palm2 (pam)

[ leaves of the palm-tree to the outspread hand; or jaggery; that of the coquito, palm-honey. The juice of various species becomes toddy or palm-wine, which in fermenting serves as yeast, and distilled affords a spirituous liquor. Aside from food and drink, the betel-nut, a kind of catechu, and a kind of dragon's-blood are palm-pro; a candle-wax exudes from Ceroxylon; vegetable ducts; 4247 (Kentia) monostachya of Australia. - Zanora palm. Same as Pashiuba palm. palm a (palmä), n.; pl. palmæ (-mē). [L.: see palm1.] 1. The palm of the hand of man, or the corresponding part of the manus of other animals. In a bird it is the under side of the pinion; in a quadruped, the under side of the fore foot, exclusive of the part represented by the digits. 2. In entom.: ( a ) The enlarged first joint of the front tarsus of a bee, the remaining joints being called digit i, or fingers. (b) The tarsus of an insect when it is dilated and densely covered with hairs beneath, as in many Coleoptera. Palmaceæ (pal-ma'sē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Lindley, 1835), fem. pl. of * palm ace us: see palmaceous.] Same as Palmæ2 . palmaceous (pal-mā'shius), a. [ palm a palm a , palm: see palm2 .] Of or per ivory is the nut of the ivory-palm. Palm-wood is useful for building (date-palm, palmyra, etc.), for fine work (porcupine-wood), for piles (palmetto), and for flexible articles (ratan). The leaves of many species serve for thatching (bu u-palm, royal palmetto, palmyra, etc.), for making hats, baskets, and fans, and in place of paper (palmetto, talipot, etc.). The leafstalks of some (kittul, pia ava) furnish an important fiber, as also does the husk of the cocoanut. There are many other uses. The cocoanut-, date-, and palmyra-palms lead in importance. The palm of the Bible is the date-palm. (For symbolic use, see def. 2.) As ornamental plants in temperate regions the palms are indispensable where sufficient hothouse room can be had. The pal me eke no we men setteth forth to stande. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 152. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of 2. A branch, properly a leaf, of the palm-tree, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or triumph; hence, superiority; victory; triumph; honor; prize. The palm was adopted as an emblem of victory, it is said, because the tree is so elastic as, when pre ed, to rise and recover its correct position. The Jews carried palm-branches on festal occasions, and the Roman Catholic and Greek churches have preserved this usage in celebrating the entry of Christ into Jerusalem. See Palm Sunday. See also def. 3. And come to the place where ye aungell of our Lord brought a pal me vnto our ble yd Lady, shewyng vnto her ye daye of her dethe. Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 32. It doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone. Shak . , J. C., i. 2. 131. For his true use of translating men, It still hath been a work of as much palm , In clearest judgments, as to invent or make. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 3. One of several other plants, popularly so called as resembling in some way the palm, or, especially, as substituted for it in church usage. Among plants so designated are, in Great Britain, chiefly the great sallow or goat-willow, Salix Caprea, at the time when its catkins are out, and the common yew (the latter is universally so called in Ireland); in Europe also the olive, holly, box, and another willow; and in the northern United States the hemlock-spruce. In colour like the satin-shining palm On sallows in the windy gleams of March. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. See Alexandra palm, Pty cho sperm a Alexandræ, a feather palm named after Alexandra, Prince of Wales. - Bamboo-palm, an African species, Raphia vinifera. Its leafstalks and leaves are variously useful, and it is one of the wine-palms.- Bangalow palm, the Australian Ptycho sperm a elegans. See feather - palm, below. ---Blowing-cane palm. See Iriartella. - Bourbon palm, Livistona Chinen sis ( Latania Borbonica ). - Broom-palm, Attalea funifera and Thrinax argentea: so named from the use made of their leaves or leafstalks. - Carana-palm, Mauritia Ca rana.-Catechu palm, Areca Catechu. See catechu and Areca.-Chusan palm, the Chinese hemp-palm. See hemp - palm.-Club-palm, the palm-lily. See Cordyline. Cohune palm. See Attalea. - Desert-palm. Washingtonia. - Dragon's-blood palm, Calamus Draco. European palm, Chamærops humilis.-Fan-leafed palm. Same as fan - palm. - Feather-palm, specifically, a palm of the genus Pty cho sperm a, but also any palm with plume-like leaves. - Fern-palm. (a) A name of Cycas re voluta and other species of the genus, on account of their resemblance both to ferns and to palms. (b) See Macro zamia. - Gebang palm, Corypha Gebanga, a Javan species, whose leaves serve for thatching, etc., and whose trunk affords a kind of sago. - Inaja-palm. See Maxi miliana.-Iu palm, As trocar yum acaule. - Jagua-palm. See Maxim i liana. - Jara palm, Leopoldinia pulchra. Morichi or moriche palm. Same as ita - palm.-New Zealand palm. Same as nikau - palm. -Nipa-palm. See Nipa.-Order of the Palm, a German society founded at Weimar in 1617 for the preservation and culture of the German language. It disappeared after 1680. Also called Fruit - Bringing Society. - Pashiuba palm, Iriartea (Ceroxylon) exorrhiza. - Patawa palm, Enocarpus Patawa, an oil-yielding species in Brazil.-Pinang palm, the betelnut palm, Areca Catechu. See Areca, 2.-Pindova palm, Attalea compt a, a species with leaves useful for thatching, etc., and edible seeds. - Royal palm, Oreodoxa regia of the West Indies and Florida. - San Diego palm. See Washingtonia. - Taliera palm, tara palm, Corypha Ta lier a.-Tucum palm, tucumá palm, As trocar yum Tu cum a. See As trocar yum. - Umbrella palm, Hedyscepe ( Kentia ) Canterbury an a of Lord Howe's Island, New South Wales: so called from its dense head of long pinnate leaves.-Walking-stick or whip-stick palm, Bacularia ceus, taining to the Palmæ, or palm alm family. palm a na Christ i (pal'mä kris't kris'ti). [Formerly pal me-crist; = F. Pg. It. palm a - christ i Sp. = palm a - cristi, Ricinus communis. See cut under castor - oil . The green leaves of Palma Christ i , pound with parched Barley meale, do mitigate and a wage the inflammation and swelling sorene e of the eyes. Lyte's Herbal , p. 412, quoted in Wright's Bib. Word-Book. palm a cite (pal'mā-sīt), n. [L. palm a , palm (see palm2 ), +-c-+- ite2 .] A name used by Brongniart, under which are included various fo il remains of vegetation supposed to be related to the living Palmaceæ . The specimens thus designated are chiefly fragments of trunks of trees, both with and without the marks of leaf-bases, spines, etc. The palms are first seen in the upper part of the Cretaceous.