| pall | 1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle. "His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold." (Spenser) 2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. 3. Same as Pallium. "About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, the one for London, the other for York." (Fuller) 4. A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. 5. A large cloth, especially, a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. "Warriors carry the warrior's pall." (Tennyson) 6. A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; used to put over the chalice. Origin: OE. Pal, AS. Pael, from L. Pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. Palla robe, mantle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pall-mall | 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. Alternative forms: pail-mail and pell-mell. Origin: OF. Palemail, It. Pallamagio; palla a ball (of German origin, akin to E. Ball) + magio hammer, fr. L. Malleus. See lst Ball, and Mall a beetle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| palla | Origin: L. See Pall a cloak] An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| palladic | <chemistry> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| palladious | <chemistry> Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| palladium | <chemistry> 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.2. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pallah | <zoology> A large South African antelope (aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general colour is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Synonym: roodebok. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pallanesthesia | Absence of pallesthesia. Synonym: apallesthesia. Origin: G. Pallo, to quiver, + anaisthesia, insensibility (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallas | Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva. Origin: L, fr. Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pallescense | Synonym: pallor. Origin: L. Pallesco, to become pale, fr. Palleo, to be pale (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallesthesia | The appreciation of vibration, a form of pressure sense; most acute when a vibrating tuning fork is applied over a bony prominence. Synonym: bone sensibility, pallesthetic sensibility, vibratory sensibility. Origin: G. Pallo, to quiver, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallesthetic | Pertaining to pallesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallesthetic sensibility | The appreciation of vibration, a form of pressure sense; most acute when a vibrating tuning fork is applied over a bony prominence. Synonym: bone sensibility, pallesthetic sensibility, vibratory sensibility. Origin: G. Pallo, to quiver, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallet | 1. Same as Palette. 2. A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc, for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. A potter's wheel. 3. An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. 4. A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. 5. <machinery> A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. 6. 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. 7. In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes. 8. <zoology> One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. 9. A cup containing three ounces, ormerly used by surgeons. Origin: F. Palette: af. It. Paletta; prop. And orig, a fire shovel, dim. Of L. Pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pallial | <marine biology, zoology> 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. <zoology> Pallial chamber, an inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. Origin: L. Pallium a mantle. See Pall. (19 Mar 1998) |