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Bad advice.

To give bad counsel to.

Ill advised. -- Mis`ad*vis"ed*ly, adv.

See under 2d Pack.

Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes. Palisade cells (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. -- Palisade worm (Zoöl.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms,…

) A row of palisades set in the ground.

A palisade. [Obs.] Shak.

A pass or thrust. Shak.

A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.

Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Contrasted with artiad.

The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.

A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower (Bot.), a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.

A twisted cord; also, a molded or worked ornament of similar form.

Unsteady; fickle. [Obs.] O, stormy people, unsad and ever untrue. Chaucer.

To relieve from sadness; to cheer. [R.] Whitlock.

To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.

Infirmity; weakness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak.

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.

mission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.