pal1urus

[The Latin name of an ancient town in Africa, opposite to Candia.] Bot.: A genus of Rhamnacem. The leaves are alternate, simple, with three nerves; the stipules 2985 becoming prickles; calyx five-cleft; petals and stamens five; ovary three-celled; fruit dry, hem i spherical, with a broad, thin rim round the top, like a broad-brimmed hat, whence the French call it porte - chapeau . Paliurus aculeatus , a native of Western Asia and Southern Europe, having pliable branches and many thorns, is one of the two claimants to be Christ's thorn. păl-keē, s. [Hind.) A palanquin. pâll (1), *pæll, *pal, *palle, subst . [A. S. pæll , from Lat. palla =a mantle, an undergarment, a curtain; Sp. palio ; Ital. palio , pallio .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. An outer garment; a cloak or mantle. "His lyons skin chaunged to a pall of gold." Spenser: F. Q., V. v. 24. 2. A woolen mantle sent by the Roman emperors, from the fourth century, to the patriarchs and primates of the empire, and worn by them as an ensign of jurisdiction. 3. A large black or purple cloth thrown over the coffin at a funeral; a black cloth used for covering a tomb. "The right side of the pall old Egeus kept." Dryden: Palamon and Arcite, iii. 943. IMG:content-0569.png:[blocks in formation]