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A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin.

To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.

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

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

Palmar.

el resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon. [Written also pattemar.]

See Patamar.

A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.

A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies.

An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in galipot, and isomeric with abietic acid.

A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.

A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Marked by smallpox; pitted.

In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.

Having the nostril covered with a scale. Pomarine jager (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic jager (Stercorarius pomarinus) having the elongated middle tail feathers obtuse. The adult is black.

The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving the place and date of mailing or of arrival.

In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.

The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, in act, or in intention. Norris.