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Same as Palpus.

The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch. Arbuthnot.

Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form. Shak. Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness. Milton.

Act of touching or feeling.

One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

The eyelid.

Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

Having eyelids.

Having a palpus.

pl. of Palpus. (Zoöl.) See Palpus.

One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennæ, and long maxillary palpi.

Same as Palpiger.

Having the form of a palpus.

That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.

Bearing a palpus. Kirby.

Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. Carlyle.

To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.

A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.

Without a palpus.

A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.