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priloned. Fourteen months afterwards, in 1644., he was 
beheaded. The wretch who betrayed him was itabbed 
at Paris fome years afterwards, by a friend of Pallavicino. 
This writer left feveral works, which have been fought by 
the curious, and are diftinguilhed by their fatirical le- 
verity. Among others, lie wrote a collection of letters, 
which he called “The Courier robbed of his Mail;” 
which may have furnifhed a hint for that admirable mo¬ 
dern publication, The Two-penny Poll-bag. He alfo 
wrote a hiftory of the public events in Italy in 1636. A 
feleflion of his works was publifhed in two volumes 
121110. 1644, at Geneva, under the title of Villa Franca. 
He is alfo the reputed author of an Italian work enti¬ 
tled “The Celeftial Divorce, or the Separation of Jefus 
Chrilt from his Spoufe the Roman Church;” Amft. 1696. 
Gen. Biog. 
PALLEI'ROS, a mountain of Arabia, in the province 
of Oman : eighty miles weft-fouth-weft of Mafcat. 
PAL'LENDORF, a town of Auftria: two miles north 
of Zifterdorf. 
PALLE'NE, a fmall peninfula of Macedonia, formerly 
called Phlegm, fituate above the bay of Thermae, on 
the iEgean Sea, and containing five cities, the prin¬ 
cipal of which is called Pallene. It was in this place, 
according to fome of the ancients, that an engagement 
happened between the gods and the giants.—Alfo a vil¬ 
lage of Attica, where Minerva had a temple, and where 
the Pallantides chiefly refided. 
PAL'LET, f. [paillet , in Chaucer; which was probably 
the French word, from pail/e, ftraw, and fecondarily, a 
bed.] A fmall bed ; a mean bed.—His fecretary was laid 
in a pallet near him, for ventilation of his thoughts. 
Walton. 
Why rather, Sleep, lied thou in ftnoky cribs. 
Upon uneafy pallets ftretching thee, 
And hufii’d with buzzing night-flies to thy Humber; 
Than in the perfum’d chambers of the great, 
Under the canopies of coftly ftate, 
And lull’d with founds of fweeteft melody ? Shahefp. 
[ Palette , Fr.] A porrenger, formerly ufed by furgeons 
to receive blood in.—A furgeon drew from a patient in 
lour days, twenty-feven pallets, every pallet containing 
three ounces. Hakewill. —In heraldry, a diminiflied pale, 
a little pod. 
Pallets, in clock and watch work, are thofe pieces 
or levers which are connected with the pendulum or ba¬ 
lance, and receive the immediate impulfe of the fwing- 
wheel, or balance-wheel, fo as to maintain the vibrations 
of the pendulum in clocks, and of the balance in watches. 
The pallets, in all the ordinary conftruCtions of clocks 
and watches, are formed on the verge, or axis, of the pen¬ 
dulum or balance, and are of various lengths and (liapes, 
according to the conftruCtion of the piece, or the fancy 
of the artid. For the modern improvements, comparative 
advantages, and the manner of conltruCting pallets, fee 
the article Horology, vol. x. 
Pallet, in fhip-building, is a room within the hold, 
clofely parted from it, in which, by laying fome pigs of 
lead, See. a flop may be fufficiently ballafled, without 
lofing room in the hold; which, therefore, will ferve for 
flowing more goods. 
PAL'LETING, J'. A flight platform made over the 
bottom of the magazine, to preferve the powder from 
damps. 
PALLETO'QUE, f. [probably from the Lat .pallium.] 
A fhort kind of coat with fleeves, fuch as was formerly 
worn by pages. Scott. 
PAL'LI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province of 
Diarbekir: eighty-five miles north-ead of Diarbeck, and 
150 fouth-fouth-wed of Erzerum. 
PAL'LIAMENT, f. [pallium, Lat.'] A drefs ; a robe.— 
A palliament of white and fpotlefs hue. ShakeJ'peare. 
PALLIA'NO, or Palia'no, a town of Italy, in Cam- 
pagna di Roma : twenty-eight miles ead of Rome. 
PAL 
PAL'LIARD, f. [from paille, paillaffe, Fr. draw.] An 
old word for one whofe father was born a beggar. Cole. 
—A whoremader ; a lecher : 
Thieves, pandars, palliards, fins of every fort; 
Thefe are the manufactures we export. Dryden, 
PAL'LIARDISE, /i [French.] Fornication ; whoring. 
Objblete. —Nor can they tax him with palliardife, luxury, 
epicurifm. Sir G. Buck's Hiftory of Richard III. 
PALLIA'THJ, J'. A name which the Romans gave to 
fuch plays as laid the plot in Greece, and required the 
performers to appear in Grecian habits. It is ufed in 
contradiftinClion to togatcc, in which the feene was laid at 
Rome, and in which the drefles were Roman. The word 
palliatas is derived from pallium, which was a part of drefs 
peculiar to the Greeks ; whereas the toga belonged to the 
Romans only. 
To PAL'LIATE, v. a. [pallio, Lat. from pallium, a 
cloak; pallier, Fr.] To clothe; to cover.—They wallow 
in all kind of turpitude, yet nowhere perfecuted ; being 
palliated with a pilgrim’s coat and hypocritic fanCtity. 
Herbert's Travels. —To cover with excufe.—-They never 
hide or palliate their vices, but expofe them freely to view. 
Swift. —To extenuate; to foften by favourable reprefen- 
tations.—The fault is to extenuate, palliate, and indulge. 
Dryden. —To cure imperfeCtly or temporarily, not radi¬ 
cally; to eafe, not cure. 
PAL'LIATE, adj. Eafed, not perfectly cured.—The 
nation was under its great crifis and molt hopeful method 
of cure, which yet, if palliate and imperfeCt, would only 
make way to more fatal ficknefs. Fell's Life of Hammond. 
PALLIA'TION, f. [palliation, Fr. from palliate.] Ex¬ 
tenuation; alleviation; favourable reprefentation.—I faw 
clearly through all the pious difguifes and foft palliations 
of fome men. King Charles. —Such bitter inveCtives againll 
other men’s faults, and indulgence or palliation of their 
own, Ihews their zeal lies in their fpleen. Gov. of the 
Tongue. —ImperfeCt or temporary, not radical, cure; miti¬ 
gation, not cure.—If the juft cure of a difeafe be full of 
peril, let the phyfician refort to palliation. Bacon's Nat. 
Hiftory. 
PAL'LIATIVE, adj. [palliatif, Fr. from palliate.] Ex¬ 
tenuating ; favourably reprefentative.—He openly defends 
his new attempt, not in a palliative apology, but in a.pe¬ 
remptory declaration. Warton's Rowley Euq. —Mitigating, 
not removing; temporarily or partially, not radically, 
curative.—Confnmption pulmonary feldoin admits of 
other than a palliative cure, and is generally incurable 
when hereditary. Arbuthnot. 
PAL'LIATIVE, ft Something mitigating; fomething 
alleviating.—It were more fafe to trull to the general 
averfion of our people againft this coin, than apply thofe 
palliatives which weak, perfidious, or abjeCt, politicians 
adminifter. Swift. 
PALLICO'DE, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore, 
fituated at the extremity of a pafs leading to the Barra- 
maul country, called indifferently the Pals of Pallicode, 
and the Pafs of Oodeadurgum. Through this pafs the 
Myfore armies were generally fent to invade the Carnatic. 
It is eleven miles north-well of Darempoury. 
PAL'LID, adj, [pallidas, Lat.] Pale ; not high-colour¬ 
ed ; not bright: pallid is feldom ufed of the face.—Its 
pallid bloom fick-fmelling henbane Ihow’d. Harte. 
Of every fort which in that meadow grew 
They gather’d fome; the violet jtallid blue. Spenfer. 
PALLID'ITY, ft. Palenefs.—The agitation of the foul 
throws the-animal fpirits into a confided and impetuous 
motion, which imparts fuch a flulli or pallidity to the face, 
fo enlarges or contracts the lineaments and features, 
whereby it is eafily perceivable that fomething more than 
ordinary is the matter. Philof. Lett, on Phifiognomy, 1751. 
PAL'LIDLY, adv. Palely; wanly.—They fometimes 
appear pallidly fad, as if they were going to their graves. 
Bp. Taylor's Artif. Handftom. 
PAL'LIDNESS, 
