Palsgrave
(Pals"grave`) n. [D. paltsgraaf; palts palace (l. palatium) + graaf count; cf. G. pfalzgraf.
See Palace, and Landgrave.] (Ger. Hist.) A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and
had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.
Palsgravine
(Pals"gra*vine`) n.[D. paltsgravin: cf. G. pfalzgrafin.] The consort or widow of a palsgrave.
Palsical
(Pal"si*cal) a.[From Palsy.] Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic. [R.] Johnson.
Palsied
(Pal"sied) a. Affected with palsy; paralyzed.
Palstave
(Pal"stave`) n. [Dan. paalstav.] A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the
middle of the bronze age. Dawkins.
Palster
(Pal"ster) n. [D. palsterstaf.] A pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] Halliwell.
Palsy
(Pal"sy) n.; pl. Palsies [OE. palesie, parlesy, OF. paralesie, F. paralysie, L. paralysis. See
Paralysis.] (Med.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. "One sick of the palsy." Mark ii. 3.
Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; — so called from
Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. — Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp,
under Writer. — Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized
by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait.
Palsy
(Pal"sy), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palsied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Palsying.] To affect with palsy, or as
with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
Palsywort
(Pal"sy*wort`) n. (Bot.) The cowslip (Primula veris); — so called from its supposed remedial
powers. Dr. Prior.
Palter
(Pal"ter) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Paltering.] [See Paltry.]
1. To haggle. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
Romans, that have spoke the word,
And will not palter.
Shak.
Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with eternal God for power.
Tennyson. 3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
Palter
(Pal"ter), v. t. To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. [Obs.]
"Palter out your time in the penal statutes." Beau. & Fl.
Palterer
(Pal"ter*er) n. One who palters. Johnson.
Palterly
(Pal"ter*ly), a. & adv. Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "In palterly clothes."
Pepys.
Paltock
(Pal"tock) n. [See Paletot.] A kind of doublet; a jacket. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
Paltrily
(Pal"tri*ly) adv. In a paltry manner.
Paltriness
(Pal"tri*ness), n. The state or quality of being paltry.
