<B>Paleo-Indian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> one of a prehistoric group of people believed to have migrated from Asia to the Americas during the late Ice Age. <BR> <I>Ex. Paleo-Indians ... were big game hunters and preyed on bison and mammoths (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Paleo-Indians. <BR> <I>Ex. Paleo-Indian artifacts, Paleo-Indian culture.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleolimnologist">
<B>paleolimnologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in paleolimnology. <BR> <I>Ex. Paleolimnologists aspire to interpret past conditions and processes in lakes by comparison with the present and thereby also to gain a better understanding of the present by knowing its genesis (Science).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleolimnology">
<B>paleolimnology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the condition of lakes, ponds, and other enclosed bodies of water, in geological times. </DL>
<A NAME="paleolith">
<B>paleolith, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an artifact of paleolithic man; paleolithic tool. </DL>
<A NAME="paleolithic">
<B>paleolithic</B> or <B>Paleolithic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the earliest part of the Stone Age. Paleolithic tools were crudely chipped out of stone. <BR> <I>Ex. In the Paleolithic period, no animals seem to have been domesticated, and fire was probably unknown (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> this period. </DL>
<A NAME="paleolithicman">
<B>paleolithic man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Anthropology.) any of the men of the early Stone Age, including, in addition to Homo sapiens, various species now extinct. </DL>
<A NAME="paleologist">
<B>paleologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person skilled in paleology; a student or a writer on antiquity. </DL>
<A NAME="paleology">
<B>paleology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the science of antiquities; archaeology. </DL>
<A NAME="paleomagnetic">
<B>paleomagnetic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with paleomagnetism. </DL>
<A NAME="paleomagnetism">
<B>paleomagnetism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the direction of the residual magnetism in ancient rocks to determine the movement of the magnetic poles or of the rocks. <BR> <I>Ex. Recent studies of paleomagnetism (the determination of the location of the earth's magnetic poles in past eras) have brought renewed interest in the theory of continental drift (George R. Tilton).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleomagnetist">
<B>paleomagnetist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in paleomagnetism. </DL>
<B>paleontological, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with paleontology. adv. <B>paleontologically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="paleontologist">
<B>paleontologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in paleontology. <BR> <I>Ex. The paleontologist is interested in a fossil for hints as to the nature of the organism which caused it (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleontology">
<B>paleontology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the science of the forms of life existing in prehistoric times, as represented by fossil animals and plants. <BR> <I>Ex. Paleontology, the study of indications of prehistoric life, contributes much critical information to the biological sciences even as they, in turn, contribute to paleontology (Harbaugh and Goodrich).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleopathology">
<B>paleopathology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the diseases of historic and prehistoric times. </DL>
<A NAME="paleopedology">
<B>paleopedology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of geology dealing with the soils of former geological time. </DL>
<B>paleornithology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of ornithology that deals with fossil birds. </DL>
<A NAME="paleosiberian">
<B>Paleosiberian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>any one of a number of aboriginal peoples of northeastern Siberia speaking languages that do not belong to any of the large language families. <DD><B> 2. </B>the group of languages spoken by these peoples. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the Paleosiberians or their languages. Also, <B>Palaeosiberian.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="paleotechnic">
<B>paleotechnic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with the earlier historical phase of the development of modern industrial machinery, characterized by the use of coal, iron, and the steam engine. The term has become familiar to students of technological history through the writings of Patrick Geddes and Lewis Mumford. </DL>
<A NAME="paleotemperature">
<B>paleotemperature, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the temperature of oceans and seas in geological times, obtained by measuring or analyzing the chemical components of fossil sediments. <BR> <I>Ex. the paleotemperatures of the Mesozoic Era.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleotropical">
<B>Paleotropical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to the tropical (and subtropical) regions of the Old World or Eastern Hemisphere. </DL>
<A NAME="paleozoic">
<B>Paleozoic, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an early geological era whose fossils represent early forms of life. It was characterized by the development of the first fishes, land plants, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and forests of fernlike trees and came after the Proterozoic and before the Mesozoic. <BR> <I>Ex. Beginning about 505 million years ago, the Paleozoic is divided into six periods: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian (Beals and Hoijer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the rocks formed in this era. <DD><I>adj. </I> of this era or its rocks. <BR> <I>Ex. The Paleozoic rocks are the oldest that contain abundant evidence of life (Raymond Cecil Moore).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="paleozoological">
<B>paleozoological, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with paleozoology. </DL>
<A NAME="paleozoologist">
<B>paleozoologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person skilled in paleozoology. </DL>
<A NAME="paleozoology">
<B>paleozoology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil animals. <BR> <I>Ex. This science [paleontology] in turn is divided into paleozoology, for animals, and paleobotany, for plants (William C. Beaver).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="palermitan">
<B>Palermitan, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Palermo, the capital of Sicily. <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Palermo. </DL>
<A NAME="palestinian">
<B>Palestinian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Palestine, or the Holy Land, a region in southwestern Asia. <BR> <I>Ex. On the Arab side of the fence the basic difficulty lies in the Palestinian refugees and their state of mind (Atlantic).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Palestine. <BR> <I>Ex. The problem of the 213,000 former Palestinians in the Gaza strip was unsolved (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="palestra">
<B>palestra, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tras,</B> <B>-trae.</B> <B>=palaestra.</B></DL>
<A NAME="palet">
<B>palet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) a palea. </DL>
<A NAME="paletot">
<B>paletot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a loose outer garment, such as a coat or cloak, for men or women. </DL>
<A NAME="palette">
<B>palette, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a thin board, usually oval or oblong with a thumb hole at one end, used by an artist to lay and mix his colors on. <DD><B> 2. </B>a set of colors on this board. <DD><B> 3. </B>the selection of colors used by a particular artist. <BR> <I>Ex. to use a wide palette.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>Also, <B>pallette.</B> a small rounded plate protecting the armpit on a suit of armor. </DL>
<A NAME="paletteknife">
<B>palette knife,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a thin flexible blade of steel rounded at one end and set in a handle, used for mixing colors on a palette and to scrape the paint off the canvas before putting on another layer. </DL>
<A NAME="palewise">
<B>palewise, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Heraldry.) in the manner or direction of a pale; vertically. </DL>
<A NAME="palfrey">
<B>palfrey, </B>noun, pl. <B>-freys.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a gentle riding horse, especially one used by ladies. <BR> <I>Ex. He ... shook his drowsy squire awake, and cried, "My charger and her palfrey" (Tennyson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pali">
<B>Pali, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Middle Indic language, a later form of Sanskrit, used in the sacred writings of the Buddhists and still existing as a literary language in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Burma, and Thailand. </DL>
<A NAME="palikar">
<B>palikar, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Greek or Albanian militiaman in the war of independence, 1821-1828, against Turkey. Also, <B>pellekar.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="palimony">
<B>palimony, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a fixed sum of money for support of a man or woman, paid under orders from a court by a person who has lived with another person without being married. <BR> <I>Ex. The latest case of "palimony" involves a Los Angeles court demand ... by Kayatana Harrison for $4 million of the fortune amassed by ... a longtime, live-in boyfriend (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="palimpsest">
<B>palimpsest, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>parchment or other writing material from which one or more previous writings have been erased to make room for another. <DD><B> 2. </B>a manuscript with one text written over another. <DD><B> 3. </B>an oil painting that has lost its original intent by overpainting by another artist. </DL>
