pal a touche

Same as pol a touche. palatum (pa-la'tum), n.; pl. palata (-tä). [L.: see palate.] The palate; the roof of the mouth, including both the bony and the membranous or hard and soft parts. - Circumflex us or tensor palati, the stretcher of the palate, a muscle arising from the scaphoid fo a at the base of the internal pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone and adjacent parts, winding around the hamular proce of the pterygoid, and inserted with its fellow in the median line of the soft palate.- Levator lati. See levator. Velum palati, or velum pendulum palati, the veil of the palate; the soft palate. See palate, 1. palaver (pa-lav'er), n. [ long talk; a parley; a conference, such as takes plafond de IMG:content-2162.png:[blocks in formation] Hence-2. Parley; conference. I am told you are a man of sense, and I am sure you and I could settle this matter in the course of a five minutes' Scott , Pirate, xxxiv. palaver. 3. Flattery; adulation; talk intended to deceive. [Vulgar.] = Syn. 1 and 2. See prattle, n. palaver (pa-lav'er), v. [ Now, neighbors, have a good caution that this Master Mug does not cajole you; he is a damned palavering fel. Foote, Mayor of Garratt, ii. 2. For those who are not hungry it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity and so on; but they forget the brevity of life, as well as its bitterne . Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, xiv. in front and movably articulated behind with the ptery- goid, which latter is also movably articulated with the a cajoling or flattering person. IMG:content-2163.png:[blocks in formation] palay (pa-lā'), n. [E. Ind.] 1. A tree, Wright i a tinct or i a : its leaves afford the pal a-indigo, an article inferior to the genuine indigo. See ivory-tree. Also pal a .-2. A high-climbing 2. To inclose; encircle; encompa . plant, Cryptos teg i a grandiflora , of the Asclepia- daceæ , cultivated in India and elsewhere. Its fiber is fine, strong, and flax-like, and its milky juice contains a caoutchouc. Sir Thomas Gates settled a new town at Arrahat- tuck, about fifty miles above James town, paling in the neck above two miles from the point, from one reach of the river to the other. Beverley, Virginia, i. 25. palel (pāl), n. [ pale , paal , pal = Sp. palo = Pg. pao = It. palo , pālus , rarely neut. pālum , a stake, prop, stay, pale, orig. * paglus (ef. dim. paxillus ), pangere (pag), fix, fasten: see pact . Cf. polel , from the same source, through AS.; and cf. deriv. palise , pal i- sade.] 1. A stake; a pointed piece of wood driven into the ground, as in a fence; a picket. With new wall is vp wroght, water before, And pals haue thai pight, with pittis and caves, And other wilis of werre wroght for our sake. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5610. In that small house, with those green pales before, Where jasmine trails on either side the door. Crabbe, Works, I. 109. But each upbore a stately tent Where cedar pales in scented row Kept out the flakes of the dancing brine. Browning, Para cels us. 2. A fence or paling; that which incloses, fences in, or confines; hence, barrier, limits, bounds. Iff thou go with any man in felde or in towne, Be wall or by hege, by pales [palace] or by pale . Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 63. But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale And feeds from home. Shak ., C. of E., ii. 1. 100. The child of Elle to his garden went, And stood at his garden pale . The Child of Elle (Child's Ballads, III. 225). Never have I known the world without, Nor ever stray'd beyond the palc . Tennyson, Holy Grail. 3. An inclosed place; an inclosure; the inclo IMG:content-2164.png:[blocks in formation] 5. In her., a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges and usually occupying one third of it: the first and simplest kind of ordinary. When not charged, it is often represented as containing only one fifth of the field.-6t. A perpendicular stripe on cloth. Argent, a pale azure. But what art thow that seyst this tale, That werest on thyn hose a pale ? Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1840. 7. In ship - building, one of the interior shores for steadying the timbers of a ship in construction. E. H. Knight. Cro pale, in her. See cro 1. In pale, in her., borne vertically, and when only one bearing is spoken of in the middle of the field. When two or more charges are blazoned in pale, they should be set one above the other, occupying the middle of the field and each in a vertical position if practicable; such objects placed horizontally one above another must be blazoned as barwise in pale. - Pale indorsed, in her., a pale between two indorses. - Per pale, or party per pale, divided into two equal parts by a vertical line: said of the escutcheon. Also counterly and grafted. -The English pale, that part of Ireland in which English law was acknowledged, and within which the dominion of the English was restricted for some centuries after the conquests of Henry II. John distributed the part of Ireland then subject to England into twelve counties palatine, and this region became subsequently known as the Pale, but the limits varied at different times. Nothing, indeed, but the feuds and weakne of the Irish tribes enabled the adventurers to hold the districts of Drogheda, Wexford, Water ford, and Cork, which formed what was thenceforth known as the English Pale. J. R. Green, Hist. Eng. People, IV. iv. To leap the pale, to overstep the bounds; be extravagant. Your full feeding wil make you leane, your drinking too many healthes will take all health from you, your leaping the pale will cause you looke pale. Whate'er the ocean pales , or sky inclips, Is thine, if thou wilt ha' it. Shak., A. and C., ii. 7. 74. So shall the earth with seas be palèd in. Middle ton, Solomon Paraphrased, v.