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A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age. Dawkins.

A pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. "One sick of the palsy." Mark ii. 3. Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. -- Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer. -- Shaking pal…

The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers. Dr. Prior.

equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power. Tennyson.

One who palters. Johnson.

Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "In palterly clothes." Pepys.

A kind of doublet; a jacket. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

In a paltry manner.

The state or quality of being paltry.

Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron.

Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy. [R.] Paludal fever, malarial fever; -- so called because generated in marshy districts.

See Paludamentum.

Antiq.) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.

A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.

Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicolæ

Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond.

Inhabiting ponds or swamps.

Of or pertaining to a marsh. Buckland.

Paludinal. (b) Like or pertaining to the genus Paludina.