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Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.

own to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama. [Written also Palæotherium.]

Resembling Paleotherium. -- n.

See Palæotype.

Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.

The Paleozoic time or strata.

The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.

Palsy. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Of or pertaining to Palestine.

A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.

Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.

Same as Palea.

An overcoat. Dickens.

oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also pallet.]

In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.

A small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser. Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey. Tennyson.

Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.

See Palsgrave.

pl. of Palus.