a. See Appalachian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name Appalachian was given to the mountains by the Spaniards under De Soto, who derived it from the neighboring Indians. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. aspalathus, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Bot.) (a) A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15. (b) A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosæ. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. e- + palpus. ] (Zoöl.) Without palpi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An antelope (Aepyceros melampus) of Southeastern Africa, the male of which has ringed lyre-shaped horns, which curve first backward, then sideways, then upwards. ALso called impalla and pallah. [ PJC ]

a. Unpalatable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Maxilla + palatine. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ Naso- + palatal. ] (Anat.) Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. palais, F. palais, fr. L. palatium, fr. Palatium, one of the seven hills of Rome, on which Augustus had his residence. Cf. Paladin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house. [ 1913 Webster ]

Palace car. See under Car. --
Palace court, a court having jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. The court was abolished in 1849. [ Eng. ] Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Palatial. [ Obs. ] Graunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr.It. paladino, fr. L. palatinus an officer of the palace. See Palatine. ] A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Paleo-. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., Same as Paleographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., Same as Paleographic. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Same as paleolithic.
Syn. -- paleolithic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The study of (especially prehistoric) antiquities.
Syn. -- paleology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A specialist in paleontology.
Syn. -- paleontologist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The branch of archeology that studies fossil organisms and related remains.
Syn. -- paleontology, fossilology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The study of diseases of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence).
Syn. -- paleopathology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The paleobiology of birds.
Syn. -- paleornithology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Palæo- + -type. ] (Phon.) A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use. Ellis. -- Pa`læ*o*typ"ic*al a. -- Pa`læ*o*typ"ic*al*ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The study of fossil animals.
Syn. -- paleozoology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. See Palestra. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Palestric. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in palætiology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Palæo- + ætiology. ] The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth; the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes, such as geological causes. -- Pa*læ`ti*o*log"ic*al a.
Syn. -- paletiology. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

‖n.; pl. Palamæ [ NL., fr. Gr. pala`mh the palm. ] (Zool.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Palma. ] (Zool.) Web-footed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Palempore. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Cf. It., Pg., & Sp. palanca, fr. L. palanga, phalanga a pole, Gr. fa`lagx. ] (Mil.) A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. palanquin, Pg. palanquim, Javan. palangki, OJavan. palangkan, through Prakrit fr. Skr. parya&ndot_;ka, palya&ndot_;ka, bed, couch; pari around (akin to E. pref. peri-) + a&ndot_;ka a hook, flank, probably akin to E. angle fishing tackle. Cf. Palkee. ] An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place. [ Written also palankeen. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Paleo- + apteryx. ] (Paleon.) A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Palatableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Palate. ] Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice. Opposite of unpalatable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a palatable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. palatal. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phonetics) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Phon.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. Same as palatalize.
Syn. -- palatalize, palatize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. (Phon.) To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; especially: to pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate; as, to palatalize a letter or sound; to palatize. See palatalized. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Linguistics, Phonology) Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".
Syn. -- palatal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also palat. ] 1. (Anat.) The roof of the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the maxillary and palatine bones, is called the hard palate to distinguish it from the membranous and muscular curtain which separates the cavity of the mouth from the pharynx and is called the soft palate, or velum. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. T. Baker. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To perceive by the taste. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. palatium palace. See Palace. ] Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures. “Palatial style.” A. Drummond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Palate. ] (Anat.) Palatal; palatine. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A palatal letter. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Palatal; palatine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Phon.) A palatal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Either of two regions in Germany, formerly divisions of the Holy Roman Empire; the Lower Palatinate or Rhine Palatinate is now within the Rhineland-Palatinate; the Upper Palatinate is now within Bavaria. It is usually referred to as the Palatinate. [ PJC ]

☞ Palatinate The [ F. Palatinat, G. Pfalz, ML. Palatinatus, the province of count palatine, from palatinatus, palatine. ] A former German State. Its territories were originally in the region of the Rhine, and from the 14th century to 1620 embraced two separate regions, the Rhine (or Lower) Palatinate (distinctively the Palatinate), and the Upper Palatinate (see below). The palsgraves on the Rhine, whose original seat was at Aix-la-Chapelle, were important princes of the empire as early as the 11th century. Early in the 13th century the Palatinate passed to the Bavarian dynasty of Wittelsbach, which soon after branched off into the Bavarian and palatine lines. The Palatinate was enlarged early in the 14th Century with a part of Bavaria (the Upper Palatinate). The Golden Bull of 1356 designated the Palatinate as one of the seven electorates. In the 16th century Heidelberg, the capital of the electors palatine, became a great center of Calvinism. The elector Frederick V., having accepted the Bohemian crown in 1619, and having been overthrown in 1620, was stripped of his dominions. The electoral dignity was transferred to Bavaria in 1623, and the Upper Palatinate was annexed to it. By the treaty of 1648 the Rhine Palatinate was restored to its former rulers, and an eighth electorate created for it, the Upper Palatinate being confirmed to Bavaria. The Rhine palatinate was terribly ravaged by the French in 1674 and 1689. The Palatinate and the Bavarian lands were united in 1777. In 1801 the Rhine Palatinate was divided: all west of the Rhine was ceded to France; Baden received Heidelberg, Mannheim, etc.; and the rest fell to Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau, etc. By the treaties of 1814-15 the French portion west of the Rhine was restored to Germany: Prussia and Hesse-Darmstadt received portions, but the greater portion fell to Bavaria. This part is the present Rhine Palatinate, or Lower Palatinate (G. Rheinpfalz or Unterpfalz): it is bounded by the Rhine on the east, and borders on Hesse, Prussia, and Alsace-Lorraine. It forms a "Regierungs-bezirk" of Bavaria, with Spires as Capital. It is traversed by the Hardt Mountains, and produces grain, wine, coal, etc. Area, 2, 289 square miles. Population (1890), 728, 339. The Upper Palatinate (9. Oberpfalz) forms a "Regierungs-bezirk" of Bavaria under the title Upper Palatinate and Ratisbon (Regensburg). It borders on Bohemia. Capital, Ratisbon. It has extensive forests and flourishing industries. Area, 3, 729 square miles. Population (1890), 537, 954. [ Century Dict., 1906 ]