palmate 
short and have a few long branches on the outer side, 
resembling, when spread apart, the fingers of a hand. 
Palmate tibiae, in entmn., tibiae which are flattened and 
have the exterior margin produced in several strong teeth 
or mucrones : a form commonly found in fossorial legs. 
palmated (pal'ma-ted), a. [< palmate^ + -ed 2 .] 
Same as palmate^. 
palmately (pal'mat-li), adv. In a palmate 
manner; so as to be palmate Palmately cleft, 
cleft in a palmate manner, as when the divisions of a pal- 
mate leaf extend half-way down or more, and the sinuses 
or lobes are narrow or acute. See cfe/(2, 2, and cuts under 
leaf. Palmately compound, an epithet applied to a 
compound leaf with the leaflets inserted in a palmate 
manner, as in the buckeye, lupine, etc. : same as digitate, 
as used by later authors. See cut under leaf. Palmate- 
ly divided. Sume as palmately compound. Palmately 
lobed, lobed in a palmate manner, as when the divisions 
of a palmate leaf extend nearly or quite half-way to the 
base, and the lobes or sinuses are rounded. See lobed, and 
cut under Jatropha. Palmately nerved. See nerva- 
tion. Palmately parted, parted in a palmate manner, 
as when the divisions in a palmate leaf almost reach but 
do not quite reach the base. See parted. Palmately 
veined. Same as palmately nerved. 
palmatificl (pal-mat'i-fid), a. [= F. palmatif.de, 
<Nli. palmatus, palmate (see palmate), + ii.fin- 
dere (i/fid), cleave.] In hot., same as palmately 
cleft (which see, under palmately). 
palmatiform (pal-mat'i-form), a. [= F. pal- 
matiforme, < NL. palmatus, palmate,-!- L. forma, 
form.] In jot, having the form of a hand: ap- 
plied to a leaf whose ribs are arranged in a 
palmate form, radiating from the apex of the 
petiole. Also palmiform. 
palmatilobate (pal-mat-i-16'bat), a. [< NL. 
palmatus, palmate, + lobatus, lobate: see lo- 
bate.] In hot., same as palmately lobed (which 
see, under palmately). 
palmatilobed (pal-mat'i-lobd), a. [< NL. pal- 
matus, palmate, + lobus, a lobe, + -ed 2 .] In 
bot,, same as palmately lobed (which see, under 
palmately). 
palmation (pal-ma'shon), n. [< NL. *palma- 
tio(n-), < palmatus, palmate: see palmate.] 1. 
The state of being palmate ; a palmate figure 
or formation ; digitation. 
The curious axis deer of India . . . resembles, in mark- 
ing, the fallow deer ; but its horns, when developed, will 
have no palmations. Sci. Amer., N. S., LXI. 296. 
2. Webbing, as of the 
foot of a palmiped bird. 
Compare setnipalmation, 
totipalmation, palama. 
palmatipartite(pal-mat- 
i-par'tit), a. [< NL. pal- 
matus, palmate, + par- 
titus, divided: see par- 
tite.] In bot., same as 
palmately parted (which 
see, under palmately). 
palmatisect (pal-mat'i-sekt), a. [< NL. pal- 
matus, palmate, + L. sectus, pp. of secure, cut : 
see section.] In6o(.,sameas 
palmately compound (which 
see, under palmately). 
palmatisected (pal-mat-i- 
sek'ted), a. [< palmatisect 
+ -ed 2 .] Same as palmati- 
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Palmatipartite Leaf. 
palmbark-tree (pam'bark- 
tre), n. An elegant Austra- 
lian shrub, Melalewca Wil- 
Palmatisected Leaf of Ge- 
SOUL ranium Roberlianutn. 
palm-barley (pam'bar"li), 
n. A kind of barley fuller and broader than 
common barley. Halliwell. 
palm-bird (pam'berd), n. A bird that nests in 
palm-trees : applied to many of the weaver-birds 
or Ploceidee, as the baya. 
palm-butter (pam'but'er), n. Same as palm- 
oil. 
palm-cabbage (pam'kab"aj), . The edible bud 
of the cabbage-palm. 
palm-cat (pam'kat), n. A viverrine quadruped 
of the subfamily Paradoxurinee ; a paradoxure : 
so called from their climbing in and feeding 
to some extent upon palms. There are several 
genera, as Paradoxurus, Nandinia, and Paguma, and the 
species are numerous. The common palm-cat is Paradox- 
urus typus. They are also called luwacks, pagumes, palm- 
martens, and by other names. See cut under Paradoxu- 
rus. 
palm-color (pam'kul"or), n. A color resem- 
bling that of tlie palm; bay-color. 
palm-crab (piim'krab), n. The tree-crab, Bir- 
gus latro: so called from its climbing palm- 
trees to get at the fruit. See cut in next 
column. 
palm-cross (pam'kr6s), n. See cross*, 2. 
palme-cristt, . [< NL. palma Christi.] The 
paltna Christi or castor-oil plant. Fallows. 
Palm-crab (BirgTts latro). 
palmed (piimd), a. [<palml + -ed 2 .] Having 
palmate antlers, as a deer: chiefly a poetical 
expression, with reference to the European stag. 
This animal does not acquire the crown or terminal pal- 
mation of the antlers until he is full-grown. 
The proud, palmed deer 
Forsake the closer woods. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xxiii. 319. 
Palmella (pal-mel'a), n. [NL. (Lyngbye, 1819), 
a dim. form, having reference to the jelly-like 
appearance ; < Gr. Tra/l^df, vibration, < ird/l/le<i>, 
shake, vibrate.] A genus of fresh-water algse, 
typical of the Palmellacese, having globose or 
oblong cells, with chlorophyl usually green, but 
sometimes changing to orange or reddish color. 
The cells are surrounded with a thick integument, which 
is generally soon confluent into a shapeless mass of jelly ; 
multiplication is mostly by division. The forms included 
in this genus are probably not autonomous, but represent 
arrested polymorphous forms which multiply rapidly by 
the process of cell-multiplication, without developing, for 
a protracted period, the true plant. The particular plants, 
however, to which they belong have never been deter- 
mined. Palmella stage, or palmella condition, a 
general phrase sometimes applied to certain of the lower 
algae which exhibit the peculiar gelatinous masses de- 
scribed above. In the Schizomycetes this condition or stage 
has lately been called the zooglaea staye. See Zooglaea. 
Palmellaceae (pal-me-la'se-e), n. pi. [NL., < 
Palmella + -ace*.] A so-called order of fresh- 
water alga?, taking its name from the genus Pal- 
mella, including forms of doubtful autonomy. 
They are strictly unicellular, with the cells either single 
or numerous, constituting families, and embedded in an 
amorphous stratum of jelly. Reproduction is mainly by 
fission. Also Palmellese. 
palmellaceous (pal-me-la'shius), a. [< Pal- 
mella + -aceous.] Resembling or belonging to 
the genus Palmella. Also palmelloid. 
Palmellese (pal-mel'e-e), n. pi. [NL., < Pal- 
mella + -ese.] Same as Palmellaeeee. 
palmellin (pal'mel-in), n. [< NL. Palmella + 
-in 2 .] The red coloring matter detected by 
Phipson in Palmella crnenta, a fresh-water alga. 
It is soluble in water, but insoluble in alcohol, 
ether, and carbon bisulphid. 
palmelloid (pal'mel-oid), a. [< Palmella + 
-aid.] Same as palmfllaceous Palmelloid con- 
dition, in bot., same as palmella stage (which see, under 
Palmella). 
palmelodicon (pal-me-lod'i-kon), n. Same as 
musical glasses (b) (which see, under glass). 
palmer 1 (pa'mer), w. [<.palml + -erl.] 1. One 
who palms or cheats, as at cards. 2. A ferule. 
palmer 2 (pii'mer), n. [< ME. palmer, palmere, 
palmare,\ OF. palmier, paulmier, paumier = Sp. 
palmero = Pg. palmeiro = It. palmiere, < ML. 
palmarius, a pilgrim who bore a palm-branch 
(see def.), < L. palma, a palm-branch: see 
palm 2 .] 1. A pilgrim who had returned from 
the Holy Land, had fulfilled his vow, and had 
brought with him a palm-branch to be depos- 
ited on the altar of his parish church ; hence, 
an itinerant monk who went from shrine to 
shrine, under a perpetual vow of poverty and 
celibacy. The distinction between pilgrim and 
palmer seems never to have been closely ob- 
served. 
Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages, 
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes. 
Chanter, Gen. Prol. to C. T., L 13. 
Here is a holy Palmer come, 
From Salem first, and last from Rome ; 
One that hath kissed the blessed tomb, 
And visited each holy shrine, 
In Araby and Palestine. Scott, Marmion, L 23. 
An escallop shell, the device of St. James, was adopted 
as the universal badge of the palmer. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 6. 
Though now and then an individual may have been seen 
who carried a short palm-branch bound to his staff, such, 
however, was not the palmer's usual badge ; but instead a 
small cross formed by two short slips of a leaflet from the 
palm-tree : this cross he sewed either to his hat or upon 
his cape. Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. i. 439. 
palmetto 
2. A palmer-worm. 
Ernche lit.], the womies called cankers or palmers. 
Fiona, 1611. 
A hollow cane that must be light and thin, 
Wherein the "Bobb" and Palmer shall abide; 
Which must be stopped with an handsome pin, 
Lest out again your baits do hap to slide. 
J. Dennys (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 153). 
3. An artificial fly whose body is covered with 
hairs bristling in all directions: used by an- 
glers. 
Imitations of these [hairy caterpillars), known to the 
American by the familiar term of hackles, and to the ac- 
curate inhabitant of the British Isles by the correct name 
of palmers. Sportsman s Gazetteer, p. 298. 
4. A wood-louse. Encyc. Diet Palmer's staff, 
in her., same as bourdon^, 3. 
palmer 3 t (pa'mer), n. [< OF. palmier, a palm- 
tree, < palme, a palm : see palm*.] A palm-tree. 
Here are very many palmer or coco trees, which is their 
chiefe food. Ilakluyt's Voyages, II. 264. 
palmerin (pal'mer-in), . [< Palmerin (see 
def . ).] One of a line of romantic heroes of the 
age of chivalry, who took their names or their 
titles from Palmerin de Oliva, an illegitimate 
grandson of a Greek emperor of Constantinople. 
This Palmerin derived his name from the circumstance of 
his exposure in a wicker basket on a mountain-side among 
palms and olive-trees in Spain. He afterward became 
famous for his exploits in Germany, England, and the Ori- 
ent. The exploits of the Palmerins, as celebrated in the 
famous Spanish romances called by their name, are evi- 
dently modeled after those of Amadis of Gaul. In litera- 
ture the name is often applied as a term of distinction to 
any redoubtable champion of the age of chivalry. 
That brave Rosicler 
That damned brood of ugly giants slew, 
And Palmerin Frannarco overthrew. 
Beau, and FL, Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 2. 
The oldest ballads tell us nothing at all ... of the 
Palmerins, nor of many other well-known and famous 
heroes of the shadow-land of chivalry. 
Ticknmr, Span. Lit., I. 119. 
palmer-worm (pa'mer-werm), n. [< palmer' 2 + 
worm.] 1. A caterpillar; especially, a hairy 
caterpillar injurious to vegetation, but what 
kind is unknown or undetermined. The name oc- 
curs three times in the Bible (Joel i. 4 ; 11. 26 ; Amos iv. 9) as 
the translation of the Hebrew gdzdm, rendered in the Sep- 
tuagint ofiir>i and in the Vulgate eruca. Some have sup- 
posed it to be a destructive kind of locust, asPachytylusmi- 
gratorius; but in Joel the name is expressly distinguished 
from "locust." The Hebrew name is referred to a root 
meaning 'to cut oft" ; the Greek Kanirrt refers to the bend- 
ing or looping of some caterpillars, apparently pointing 
to a looper or measuring-worm that is, the larva of some 
geometrid moth ; and the Latin eruca may have the same 
significance. The destructiveness of many of these gec- 
metrids would fully bear out the Biblical implication. 
See oubit. 
There is another sort of these Catterpillers, who haue 
no certaine place of abode, nor yet cannot tell where te 
find theyrfoode, but, like vnto superstitious Pilgrims, doo 
wander and stray hither and thither, (and like Mise) con- 
sume and eate vp that which is none of their owne ; and 
these haue purchased a very apt name amongst vs Eng- 
lishmen, to be called Palmer-worms, by reason of their 
wandering and rogish life (for they neuer stay in one 
place, but are euer wandering), although by reason of their 
roughnes and ruggednes some call them Beare-wormea. 
They can by no means endure to be dyeted, and to feede 
vpon some certaine herbes and flowers, but boldly and 
disorderly creepe ouer all, and tast of all plants and trees 
indifferently, and Hue as they list. 
Topsell, History of Serpents (1608), p. 106. 
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust 
eaten. Joel i. 4. 
2. In the United States, the larva of the tineid 
moth Ypsilophus pometella, which in eastern 
parts of the country appears on the leaves of 
the apple in June, draws them together, and 
skeletonizes them. 
palmery (pa'mer-i), n. ; pi. palmeries (-iz). [< 
palm 2 + -ery.] A palm-nouse. Compare fern- 
ery. 
palmette (pal'met), n. [< F. palmette, dim. of 
palme, palm: see palm 2 .] In class, archseol., 
an ornament more or less resembling a palm- 
leaf, whether carved in relief on moldings, etc., 
or painted; an anthemion. See cut on follow- 
ing page. 
palmetto (pal-met'6), n. [Formerly palmito; 
< Sp. palmito (= Pg. palmito = It. palmisto = 
F. palmfete), dim. of palma, palm: see palm 2 .] 
Any one of several fan-leafed palms of different 
genera. The one most properly so called is Sabal Pal- 
metto, the cabbage-palmetto, a tree from 20 to 35 feet high, 
abounding on the southeast coast of the United States. It 
forms part of the device in the seal and flag of South Caro- 
lina, the Palmetto State. Its wood is not attacked by the 
teredo and is very durable under water, and is therefore 
much used for piles and wharves. The fibrous leaves of 
this and the dwarf palmetto, S. Adawoni, are made into 
hats, baskets, and fans, and also furnish an upholstering 
material. The palmetto, or hemp-palm, of southern Eu- 
rope and North Africa, is Cham&rops humilis, a dwarf spe- 
cies, affording abundant fiber, consumed chiefly as "vege- 
table horsehair." The same names are given to the Chi- 
