather than violent eruptions"; "my palpitating heart" [syn: palpitant, palpitating].