Palliative () That which palliates; a palliative agent.

Palliatory () Palliative; extenuating.

Pallid () Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.

Pallidity () Pallidness; paleness.

Pallidly () In a pallid manner.

Pallidness () The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Palliobranchiata () Same as Brachiopoda.

Palliobranchiate () Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.

Pallia () of Pallium

Palliums () of Pallium

Pallium () 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 () A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.

Pallium () The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.

Pallium () The mantle of a bird.

Pall-mall () 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.

Pallone () An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.

Pallor () Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion.

Palm () The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.

Palm () 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.

Palm () 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 () 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 () The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

Palm () Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree.

Palm () A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.

Palm () Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy.

Palmed () of Palm

Palming () of Palm

Palm () To handle.

Palm () To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle.

Palm () To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with off.

Palmaceous () 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 () A fossil palm.

Palmar () Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.

Palmar () Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.

Palmaria () of Palmarium

Palmarium () One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.

Palmary () Palmar.

Palmary () Worthy of the palm; palmy; preeminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work.

Palmate () A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.

Palmate () Alt. of Palmated

Palmated () Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

Palmated () 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 () Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.

Palmated () Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.

Palmately () In a palmate manner.

Palmatifid () Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.

Palmatilobed () Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.

Palmatisect () Alt. of Palmatisected

Palmatisected () Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.

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