palsywort, passwort

Bot.: A popular name for the Cowslip, Primula ver is, which was supposed to be a remedy for palsy, pâl-şỹ, v . t . [PALSY, s .] To affect with palsy or paralysis; to paralyze; to deprive of energy, life, or the power of action. pâl'-ter, *paul-ter, v . i. & t . [From a subst. * palter =rags, not found, but seen in the derivative paltry (q. v.). The literal meaning is thus, to deal in rags, then to haggle.] A. Intransitive: *1. To haggle. ( Cotgrave.) lum horny, concentric; the animal with a long muzzle and very short eye pedicels; gill comb-like. It is viviparous. Recent species sixty, from the northern hemisphere. Found in rivers, lakes, and the Black and Caspian Seas. 2. Palæont .: Fifty-three species from the Wealden onward. păl-u-dine, a . [Lat. pal us (gen it. paludis )=a marsh.] Of or pertaining to a marsh; marshy. păl-u-din-i-dæ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. paludin (a): Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ .] Zool .: A family of Holostomata. Shell conical or globular, with a thick olive-green epidermis, aperture rounded; peristome continuous, entire; dodge, to shift. 2. To equivocate; to act or speak shiftily; to operculum horny or shelly, as a rule concentric. *3. To chatter, to babble. "One whyle his tonge it ran and paltered of a cat." Gammer, Gurton's Needle, ii. 2. B. Trans.: Τo squander away; to waste or spend on usele things. " Palter out your time i' th' penal statutes."- Beaum . & Flet.: Elder Brother , ii. 1.