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A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.

A writer of palindromes.

Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure. They moved within the paling of order and decorum. De Quincey.

See Palingenesis.

A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. -- Pal`in*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.

Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction. J. Q. Adams.

See Palinode. [Obs.] Wood.

An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass

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.

Somewhat pale or wan.

Violet wood.

Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry. Palissy ware, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief.

A palanquin. Malcom.

An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.

used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.