palliative 
II. M. 1. That which extenuates : as, & pallia- 
tire of guilt. 2. That which mitigates, allevi- 
ates, or abates, as the violence of pain, disease, 
or other evil. 
Those palliatives which weak, perfidious, or abject poli- 
ticians administer. Sw\ft. 
As s.paUiatioe, add bicarbonate of sodium till a perma- 
nent precipitate falls, and then expose for several days to 
the sun. Lea, Photography, p. 306. 
palliatory (pal'i-a-to-ri), a. [= Sp. paliatorio; 
as palliate + -ory] ' Palliative, 
pallid (pal'id), a. [< ~L.pattidus, pale, <pallere, 
be pale: see pale$, a doublet of 2>allid.] 1. 
Pale ; wan ; deficient in color : as, a pallid coun- 
tenance. 
I which live in the country without stupifying am not 
in darkness, but in shadow, which is not no light, but a.pal- 
lid, waterish, and diluted one. Donne, Letters, iv. 
Bathed in the pallid lustre stood 
Dark cottage-wall and rock and wood. 
Whittier, Pentucket. 
2. In liot., of a pale, indefinite color. =Syn. 1. 
Wan, etc. (see pale?), colorless, ashy. 
pallidity (pa-lid'i-ti), re. [= It. pallidita, < 
ML. as if *pallidiia(t-)s, < 1,.palUdus, pale : see 
pallid] Pallor; paleness; pallid coloration. 
pallidly (pal'id-li), adv. With pallidity; palely; 
wanly. 
pallidness (pal'id-nes), n. Pallidity ; paleness ; 
wanness. Feltham. =Syn. Seepalev, a. 
Palliobranchiata (pal*i-o-brang-ki-a'ta), re. 
pi. [NL.: seepalliobranchiate.] DeBlainville's 
name (1825) of the Brachiopoda, as one of two 
orders of his Acephalophora, the other being 
Budistee. 
palliobranchiate (pal"i-o-brang'ki-at), a. [< 
Nli. palliobranchiatus, <.~L. pallium, cloak, man- 
tle, + branchiee, gills.] Breathing by means of 
the mantle, or supposed to do so ; specifically, 
of or pertaining to the Palliobranchiata. 
palliocardiac (pal"i-6-kar'di-ak), a. [< L. pal- 
lium, cloak, + Gr. KapSia = E. heart : see car- 
diac."] Pertaining to the mantle and to the 
viscericardium or pericardial sac of a mollusk, 
as a cephalopod : as, the palliocardiac muscle. 
pallion 1 1 (pal'yon), n. [Alsopallioun; a reduc- 
tion of pavilion. Cf. OF. pallion, pallioum, 
palium, etc., pallium.] A tent; a pavilion. 
They lighted high on Otterbourne, 
And threw their pallions down. 
Battle of Otterbourne (Child's Ballads, VII. 22). 
pallion 2 (pal'yon), re. [< It. pallone, a ball, 
bullet, ballon (see balloon^, ballon), = Sp. pal- 
Ion, a quantity of gold or silver from an assay.] 
A small pellet, as of solder. 
A quantity of very small pellets, or pallions of solder 
are then cut. Goldsmith's Handbook, p. 89. 
palliopedal (pal'^-o-ped'al), a. [< L. pallium, 
cloak, + pes (pea-) = E. foot.] Pertaining or 
common to the pallium or mantle and to the 
foot of a mollusk. 
They are present in Haliotis, where they pass off from 
the common pedal ganglionic mass (the pauio-pedal gan- 
glia). Qegenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 348. 
pallisadot, n. Same as palisade. 
Palliser gun. See gun*-. 
pallium (pal'i-um), n. ; pi. pallia (-a). [= F. 
pallium, OF. pallion, pallioum = Sp. palio = 
Pg. It. pallio, < L. pallium, a coverlet, mantle, 
cloak; ef. palla, a mantle, cloak: see palfl.] 
1. In Bom. antiq., a voluminous rectangular 
mantle for men, corresponding to the Greek hi- 
mation (see himation), and considered at Rome, 
because worn by Greek savants, as the par- 
ticular dress of philosophers; also, a toga or 
other outer garment ; a curtain, etc., of rectan- 
gular shape. 2. Eccles. : (a) In the early church, 
a large mantle worn by Christian philosophers, 
ascetics, and monks, (b) A vestment worn by 
certain bishops, especially patriarchs and met- 
ropolitans. It seems to have come first into use in the 
Eastern Church, where it is known as the omophorion, and 
to have been worn by patriarchs, and given by them to 
metropolitans. Some authorities think that it was of 
primitive origin and at first worn by all bishops, while 
others hold that it was originally an imperial garment, 
bestowed by the emperor as a mark of distinction upon 
patriarchs and others, and afterward given to metropoli- 
tans and bishops generally. It has always been of wool, 
as indicating the pastoral office. It seems at first to have 
been a mantle rolled together and passed round the neck 
so as to fall both in front and at the back. It then became 
contracted in width and was worn nearly as it still is in 
the Greek Church, as a wide woolen band fastened round 
the shoulders and descending nearly to the feet In the 
Latin or Boman Catholic Church it gradually assumed a 
different shape, and is now a narrow band like a ring, pass- 
ing round the shoulders, with two short vertical pieces, 
falling respectively down the breast and the back. It is 
ornamented with crosses, and has three golden pins by 
which it is attached with loops to the chasuble. The 
pallium was worn anciently in the Western Church by the 
Pope and by Gallican metropolitans. From the sixth cen- 
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tury it began to be given by the Pope to some metropoli- 
tans outside of his own diocese, in sign of special favor or 
distinction at first, according to some authorities, only 
with approval of the emperor. By the seventh or eighth 
century it came to be regarded as a sign of acknowledg- 
ment of papal supremacy. At present, in the Koman 
Catholic Church, a bishop elected or translated to a see of 
metropolitical or higher rank must beg the Pope for the 
pallium, and receives it after taking an oath of allegiance 
to the Pope. The Pope wears it whenever he officiates, 
bishops only on certain great feasts. Anglican archbish- 
ops no longer wear the pallium since the Reformation, 
but it forms partof the heraldic insignia of the archbish- 
ops of Canterbury, Armagh, and Dublin. Also called pall. 
(c) An altar-cloth; a frontal or pall. 3. In 
conch., the mantle, mantle-flap, or mantle-skirt 
of a mollusk, an outgrowth of the dorsal body- 
wall. It is a specialized, more or less highly and very 
variously developed integument, including epithelial, vas- 
cular, glandular, and muscular structures, and forming 
folds or processes which represent the foot and other parts. 
It is often wanting. See cuts under Lamellioranchiata, 
Pulmonata, and Tridacnidee. 
4. In ornith., the mantle; the stragulum; the 
back and folded wings together, in any way 
distinguished, as by color in a gull, etc. 5. 
A cirro-stratus cloud when it forms a uniform 
sheet over the whole sky. 
M, Poey has proposed the name of Pallium, but this 
term has not met with general acceptance. 
Scott, Meteorology, p. 126. 
pall-mall (pel-mel')> [Formerly also pale- 
maiU, pallmaill, pallemaille, paillemail; also, 
in more recent spelling, pell-mell; < OF. pal- 
mail, palmaille, pallemaille, palemaille, paille- 
mail, paillemaille, etc., = Sp. palamallo = Pg. 
palamalha, < It. palamaglio, pallamaglio, the 
game of pall-mall, lit. 'ball-mallet,' < palla, ball 
(< ML. palla, ball, < OHG. palla, MHG. G. ball: 
see balfl-), + maglio, < L. malleus, a mall, mallet: 
see mall 1 .'] 1. A game, formerly played, in 
which a ball of boxwood was struck with a mal- 
let or club, the object being to drive it through 
a raised ring of iron at the end of an alley. 
The player who accomplished this with fewest 
strokes, or within a number agreed on, was the 
winner. 
To St. James's Park, where I saw the Duke of York play- 
ing pelemele, the first time that ever I saw the sport. 
Pepyt, Diary, April 2, 1661. 
The game might develop into golf or pell mett. ... If 
the point played to was a hole in the ground, golf arose ; 
if you played to a stone, tree, or rock, or through an iron 
hoop elevated on a post, pell mell, jeu de mail, Pila Mal- 
leus was the result. . . . Lauthier describes the attitude 
and " swing " at pell mell in words that apply equally well 
to golf. . . . Generally speaking, the aim was to "loft" 
the ball, in fewer strokes than your adversary took, through 
an elevated iron ring. 
A. Lang, Golf (Badminton Library), pp. 4, 11. 
2. The mallet used in this game. 
If one had paille-mails it were good to play in this alley, 
for it is of a reasonable good length, straight, and even. 
Fr. Garden/or Engl. Lad. (1621). (Nmee.) 
3. A place where the game was played. The 
game was formerly practised in St. James's Park, London, 
and gave its name to the famous street called Pall Mall 
(locally pronounced pel-mel'). 
In the pavilion of ye new Castle are many faire roomes, 
well paynted, and leading into a very noble garden and 
parke, where is a pall-maill, in ye midst of which, on one 
of the sides, is a chapell. Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 27, 1644. 
pall-mallt (pel-mel'), adv. [Elliptically for in 
pall-mall fashion ; prob. alluding also to pell- 
mell.'] In pall-mall fashion ; as in the game of 
pall-mall . 
Others I'l knock pall-mall. 
Cartwright's Lady Errant. (Name.) 
pallometric (pal-o-met'rik), a. [< Gr. mttfotv, 
quiver, quake, + ficrpov, measure: see metric.] 
Relating to the measurement of vibrations in 
the surface of the earth produced by artificial 
methods. 
pallor (pal'or), n. [= F. pdleur = Sp. palor = 
Pg. pallor = It. pallbre, < L. pallor, paleness, < 
pallere, be pale : see pallid, pale 1 *.] Paleness; 
wanness. 
palm 1 (pam), re. [Early mod. E. also pawn; 
< ME. palme, paume, pawme, pame, the palm of 
the hand, also palm-play, < OF. palme, paulme, 
paume, the palm of the hand, a ball, tennis 
(palm-play), F. paume, the palm of the hand, 
tennis (jeu de paume), = Sp. Pg. It. palma, < 
L. palma, f., the palm of the hand, a hand's 
breadth, etc., alsopalmus, m., = Gr. iralaftij, the 
palm of the hand, = AS. folm (= OHG. folma), 
the palm of the hand, the hand, > ult. E. fumble, 
q. v. Hence ult. palnfi.] 1. The flat of the 
hand ; that part of the hand which extends from 
the wrist to the bases of the thumb and fingers 
on the side opposite the knuckles; more gen- 
erally and technically, the palmar surface of 
the manus of any animal, as the sole of the 
fore foot of a clawed quadruped, as the cat or 
palm 
mouse, corresponding to the planta of the pes or 
foot. In man the palm is fleshy, and presents two special 
eminences, the JAenar(ball of the thumb) and, opposite to 
it, the hypothenar, mainly due to the bulk of the subjacent 
muscles. The habitual tendency of the fingers in grasping 
and holding throws the skin into numerous creases, sev- 
eral principal ones being quite constant in position. The 
character of these creases, in all their detail and variation 
in different individuals, is the chief basis of chirognomy 
or palmistry. See phrases under line?. 
Therwith the pous and paumcs of his hondes 
They gan to froote and wete his temples tweyne. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 1114. 
With yche a pawe as a poste, and paumes fulle huge. 
Morte Arlhure (E. E. T. S.\ 1. 776. 
2f. The hand; a hand. 
Ther apered a. paume, with poyntel in fyngres 
That watz grysly & gret, & gyrmly he wrytes. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1533. 
3. A lineal measure equal either to the breadth 
of the hand or to its length from the wrist to 
the tips of the fingers ; a measure of length equal 
to 3 and in some instances 4 inches ; among the 
Romans, a lineal measure equal to about &J 
inches, corresponding to the length of the hand. 
During that triumvirate of kings, King Henry VIII. of 
England, Francis I., king of France, and Charles V., em- 
peror, there was such a watch kept that none of the three 
could win a palm of ground but the other two would 
straightways balance it. Bacon, Empire (ed. 1887). 
4. A part that covers the inner portion of the 
hand : as, the palm of a glove ; specifically, an 
instrument used by sailmakers and seamen in 
Sailmakers' Palm. 
a, palm-leather; t, thumb-hole; f, metal shield fastened to palm- 
leather ; d, small countersinks, into some one of which the butt of the 
needle enters in sewing to prevent the needle from slipping. 
sewing canvas, instead of a thimble, consisting 
of a piece of leather that goes round the hand, 
with a piece of iron sewed on it so as to rest in 
the palm. 5. The broad (usually triangular) 
part of an anchor at the end of the arms. 6. 
The flat or palmate part of a deer's horns when 
full-grown. 
The forehead of the gote 
Held out a wondrous goodly palme, that sixteene branches 
brought. Chapman, Iliad, iv. 124. 
7t. An old game, a kind of hand-tennis, more 
fully called palm-play. 
Also, that no maner persone pleye at the pame or at 
tenys, withyn the yeld halle of the seid cite. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 387. 
8f. A ball. 
Paume to play at tennys with, [F.] paulme. Palsgrave. 
An Itching palm. See itch. Oil of palms. See off. 
To cross one's palm. Same as to cross one's hand (which 
see, under crews!). To gild (one's) palm, to give money 
to; fee; " tip." 
He accounts them very honest Tikes, and can with all 
safety trust his Life in their Hands, for now and then Gild- 
ing their Palms for the good Services they do him. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[II. 220. 
To grease the palm of. See grease. 
palm 1 (pam), v. t. [(palm*, n.] 1. To handle; 
manipulate. 
Our Cards and we are equal Tools. 
We sure in vain the Cards condemn : 
Our selves both cut and shnffl'd them. . . . 
But Space and Matter we should blame ; 
They palm'd the Trick that lost the Game. 
Prior, Alma, ii. 
Frank carves very ill, yet will palm all the Meats. 
Prior, Epigrams. 
2. To conceal in the palm of the hand, in the 
manner of jugglers or cheaters. 3. To impose 
by fraud : generally followed by upon before the 
person and off before the thing: as, to palm off 
trash upon the public. 
What is palmed upon you daily for an imitation of East- 
ern writing no way resembles their manner. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xxxiii. 
palm 2 (pam), re. [< ME. palme, < AS. palm = 
OS. palma = D. palm = MLG. palme = OHG. 
palma, MHG. G. palme = Icel. pdlmr = Sw. 
palm = Dan. palme = F. palme = Sp. Pg. It. 
palma, < L. palma, a palm-tree, palm-branch, 
the topmost branch, any branch, a palm-branch 
as a symbol of victory, also the fruit of the 
palm, a date, also the name of several other 
plants ; so called from the resemblance of the 
