paling 
The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and 
she noon paused one of the gates Into the grounds. 
Jane Autten, Pride and Prejudice, xxxv. 
The moss-grown paling* of the park. 
W. II. Aimworth, Rookwood, III. 1. 
3f. Stripes on cloth resembling pales. 4f. 
The putting of the stripes called pales on cloth. 
The deglse, endentyng, harrynire, owndynge, palynge, 
wyridynK, <T bendynge, and semblahle waste of cloth In 
vault. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
paling-board (pa'ling-bord), . An outside part 
of a tree sawed. off in squaring the log to ht it 
to be sawed into deals. 
palingenesia (pal'in-je-ne'si-ii), . [ML.: see 
p<iliiir/ciif'/tt/.~\ Same as palingenesis. 
The restoration of Herodotus to his place in literature, 
his Palingeneria, has been no caprice. 
De Quincey, Herodotus. 
palingenesis (pal-in-jen'e-sis), . [NL., < Gr. 
irdfav, again, + yfveaic, production. Cf. - 
<inirxy.] 1. A new or second birth or produc- 
tion ; the state of being born again ; regenera- 
tion. 
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers 
that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that arc 
dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis. De Quincty. 
New institutions spring up, upon which thought acts, 
and in and through which it even draws nearer to a final 
unity, a rehabilitation, a palingenetit. 
JSncyc. Brit., III. 288. 
2. In mod. biol., hereditary evolution, as dis- 
tinguished from kenogenesis or vitiated evolu- 
tion; ontogenesis true to heredity, not modi- 
fied by adaptation ; the " breeding true " of an 
individual organism with reference to its pedi- 
gree; the development of the individual ac- 
cording to the character of its lineage. See 
hiogeny. Sometimes called palingcny. 
To the original, simple descent he [Haeckel] applies 
the term palingenenis ; to the modified and later growth, 
coanogenesls. K. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, p. 126. 
3t. The supposed production of animals either 
from a preexistent living organism, on which 
they are parasites, or from putrescent ani- 
mal matter. Brands and Cox. 4. In en torn., 
metaboly or metamorphosis ; the entire trans- 
formation of an insect, or transition from one 
state to another, in each of which the insect 
has a different form. 
palingenesy (pal-in-jen'e-si), n. [= F. palin- 
genesie = Sp. It. palingenesia, < ML. palinge- 
nesia, < Gr. Kafayyeveaia, new birth, < n-d/Uv, 
again, + yiveais, birth : see genesis."] Same as 
palingenesis. 
palingenetic (pal'in-je-net'ik), a. [< palin- 
genesis, after genetic.] Of or pertaining to palin- 
genesis Palingenetic process. See the quotation. 
The term palingenetic proeea (or reproduction of the his- 
tory of the germ) is applied to all such phenomena in the 
history of the germ as are exactly reproduced, in con- 
sequence of conservative heredity, in each succeeding 
generation, and which, therefore, enable us to directly in 
fer the corresponding processes in the tribal history of 
the developed ancestors. 
Uaeckd, EvoL of Man (trans.), 1. 10. 
palingenetically (pal'in-je-net'i-kal-i), adv. 
In a palingenetic manner; by palingenesis. 
Haeckel. 
palingeny (pal'in-je-ni), . [< Gr. wafav, again, 
+ -ytveta, < -yevt/f, producing : see -geny."] Same 
as palingenesis, 2. 
paling-man (pa'ling-man), n. One born within 
that part of Ireland called the English pale. 
palinode (pal'i-nod), . [Formerly also pali- 
nody, < F. palinodie = Sp. Pg. It. palinodia, < 
LL. palinodia, < Gr. mikivviia, a recantation, < 
jrd/Uv, again, + <j>if/, song : see ode 1 . ] 1 . A poet- 
ical recantation, or declaration contrary to a 
former one ; a poem in which a poet retracts 
the invectives contained in a former satire; 
hence, a recantation in general. 2. Specifi- 
cally, in Scots lair, a solemn recantation de- 
manded in addition to damages in actions for 
defamation. 
palinodia (pal-i-no'di-ft), . [LL.: see pali- 
node.'] Same as paliiimii . 
Orpheus la made to sing a palinodia, or recantation, for 
his former error and polytheism. 
Cudtmrth, Intellectual System, p. SOS. 
palinodial (pal-i-no'di-al), <i. [< palinode + 
-i?.] Relating to r of the nature of a palinode. 
palinodie (pal-i-nod'ik), a. [<. Gr. To?jvy<5^, 
< jrd7.fi>, again, + i^f/, song.] In OHO. pros., con- 
sisting of four systems, of which the first and 
fourth are metrically equivalent and the sec- 
ond and third are also metrical equivalents; 
inserting between a strophe and its antistrpphe 
a strophe and antistrophe of metrically differ- 
ent form (scheme: a 6 b'a'); pertaining to or 
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characteristic of such an arrangement: ns, a 
l>iiliiindif pericope; the paliimilii- form of com- 
position. See ijniflii; iiirmdie, periodic?, pro- 
odic. 
palinodical (pal-i-nod'i-kal), a. [< fialinntlr + 
-if-iil."] Same as palinoilinl. 
Hay'st thou so, my palinodical rhymster? 
Deklcer, Satlromantlx. 
palinodist(pari-n6-dist),. [<palinode+ -ist.~] 
A writer of palinodes. 
palinodyt (pal'i-no-di), . Same AS palinode. 
Palinurldse (pal-i-nu'ri-de), n. pi. [NL., < 1'ali- 
nin-i/H + -!>/>.] A family of loricate macrurous 
decapod crustaceans, typified by the genus Pa- 
liminix. They are of cylindrical form; the feet are 
monodactyl, not ending in pincers ; there Is no basal an* 
tennal scale ; the first abdominal segment Is nnappen- 
daged ; and the trichnbranchial podobranchlie are divided 
Into branchial and eplpoditic portions. The Palinuridjr 
Inhabit tropical and temperate seas, and In common with 
Scyllaridte have a peculiar mode of development, the lar- 
vte being at one stage known as glaM-crabt, having no re- 
semblance to the adulta, and formerly referred to a special 
supposed group of crustaceans called Phyttotamata. They 
are sometimes called thorny hotter*. See cuts under gUut- 
crab and Palinuru*. 
palinuroid (pal-i-nu'roid), a. [< Pa1inurus + 
-aid."] Resembling the genus Palinurus; of or 
pertaining to the I'alinuridte or Palinvroidea. 
Palinuroidea (pal'i-nu-roi'de-S), . pi. [NL., 
< 1'alinurus + -oidea.] A group of palinuroid 
crustaceans. Haan. 
Palinurus (pal-i-nu'rns), . [NL., < L. Palinu- 
rus, in the JSneid, the steersman of the vessel of 
-Kni'iis. | 1. [I. c."] An instrument for deter- 
mining the error of a ship's compass by the 
bearing of celestial objects. 2. The tvpical 
and only living genus of Paliniiridfe. P. rul- 
Spiny Lobster (PaliHMrMS vxlfarir]. 
gari* is known as the spiny lobster, rock-lob- 
ster, or sea-crawfish. It is common on the coast of 
Great Britain, and Is brought In large numbers to the 
London markets. The antennse are greatly developed, 
and the carapace is spiny and tuberculate. 
3. A genus of stromateoid fishes : same as Li- 
rus. 
Pali plague. See plague. 
palisade (pal-i-sad'), . [Formerly also pali- 
sado, paltiadoe (after Sp. Pg.); = D. palissade 
= G. palisade, pallisade = Svr.palissad = Dan. 
palissade, < F. palissade (= Sp. palizada = Pg. 
palicada = It.palizzata; ML. palissata, pali- 
zata), a palisade, < palisser, inclose with pales : 
see palise.] 1. A fence made of strong pales 
or stakes set firmly in the ground, forming an 
inclosure, or used as a defense, in fortification It 
is often placed vertically at the foot of the counterscarp, 
or presented at an angle at the foot of a parapet 
Some help to sink new trenches, others aid 
To ram the stones, or raise the palitade. 
Dryden, .Sneid, xi. 
2. A stake, of which two or more were in for- 
mer times carried by dragoons, intended to be 
planted in the ground for defense. They were 44 
feet long, with forked Iron heads. In the seventeentfi 
century an attempt was made to combine a rest for the 
musket with the palisade. Also called mrine-feather and 
Swedish feather. 
3f. A wire sustaining the hair: a feature of the 
head-dress of the close of the seventeenth cen- 
tury. 4. pi. [cap.'} A precipice of trap-rock 
on the western bank of the Hudson river, ex- 
tending from Fort Lee northward about fifteen 
miles. Its height is from 200 to 500 feet. The 
name is also used in various other localities for 
formations of a similar character, 
palisade (pal-i-sad'), r. t. ; pret. and pp. pali- 
i, ppr. piili.fiidint/. [= F. palissader; From 
pall 
the noun.] To surround, inclose, or fortify 
with a palisade or palisades, 
palisade-cell (pal-i-sfid'eel), n. In bot.,nno of 
tin- ri-!ls composing paliHade-tissuo. 
palisade-parenchyma ( i >al - i - sad'pS - reng'ki - 
tnii I. ii. S.-mii- as imli'iiiili -ti MM - 
palisade-tissue (rwl-i-sa<rtisli r>), . In hut.. 
the green parenchymatons mesophyl next the 
upper surface of a bifacial leaf, consisting of 
cells elongated in a direction at right angles 
to the epidermis. Xiiiiin; M,I. 407. See cut 
under *< llular. 
palisade-worm (pal-i-sad'werm), w. A kind of 
strongle which infests horses, Strongylus armu- 
lun; also, any roundworm or nematoid of large 
size, as Eustrongylus gigas, which grows to be 
over three feet long. 
palisado (pal-i-sa'do). . and r. Same as pali- 
node. [Obsolescent.] 
They protected thl trench by paluadoct, fortified by 
fifteen castles, at regular distances. 
Irring, Granada, p. 403. 
They found one English palundord and thatched hone 
a little way from the Charles Riverside. 
K Krxntt, Orations and Speeches, L 4ts. 
palisander (pal-i-san'der), n. [Also palisnii- 
der; < F. palissandre, paliiandre, violet ebony; 
from a native name in Guiana.] A name of 
rosewood and the similar violet- wood and jaca- 
randa-wood. See Jacaranda and rosewood. 
paliset, n. [ME. palyce, < OF. palisae, police, 
paUisse, < ML. palilium, a pale, paling, < L. 
palus, a pale: see pale 1 . Hence palue, ., and 
palisade?\ A paling; palisade. 
Palyce or pale of closyng, pains. Prompt. Pan., p. 379. 
paliset, " ' [ME. palysen, < OF.paligger, pattif- 
scr, paltider, inclose with pales, guard with 
pales, (palisse, a paling: seepalise. .] To in- 
close or fortify with pales ; palisade. 
That stoone la vndyr an awter 
Palytyd with Iren and stele ; 
That is for drede of stelynge, 
That no man shoulde hit A-way bryng. 
Political Poenu, etc. (ed. FnrnlvallX p. 122. 
palish (pa'lish), a. [< pale^ + -isfci.] Some- 
what pale or wan : as, a palish blue. 
In the good old times of duels . . . there llred, in the 
portion of this house partly overhanging the archway, a 
/<//// hands w.im:m. 
O. IT. CaNc, Old Creole Days, p. 28. 
palissee (pal-i-sa'), a. [< OP. palisse 1 , pp. of 
palisser, inclose with pales: 
seepa/tse.] laher.: (a) Same 
as pily paly. See pily. (b) 
Broken in tobattlements which 
are pointed both upward and 
downward. 
Palissy ware. See ware 2 . 
Paliurus(pal-i-u'rus),M. [NL. 
(de Jussieu, 1789), < L. paliu- i'c 
ru, < Gr. KaMovfxx;, a thorny 
shrub, Christ's-thorn.] A genus of shrubs of the 
order Khamnex, the buckthorn family, and the 
tribe Zizi/phece, characterized by the dry hemi- 
spherical fruit, expanded above into an orbicu- 
lar wing. There are two species, one of the Medlterra 
nean region, the other of southern China. They are thorny 
erect or prostrate shruhs, bearing three-nerved alternate 
ovate or heart-shaped leaves in two ranks, and small flow- 
ers clustered In the axils. They are ornamental as shrub- 
bery, and may be used as hedge-plants. P. augtralit {P. 
acleat*) Is one of the Christ's-thoms (sharing the name 
with Zizyphta Spina-Chritti). See Chrut't-thorn. 
palisander (pal-ik-san'der), w. Same as pali- 
sander. 
palket, . A Middle English form otpoke*. 
palkee (pal'ke), n. [Also palki ; < "Hind, palki, 
a palanquin: see palanquin."] In India, a word 
in common use among all classes for palankeen. 
palkee-gharee (pal'ke-gar'e), w. [< Hind. palki, 
a palanquin, + gdri, a cart, carnage.] In In- 
dia, a hack carriage drawn by one or two ponies, 
plying for hire in the larger towns. 
pall 1 (pal), n. [Early mod. E. also paul; < ME. 
pal, patte, pel, pelle, pielle,< AS. pall = OP. pallr, 
pale, paile, paale, poele, poile, paesle, etc., F. 
poeTe = Pr. palli, pali = Sp. palio = Pg. It. 
pallia, mantle, shroud, < L. palla, a robe, man- 
tle, curtain; of. L. pallium, pall, a coverlet, a 
(Greek) robe or mantle : see pallium."] 1. An 
outer garment; a cloak; a mantle. 
Bis (Hercules'sl Lyons skin chaung'd to tpall of gold. 
Speruer, F.Q., V. v. !4. 
"What will you leave to your mother demrl" . . . 
"My velvet pail and silken gear." 
The Onttl BroUter (Child's Ballad*, H. 255). 
Specifically (a) A robe put on a king at his coronation. 
After this he [the archbishop] put upon him (Richard 
II.) an upper Vesture, called a Pall, saying, Acclpe Pal- 
lium. Balrrr, Chronicles, p. 138. 
