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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.

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.

neral; 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.