Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAL'EN-DAR, n.

A kind of coasting vessel. [Obs.] – Knolles.

PALE'NESS, n.

1. Wanness; defect of color; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness of look. The blood the virgin's cheek forsook, / A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look. – Pope.
2. Want of color or luster; as, the paleness of a flower. – Shak.

PA-LE-OG'RA-PHER, n.

One skilled in paleography.

PA-LE-OG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. παλαιος, ancient, and γραφη, writing.]

1. The art of explaining ancient writings. More correctly,
2. An ancient manner of writing; as, Punic paleography. – E. Stiles.

PA-LE-OL'O-GIST, n.

One who writes on antiquity, or one conversant with antiquity. – Good.

PA-LE-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. παλαιος, ancient, and λογος, discourse.]

A discourse or treatise on antiquities, or the knowledge of ancient things.

PA-LE-ON-TO-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Belonging to paleontology.

PA-LE-ON-TOL'O-GIST, n.

One versed in paleontology.

PA-LE-ON-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. παλαιος, ων-οντος, and λογος.]

The science of ancient beings or animals, such as are now extinct. Lyell. Buckland. [1841 Addenda only.]

PA-LE-ON-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. παλαιος, ancient, and ontology, the science of being.]

The science of ancient beings or creatures; applied to the science of the fossil remains of animals now extinct. – Journ. of Science. Mantell.

PA'LE-O-THER, or PA-LE-O-THE'RI-UM, n. [Gr. παλαιος, ancient, and θεριον, beast.]

A large quadruped of the pachydermatous order, intermediate between the rhinoceros, horse and tapir; now extinct. – Bridgewater Treatise.

PA-LE-O-THE'RI-AN, a.

Pertaining to the paleotherium.

PA'LE-OUS, a. [L. palea, chaff.]

Chaffy; like chaff. – Brown.

PA-LES'TRA, n. [Gr. παλαιστρα, from παλη, wrestling.]

A wrestling; the place of wrestling; exercises of wrestling; a place for athletic exercises in Greece.

PA-LES'TRI-AN, or PA-LES'TRIC, a. [Gr. παλαιστρικος, from παλη, a struggling or wrestling; παλαιω, to wrestle, to strive.]

Pertaining to the exercise of wrestling. – Bryant.

PAL'ET, n. [Fr. pelote, a ball.]

The crown of the head. [Not used.] – Skelton.

PAL'ETTE, n. [See PALLET.]

PAL'FREY, n. [Fr. palefroi; It. palafreno; Sp. palafren; Port. palafrem; W. palvre. – Ainsworth gives for the original word, in Low Latin, paraveredi, (plur. of veredus,) horses of a large size, used for carrying the baggage of an army. Spelman says the parafredus was a post-horse. The last syllable is from L. veredus.]

1. A horse used by noblemen and others for state, distinguished from a war horse. – Encyc.
2. A small horse fit for ladies. – Johnson. Spectator.

PAL'FREY-ED, a.

Riding on a palfrey.

PAL-I-FI-CA'TION, n. [from L. palus, a stake or post.]

The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground for making it firm. – Wotton.

PA-LI'LO-GY, n. [Gr. παλιν and λογος.]

In rhetoric, the repetition of a word or part of a sentence for the sake of greater energy.

PA'LIMPS-EST, n. [Gr. παλιν, and ψαω.]

1. A re-written manuscript.
2. A parchment from which one writing has been erased, and on which another has been written.

PAL'IN-DROME, n. [Gr. παλινδρομια; παλιν, again, and δρομεω, or δρεμω, to run, disused.]

A word, verse or sentence that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam, or “Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.” – Encyc.

PAL'ING, n.

Pales in general, or a fence formed with pales.

PAL'ING, ppr.

Inclosing with pales.