Palm

pam, n. The inner part of the hand a lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand sometimes inches) or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers (8J inches); the broad, triangular part of an anchor at the end of the arms; the broad part of an antler an instrument used by sail-makers to force a needle through canvas. (Bot.) A perennial endogenous tree of several different genera, usually with an unbranching cylindrical trunk, having a terminal bud; a leaf of the palm, anciently worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing a token of succe or triumph. — v. [palmed (pamd), palming.] To conceal in the palm of the hand; to impose by fraud. [ME. and F. paume, L. palm a, Gr. patame, AS. folm (whence fumble, q. v.), the palm of the hand; AS. palm, L. palm a, the aim-tree, — whose leaves resemble the outspread Eand.] — FaPmar, -mary, paKma-rl, a. Belonging to the palm of the hand; having the breadth of a palm. [L. palmar is.] — PaPmate, -mated, a. Hand-shaped; having a membrane between the toes, so that the feet make a hand-like impre ion, — as in webeve, te"rm Tn, Ice Sdd, 419 PALP 401 footed birds. [L. palm at us.] -Pal'miped, -mT-ped, a. Having the toes connected by a membrane web-footed, as a waterfowl. — n. A swimming bird. [L. palmipes, broad footed, f palm a and pes, ped is, a foot.] —Pal'mistar, n. One who pretends to tell fortunes by the palm of the hand.— Pal'mistry, -mis-trY, n. Art of telling fortunes by the lines in the palm of the hand. Palmate Leaf. — Pal'ma Chris'ti, pal'ma-kris'ti, Palm'crist, pam'- krist, n. (Bot.) The castor-oil plant, — so called hand-shaped leaves. [L., palm of Christ.] — Pal'mary, Palm'y, pam'Y, a. Worthy of the palm; preeminent; superior; palmy; chief. — Palm'er, pam'Sr, n. One who palms or cheats one who visited the Holy Land and sacred places, and bore a branch of palm in token thereof an ince ant pilgrim. — Palm'er-worm, n. A kind of hairy worm, — loosely applied to various hairy caterpillars which wander like a palmer, and devour leaves and herbage.— Palmet 'to. pal-, n. A species of dwarf palm growing in the W. Indies and Southern U. S. a kind of palm x^wWUI/// called also the cabbage-tree. [Dim. L. palm a.'] — Palmif'- erous, -er-us, a. Bearing palms. [L.ferre, to bear.] — Palm'-Sun day, n. (Eccl) The Sunday — next before Easter, so called in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, palm branches being strewn in the way.