Falamedeidae 
general to the lamellirostral type, though not in the shape 
of the rostral part ; the trachea! structure is likewise 
anserine ; the alimentary canal is very long, with saccu 
4238 palatic 
Autenix, a. v.] The typical genus of the fam- palatalization (pal"il-tal-i-za'shon), H, [<pal- 
ily Palauierygidie. Owen, 1846. ataliec + -ation.] A making palatal; a con- 
Palaquie* (pal-a-kwl'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (Radl- version (especially of gutturals) into palatal 
kot'er, 1887), < Palaqiaum + -ess.] A tribe of sounds, as of k into eh, <J into J, * into sh. 
trees of the gamopetalous order Sapotacese, 
typified by the genus Palaquium, besides which 
it includes the two genera Bosnia and Pycuaii- 
The palatalization of the guttural does not necessitate 
the t-coloring of the vowel. Amer. Jour. Philol.,VII. 288. 
palatalize (pal'a-tal-Iz), r. t.; pret. andpp.^ai- 
ntalized, ppr. palatalizing. [< palatal + -ize.] 
To make palatal ; change from a guttural to a 
palatal pronunciation. 
teenth century. Simeon, abbot of a monastery at Con- 
stantinople in the eleventh century, taught that by fasting, 
prayer and contemplation, with concentration of thought 
on the navel, the heart and spirit would be seen within, 
luminous with a visible light. This light was believed to 
be uncreated and the same which was seen at Christ s 
transfiguration, and is known accordingly as the Un- 
created Light of Mount Tabor. The doctrine was more 
carefully formulated and defended by Palamas, who 
taught that there exists a divine light, eternal and un- 
created, which is not the substance or essence of deity, 
but God's activity or operation. The Palamites were fa- 
vored by the emperor John Cantacuzeue, and their doc- 
trine was affirmed by a council at Constantinople in 1351. 
They were called by their opponents Euchites and Mas- 
salians. Also Hesychast, Umbtlicanimus. 
palampore, palempore (pal'am-por, pal_em 
sepals, 6 petals, and 12 stamens. There are about 
60 species, found mainly in the East Indies. They are 
trees charged with abundant milky juice, and often reach 
great size. They bear rigid leaves, shining or closely cov- 
ered with minute red or brown hairs, and clusters of 
rather small flowers at the nodes. P. Outta is the true 
gutta-percha tree, formerly referred to different related 
genera. See yutta-percha and Isonandra. 
palasinet, a. [ME.. < OF.palasin, fern, pala- 
siiie, of the palace, <palais, palace : see palace. 
Of. palatine*.] Belonging to a palace. 
These grete ladyesjxtiasi/n*. 
Rom. of the Rote, 1. 682. 
with 3 species, J 
as ?Samily " A " nl ' toiaaSyD n5 " n ' """""""- ^ and in all about 96 species. 
Paiamite (pal'a-mit), . [< Pulum(as) (see Palaquium (pa-la'kwi-um), . [NL (Blanco, 
def.) + -tef] One of the followers of Gregory 1837), from the native name in the Philippine lm ,. 
Palamas, a monk of Mount Athos in the four- Islands.] A genus of trees of the gamopet- palate ( pa i'at), n. [< ME. palat, palet, < OF. 
.~... L*r^ a i ous or der Sapotaceee and the suborder En- * palat *p a lef(F.palais .arising from a confusion 
sapotese, type of the tribe Palaqmeee, having 6 etween pa i ( ,i s palace, and "palet, "pale, the 
vernacular OF. form) = It. palato (cf. Sp. Pg. 
lialadar, < L. as if *palatare),<~L.palatum, rare- 
ly palatus, the palate, the roof of the mouth.] 
1 . The roof of the mouth arid floor of the nose ; 
the parts, collectively considered, which sepa- 
rate the oral from the nasal cavity. Most of the 
palate has a bony basis, formed of the maxillary bones and 
palate-bones, or of spe- 
cial plates or processes 
of these bones, the ex- 
tent of which represents 
the bony or hard palate. 
Behind this, and con- 
tinuous therewith, in 
man and many other ani- 
mals, is the soft palate, 
a musculomembranous 
fold or curtain hanging 
down between the back 
part of the buccal cavi- 
ty and the upper part of 
the pharynx, technically 
called the velum palati 
or veil of the palate. The 
uvula hangs from the 
middle of the free edge of this velum, and its sides are con- 
tinuous with the contracted walls of the passage, called 
the pillars or arches of the palate, and constituting the 
isthmus of the fauces. In osteology the term palate is of 
At each meal ... she missed all sense of appetite: course restricted to the bony parts. In fishes the palate is 
palatable food was as ashes and sawdust to her. 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xxiv. 
intrenched camp attached to frontierlfortresses. palatableness (pal'a-ta-bl-nes), n. The char- 
[Turkey.] acter of being palatable or agreeable to the 
palanaiiin, palankeen (pal-an-ken'), n. [For- taste, literally or figuratively, 
merly also palankin, palancltine (also palankee, palatably (pal'a-ta-bli), adv. In a palatable 
palkee) ; < F. palanquin = It. palanchino = Sp. manner; agreeably. 
but now extensively elsewhere, and used all + _n y ( see .bility)'.] "Palatableness. 
over the East. palatable (pal'a-ta-bl), a. [< palate + -able.'] 
Agreeable to the" taste or palate ; savory ; 
such as may be relished, either literally or fig- 
uratively. 
There was a time when sermon-making was not so pala- 
> in minute 
hexagons. Mrs. Qaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xii. 
palandriet, n. Seepaleitdar. 
palankas (pa-lang'kas), . [Turk, palanglia, a 
small fort or stockade.] A kind of permanent 
Oh, sir, says he, since the joining of the two companies 
we have had the finest Bettelees, Palempores, Bafts, and 
Jamwars come over that ever were seen. 
Tom Brown, Works, I. 213. (Davies.) 
Scraps of costly India chintzes and palempoursweTe in- 
termixed with commoner black and red calico in 
Human Palate.with teeth of upper jaw. 
m, molars ; fm, premolar! 
c, canine ;. i', incisors. 
table to you as it seems to be at present. 
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, xix. 
that part of the roof of the mouth which corresponds to 
the palatal bones, behind the vomer and in front of the 
pharyngeals. See palatal, n. , 1, and cuts under aramxog- 
nathaus, mouth, nasal, and tonsil. 
2. Taste; relish: from the idea that the palate 
is the organ of taste. 
The smaller or middle-sized Pikes being, by the most and 
choicest palates, observed to be the best meat. 
I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 130. 
couch), < Skt. palyanka, Prakrit pallanka, a 
couch, a bed.] A covered conveyance, general- 
ly for one person, used in India and elsewhere 
in the East, borne by means of poles on the 
shoulders of four or six men. The palanquin 
proper is a sort of box about 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 
anat., of or pertaining to the palate ; palatine : 
as, palatal arteries, nerves, muscles ; the palatal 
plate of the maxillary bone. Also palatial. 
2. Uttered by the aid of the palate, as certain 
sounds. See II., 2 Palatal glands, index. Same 
as palatine glands, index (which see, under palatine?). 
II. . 1 . A palatine bone or palate-bone prop- 
er, one of a pair, right and left, of facial bones 
entering into the formation of the hard palate. 
They exhibit the utmost diversity of shape and relative 
size, but preserve constant position and relation in the 
bony framework of the upper jaw, where they are inter- 
posed between the supramaxillary bones in front and the 
pterygoid bones behind, and thus form an integral part 
of the preoral visceral arch. In their simplest form, the 
palatals are mere rods or plates extending horizontally 
from the pterygoids to the maxillaries. Their connection 
with the latter is closest, most frequently by fixed suture 
or ankylosis ; with the former it is usually freer, often by 
movable articulation. There are many modifications of 
A very keen sense of the pleasure of the palate is looked 
upon as in a certain degree discreditable. 
Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 87. 
3. The power of relishing mentally; intellec- 
tual taste. 
No man can fit your palate but the prince. 
Beau, and Fl., Philaster, it 4. 
Men of nice palates could not relish Aristotle as dressed 
up by the schoolmen. T. Baker, On Learning. 
They are too much infected with mythology and meta- 
phorical affectations to suit the palate of the present day. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa. , i. 1. 
4. In hot., the projection of the lower lip of a 
personate corolla, more or less completely clos- 
ing the throat, as in Linaria and Antirrhinum. 
5. In entotn., the epipharynx, a fleshy lobe 
beneath the labrum. See cut under Hymenop- 
tera Cleft palate, a congenital defect of the palate 
such as to leave a longitudinal fissure in the roof of the 
mouth. 
Palanquin. 
as much in height, with wooden shutters made on the prin- 
ciple of the Venetian blind. It used to be a very common 
conveyance in India, especially among the European resi- 
dents, but the introduction of railways and the improve- 
ment of the roads have caused it to be almost wholly 
abandoned by Europeans. In Japan the palabquin is 
called norimond, and is suspended from a pole or beam 
passing over the top. A similar conveyance called a kiao- 
tsii is extensively used in some parts of China ; it is, how- 
ever, furnished with long shafts before and behind instead 
of the pole, and is carried by mules. Compare kago. 
Palanchines or little litters . . . are very commodious 
for the way. Hakluyfs Voyages, II. 221. 
The better sort [in India] ride upon Elephants, or are 
carried on men's shoulders in Sedans, which they call 
Palankeenes. S. Clarke, Oeog. Descrip. (1671), p. 47. 
King Solomon made himself & palanquin 
Of the wood of Lebanon. 
Cant. iii. 9 (revised version). 
Palapterygidae (pa-lap-te-rij'i-de), n. pi. [NL. , 
< Palapteryx (-yg-) + -idse.~\ A family of sub- 
fossil birds of great size, found in New Zealand, 
of dinornithic characters and much resem- 
bling the moas, but differing therefrom in pos- 
sessing a hallux, being thus four-toed, like the 
apteryx. Like the Dinornithidie, they were contempo- 
rary with man. but are now extinct. The family is com- 
posed of two genera, Palapteryx and Euryapteryx, each 
of two species. 
Palapteryx (pa-lap'te-riks), n. [NL., prop. 
"Palseapteryx, < Gr. iraAa(6f, ancient, + NL. 
these bones in the lower vertebrates, and in the higher palate (pai'at), v. t. : pret. and pp. palated, ppr. 
the tendency is to shortening, widening, heightening, and ;,. f< nn i n t f ,, n TO nmvfiive bv the 
complete fixation, with some connections not acquired P al %te ' "'- 1 
in lower animals. Such modifications reach a climax in 
man, where the palatals have a singular shape somewhat 
like the letter L, and very extensive articulations with no 
fewer than five other bones the sphenoid, ethmoid, supra- 
maxillary, maxilloturbinal, vomer and with each other. 
The bone here consists of a horizontal part, or palatal 
plate, which extends mesad and meets its fellow of the 
opposite side, thus forming the back part of the bony 
palate, and of a vertical plate which reaches into the orbit 
taste; taste. 
Yon are plebeians. 
If they be senators : and they are no less 
When, both your voices blended, the great'st taste 
Most potato theirs. Shak., Cor., iii. 1. 104. 
Such pleasure as the pained sense palates not 
For weariness, but at one taste undoes 
The heart of its strong sweet. 
A. C. Suinburne, Two Dreams. 
of the eye by a part called the orbital process. Each bone 
thus enters into the formation of the walls of three cavi- palate-mant (pal'at-man), n. An epicure or 
ties, of the mouth, nose, and eye ; it also assists to form gastronomer. [Rare.] 
three fossse, the zygomatic, sphenomaxillary, and ptery- 
goid ; it bounds part of the sphenomaxillary fissure, and 
contributes to closure of the orifice of the antrum of High- 
more. The bone furnishes attachment in man to the azy- 
gos uvulse muscle, the tensor palati, the superior con- % r mir '*fm' ohtairiirif/a tracing of the move- 
strictor of the pharynx, and both internal and external s 
-- ... m ents of the soft palate. 
That palate-man shall pass in silence. 
Fuller, Worthies, II. 382. 
palate-myograph (parat-mi"o-graf), . An in- 
pterygoid muscles. Notwithstanding its complexity of 
figure and relations, it is a simple or single bone, devel- palatial 1 (pa-la'shal), a. [= OF. palatial, pala- 
" See del = Pg. paludal',' < ML. as if 'palatialis, < L. 
oped in membrane from one center of ossification, 
cuts under Amtra, craniofaeial, Crotalus, desmognathmis, 
drom&ognathous, Felidse, palatoguadrate, Physeterinae, 
Python, and sphenoid. 
2. A sound usually produced by the upper sur- 
palatium, palace: see palace.] Of or pertain- 
ing to a palace ; resembling or befitting a pal- 
ace; magnificent. Also palatian. 
face of the tongue" against a part of the palate palatial 2 (pa-la'shal), a. and n. [Irreg. for 
further forward than that at which our k and g palatal, q. v.] I. a. Palatal: as, the palatial 
are made ; but sometimes used of any sound retraction of the tongue. Borrow*. 
made between the tongue and any part of the H. n. A palatal. 
hard or soft palate. Thus, the German eh of ieh is palatian (pa-la'shan), a. [< ML. as if *palatia- 
called palatal, and that of aeh guttural; the Sanskrit has IMS, < L. palatium, apalace : seepalace.] Same 
palatal sounds distinguished from gutturals ; our i and e nfl i>//7// finll Disraeli Svbil "D 45 
and y are called palatal, as also the compound ch and j. " li+Vn Vr>5 iot'iVi /, onrl ., ' r'< n'nlnte -I- if ~\ 
The term is a loose one, and requires definition as used by palatic (pa-lat ik), a, and w. [< palate 1- -JC.J 
any authority. I. a. Palatal; palatine: as, palatic teeth. 
