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Meanings of Palestras:

noun

(in ancient greece and rome) a wrestling school or gymnasium.

Usage examples:

Part of the adjacent tepidarium was also revealed, together with a furnace-house, service rooms and…

Meanings of Palestrian:

noun

A student of the palaestra; a practitioner of wrestling or other athletic exercises.

Meanings of Palet:

noun

A palea, especially one in the floret of a grass.

Meanings of Paletiology:

noun

W. whewell's name for: the application of existing principles of cause and effect to the explanation of past phenomena.

Meanings of Paletot:

noun

A loose coat, cloak, or other outer garment. now chiefly historical.

Meanings of Paletots:

noun

A loose coat, cloak, or other outer garment. now chiefly historical.

Meanings of Palets:

noun

A palea, especially one in the floret of a grass.

Meanings of Palette:

noun

A thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colours.

Usage examples:

The artist's easel, paint box, palettes, paintbrushes and dried tubes of paint occupied a corner.

Meanings of Palettes:

noun

A thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colours.

Usage examples:

The artist's easel, paint box, palettes, paintbrushes and dried tubes of paint occupied a corner.

Meanings of Paleways:

adverb

= palewise .

Meanings of Palewise:

adverb

Following the line of a pale; vertically.

Meanings of Palfrey:

noun

A docile horse used for ordinary riding, especially by women.

Usage examples:

Equestrian purchases were prominent, and extra horses, especially geldings and palfreys, were obtai…

Meanings of Palfreys:

noun

A docile horse used for ordinary riding, especially by women.

Usage examples:

Equestrian purchases were prominent, and extra horses, especially geldings and palfreys, were obtai…

Meanings of Pali:

noun

(in hawaii) a cliff.

Usage examples:

This is a closeup pali, and behind that are some faraway ones covered in clouds, and on the bottom …
adjective

Relating to pali.

Usage examples:

Buddhists themselves refer to the teaching by the pali term dhamma (or in some schools of buddhism …

Meanings of Paliform:

adjective

Resembling or having the form of a stake; specifically (in corals) of the nature of a palus; designating or relating to a vertical projection resembling a palus but joined to the adjacent septum (especially in "paliform lobe", "paliform tooth").

Meanings of Paligorskite:

noun

A silicate of magnesium and aluminium that occurs as soft, light-coloured, fibrous layers, and has a structure based on silica tetrahedra arranged in double chains.

Meanings of Palilalia:

noun

A speech disorder characterized by involuntary repetition of words, phrases, or sentences.

Meanings of Palilogy:

noun

The (especially immediate) repetition of a word or phrase, usually for emphasis; (occasionally) an instance of this.

Meanings of Palimbacchius:

noun

A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two long and one short.

Meanings of Palimony:

noun

Compensation made by one member of an unmarried couple to the other after separation.

Usage examples:

She is suing for palimony

Meanings of Palimpsest:

noun

A manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing.

Usage examples:

By going back to journal entries in which i initially recorded some of the events that surfaced in …

Meanings of Palimpsests:

noun

A manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing.

Usage examples:

By going back to journal entries in which i initially recorded some of the events that surfaced in …

Meanings of Palinal:

adjective

Characterized by or involving backward motion, especially of the lower jaw in chewing. contrasted with proal.

Meanings of Palindrome:

noun

A word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards, e.g. madam or nurses run.

Usage examples:

The word is a palindrome, reading the same backwards and forwards - or, to put it more cynically, m…

Meanings of Palindromes:

noun

A word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards, e.g. madam or nurses run.

Usage examples:

The word is a palindrome, reading the same backwards and forwards - or, to put it more cynically, m…

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