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- English Word Pallone Definition An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.
- English Word Pallor Definition Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion.
- English Word Palm Definition The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.
- English Word Palm Definition A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.
- English Word Palm Definition A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
- English Word Palm Definition The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
- English Word Palm Definition The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
- English Word Palm Definition Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree.
- English Word Palm Definition A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
- English Word Palm Definition Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy.
- English Word Palm Definition To handle.
- English Word Palm Definition To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle.
- English Word Palm Definition To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with off.
- English Word Palm Sunday Definition The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.
- English Word Palma Christi Definition A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant.
- English Word Palmaceous Definition Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.
- English Word Palmacite Definition A fossil palm.
- English Word Palmar Definition Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.
- English Word Palmar Definition Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
- English Word Palmaria Definition of Palmarium