palm sugar (pamshug"ar)

S from palm-sap: same as jaggery. Palm Sunday (päm sun'dā). Sunday (päm sun'da). The Sunday next before Easter, being ng the sixth Sunday in Lent and the first day of Holy Week. Its observance, in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, is as old as the fourth century in the Eastern Church, and as the fifth or sixth century in the Western. By the sixth or seventh century formal proce ions had become customary, which the Greek and the Roman Catholic churches have retained. The popular observance of the day by carrying branches of willow or other trees continued in many places in England after the Reformation, and the custom of solemnly ble ing and distributing palm and other branches and carrying them in proce ion has been revived in many Anglican churches. Prior, Henry and Emma. palm-tree (päm'trē), n. [ We shall not proceed to query what truth is in palm is try, or divination from those lines in our hands of high denomination. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 24. With the fond Maids in Palmistry he deals; They tell the Secret first which he reveals. 2. Manual dexterity. [Humorous.] He found his pocket was picked; that being a kind of palmistry at which this race of vermin [gipsies] are very dexterous. palm - treów (= Icel. palmtrē = Sw. palmträ ), Add is on, Spectator, No. 130. L. palm a , n . [ palm it ( ic )+- atel .] palmitate (pal'mi-tāt), A salt of palmitic acid. palmite (pal'mit), n. [ Palm it a : see palmetto . A rush-like plant, Prionium Pal- mit a , of South Africa, the leaves of which af- ford a very tenacious fiber. palmitic (pal-mit'ik), a. [= F. palm it i que ; as palm2 + -ite2 + -ic.] Pertaining to or obtain- ed from palm-oil. Also palmic . Palmitic acid, C16H3202, an acid existing as a glycerin ether in palm. and in most of solid fats. acid forms fine white needles, or pearly crystalline scales. palmitin (pal'mi-tin), n. [= F. palmitine ; as palm2 + -ite2 + -in2.] The principal solid ingredient of palm-oil, C3H5(C16H3102)3, a solid colorle crystalline substance, melting at about 45° C.: it is the triglyceride of pal- mitic acid. Also palmine.