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nd between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. Clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm. Tennyson.

commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]

Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.

A fossil palm.

Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.

One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.

Palmar.

(Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]

Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

In a palmate manner.

Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.

Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.

Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.

The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)

Having or bearing a palm or palms. Paimed deer (Zoöl.), a stag of full growth, bearing palms. See lst Palm, 4.

One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.

caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4.

A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.

A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States. In the United States, the name is applied especially to the Chamærops, or Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.