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  • English Word Paleotherium Definition An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama.
  • English Word Paleotheroid Definition Resembling Paleotherium.
  • English Word Paleotheroid Definition An animal resembling, or allied to, the paleothere.
  • English Word Paleotype Definition See Palaeotype.
  • English Word Paleous Definition Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.
  • English Word Paleozoic Definition Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.
  • English Word Paleozoology Definition The Paleozoic time or strata.
  • English Word Paleozooogy Definition The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.
  • English Word Palesie Definition Alt. of Palesy
  • English Word Palestinean Definition Of or pertaining to Palestine.
  • English Word Palestinian Definition Alt. of Palestinean
  • English Word Palestra Definition A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.
  • English Word Palestra Definition A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.
  • English Word Palestrae Definition of Palestra
  • English Word Palestras Definition of Palestra
  • English Word Palestrian Definition Alt. of Palestrical
  • English Word Palestric Definition Alt. of Palestrical
  • English Word Palestrical Definition Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.
  • English Word Palesy Definition Palsy.
  • English Word Palet Definition Same as Palea.
  • English Word Palet Definition A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
  • English Word Paletot Definition An overcoat.
  • English Word Paletot Definition A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.
  • English Word Palette Definition A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments.
  • English Word Palette Definition One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
  • English Word Palette Definition A breastplate for a breast drill.
  • English Word Palewise Definition In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.
  • English Word Palfrey Definition A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse.
  • English Word Palfrey Definition A small saddle horse for ladies.
  • English Word Palfreyed Definition Mounted on a palfrey.