3. That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being
covered or disguised. [Obs.]
Pal"li*a*tive (?), a. [Cf. F. palliatif.] Serving to palliate; serving
to extenuate or mitigate.
Pal"li*a*tive (?), n. That which palliates; a palliative agent. Sir W.
Scott.
Pal"li*a*to*ry (?), a. Palliative; extenuating.
Pal"lid (?), a. [L. pallidus, fr. pallere to be or look pale. See pale,
a.] Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid
blue. Spenser.
Pal*lid"i*ty (?), n. Pallidness; paleness.
Pal"lid*ly (?), adv. In a pallid manner.
Pal"lid*ness, n. The quality or state of being pallid; paleness;
pallor; wanness.
||Pal`li*o*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Brachiopoda.
Pal`li*o*bran"chi*ate (?), a. [See Pallium, and Branchia.] (Zoˆl.)
Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.
||Pal"li*um (?), n.; pl. L. Pallia(&?;), E. Palliums (#). [L. See Pall
||the garment.] 1. (Anc. Costume) A large, square, woolen cloak which
||enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans.
||It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.
2. (R.C.Ch.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four
purple crosses worked on it; a pall.
The wool is obtained from two lambs brought to the basilica of St.
Agnes, Rome, and blessed. It is worn by the pope, and sent to
patriarchs, primates, and archbishops, as a sign that they share in the
plenitude of the episcopal office. Befoer it is sent, the pallium is
laid on the tomb of St. Peter, where it remains all night.
3. (Zoˆl.) (a) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle. (b) The mantle of a
bird.
Pall`-mall" (?), n. [OF. palemail, It. pallamagio; palla a ball (of
German origin, akin to E. ball) + magio hammer, fr. L. malleus. See lst
Ball, and Mall a beetle.] A game formerly common in England, in which a
wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring
of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where
the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall
Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.
Pal*lo"ne (?), n. [It., a large ball, fr. palla ball. See Balloon.] An
Italian game, played with a large leather ball.
Pal"lor (?), n. [L., fr. pallere to be or look pale. See Pale, a.]
Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion. Jer.
Taylor.
Palm (?), n. [OE. paume, F. paume, L. palma, Gr. &?;, akin to Skr. pni
hand, and E. fumble. See Fumble, Feel, and cf. 2d Palm.] 1. (Anat.) The
inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the
fingers and the wrist.
Clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm.
Tennyson.
2. 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.
In Greece, the palm was reckoned at three inches. The Romans adopted
two measures of this name, the lesser palm of 2.91 inches, and the
greater palm of 8.73 inches. At the present day, this measure varies in
the most arbitrary manner, being different in each country, and
occasionally varying in the same. Internat. Cyc.
3. (Sailmaking) 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.
4. (Zoˆl.) 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.