||Pal*pa"tor (?), n. [L., a stroker.] (Zoˆl.) One of a family of
||clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary
||palpi.
||Pal"pe*bra (?), n.; pl. PalpebrÊ (#). [L.] (Zoˆl.) The eyelid.
Pal"pe*bral (?), a. [L. palpebralis, fr. palpebra: cf. F. palpÈbral.]
Of or pertaining to the eyelids.
Pal"pe*brate (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having eyelids.
Palped (plpt), a. (Zoˆl.) Having a palpus.
||Pal"pi (pl"p), n., pl. of Palpus. (Zoˆl.) See Palpus.
Pal"pi*corn (?), n. [See Palpus, and Cornu.] (Zoˆl.) One of a group of
aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennÊ, and
long maxillary palpi.
Pal"pi*fer (?), n. [Palpus + L. ferre to bear.] (Zoˆl.) Same as
Palpiger.
Pal"pi*form (?), a. [Palpus + -form: cf. F. palpiforme.] (Zoˆl.) Having
the form of a palpus.
Pal"pi*ger (?), n. [See Palpigerous.] (Zoˆl.) That portion of the
labium which bears the palpi in insects.
Pal*pig"er*ous (?), a. [Palpus + -gerous.] (Zoˆl.) Bearing a palpus.
Kirby.
Pal"pi*tant (?), a. [L. palpitans, p. pr.] Palpitating; throbbing;
trembling. Carlyle.
Pal"pi*tate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palpitated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Palpitating(?).] [L. palpitare, palpitatum, v. intens. fr. pappare. See
Palpable.] To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to
bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; --
said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from
excitement.
Pal`pi*ta"tion (?), n. [L. palpitatio: cf. F. palpitation.] A rapid
pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart
as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.
Palp"less (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Without a palpus.
Pal"po*cil (?), n. [See Palpus, and Cilium.] (Zoˆl.) A minute soft
filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and
sponges.
||Pal"pus (?), n.; pl. Palpi (#). [NL. See Palp.] (Zoˆl.) A feeler;
||especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth
||organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the
||mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of
||male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of
||Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.
Pals"grave` (?), n. [D. paltsgraaf; palts palace (l. palatium) + graaf
count; cf. G. pfalzgraf. See Palace, and Landgrave.] (Ger. Hist.) A
count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the
superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.
Pals"gra*vine` (?), n.[D. paltsgravin: cf. G. pfalzgrafin.] The consort
or widow of a palsgrave.
Pal"si*cal (?), a.[From Palsy.] Affected with palsy; palsied;
paralytic. [R.] Johnson.
Pal"sied (?), a. Affected with palsy; paralyzed.
Pal"stave` (?), n. [Dan. paalstav.] A peculiar bronze adz, used in
prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age. Dawkins.
Pal"ster (?), n. [D. palsterstaf.] A pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] Halliwell.
Pal"sy (?), n.; pl. Palsies (#). [OE. palesie, parlesy, OF. paralesie,
F. paralysie, L. paralysis. See Paralysis.] (Med.) Paralysis, complete
or partial. See Paralysis. "One sick of the palsy." Mark ii. 3.
Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of
one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English
surgeon who described it. -- Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp,
under Writer. -- Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually
occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a
peculiar shaking and tottering gait.
Pal"sy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palsied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Palsying.] To
affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to
paralyze.
Pal"sy*wort` (?), n. (Bot.) The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called
from its supposed remedial powers. Dr. Prior.
Pal"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Paltering.] [See Paltry.] 1. To haggle. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to
equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter.
Shak.
Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with
eternal God for power.
Tennyson.