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Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.

An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama. [Written also Palæotherium.]

Resembling Paleotherium. -- n.

See Palæotype.

Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.

The Paleozoic time or strata.

The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.

Palsy. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Of or pertaining to Palestine.

A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.

Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.

Same as Palea.

An overcoat. Dickens.

A breastplate for a breast drill. Palette knife, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to mix colors on the grinding slab or palette. -- To set the palette (Paint.), to lay upon it the required pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use of th…

In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

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.

To make pale. [Obs.] No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher.

Same as Impalement.