They palmed the trick that lost the game.
Prior.
3. To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means;
-- usually with off.
For you may palm upon us new for old.
Dryden.
Pal*ma"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature
of, or resembling, palms.
||Pal"ma Chris"ti (?). [L., palm of Christ.] (Bot.) 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. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]
Pal"ma*cite (?), n. (Paleon.) A fossil palm.
Pal"mar (?), a. [L. palmaris, fr. palma the palm of the hand: cf. F.
palmaire.] 1. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of
the hand.