<B>palindrome, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a word, verse, sentence, or numeral which reads the same backward or forward. The sentence "Madam, I'm Adam" is a palindrome that contains (in its first word) another palindrome. The numerals 1111 and 7557 are palindromes. <BR> <I>Ex. In Classical Latin 'the wolf' was simply lupus, in Vulgar Latin ille lupus or lupus ille, and today the former has become le loup in French, el lobo in Spanish and il lupo in Italian, whereas the latter has produced the palindrome lupul in Rumanian (Simeon Potter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="palindromic">
<B>palindromic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or of the nature of a palindrome. </DL>
<A NAME="palindromist">
<B>palindromist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who makes up palindromes. </DL>
<A NAME="paling">
<B>paling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a fence of pales. <BR> <I>Ex. I had seen ... a gap in the paling--one stake broken down (Charlotte Bronte).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>pales collectively, as fencing material. <BR> <I>Ex. The fence was only of split paling, but I got my trousers caught on the points (Geoffrey Household).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a pale in a fence. <BR> <I>Ex. The palings round the little gardens were broken and ruinous (Mrs. Humphry Ward).</I> (SYN) picket. <DD><B> 4. </B>the act of making a fence, or of enclosing a place, with pales; fencing. </DL>
<A NAME="palingenesis">
<B>palingenesis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>rebirth, regeneration, or reincarnation. <DD><B> 2. </B>the reproduction of ancestral features without change. </DL>
<A NAME="palingenetic">
<B>palingenetic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or based on palingenesis. <BR> <I>Ex. palingenetic processes of evolution.</I> adv. <B>palingenetically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="palinode">
<B>palinode, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a poem or song, especially an ode, in which the author retracts something said in a former poem. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in Scottish Law) a formal retracting; recantation. </DL>
<A NAME="palisade">
<B>palisade, </B>noun, verb, <B>-saded,</B> <B>-sading.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a long, strong wooden stake pointed at the top end. (SYN) pale. <DD><B> 2. </B>a fence of stakes set firmly in the ground to enclose or defend. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=palisade layer.</B> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to furnish or surround with a palisade. <BR> <I>Ex. The Mississippians were also an agricultural people who lived in a palisaded town containing specialized buildings (Science News Letter).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>palisades,</B> </I>a line of high, steep cliffs. <BR> <I>Ex. The Palisades of the Hudson River.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="palisadecell">
<B>palisade cell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the long, slender cells with many chloroplasts that lie just beneath the epidermis of leaves. Palisade cells are useful in making food for the plant. </DL>
<A NAME="palisadelayer">
<B>palisade layer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a layer of palisade cells; palisade. </DL>
<A NAME="palisademesophyll">
<B>palisade mesophyll</B> or <B>parenchyma,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the tissue formed by a layer of palisade cells. </DL>
<A NAME="palisado">
<B>palisado, </B>noun, pl. <B>-does.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> palisade. </DL>
<A NAME="palisander">
<B>palisander, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>=rosewood.</B> <DD><I>adj. </I> made of rosewood. <BR> <I>Ex. a Louis XV inlaid palisander table.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="palish">
<B>palish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> somewhat pale; rather pale. </DL>
<A NAME="pall">
<B>pall</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a heavy cloth of black, purple, or white velvet spread over a coffin, a hearse, or a tomb. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>a dark, gloomy covering. <BR> <I>Ex. A thick pall of smoke shut out the sun from the city.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>anything thought of as resembling this in effect. <BR> <I>Ex. His anger cast a pall over our merriment.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Ecclesiastical.) <DD><B> a. </B>a linen cloth, or now usually a square piece of cardboard covered with linen, used to cover the chalice. <DD><B> b. </B>(Archaic.) an altar cloth, especially a corporal. <DD><B> c. </B><B>=pallium </B>(def. 2a). <DD><B> 4. </B>(Heraldry.) a bearing representing the front half of an ecclesiastical robe, consisting of three bands in the form of a Y, charged with crosses. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Archaic.) a robe, cloak, or mantle, especially of rich stuff. <BR> <I>Ex. My velvet pall and silken gear (Child's Ballads).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Archaic.) a rich cloth spread upon or over something. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to cover with or as if with a pall. <BR> <I>Ex. The Holy Grail, All pall'd in crimson samite (Tennyson).</I> </DL>
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<B>pall</B> (2), intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to become distasteful or very tiresome because there has been too much of it. <BR> <I>Ex. Even the most tasty food palls if it is served every day.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to become satiated or cloyed (with). <BR> <I>Ex. If thy stomach palls with it, discontinue it from time to time (Laurence Sterne).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to render distasteful or very tiresome; make stale. <DD><B> 2. </B>to cloy (as the appetite or senses); satiate. </DL>
<A NAME="palla">
<B>palla, </B>noun, pl. <B>pallae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a full outer robe or wrap worn out of doors by women in ancient Rome. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Ecclesiastical.) <DD><B> a. </B>an altar cloth; corporal. <DD><B> b. </B>a pall for the chalice. </DL>
<A NAME="palladian">
<B>Palladian</B> (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, belonging to, or according to the school of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), an Italian architect, or his adaptation of ancient Roman architecture. <BR> <I>Ex. I supposed that all authors who did not live in garrets must live in splendid Palladian mansions (Punch).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="palladian">
<B>Palladian</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with Athena (Pallas Athena), the goddess of wisdom. <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with wisdom, knowledge, or study. </DL>
<A NAME="palladianism">
<B>Palladianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the system, style, taste, or method of Andrea Palladio and his followers. </DL>
<A NAME="palladic">
<B>palladic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) <DD><B> 1. </B>of palladium. <DD><B> 2. </B>containing palladium, especially with a valence of four. </DL>
<B>palladium</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a light, silver-white chemical element which occurs with platinum. Palladium is a ductile and malleable metal, harder than platinum but lighter and more readily fused. It is used in making scientific instruments, in alloys with precious metals such as gold and silver, and as a catalyst. <BR> <I>Ex. Powdered palladium can absorb 800 times its own volume of hydrogen gas (Monroe M. Offner).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="palladium">
<B>palladium</B> (2), noun, pl. <B>-dia.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> anything regarded as an important safeguard. <BR> <I>Ex. Trial by jury ... is looked upon by all as the Palladium of our liberties (Benjamin Disraeli).</I> (SYN) shield. </DL>
<A NAME="palladiumblack">
<B>palladium black,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a finely divided precipitate obtained froma solution of palladium salts, used as a catalyst in hydrogenation. </DL>
<A NAME="palladous">
<B>palladous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) <DD><B> 1. </B>of palladium. <DD><B> 2. </B>containing palladium, especially with a valence of two. </DL>
<A NAME="pallas">
<B>Pallas, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Greek Mythology.) <DD><B> a. </B>a name of Athena. <DD><B> b. </B>a winged giant whom Athena killed, sometimes said to be her father. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Astronomy.) one of the asteroids. </DL>
<A NAME="pallasathena">
<B>Pallas Athena,</B> <B>=Athena.</B></DL>
<A NAME="pallbearer">
<B>pallbearer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the men who walks with or carries the coffin at a funeral, so called from the old custom of holding up the corners or edges of the pall carried over the coffin. </DL>
<A NAME="pallet">
<B>pallet</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bed of straw, or any other small or poor bed. <BR> <I>Ex. a humble pallet. A pallet of mats (Washington Irving).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pallet">
<B>pallet</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a flat blade used by potters and others for shaping their work. <DD><B> 2. </B>an artist's pallette. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a projection on a pawl, that engages with a ratchet wheel. <DD><B> b. </B>any one of the projections in the escapement of a watch, clock, or other mechanism, that alternately catch and release the notches of the wheels. <DD><B> 4. </B>a low, portable platform on which loads are stacked to keep them off the ground in storage and to make the entire stack, including the pallet, easy to pick up, as by a fork lift, for handling. <DD><B> 5. </B>a flat brush for taking up gold leaf. </DL>
<A NAME="palletize">
<B>palletize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to put (a load) on a pallet. <BR> <I>Ex. Palletize shipments for easier warehouse handling, storage, and shipment (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to equip with pallets. <BR> <I>Ex. to palletize machines.</I> noun <B>palletization.</B> noun <B>palletizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pallette">
<B>pallette, </B>noun. <B>=palette.</B></DL>
<A NAME="pallial">
<B>pallial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Zoology.) having to do with a pallium, especially of a mollusk. </DL>
<B>palliate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to lessen without curing; mitigate. <BR> <I>Ex. to palliate a disease.</I> (SYN) ease. <DD><B> 2. </B>to make appear less serious; excuse. <BR> <I>Ex. to palliate a fault. The culprit ... had not striven to deny or palliate his offence (Rudyard Kipling).</I> (SYN) extenuate. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) to hide; conceal; disguise. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) to cloak; clothe; shelter. </DL>
