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- English Word Palet Definition A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
- English Word Paletot Definition An overcoat.
- English Word Paletot Definition A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.
- English Word Palette Definition A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments.
- English Word Palette Definition One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
- English Word Palette Definition A breastplate for a breast drill.
- English Word Palewise Definition In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.
- English Word Palfrey Definition A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse.
- English Word Palfrey Definition A small saddle horse for ladies.
- English Word Palfreyed Definition Mounted on a palfrey.
- English Word Palgrave Definition See Palsgrave.
- English Word Pali Definition pl. of Palus.
- English Word Pali Definition A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.
- English Word Pali Definition of Palus
- English Word Palification Definition The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
- English Word Paliform Definition Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
- English Word Palilogy Definition The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee."
- English Word Palimpsest Definition A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
- English Word Palindrome Definition A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.
- English Word Palindromic Definition Alt. of Palindromical