Palatine () One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.

Palatine () The Palatine hill in Rome.

Palatine () Of or pertaining to the palate.

Palatine () A palatine bone.

Palative () Pleasing to the taste; palatable.

Palatize () To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; as, to palatize a letter or sound.

Palato- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.

Palatonares () The posterior nares. See Nares.

Palatopterygoid () 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 () Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

Palaver () In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate.

Palavered () of Palaver

Palavering () of Palaver

Palaver () To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully.

Palaverer () One who palavers; a flatterer.

Pale () Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

Pale () Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.

Pale () Paleness; pallor.

Paled () of Pale

Paling () of Pale

Pale () To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

Pale () To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

Pale () 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.

Pale () That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.

Pale () A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.

Pale () A stripe or band, as on a garment.

Pale () 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 () A cheese scoop.

Pale () A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

Pale () To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

Paleae () of Palea

Palea () The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

Palea () One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.

Palea () A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

Paleaceous () Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.

Palearctic () Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

Paled () Striped.

Paled () Inclosed with a paling.

Paleechinoidea () An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini.

Paleface () A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.

Paleichthyes () A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids.

Palely () In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.

Palempore () A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings.

Paleness () The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.

Palenque () A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.

Paleo- () A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography.

Paleobotanist () One versed in paleobotany.

Paleobotany () That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Paleocarida () Same as Merostomata.

Paleocrinoidea () A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.

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