Vocabulary : Palliobranchiata to Palm Sunday

Palliobranchiata : Same as Brachiopoda.
Palliobranchiate : Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.
Pallium : A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment. ;; A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall. ;; The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle. ;; The mantle of a bird.
Palliums : of Pallium
Pall-mall : A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall.

Pallometa : A pompano.
Pallone : An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.
Pallor : Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion.
Palm : To "grease the palm" of; to bribe or tip. ;; The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. ;; A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height. ;; A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc. ;; The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers. ;; The flat inner face of an anchor fluke. ;; Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree. ;; A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. ;; Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy. ;; To handle. ;; To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle. ;; To impose by fraud, as by sleight
Palm Sunday : The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

Next : Palma Christi, Palmaceous, Palmacite, Palmar, Palmaria, Palmarium, Palmary, Palmate, Palmated, Palmately
Previous : Palliated, Palliating, Palliation, Palliative, Palliatory, Pallid, Pallidity, Pallidly, Pallidness, Palling
Index : Sanjeev.NET : Vocabulary