3. (Gilding) (a) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. (b) A tool for
gilding the backs of books over the bands.
4. (Brickmaking) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.
5. (Mach.) (a) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. (b) One of the series of disks or pistons in
the chain pump. Knight.
6. (Horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a
watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. Brande & C.
7. (Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
8. (Zoöl.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo.
See Illust. of Teredo.
9. A cup containing three ounces, — ormerly used by surgeons.
Pallial
(Pal"li*al) a. [L. pallium a mantle. See Pall.] (Zoöl.) Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially
to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the
attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve.
Pallial chamber (Zoöl.), the cavity inclosed by the mantle. — Pallial sinus (Zoöl.), an inward bending
of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. See Illust. of
Bivalve.
Palliament
(Pal"li*a*ment) n. [LL. palliare to clothe, fr. L. pallium a manltle. See Pall the garment.]
A dress; a robe. [Obs.] Shak.
Palliard
(Pal"liard) n. [F. paillard, orig., one addicted to the couch, fr. paille straw. See Pallet a small
bed.]
1. A born beggar; a vagabond. [Obs.] Halliwell.
2. A lecher; a lewd person. [Obs.] Dryden.
Palliasse
(Pal*liasse") n. See Paillasse.
Palliate
(Pal"li*ate) a. [L. palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak. See Pall the garment.]
1. Covered with a mante; cloaked; disguised. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.
Palliate
(Pal"li*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Palliating]
1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.]
Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat.
Sir T. Herbert. 2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate
faults.
They never hide or palliate their vices.
Swift.
