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  • English Word Palisading Definition A row of palisades set in the ground.
  • English Word Palisado Definition A palisade.
  • English Word Palisado Definition To palisade.
  • English Word Palisadoes Definition of Palisado
  • English Word Palish Definition Somewhat pale or wan.
  • English Word Palissander Definition Violet wood.
  • English Word Palissander Definition Rosewood.
  • English Word Palissy Definition Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.
  • English Word Palkee Definition A palanquin.
  • English Word Pall Definition Same as Pawl.
  • English Word Pall Definition An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
  • English Word Pall Definition A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
  • English Word Pall Definition Same as Pallium.
  • English Word Pall Definition A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
  • English Word Pall Definition A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
  • English Word Pall Definition A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
  • English Word Pall Definition To cloak.
  • English Word Pall Definition To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
  • English Word Pall Definition To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
  • English Word Pall Definition To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
  • English Word Pall Definition Nausea.
  • English Word Pall-mall Definition A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall.
  • English Word Palla Definition An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
  • English Word Palladian Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.
  • English Word Palladic Definition Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds.
  • English Word Palladious Definition Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.
  • English Word Palladium Definition Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
  • English Word Palladium Definition Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights.
  • English Word Palladium Definition A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.
  • English Word Palladiumized Definition of Paladiumize