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  • English Word Palgrave Definition See Palsgrave.
  • English Word Pali Definition pl. of Palus.
  • English Word Pali Definition A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.
  • English Word Pali Definition of Palus
  • English Word Palification Definition The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
  • English Word Paliform Definition Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
  • English Word Palilogy Definition The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee."
  • English Word Palimpsest Definition A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
  • English Word Palindrome Definition A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.
  • English Word Palindromic Definition Alt. of Palindromical
  • English Word Palindromical Definition Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.
  • English Word Palindromist Definition A writer of palindromes.
  • English Word Paling Definition of Pale
  • English Word Paling Definition Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
  • English Word Paling Definition The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves.
  • English Word Palingenesia Definition See Palingenesis.
  • English Word Palingenesis Definition Alt. of Palingenesy
  • English Word Palingenesy Definition A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
  • English Word Palingenesy Definition That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.
  • English Word Palingenetic Definition Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process.
  • English Word Palinode Definition An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
  • English Word Palinode Definition A retraction; esp., a formal retraction.
  • English Word Palinodial Definition Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction.
  • English Word Palinody Definition See Palinode.
  • English Word Palinurus Definition An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass
  • English Word Palisade Definition A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.
  • English Word Palisade Definition Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
  • English Word Palisade Definition To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
  • English Word Palisaded Definition of Palisade
  • English Word Palisading Definition of Palisade