Vocabulary : Palkee to Pallah

Palkee : A palanquin.
Pall : Same as Pawl. ;; An outer garment; a cloak mantle. ;; A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. ;; Same as Pallium. ;; A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. ;; A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. ;; A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice. ;; To cloak. ;; To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. ;; To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. ;; To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite. ;; Nausea.
Palla : An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
Palladian : Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.
Palladic : Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds.

Palladious : Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.
Palladium : Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy. ;; Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. ;; A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.
Palladiumized : of Paladiumize
Palladiumizing : of Paladiumize
Pallah : A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.

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