Vocabulary : Palmister to Palmyra

Palmister : One who practices palmistry
Palmistry : The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy. ;; A dexterous use or trick of the hand.
Palmitate : A salt of palmitic acid.
Palmite : A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.
Palmitic : Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62 C.

Palmitin : A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.
Palmitolic : Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.
Palmitone : The ketone of palmitic acid.
Palmy : Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. ;; Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous.
Palmyra : A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.

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