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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.

at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also pallet.]

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

A small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser. Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey. Tennyson.

Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.

See Palsgrave.

pl. of Palus.

The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.

The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee." Is. xxxviii. 19.

A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.