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Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

Palliative; extenuating.

Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. Spenser.

Pallidness; paleness.

In a pallid manner.

The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Same as Brachiopoda.

Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.

A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.

An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.

Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion. Jer. Taylor.

The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. Clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm. Tennyson.

commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]

Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.

A fossil palm.

Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.

One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.

Palmar.

(Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]