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Paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face.

Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale. Carpal angle (Zoöl.), the angle at the last joint of the folded wing of a bird.

he bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.

Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.

See Cocoa.

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tr…

A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.

A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrocosum, and Hymenæa Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ur

The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.

Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.

One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross- pawl.

Croupy.

Having two sepals; two-sepaled.

A species of palm tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. [Written also doum palm.]

See Doom palm.

Drupaceous.

Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

To make pale. [Obs.] No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher.