palfreyed

[Eng. palfrey; -ed.] Provided with or riding on a palfrey. IMG:content-0567.png:[blocks in formation] păl-ich-thỹ-01-ô-gỹ, s. [PALEOICHTHYOLOGY.] păl-1-côu-rě-a,s. [Named by Aublet after Le Palicour, of Guiana.] Bot .: A genus of Psycho tride (q. v.). It consists of shrubs destitute of pubescence, with opposite or whorled leaves, and panicles, thyrses, or cymes of yellow or white flowers. Fifty-four or more species are known, all from America. Pal i coure a of ficin alis , a Brazilian plant, is a diuretic; P. speciosa , the Gold-shrub of Brazil, is antisyphilitic; P. crocea , a West Indian one, is emetic. P. diuretic a , P. strepens, P. sonans , and P. long i folia are also pa-les-tra, pa-læs-tra, subst . [Lat. palæstr a , from Gr. palaistra =a wrestling-school; palaio =to wrestle; pale =wrestling.] 1. A place devoted to athletic exercises; a wrest. ling-school; a gymnasium. "Learn'd at the bar, in the palæstr a bold." Cowper: Conversation, 842. 2. A wrestling; wrestling exercises. pa-les-tral, *pa-lès-trall, adj . [PALESTRA.) Pertaining to the palestra or to wrestling exercises; athletic. "Of the fest and play is pale str all ." Chaucer: Troilus , v. 304. poison rats and mice. P. tinct or i a, a Peruvian species, yields a fine red dye.