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[Also pall; said to be Gipsy. See the second quot.] Partner; mate; chum; accomplice. [Slang.] Highborn Hidalgos, With whom e'en the King himself quite as a pal goes. Barham, In golds by Legends, II. 63. Pal is a common cant word for brother or friend, and it is purely Gipsy, having come directly from that language without the slightest change. On the Continent it is prala or pral. In England it sometimes takes the form of pel. palace-court (pal'ās-kōrt), n. The court of the sovereign's palace of Westminster, which had jurisdiction of personal actions arising within the limits of 12 miles around the palace, excepting the city of London. This court was instituted in the middle of the seventeenth century, and was abolished in 1849. palace ous (pā-lā'shius), a. [ cent. London increases daily, turning of great palacious houses into small tenements. Graunt, Bills of Mortality.