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  • English Word Palladiumizing Definition of Paladiumize
  • English Word Pallah Definition A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.
  • English Word Pallas Definition Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.
  • English Word Pallbearer Definition One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
  • English Word Palled Definition of Pall
  • English Word Pallet Definition A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
  • English Word Pallet Definition Same as Palette.
  • English Word Pallet Definition A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
  • English Word Pallet Definition A potter's wheel.
  • English Word Pallet Definition An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
  • English Word Pallet Definition A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
  • English Word Pallet Definition A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
  • English Word Pallet Definition A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
  • English Word Pallet Definition One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
  • English Word Pallet Definition One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
  • English Word Pallet Definition In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
  • English Word Pallet Definition One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
  • English Word Pallet Definition A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
  • English Word Pallia Definition of Pallium
  • English Word Pallial Definition Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve.
  • English Word Palliament Definition A dress; a robe.
  • English Word Palliard Definition A born beggar; a vagabond.
  • English Word Palliard Definition A lecher; a lewd person.
  • English Word Palliasse Definition See Paillasse.
  • English Word Palliate Definition Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
  • English Word Palliate Definition Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
  • English Word Palliate Definition To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
  • English Word Palliate Definition To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
  • English Word Palliate Definition To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
  • English Word Palliated Definition of Palliate