pakald 
It forlheres to fene me 
This patald bere me bus [behooves] 
Of all I plege and pleyne me. 
York Plays, p. 143. 
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palace-court (pal'as-kort), . The court of the 
' palace of Westminster, which had 
Palaeophis 
In the widest sense, and also with Gigantostraca. 
,,,. the limits of 12 miles around the palace, except- 
pake (pak , v. . ; pret. and pp. poked ppr. pal.- fa . f L don _ This court was ingti . 
/,/. A dialectal variant of peatf, peek\ "J^ . Q ^ middle of the sevente euth century, 
and was abolished in 1849. 
palaceous (pa-la'shius), a. [< NL. palaceus, < 
L. pala, a shovel: see pale 3 ."] In lot., having 
the edges decurreut on the support : said of a 
leaf as thus becoming spade-shaped. Gray. 
pakfong, n. See paktong 
pakket, and v. A Middle English form of 
poet 1 . 
pakokt, a. A Middle English form of peacock. 
paktong (pak'tong), n. [Chinese, < peh, white, 
+ tuny, copper.] The Chinese name of the 
alloy known as German silver (which see, under 
silver). Also, erroneously, packfong or pakfontj. 
nalH. . A Middle English form of palel. <** 
fend^ 
complice. [Slang.] paladin (pal' a-din), n. [< F. paladin, < It. pala- 
Highborn Hidalgos, dino = Sp. paladin = Pg. paladim, paladino, < 
With whom e'en the King himself quite as a pal goes ML valatinus, a warrior, orig. one of the im- 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 63 .^ hougehoM . gee pa i atin flj J n the cycle 
*I^G^^<^H5JS^tt2&S2 of romances of Charlemagne, one of the knight- 
without the slightest change. On the Continent it iaprala ly champions who accompanied that monarch 
oipral. in England jt sometimes takes the ^form of pel. to war; hence, by extension, a knight errant ; 
a heroic champion. 
He seems to have imagined himself some doughty pala- 
din of romance. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 1. 
The Count Palatine was, in theory, the official who had 
the superintendence of the households of the Carlovin- 
gian emperors. As the foremost of the twelve peers of 
France, the Count Palatine took a prominent place in 
mediaeval romance, and a paladin is the impersoniftcation 
of chivalrous devotion. ' Isaac Taylor. 
rpral. In Engla 
C. 6. Leland, Eng. Gipsies and their Language, vi. 
pala 1 (pa'la), .; pl.j>ate(-le). [NL.,<L.i>aZa. 
a spade, a shovel: see pale 3 , peel 3 , and palus'.] 
1. The flattened and spade-like fore tarsus of 
certain insects, usually employed for swimming. 
See Corisidse.2. One of the nodules or ossicles 
in the mouth-parts of some starfishes, as brittle- 
stars, borne upon the torus angularis, moved 
by proper muscles, and collectively serving as 
teeth. More fully called pala angularis. 3. 
The conessi-bark (which see, under bark 2 ). 
Pala angularis. See def. 2, torw, and cut under Astro- 
A number of short flat processes, the palse angulares, are 
articulated with it [the torus angularis of an ophiurian] 
and moved by special muscles. They doubtless perform 
the function of teeth. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 483. 
pala 2 (pa'la), n. Same as palay, 1. 
palabra (pa-la'bra), n. [Sp., a word: see pa- 
laver, parole, andjxzra&fe 1 .] A word; hence, 
speech; talk; palaver. 
To conquer or die is no theatrical palabra in these cir- 
cumstances, but a practical truth and necessity. 
Carlyle, French Kev., III. v. 6. (Danes.) 
palace (pal'as), n. [Early mod. E. also pallace; 
< ME. palace, palas, palais, paleis, pales, palys, 
palays, paleys, paloys (= OFries. palas = D. pa- 
leis = MLG. palas, palas, pallas, pallas = MHG. 
palas, G. palast = Sw. palats = Dan. palads, < 
OF. palais, paleis.palois, F. palais = Pr. palais, 
palait, palaitz = Sp. Pg. palacio = It. palazzo = 
AS. palant, palentse = OS. palencea = OFries. 
palense = OHG. phalanza, phalinza, palinza, 
MSG. phalange, pfalze, paliza, Q. pfalz, < li.pa- 
latium, ML. also palacium (also "palantimn (f): 
ct.palantia, palatinate), a palace, so called with 
ref. to the residence of the emperor Augustus on 
the Palatine hill in Rome (where Nero afterward 
built a more splendid residence), < Palatium, 
rarely Pallatium (Gr. Ha/lanov, ria/Wj>r>t>, Ila/U 
Aavriov), the Palatine hill, supposed to have been 
named with ref. to Pales, a pastoral goddess ; cf . 
Skt. pala, a guardian, < -y/ pa, protect.] 1 . The 
house in which an emperor, a king or queen, a 
bishop, or other exalted personage lives : as, an 
imperial palace; a royal palace; a pontifical 
palace ; a ducal palace. 
palae, . Plural of palai. 
pala-. For words so beginning, not found be- 
low, see pale-. 
PalsearctlC, . See Palearctic. 
Paljechinidse (pa-le-kin'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < 
p.,;..).;,, . -(- */ia> "l The rpTirpqentfttivp fam- 
^Sv^oL ndlatedm 
lly of Palsechmmaea or paleozoic tessellated sea- 
commonly regarded as conterminous with the 
higher group, and contains numerous genera. 
palsechinoia (pa-le-ki'noid), a. and re. I. a. Of 
or pertaining to the tessellated sea-urchins or 
Palsechinoidea. 
II. n. A member of the Palsechinoidea. 
Palsechinoidea (pa"le-ki-noi'de-a), n.pl. [NL., 
< Palsechinus + -oidea.] An order or suborder 
of paleozoic sea-urchins having pluriserial in- 
terambulacral plates. See Tessellata. 
Palsechinus (pa-le-ki'nus), n. [NL., errone- 
ously for * Palseechinus, < Gr. 7rahat6f, ancient, 
+ ix lv f > sea-urchin : see Echinus.'] The typical 
genus of Palsechinidse, founded by Scouler in 
1840. P. sphsericus is a Carboniferous species. 
palseichthyan (pa-le-ik'thi-an), a. and n. [< Pa- 
Iseichthyes + -an."] I. a. Same as palseichthyic. 
II. re. A member of the Palseichthyes. 
Palseichthyes (pa-le-ik'thi-ez), n. pi. [NL., < 
Gr. 7ra/l<z(6f, ancient, + <0t>f, pi. tx^vcf, fish.] 
In Gunther's system of classification, one of 
four subclasses of fishes, composed of the Chon- 
dropterygii and the Ganoidei, or the elasmo- 
branchs and the ganoids. It is characterized by the 
presence of an optic chiasm and the development of a 
contractile conus arteriosus, with several pairs of valves 
[< NL. Palse- 
, or charae- 
, if, a small crustacean.] 
_ fossil crustaceans founded by Meek 
and Worthen in 1865 upon P. typus, a synthet- 
ic form, of Carboniferous age, from the North 
American coal-measures, subsequently giving 
name to an extensive group of crustaceans, the 
Palseocarida, which it represents. 
Palaeocircus (pa"le-o-ser'kus), n. [NL., < Gr. 
iraAaiof, ancient, 4- \ipKOf, a kind of hawk or 
falcon of wheeling flight, < KipiMf, a ring, circle : 
see circle, circus."] A genus of fossil birds of 
prey founded by Milne-Edwards (1870) upon 
remains from the Miocene of Europe. The spe- 
cies is named P. cuvieri. 
Palseourina (pa-le-ok'ri-na), n. pi. [NL., neut. 
pi. of Palseocrinu's, q. v.] In some systems, one 
of two orders of Crinoidea : distinguished from 
Neocrina. 
palaeocrinoid(pa"le-Q-kri'noid), a. and re. I. a. 
Of or pertaining to the Palseocrinoidea. 
II. re. A member of the Palxocrinoidea . 
Palaeocrinoidea (pa"le-o-kri-noi'de-a), n.pl. 
[NL., < Palteocrina + -oidea."] A suborder or 
superfamily of Crinoidea, represented by such 
genera as Actinoerinus, Cyathocrinus, and Platy- 
crinus, and containing all the earlier extinct 
crinoids; encrinites, or fossil crinoids. 
Palseocrinus (pa-le-ok'ri-nus) ? n. [NL., < Gr. 
Tra/laidf, ancient, H- uphov, a lily.] A genus of 
fossil crinoids. 
Palaeodictyoptera (pa"le-5-dik-ti-op'te-ra), . 
pi. [NL., < Gr. ffa/laicif, ancient, + NL. Dictyop- 
tera, q. v.] An order of insects, now extinct, the 
remains of which have been found in Permian 
and older rocks. They appear to have combined the 
characters of the Hemiptera and the Neuroptera, as is well 
shown in one of the genera, Eugereon. This was a gigantic 
form, having net-veined wings recalling those of Neurop- 
tera, while the mouth-parts were formed into a beak like 
that of the Hemiptera. 
Palseogsea (pa'le-o-je'a), re. [NL.,< Gr. 7raAaif. 
ancient, + yala, earth.] In zodgeog., the Old 
World; the eastern hemisphere: the opposite 
of Neogsea. It includes four of Sclater's six 
faunal regions the Palearctic, Ethiopian, Ori- 
ental, and Australian. 
palaeogsean, paleogsean(pa"le-o-je'an), a. [< 
NL. Palaeogxa + -an."] Of or pertaining to Pa- 
Palaeonemertea (pa"le-o-ne-mer'te-a), n. pi. 
[NL., < Gr. n-oAaiof, ancient, + NL. Nernertea, 
q. v.] Hubrecht's name (1879) of a division of 
anoplonemertean worms, correlated with Schi- 
zonemertea, having the lowest and most primi- 
tive organization in Nemer tea, whence the name. 
The group is represented by such genera as Ca- 
rinella, Cephalothrix, and Folia. 
palseonemertean (pa"le-o-ne-mer'te-an), a. and 
re. [< NL. Palxonemeriea .'+ -are.] I. a. Of, 
pertaining to, or having the characters of the 
PaUeonemertea. 
II. n. A member of the Paleeonemertea. 
palaeonemertine (pa'le-o-ne-mer'tin), a. and. 
Same as palseonemertean. 
Palaeonemertini (pa"le-o-nem-er-ti'nl), w. pi. 
[NL. (Hubrecht), < Gr.VaAaidf, ancient, + NL. 
in his owne psone to se them taken downe. 
Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 36. 
Thou seem'st a palace 
For the crown'd Truth to dwell in. 
Shale., Pericles, v. 1. 122. 
Equally time-honoured is the use of the word palace to 
describe an English bishop's official residence. Yet there 
seems to be a feeling among the present bishops that it 
would be well to abandon it, and in one case (Lichfleld) 
this has been done. N. and Q., 7th ser., IX. 78. 
Hence 2. A magnificent, grand, or stately 
dwelling-place; a magnificent mansion or build- 
ing. 
To a riche Cite hi buth icume, 
Uaire hi habbeth here In inonie 
; At one paleis suthe riche, 
The lord of ther inne nas non his liche. 
Floriz and Slauncheflur(E, E. T. S.), 1. 87. 
'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 
Be it ever so humble, there 's no place like home. 
J. H. Payne, Home, Sweet Home. 
Crystal Palace. See crystal. Mayor of the palace. 
See mayor. 
palace-car (pal'as-kar), n. A railway-car ele- 
gantly equipped' and furnished with reclining- 
chairs, sofas, etc. [U. S.] 
The traveller no longer climbs the Continental Divide 
in a jolting coach and six or a laboring freight-wagon, but 
takes his ease in a Pullmana/aee-ear. 
Harper's Weekly, XXXIII., Supp., p. 57. 
Palsemon (pa-le'mon), n. [NL. (Fabricius), 
< L. Palxmon,<, Gr. natoi/uw, a sea-god.] The 
typical genus of Palsemonidse. It contains numer- 
ous species, commonly called prawns, found in both fresh 
and salt water of various parts of the world, some attain- 
ing a length of nearly two feet. Such are the East Indian 
P. carcinus and the West Indian P. jamaicensis. A small- 
er prawn of this genus, P. ohionis, is found in the Ohio 
river. The name is an old one, and has been applied with 
great latitude to forms now placed in other genera. 
Palsemonidae (pal-e-mon'i-de), re. pi. [NL., < 
Palsemon + -idse.] A family of caridean ma- 
erurous decapod crustaceans, typified by the 
genus Palsemon, and containing numerous spe- 
cies known as shrimps and prawns. 
palseo-. For words so beginning, not found be- 
low, see paleo-. 
Palaeocarida (pa"le-o-kar'i-da), n. pi. [NL. 
(Packard, 1876), < Gr. xa'Xaiof, ancient, + Kapts, 
a kind of small lobster.] One of two main series 
of Crustacea (the other being Neocarida), rep- 
resented by the earlier and more generalized 
types of crustaceans, of which the king-crabs 
are the only living representatives. They abound- 
ed in the paleozoic age, almost to the exclusion of other 
forms. Packard names Palseocarida as a subclass with 
two "orders," TriloUta and Merostomata, the latter includ- 
ing Euryptfrida. The term is synonymous with MerostQ. 
zonemertini. The month is behind the ganglia, and the 
proboscis is unarmed. It corresponds to a family Gym- 
nocephalidsf. Synonymous with Palieonemertea. 
Palseoniscidae (pa'le-o-nis'i-de), n. pi. [NL., 
< Palseoniscus + -idee.] In Gunther's classifi- 
cation, a family of lepidosteid fishes, named 
from the genus Palasoniscus. They have a fusiform 
body covered with rhombic ganoid scales ; a persistent 
notochord, but ossified vertebral arches ; the tail hetero- 
cercal, and the fins with fulcra ; the dorsal fin short; the 
branchiostegals numerous, the foremost pair being de- 
veloped as broad gulars; and the teeth small, and conic or 
cylindric. The forms, all now extinct, were numerous in 
the Paleozoic epoch, extending from the Devonian to the 
Liassic formations. 
palaeoniscoid (pa"le-o-nis'koid), a. [< Palseo- 
niscus + -oid. ] Resembling the Palseoniscidae ; 
related to or possessing the characters of the 
Pa Iseoniscidse. 
Palseoniscus (pa"le-o-nis'kus), n. [NL., < Gr. 
TraAmof, ancient, +' ovionof, a sea-fish, cod : see 
Oniscus."] 1. In ichth., the typical genus of Pa- 
leeoniscidie. Aaassiz, 1833. 2. A genus of fos- 
sil crustaceans. 
Palaeophis (pa-le'o-fis), re. [NL., < Gr. vofcufc 
ancient, + otiif, a serpent.] A genus of fossil 
ophidians of Eocene age, founded by Owen, 
forming the earliest known representatives of 
