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Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, e…

Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.

A heavy mineral of an iron-black color and submetallic luster. It is essentially a tantalate of iron.

Fig.: Taste; palate. These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. Dryden.

anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life.

A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.

The process of forming an artificial palate.

Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.

The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.

The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.

Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining to the soft palate.

Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate.

Calcium oxalate, occurring in colorless or white monoclinic crystals.

dam. Shak. Send for music, And will the cooks to use their best of cunning To please the palate. Beau. & Fl. As you go, will the lord mayor . . . To attend our further pleasure presently. J. Webster.

a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.

A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.