Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey.
Tennyson.
Pal"freyed (?), a. Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.
Pal"grave (?), n. See Palsgrave.
||Pa"li (?), n., pl. of Palus.
Pa"li (?), n. [Ceylonese, fr. Skr. pli row, line, series, applied to
the series of Buddhist sacred texts.] 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.
Pal`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L. palus a stake + -ficare (in comp.) to
make: cf. F. palification. See -fy.] The act or practice of driving
piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.
Pa"li*form (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes
of the septa in corals.
Pa*lil"o*gy (?), n. [L. palilogia, Gr. &?;; &?; again + &?; to speak.]
(Rhet.) 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." Is. xxxviii. 19.
Pal"imp*sest (?), n. [L. palimpsestus, Gr. &?; scratched or scraped
again, &?; a palimpsest; &?; again + &?; to rub, rub away: cf. F.
palimpseste.] A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first
writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.
Pal"in*drome (?), n. [Gr. &?; running back again; &?; again + &?; to
run: cf. F. palindrome.] 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.
{ Pal`in*drom"ic (?), Pal`in*drom"ic*al (?), } a. Of, pertaining to, or
like, a palindrome.
Pa*lin"dro*mist (?), n. A writer of palindromes.
Pal"ing (?), n. 1. Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or
pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
They moved within the paling of order and decorum.
De Quincey.
2. The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes
themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it
to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]
||Pal`in*ge*ne"si*a (?), n.[NL.] See Palingenesis.
{ Pal`in*gen"e*sis (?), Pal`in*gen"e*sy (?), } n. [Gr. &?;; &?; again +
&?; birth: cf. F. palingÈnÈsie. See Genesis.]
1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in
different manner or form.
2. (Biol.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral
characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development;
original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes,
in zoˆlogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.
Pal`in*ge*net"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a
palingenetic process. - - Pal`in*ge*net"ic*al*ly (#), adv.
Pal"i*node (?), n. [L. palinodia, from Gr. &?;; &?; again + &?; a song.
See Ode.] 1. An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a
repetition of an ode.