Palfrey
(Pal"frey) n. [OE. palefrai, OF. palefrei, F. palefroi, LL. palafredus, parafredus, from L. paraveredus
a horse for extraordinary occasions, an extra post horse; Gr. along, beside + L. veredus a post horse.]
1. A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse. Chaucer.
2. A small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser.
Call the host and bid him bring
Charger and palfrey.
Tennyson. Palfreyed
(Pal"freyed) a. Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.
Palgrave
(Pal"grave) n. See Palsgrave.
Pali
(||Pa"li) n., pl. of Palus.
Pali
(Pa"li) n. [Ceylonese, fr. Skr. pali row, line, series, applied to the series of Buddhist sacred texts.]
A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred
language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.
Palification
(Pal`i*fi*ca"tion) n. [L. palus a stake + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. palification. See -
fy.] The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.
Paliform
(Pa"li*form) a. (Zoöl.) Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
Palilogy
(Pa*lil"o*gy) n. [L. palilogia, Gr. again + to speak.] (Rhet.) The repetition of a word, or part
of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee." Is.
xxxviii. 19.
Palimpsest
(Pal"imp*sest) n. [L. palimpsestus, Gr. scratched or scraped again, a palimpsest; again +
to rub, rub away: cf. F. palimpseste.] A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing
having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.
Palindrome
(Pal"in*drome) n. [Gr. running back again; again + to run: cf. F. palindrome.] A word, verse,
or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, &
evil I did dwel.
Palindromic
(Pal`in*drom"ic Pal`in*drom"ic*al) a. Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.
Palindromist
(Pa*lin"dro*mist) n. A writer of palindromes.
Paling
(Pal"ing) n.
1. Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
They moved within the paling of order and decorum.
De Quincey. 2. The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]
Palingenesia
(||Pal`in*ge*ne"si*a) n.[NL.] See Palingenesis.
Palingenesis
(Pal`in*gen"e*sis Pal`in*gen"e*sy) n. [Gr. again + birth: cf. F. palingénésie. See Genesis.]
1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
