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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.

To make pale; to blanch. [Obs.] The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt.

Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv.

Depression occasioned by terror; dismay. [Obs.] Bacon.

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." Dana.

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.

By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner.

to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor.

See Allelomorph.

The pallah deer of South Africa.

To make pallid; to blanch. [Obs.] Feltham.

Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells.