||Pal*ma"ri*um (?), n.; pl. Palmaria (#). [NL. See Palmar.] (Zoˆl.) One
||of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.
Pal"ma*ry (?), a. (Anat.) Palmar.
Pal"ma*ry, a. [L. palmarius, palmaris, belonging to palms, deserving
the palm or prize, fr. palma a palm.] Worthy of the palm; palmy;
preÎminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work. Br. Horne.
Pal"mate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.
[Obsoles.]
{ Pal"mate (?), Pal"ma*ted (?), } a. [L. palmatus marked with the palm
of a hand, from palma the palm of the hand.]
1. Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers
spread.
2. (Bot.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a
leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.
Gray.
3. (Zoˆl.) (a) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most
swimming birds; webbed. See Illust. (i) under Aves. (b) Having the
distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; --
said of certain corals, antlers, etc.
Pal"mate*ly (?), adv. In a palmate manner.
Pal*mat"i*fid (?), a. [L. palmatus palmate + root of findere to split.]
(Bot.) Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than
halfway to the common center.
Pal*mat"i*lobed (?), a. [L. palmatus palmate + E. lobed.] (Bot.)
Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common
center.
{ Pal*mat"i*sect (?), Pal*mat`i*sect"ed (?), } a. [L. palmatus palmate
+ secare to cut.] (Bot.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the
midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.
Palm"crist (?), n. The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay
version, note.)
Palmed (?), a. Having or bearing a palm or palms.
Palmed deer (Zoˆl.), a stag of full growth, bearing palms. See lst
Palm, 4.
Palm"er (?), n. [From Palm, v. t.] One who palms or cheats, as at cards
or dice.
Palm"er, n.[From Palm the tree.] A wandering religious votary;
especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had
visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer.
Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together.
P. Plowman.
The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none.
The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but
the palmer to all.
T. Staveley.