Pallmall

pel-meK, re. An old game in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an iron arch; the mallet used; place where the game was played, Palm, pam, n. The inner part of the hand; a lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand sometimes 3, inches) or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers (8i inches): the broad, angular 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 ferent genera, usually with an unbranching cvlindrical trunk, having a terminal bud; a leaf of palm, anciently worn as a symbol of victory or joicing; a token of succe or triumph. — v. [palmed (pamd), palming.] To conceal in the palm of the hand; to impose by fraud. —Pal' a. Hand-shaped; having a membrane between the toes, so that the feet make a hand-like impre ion, — as in webfooted birds.— Pal'miped, -mi-ped, a. Having the toes connected by a membrane; webfooted, as a water-fowl.— n. A swimming bird. — Pal'ma Chris'ti, pal'makris'ti, Palm'crist, pam''krist, n. {Bot.) The castor-oil plant, — so called Palmate Leaf. fr. its hand-shaped leaves. Worthy of the palm; Pal'mary, Palm'y, pam'T, preeminent; superior; palmy chief. — Falm'er, pam'er, n. One who palms or cheats; one who visited the Holy Land and its 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. — Palmetto, pal-, n. A species of dwarf palm growing in the W. Indies and Southern U. S.; a kind of palm called also the cabbage tree. — Palmiferoua, -er-us, a. Bearing palms. — Palm'-Sun'- Palmetto day, re. {Eccl.) The Sunday renext before Easter, — so called in commemoration a of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, palm branches being strewn in the way.