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Palmiped :: Palmiped (a.) Web-footed, as a water fowl..

Palmerworm :: Palmerworm (n.) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers..

Handbreadth :: Handbreadth (n.) A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.

Palmister :: Palmister (n.) One who practices palmistr.

Palmyra :: Palmyra (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts..

Palm :: Palm (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

Supination :: Supination (n.) The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward..

Thatch :: Thatch (n.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching..

Chiromancy :: Chiromancy (n.) The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry..

Palmitic :: Palmitic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62¡ C..

Palmitate :: Palmitate (n.) A salt of palmitic acid.

Palm :: Palm (n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing..

Palm :: Palm (n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.

Calamus :: Calamus (n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood..

Panama Hat :: Panama hat () A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata)..

Attest :: Attest (v. t.) To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence..

Discriminal :: Discriminal (a.) In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm..

Pronation :: Pronation (n.) That motion of the forearm whereby the palm or palmar, surface is turned downward..

Doum Palm :: Doum palm () See Doom palm.

Ricinolein :: Ricinolein (n.) The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as a characteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin..

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