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Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes. Palisade cells (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. -- Palisade worm (Zoöl.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms,…

Somewhat pale or wan.

Same as Palette.

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

Pallidness; paleness.

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

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

Pale; wanting color; dim. [Poetic] Shak. Whittier.

To inclose in a park, or as in a park. How are we parked, and bounded in a pale. Shak.

ivided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.

Palm peach, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree (Bactris speciosa). -- Peach color, the pale red color of the peach blossom. -- Peach-tree borer (Zoöl.), the larva of a clearwing moth (Ægeria, or Sannina, exitiosa) of the family Ægeriidæ, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near t…

of thread edging to be sewed on lace. -- Pearl eye, cataract. [R.] -- Pearl gray, a very pale and delicate blue-gray color. -- Pearl millet, Egyptian millet (Penicillaria spicata). -- Pearl moss. See Carrageen. -- Pearl moth (Zoöl.), any moth of the genus Margaritia; -- so called on account of its pearly color. --…

A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant in the Upper Silurian. Pentamerus limestone (Geol.), a Silurian limestone composed largely of the shells of Pentamerus.

f an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley.

pericardium; situated around the heart. Pericardial fluid (Physiol.), a serous fluid of a pale yellow color contained in the pericardium.

tion, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era. -- n.

nce to a particular creed or mode of worship. Persecution produces no sincere conviction. Paley.

A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.

The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly. Haeckel.

One versed in phytolithology; a paleobotanist.