In the most high and palmy state of Rome.
Shak.
Pal*my"ra (?), n. (Bot.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis)
having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is
found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from
the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to
which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely
used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap
for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.
Pa*lo"la (?), n. [Fr. the native name.] (Zoˆl.) An annelid (Palola
viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface
of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for
food.
||Pa`lo*me"ta (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A pompano.
Palp (plp), n. [Cf. F. palpe. See Palpable.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Palpus.
Palp, v. t. [L. palpare: cf. F. palper.] To have a distinct touch or
feeling of; to feel. [Obs.]
To bring a palpËd darkness o'er the earth.
Heywood.
Pal`pa*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being palpable, or perceptible
by the touch. Arbuthnot.
Pal"pa*ble (?), a. [F. palpable, L. palpabilis, fr. palpare to feel,
stroke; cf. palpus the soft palm of the hand.] 1. Capable of being
touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form. Shak.
Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness.
Milton.
2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and
detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable
errors. "Three persons palpable." P. Plowman.
[Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable.
Shak.
-- Pal"pa*ble*ness, n. -- Pal"pa*bly, adv.
Pal*pa"tion (?), n. [L. palpatio, fr. palpare. See Palpable.] 1. Act of
touching or feeling.