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pl. of Palpus. (Zoöl.) See Palpus.

One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennæ, and long maxillary palpi.

Same as Palpiger.

Having the form of a palpus.

That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.

Bearing a palpus. Kirby.

Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. Carlyle.

To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.

A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.

Without a palpus.

A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.

A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.

The consort or widow of a palsgrave.

Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic. [R.] Johnson.

Affected with palsy; paralyzed.

A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age. Dawkins.

A pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. "One sick of the palsy." Mark ii. 3. Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. -- Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer. -- Shaking pal…

The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers. Dr. Prior.