PAL 



532 



PAL 



PAIR'ING. In parliament, when two 

 members of opposite opinions agree to 

 absent themselves from divisions of the 

 House during stated periods. 



PAL'ACE-COURT. The court which ad- 

 ministers justice among the domestic 

 servants of the Crown. Its jurisdiction 

 extends twelve miles in circuit from the 

 royal palace. 



PAL'ADIN. An errant knight, whose 

 business was to praise his mistress, and 

 to fight anybody who refused to acknow- 

 ledge the truth of his panegyrics. The 

 " brave Orlando" is a specimen. 



PALJEOG'RAPHT, from iraAoua?, ancient, 

 and y^n, to write. Description of an- 

 cient manuscripts, inscriptions, &c. 



PALSSOL'OGY, j From xatKouot , ancient, 



PALEOL'OGY. ) and Aayej, discourse. 

 The study of ancient things. 



PALJEONTOL'OGY, from 9ot,hotios, ancient, 

 ovrat, beings, and Xoye;, discourse. The 

 study of fossil remains of animal and ve- 

 getable life. 



PAL^osAc'Brs, from xXouos, ancient, 

 and a-etueos, a lizard. A genus of saurians, 

 found only fossil in the magnesian lime- 

 stone. 



PAL.OTHE'RirM,from trotXotios, ancient, 

 and 6r,fio, a wild beast. An extinct 

 genus of quadrupeds, belonging to the 

 order Pachydermata, The place of the 

 Palaeotherium is intermediate between 

 the rhinoceros, the horse, and the tapir. 

 Some of the species appear to have been 

 as large as the rhinoceros; others were 

 from the size of a horse to that of a hog. 



PALJE'STRA. A sort of educational esta- 

 blishment among the Greeks, consisting 

 both of a college and academy ; the one 

 for exercises of the mind, and the other 

 for those of the body. 



PALANOCIN', ) Hind, palkee, from San. 



PALANKEE'N. ) palnc, a couch. A sort 

 of litter or covered carriage used in India, 

 and borne on the shoulders of four por- 

 ters, called coolies; eight of whom are 

 always attached to one palanquin, and 

 relieve each other. 



PAi/ATE,Lat.pataium. 1. The roof orup- 



per part of the mouth. 2. In botany, an 



eminence in the inner part of the mouth 

 of gaping blossoms which closes them. 



PAL'ATINE, ) Appertaining to the palate. 



PAI/ATAL. / The letters d, g, j, k, I, n, 

 and q, are called palatals 



PALAT'IN ATE. The name formerly given 

 to two states of Germany. 



PALE, Sax. pal, from Lat. palvs. 1. A 

 pointed stake used in fencing or inclosing. 

 2. In heraldry, one of the greater or- 

 dinaries, being a broad perpendicular 

 line, the representation of a pale or stake 

 placed upright. 



PALEA'CWCS, Lat. paleactiu, chaffy 



(palen, chaff) : applied to the receptacle* 

 of some plants. 



PALIL'OGY, va>.it, again, and Xiy, 

 I speak. In rhetoric, the repetition of a 

 word or phrase for the sake of effect. 



PALIS'DROME. Ha.Xtv'S^ofjua, from 

 tretXiv, again, and fyiuu, to run. A word, 

 verse, or sentence, as madam, and Roma 

 tibi subito motibus ibit amor. 



PALINGEN'ESY, from ircc.\iv, again, and 

 ytvvotta, to produce. Regeneration : a 

 term used by entomologists to designate 

 the transitions of insects from one state 

 to another. 



PAL'ISADE, FT. palissade, from the root 

 of pale. A fence or fortification, consist- 

 ing of a row of pales or stakes (called 

 also sometimes palisades), set firmly in 

 the ground. In fortifications, the posts 

 are placed closely together, parallel to 

 the parapet in the covered way, to pre- 

 vent surprise. Palisades serve also to for- 

 tify the avenues of open forts, gorges, 

 half-moons, the bottom of ditches, &c. 



PALIMPSEST', retXtr, again, and ij,atu, 

 I rub. A sort of parchment, from which 

 writing might be erased, and which 

 might be written upon anew. 



PALISSE'. In heraldry, a bearing like a 

 range of palisades before a fortification, 

 represented on a fesse, rising up a consi- 

 derable height and pointed on the top, 

 with the field appearing between them. 



PALL', Sax. paelle, Lat. pallium. 1. A 



mantle of state. 2. The mantle of an 



archbishop. Also a hood of white lamb's 

 wool^with four crosses upon it, forming 

 the arms of the see of Canterbury : some- 

 times called the episcopal pall. 3. The 



covering thrown over a dead body at fu- 

 nerals. -4. In heraldry, a figure like Y, 

 representing the pallium or ornament of 

 an archbishop, sent from Rome to metro- 

 politans. 



PAL'LA. In Latin, the long outer gar- 

 ments suitable for Roman females of re- 

 spectable rank. 



PALLA'DIUM. 1. A rare metal disco- 

 vered in 1803 by Dr. Wollaston, in crude 

 platinum, and so named from the planet 

 Pallas, discovered the year before. It is 

 a white metal much resembling platinum, 

 but has more of a silvery appearance, and 

 like silver is liable to tarnish in the air. 

 Sp. gr. 11-8 to 12'1. Melts from 150 to 

 160. Wedge wood, and does not oxidise at 

 a white heat. -2. Primarily, a wooden 

 statue of the goddess Pallas, which repre- 

 sented her as sitting with a pike in her 

 right hand, and in her left a distaff and 

 spindle. On the preservation of this sta- 

 tue depended the safety of Troy ; hence 

 the term has come to denote any effectual 

 defence, protection, or safety. Thus we 

 say the trial by jury is the palladium of 

 our civil rights. 



