Vocabulary : Pallas to Palliate
Pallas : Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.Pallbearer : One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Palled : of Pall
Pallet : A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. ;; Same as Palette. ;; A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. ;; A potter's wheel. ;; An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. ;; A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. ;; A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. ;; A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. ;; One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. ;; One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. ;; In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes. ;; One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo. ;; A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
Pallia : of Pallium
