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Palmcrist
() The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)
Palmed
() Having or bearing a palm or palms.
Palmer
() One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
Palmer
() 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
() A palmerworm.
Palmer
() Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle.
Palmerworm
() 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
() 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
() A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.
Palmetto
() 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
() 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
() A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.
Palmiferous
() Bearing palms.
Palmigrade
() Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.
Palmin
() A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil.
Palmin
() Ricinolein.
Palmiped
() Web-footed, as a water fowl.
Palmiped
() A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.
Palmipedes
() Same as Natatores.
Palmister
() One who practices palmistry
Palmistry
() 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
() A dexterous use or trick of the hand.
Palmitate
() A salt of palmitic acid.
Palmite
() A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.
Palmitic
() 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
() 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
() Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.
Palmitone
() The ketone of palmitic acid.
Palm Sunday
() The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.
Palmy
() Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore.
Palmy
() Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous.
Palmyra
() 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
() 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
() A pompano.
Palp
() Same as Palpus.
Palp
() To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.
Palpability
() The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.
Palpable
() Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
Palpable
() Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.
Palpation
() Act of touching or feeling.
Palpation
() Examination of a patient by touch.
Palpator
() One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
Palpebrae
() of Palpebra
Palpebra
() The eyelid.
Palpebral
() Of or pertaining to the eyelids.
Palprbrate
() Having eyelids.
Palped
() Having a palpus.
Palpi
() pl. of Palpus. (Zool.) See Palpus.
Palpicorn
() One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennae, and long maxillary palpi.
Palpifer
() Same as Palpiger.