Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Palatine (4)

Pal″a‐tinen.(Anat.) A palatine bone.

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Palative

Pal″a‐tive (?), a. Pleasing to the taste; palatable. “Palative delights.” Sir T. Browne.

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Palatize

Pal″a‐tize (?), v. t. To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; as, to palatize a letter or sound. — Pal′a‐ti‐za″tion (#), n.J. Peile.

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Palato-

Pal″a‐to– (?). [From Palate.] A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.

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Palatonares

‖Pal′a‐to‐na″res (?), n. pl. [NL. See Palato-, and Nares.] (Anat.) The posterior nares. See Nares.

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Palatopterygoid

Pal′a‐top‐ter″y‐goid (?), a. [Palato- + pterygoid.] (Anat.) Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which t...

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Palaver

Pa‐la″ver (?), n. [Sp. palabra, or Pg. palavra, fr. L. parabola a comparison, a parable, LL., a word. See Parable.]1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk inte...

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Palaver (2)

Pa‐la″ver, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.Palavered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Palavering.] To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver; to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to c...

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Palaverer

Pa‐la″ver‐er (?), n. One who palavers; a flatterer.

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Pale

Pale (pāl), a. [Compar.Paler (pāl″ẽr); superl.Palest.] [F. pâle, fr. pâlir to turn pale, L. pallere to be or look pale. Cf. Appall, Fallow, Pall, v. i., Pallid.]1. Wanting in co...

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Pale (2)

Pale, n. Paleness; pallor. Shak.

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Pale (3)

Pale, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Paled (pāld); p. pr. & vb. n.Paling.] To turn pale; to lose color or luster. Whittier.Apt to pale at a trodden worm. Mrs. Browning.

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Pale (4)

Pale, v. t. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.The glowworm shows the matin to be near,And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. Shak.

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Pale (5)

Pale, n. [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See Pole a stake, and 1st Pallet.] 1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and b...

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Pale (6)

Pale, v. t. To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.ribbed and paled inWith rocks unscalable and roaring waters. Shak.

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Palea

‖Pa″le‐a (?), n.; pl.Paleæ (–ē).1. (Bot.) (a) The interior chaff or husk of grasses. (b) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers...

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Paleaceous

Pa′le‐a″ceous (?), a. [L. palea chaff.] (Bot.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleæ, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.

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Palearctic

Pa′le‐arc″tic (?), a. [Paleo- + arctic.] Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

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Paled

Paled (?), a. [See 5th Pale.] 1. Striped. “... paled part per part.” Spenser.2. Inclosed with a paling. “A paled green.” Spenser.

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Paleëchinoidea

‖Pa′le‐ëch′i‐noi″de‐a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Paleo-, and Echinoidea.] (Zoöl.) An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows...

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Paleface

Pale″face′ (pāl″fās′), n. A white person; — an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper.

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Paleichthyes

‖Pa′le‐ich″thy‐es (?), n. pl. [NL. See Paleo-, and Ichthyology.] (Zoöl.) A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichth...

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Palely

Pale″ly (?), adv. [From Pale, a.] In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily. Thackeray.

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Palempore

Pal′em‐pore″ (păl′ĕm‐pōr″), n. A superior kind of dimity made in India, — used for bed coverings. [Written also palampore, palampoor, etc.] De Colange.

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Paleness

Pale″ness (?), n. The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.The blood the virgin's cheek forso...

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Palenque

Pa‐len″que (?), n. pl.(Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.

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Paleo-

Pa″le‐o– (?). [Gr. παλαιόσ, adj.] A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography. [Written also palæo-.]