palmerworm (pamerwerm)

[ There is another sort of these Catterpillers, who haue no certaine place of abode, nor yet cannot tell where te find theyr foode, but, like vnto superstitious Pilgrims, doo wander and stray hither and thither, (and like Mise) consume and eate vp that which is none of their owne; and these haue purchased a very apt name amongst vs English men, to be called Palmer - worms , by reason of their wandering and rogish life (for they neuer stay in one place, but are euer wandering), although by reason of their roughnes and ruggednes some call them Beare-wormes. They can by no means endure to be dyeted, and to feede vpon some certaine herbes and flowers, but boldly and disorderly creepe ouer all, and tast of all plants and trees indifferently, and liue as they list. Top sell , History of Serpents (1608), p. 105. That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten. Joel i. 4. 2. In the United States, the larva of the tineid moth Ypsilophus pome tell a , which in eastern parts of the country appears on the leaves of the apple in June, draws them together, and palmero = Pg. palmeiro = palmeiro = It. palmiere, brought with him a palm-branch to be deposited on the altar of his parish church; hence, an itinerant monk who went from shrine to shrine, under a perpetual vow of poverty and celibacy. The distinction between pilgrim and palmer seems never to have been closely observed. Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 13. Here is a holy Palmer come, From Salem first, and last from Rome; One that hath ki ed the ble ed tomb, And visited each holy shrine, In Araby and Palestine. Scott , Marmion, i. 23. An escallop shell, the device of St. James, was adopted as the universal badge of the palmer. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 6. Though now and then an individual may have been seen who carried a short palm-branch bound to his staff, such, however, was not the palmer's usual badge; but instead a small cro formed by two short slips of a leaflet from the palm-tree: this cro he sewed either to his hat or upon his cape. Rock , Church of our Fathers, III. i. 439. ery. palmette (pal'met), n. [F. palmette, dim. of pal me, palm: see palm2.] In cla . archæol., an ornament more or le resembling a palm leaf, whether carved in relief on moldings, etc., or painted; an anthemion. See cut on following page.