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A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.

The consort or widow of a palsgrave.

Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic. [R.] Johnson.

Affected with palsy; paralyzed.

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.

Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.

Peristaltic contraction or action.

A finer form of metals, indicated by enhanced lines in their spark spectra (which are also observed in the spectra of some stars), obtained at the highest available laboratory temperatures (Lockyer); as protocalcium, protochromium, protocopper, protonickel, protosilicon, protostrontium, prototitanium, protovanadium. --…

Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.

The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.

Rivalry. [R.] B. Jonson.

See Salsify.

Salt; salted; saline. [R.]

A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.

See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster.

Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid. [R.]