One girth sixe times peec'd, and a woman's crupper heere and there peec'd with packthred. Shakespeare. Taming the Shrew, Act iii. sc. 2. My resolution is to send you all your letters well sealed and packeted.-Swift. Letters. My friend, just ready to depart, Was packing all his goods in one poor cart. Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 3. His nimble wit outran the heavy pack.-Id. The Medal. But he is happy, loves a common road, Pomfret. The Fortunate Complaint. O what a precious pack of votaries Young. The Complaint, Night 2. It is possible, in my opinion, that the spleen may be merely a stuffing, a soft cushion to fill up a vacancy or hollow, which unless occupied, would leave the package loose and unsteady.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 11. s. 7. The application of the word is explained in the examples. The PACK, or PAX-WAX. origin is unknown. Which aponeurosis (a nervous ligament of a great thickness and strength) is taken notice of by the vulgar by the name of fixfax, or pack-wax, or whit-leather. Along each side of stiff robust cartilage, PACT, v. PA'CTION. Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. the neck of large quadrupeds, runs a which butchers call the pax-wax. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 13. s. 1. Fr. Pact, pache; It. Patto; Sp. Pacto; Lat. Pactum, from PA'CTIONAL. pangere: pango was anciently written pago or paco, which Vossius derives from the Dor. Hay-w, quod tum figere notat, tum componere; which signifies to fix, and also, to put or set together, to settle. A bargain, contract, or agreement. It shall not be prejudicial or hurtful to our antient amities and conventments already concluded, but these antient amities and pacts shall still stand firm and stable to all intents. Wyatt, App. No. 9. The King to Wyatt. Eugenius was the successor of this Paschalis, with whome Ludouicus Pius is said to haue made a league or paction. Fox. Martyrs, p. 272. Yet it appears by the law of nations, that Kings are not subverters, but moderators of the Republike, that they cannot change the right of the Commonwealth by their pac tions.-Prynne. Treachery & Disloyalty, App. p. 170. The several duties, that by God's ordinance are to be performed by persons that stand in mutual relation either to other, are not pactional and conditional, as are the leagues and agreements made between princes; but are absolute and independent: wherein each person is to look to himself and the performance of the duty that lyeth upon him, though the other party should fail in the performance of his. Sanderson. Cases of Conscience, p. 126. The engagement and pact of society which generally goes by the name of the constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.-Burke. On the French Revolution. PAD, v. A. S. Petthian, to path; q. d. pathed, path'd, pa'd, pad. PAD, n. PA'DDER. To move along the path; to move or pass on the way or road; to tread or trample a way or road; and, consequentially, to level it. See PAD, infra. A padder,-one who goes on the path or road, (sc.) to waylay passengers; to rob them: hence a robber is so called, (a foot-pad.) Mar. Under what hedge, I pray you? or at whose cost? Two toasts, with all their trinkets gone, Somervile. Fables, &c. c. 1. It then blew very hard, insomuch that a small Holland vessel, (famous for a good sailer) which set sail with her, was in appearance after looked upon to be over-set, whilst she inclined not above half a foot more to one side than another, so that it was truly then called the pad of the sea. Wood. Athene Oxon. vol. ii. (W. Petty.) It chanc'd, upon his evil day, A pad came pacing down the way; The cur, with never-ceasing tongue, Upon the passing traveller sprung.-Gay, Fab. 46, pt. i. While Hudibras, with equal haste, On both sides laid about as fast, Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 1. With a spacious plain, without hedge or stile, PAD, n. Perhaps (says Skinner) contracted from the Sp. Pajado, and this from paja; Lat. Palea, straw; a pad of straw would then be a It is more probably from the straw of straw. A. S. Petthian, to path; and, consequentially, to tread flat, to flatten. And thus a pad is— Any thing flattened, or laid flat, (straw, wool, or paper.) He was kept in the bands hauing vnder him but onely a pad of straw.-Fox. Martyrs, p. 854. That from my state a presence held in awe, Drayton. Elenor Cobham to Duke Humphry. We shall not need to say what lack PADDLE, v. PA'DDLE, n. PA'DDLER. which treads or Petthian, to path. Hudibras, pt i. c. 1. The Fr. Patouiller, to paddle or dabble in with the feet, from the Fr. Patte, a foot, or that tramples upon, from the A. S. See To PAD. To move or push along or about in the water, as ducks or other aquatic birds do with their feet; to move or push along gently, or by touching gently on the surface; to touch or handle gently. A paddle, any thing to paddle with; and also any thing formed in breadth and flatness resembling such paddle. Thou shalt haue a paddle among thy weapons, and when thou woldest sit downe without, thou shalt dig there with. Geneva Bible, 1561. Deuteronomy, xxiii. 13. But to be padling palmes, and pinching fingers, Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act i. sc. 2. PADUASO Y. A silk (soye) originally manu factured at Padua. Old Robin, all his youth a sloven, A flaxen wig, and waistcoat gay, Powder'd from shoulder down to flank, In courtly stile addresses Frank.-Swift. Robin & Harry Jengns. The Art of Dancing, c. 1 PEAN. Gr. Пalav, a name given to Apollo A hymn in honour of him, and also of other gods usually sung upon occasions of triumph, was like wise so called. Now let your sons a double paan sound, Dryden. The Hind and the Panther As touching Pæonie, it is one of the first hearbes, tha were ever known, and brought to light as may appear by the author or inventor thereof [Pon] whose name it bearet! still.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxv. c. 4. Thy banks with pioned, and twilled brims Fr. Payen; It. and Sp Pagano; Lat. Paganus, i villager, a peasant, from pa gus, a village, from the Gr. Doric Παγα for πηγη, a fountain: pagani,-quasi ex unc fonte potantes. For the application of the word to those who did not believe in the Christian religion, see the quotation from Hooker. See also HEATHEN. Pagan is used with great latitude as a term of Bp. Hall. Remains, p. 254. abuse, contempt, &c. Well, he may make a padler i' th' world, While paddling ducks the standing lake desire, Gay. Shepherd's Week, Past. 5. His skiff does with the current glide, Not puffing pull'd against the tide. He puddling by the scuffling croud, See's unconcern'd life's wager row'd.-Green. The Spleen. PADDOCK. A. S. Pad; Dut. Padde. And in It. Botta, A toad. Of uncertain origin. Where I was wont to seeke the honie bee, Middleton. The Witch, Act i. sc. 2. PADDOCK. Corrupted (says Lye) from Parruck. See PARK. Applied toA small inclosure of land. He hied him thider suyth, & whan he com to Tuede, Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4962. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2371. All this while yet Edwine remained in his old paganisme, albeit his Queene. King Ethelbert's daughter, a christian woman, with Paulinus the bishop, ceased not to stir & persuade the King to the Christian faith. Fox. Martyrs, p. 109. Having washed my hands of the Mahometan and the Jew, and attended Christianity up and down the earth; I come now to the Pagan idolater, or heathen, who (the more to be lamented) make the greatest part of mankind. Howell, b. ii. Let. 11. Whereas, therefore, religion did first take place in cities, and in that respect was a cause why the name of Pagans. which properly signifieth a countrey people, came to be used Delectable country seats and villas environed with parks, in common speech for the same that infidels and unbelievers paddocks, plantations, &c.-Evelyn. Perch'd on the meagre produce of the land, Cowper. Table Talk. PA'DLOCK, v. Į Skinner derives from the PA'DLOCK, N. Dut. Padde. Seræ latibulum. Thomson (Etymon of English Words) suggests, a lock for a pad gate: meaning, it may be supposed, a gate opening to a path. Let not, therfore, under the name of fulfilling charity, such an unmerciful and more than legal yoke, be padlock'd upon the neck of any christian.-Milton. Colasterion. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind. Pope. The Dunciad, b. iv. were.-Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. s. 80. Notwithstanding which, we deny not but that there was also in the paganick fables of the Gods, a certain mixture of History and Herology inters: rted, and complicated all along together with Physiology.-Cudworth. Intel. System, p. 239. They are not so much to be accompted atheists, as spurious, paganical, and idolatrous theists.-Id. Ib. p. 138. The one and only God (saith Clemens) is worshipped by the Greeks paganically, by the Jews judaically, but by vs newly and spiritually.—Id. Ib. p. 279. Now as it is vaine to hope for this till then, so then not to hope for it, is paganish and brutish. Bp. Hall. A Farewell Sermon. Rev. xxi. 3. But there is something of imperfection also, plainly cleaving and adhering to this notion of a mundane soul. besides something of paganity likewise necessarily conse quent thereupon, which cannot be admitted by us. Cadworth. Intellectual System. p. 561. I answer, that the paganizing priests and the monkes of popish (the same with heathen Rome) were the chiefe agents this worke.-Prynne. Histrio-Mastix, pt. i. Act viii. sc. 3. This I must confess, I am not so paganly superstitious as to believe one syllable of. More. Immortality of the Soul, b. i. c. 14. With high devotion was the service made, And all the rites of pagan honour paid. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. It [Popery] is a religion that will bring you back to the —Sky Antim old paganish idolatry, or to that which is as near it as can be. Sharp, vol. ii. Ser. 1. The ruin of paganism, in the Age of Theodosius, is, perhaps, the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may, therefore, dee gerve to be considered as a singular event in the history of the human mind.-Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 28. also di tr PAGE, v. Fr. Page; It. Sp. and Lat. PaPAGE, H. gina; from pangere, anciently paPAGINAL. gere, to fix, because formed of pyrus, fixed, or compacted together. Applied to the whole leaf or folium; and afterSewards to each side of the leaf. But herein was a fault, & reason found it out: for if one fleaf of this large paper were plucked off, the more pages. ke harme thereby, & were lost. Holland. Plinie, b. xiii. c. 12. On the world's idols I do hate to smile, Drayton. Pastorals, Ecl. 5. He shut or closed the book; is an expression proper unto PaThe tender page with horny fists was gall'd; Id. Persius, Sat. 1. It is usually applied to A representation or exhibition of a showy or splendid kind; to-allegorical representations. The verb-To exhibit; and (as in Shakespeare) to exhibit in derision or mockery, to mock. Thane they all sette them in order, and incontynent wente Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 157. And with rediculous and aukward action He pageants vs.-Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cres. Act i. sc. 3. How diversly love doth his pageants play, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 5. To prove that we are extremely proud in the midst of all Why should not we these pageantries despise, Cowper. Task, b. v. PAGE, v. Fr. Page; It. Pàggio; Sp. Page. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 418. And buzze about the top full pailes. below, one from Dives and Pauper, and the other pailful to the quenching of the flames. See to It is not uncommon also to call a boy-a rogue. And page is applied by Chaucer to A boy-child, a boy or young male servant; a page of honour, a boy or youth attendant upon persons of rank. Our lyege lorde the kyng hath power and fredom of a page for to make a yoman, &c.—Dives & Pauper. Ist Comm. c. 17. I had rather to be torne with wild horses then any varlet hould haue wonne such lots, or any page or pricker should he had the price [prize] of me. History of Prince Arthur, c. 97. Free was Dan John: He not forgate to yeve the leste page In al that hous.-Chaucer. Shipmannes Tale, v. 12,975. A doughter hadden they betwixt hem two twenty yere withouten any mo, PAIL-MAIL. PAINFULNESS. A. S. Dryden. Virgil, Past. 3. toilsome, laborious, difficult:-full of labour, dill. Ther to he nom gret peyne of hem.-R. Gloucester, p. 377. R. Brunne, p. 327. I took pistiles to britheren, and wente to Damask to brynge from theins men boundun unto Ierusalem that thei schulden be peyned.-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 22, But whanne sche hath borne a sone now sche thenkith not on the peyne for ioie for a man is born into the world. Id. Jon, c. 16. It needeth not to peine you with the corde Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1748. Alone I went in my playing To sing on bowes blossomed faire.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. Id. The Somproures Tale, v. 7428. She was ay on in herte and in visage Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8590. And thus suffer I the hote chele, Whiche passeth other peynes fele In colde I brenne, and frese in hete.-Gower. C. A. b. vi. They [elephantes] are of great strength and swiftnesse. They spare neyther man nor beaste that cometh in their sight. The Germanes are very peinfull in making pittes to take them, and so kill them.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 163. In theym, which be eyther gouernours or capytaynes, or Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 196. Id. Mother Hubberd's Tale. And, to augment her painefull penaunce more, Thrise every weeke in ashes she did sitt, And next her wrinkled skin rough sack cloth wore, And thrise three times did fast from any bitt. Id. Ib. b. i. c. 3. And her sad selfe with carefull hand constrayning To wype his wounds, and ease their bitter payning. Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 2. Caius excelled all the young men of his age in hardiness against his enemies, in justice to his inferiours, and in love and obedience towards the consull his captain: but in temperance, sobriety, and in painfulness, he excelled all them that were elder than he.-North. Plutarch, p. 690. The siluer bow-bearer (the Sun) and she, I give two thousand more, it may be three, Sir, Beaum. & Fletch. The Spanish Curate, Act iv. sc. 5. To torture; to punish: and consequentially pleasure has, we being as ready to employ our faculties to Saving a child that was of half yere age, In cradle it lay, and was a propre page. Learning by the flight of our horsemen and pages in what me the matter stood, and in how great dauger both the Cap, and the legions, and the captaine hym selfe was, Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 59. he made as much haste as was possible. That haue out-liued the eagle, page thy heeles Will these moyst trees, And ship when thou point'st out? to That which is imposed or inflicted as a punishment or penalty; to Toil, labour, or work; carefulness, diligence, or industry. Painful, full of pain, misery, or wretchedness; miserable, wretched, distressing; and so Evelyn uses painable-full of toil, labour, or difficulty; avoid that, as to pursue this. Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. What pleasure and pain are, we learn by experience; and they are feelings, the idea of which cannot be communicated by definition.—Belsham. Philosophy of the Human Mind, c.2. PAINIM, that is, Pagan, (qv.) Fr. Payen, paienisme. And thoru the grace of Jhesu Crist the paynymys hii ouercome.-R. Gloucester, p. 401. Thys word was sone wide in paynyme ybrogt So that princes in paynyme were of grete thogt. R. Gloucester, p. 403. The Emperours deputie, albeit he were a painim, yet did he abhore the murthering of a man whom he judged to be an innocent and guiltlesse person.-Udal. Mark, c. 15. Other do accomodate it [Nosce teipsum] to Apollo whom the paynimes honoured for god of wysedome. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. iii. c. 3. PAINT, v. PAINT, n. PAINTER. PAINTERSHIP. Fr. Peindre; It. Pingere; Sp. Pintar; Lat. Pingere; which Scaliger, (de Causis, c. 87,) derives from the Gr. Φεγγος, lux. From φέγγος would come fingere, and then, PAINTURE. with the omission of the aspirate, pingere :—fingere, est exprimere imitatione veram rem. Vossius prefers Пivat, quod tabulam signat, in quâ pingitur. PAINTING, R. PAINTLESS. To form or fashion, delineate, describe, or portray, (sc.) the shape, colour, resemblance, or representation of any thing. To colour or cover with colouring substances, to decorate or adorn with colour. Hys sseld, that het Prydwen, was thanne y honge wast For if a painter would paint a pike I sawe Envy in that painting, Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. ii. Or ouerthwart, all baggingly.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. For right as she [Nature] can peint a lily whit She peinted hath this noble creature. Id. The Doctoures Tale, v. 11,967. The filthye nakednesse of hypocrisye, and sinne, for all thy paynted colours, appere to thy confusion. Bale. Image, pt. i. Well, well, said he, you list to abuse yourself; it was a very white and red virtue, which you could pick out of a painterly glose of a visage.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. i. from Bacon and B. Jonson, and in common speech in the West of England, may with propriety be used of any number of equal things, any number of peers. To pair is— To assort and place together equal things; things suited or adapted for an effect; to match, (sc.) in twos, braces, couples. As hys chamberleyn hym brogte, as he rose aday, A morwe vorto werye, a peyre hose of say. R. Gloucester, p. 390. They schulen geve an offrynge aftir that is seide in the lawe of the Lord: a peyre of turturis or twele culver briddis. Wiclif. Luke, c. 2. & to offer (as it is sayde in the law of the Lorde) a payre of turtle doues or two younge pigions.-Bible, 1551. Ib. But come, our dance I pray, Your hand, (my Perdita:) so turtles paire That neuer meane to part. Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act iv. sc. 3. He looking lompish and full sullen sad, That evill matched paire they seemed to bee. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 11. So that to speak plainly to you the King were better call for a new pair of cards, than play upon these if they be packed.-Bacon. Speech about Undertakers. Carol. Ha' you nere a son at the groom-porters to beg or borrow a paire of cards quickly? B. Jonson. Masque of Christmas. There Baucis and Philemon liv'd, and there Had liv'd long married, and a happy pair, Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. viii. Thus on they pass'd, inseparably pair'd, For him she battled, and for her he fear'd. PAIR, or PEIR. PAIRER. PAIRING, n. PAIRMENT. Brooke. Jerusalem Delivered, b. i. See IMPAIR. To make or become less or worse; to lessen, reduce, or diminish, (sc.) the quantity or quality, bulk or size; the value; Admit al so a curious cunning painter to be the chiefe and, consequentially, to hurt, to injure. painter, let him striue also to continue still in his chiefe paintourship, least another passe him in conning, and so haue the name of the chief paintour from him, because he is more worthie then he. Bp. Gardner. Of true Obedience, fol. 47. The Lorde Guy of tremoyle garnysshed his shyp richely: the payntynges yt were made cost more than ii. M. frankes. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 49. Right well I wote, most mighty soveraine, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1 Wom. Why gentle Madam? Emil. It [rose] is the very emblem of a maid: Beaum. & Fletch. The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act ii. sc. 2. Waller. On the Mis-report of her being painted. His colours laid so thick on every place, Delights and puzzles the beholder's eye, J. Philips. Cider, b. ii. Savage. The Wanderer, c. 2. True poetry the painter's power displays; Mason. Fresnoy. Art of Painting. PAIR, v. Fr. Pair; It. Pare, paio; Sp. Par; PAIR, n. Lat. Par, equal: though now applied to a brace or couple, (words which themselves are not by their intrinsic meaning restricted to the number two.) Pair, as in the quotations Thei for do my croune, if thei granted be, R. Brunne, p. 313. And what profitith it to a man if he wynne all the world: and leese himsilf and do peiryng of himsilf ?—Id. Ib. c. 9. Enviouse mennis sein that I am a peirer of hooli scrip turis.-Id. James, Prol. Nethelesse I gesse all thingis to be peyrement for the cleer science of Iesus Crist my Lord, for whom I made alle thingis peyrement, and I deeme as dryt, that I wynne Crist. Id. Filipensis, c. 3. And this thing wote I well certain I have voluntarily departed from the hopes of pension, place, office; I only cleave to that which is so little, as that it will suffer no pairing or diminution. Cabbala, p. 3. Earl of Sommerset to King James. Somewhat it was that made his paunch so peare, His girdle fell ten inches in a yeare. PA'LACE. PALA'TIAL. PA'LATINE. Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 1. Fr. Palais; It. Palagio; Sp. Palacio; Lat. Palatium; the name of one of the hills upon which Rome was built; PALATINATEd. and, because from the earliest times the seat of government, and residence of the (princes or) chief men, applied to PALATINATE. The house, mansion, or dwelling of a prince, or principal person; to a stately, magnificent, or splendid mansion. The kyng was to ys paleys tho the seruyse was ydo, This Cambuscan, of which I have you told Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,374 These great ladies palasins.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. And whan he intended, in his owne personne, to hunte which he dydde commonly euery moneth, he toke with hir the one halfe of the company of yonge me that were in th palasyes.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. A stately pallace built of squared bricke, Which cunningly was without morter laid, Whose wals were high but nothing strong nor thick, And golden foile all over them displaid, That purest skye with brightnesse they dismaid. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 4 For the name of palatine, know, that in ancient time under the emperors of declining Rome, the title of Cour palatine was; but so, that it extended first only to hir which had the care of the household and imperial revenue Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 11. Selden. Illustration. Sir Arthur Chichester is come back from the Palatinat much complaening of the small army that was sent there. Howell, b. i. § 2. Let. 1: It is much senior to Lancashire in that honour, bein palatinated but by King Edward III. (Ches-shire-reputedbefore the Conquest-Fuller. Worthies. Ches-shire. It is built in the palatial style of those days. Drummond. Travels, p. 27. Meanwhile Ulysses at the palace waits, There stops, and anxious with his soul debates, Fix'd in amaze before the royal gates. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. vi Counties palatine are so called a palatio; because th owners thereof (the Earl of Chester, the Bishop of Durhan and the Duke of Lancaster) had in those counties jur regalia, as fully as the king hath in his palace. Blackstone. Commentaries, Introd. s. If they be senators: they are no lesse, When both your voices blended, the great'st taste Most pallates theirs.-Shakes. Coriolanus, Act iii. sc. 1. He merits well to haue her, that doth seek her, Not making any scruple of her soylure, With such a hell of paine, and world of charge, And you as well to keepe her, that defend her, Not palliating pallating] the taste of her dishonour, With such a costly losse of wealth and friends. Id. Troyl. & Cres. Act iv. sc. To one palate, that is sweet, desirable and delicious, whic to another is odious and distasteful. Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c.1 The multitude exceed my song; though fitted to п Infract and trumplike. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b.i All other living creatures find it [taste of meats ar drinks] at the tip of their tongue only; but man tasteth well with the pallat or roufe of his mouth. Holland. Plinie, b. xi. c. 3 The still-born sounds upon the palate hung, And dy'd imperfect on the faultering tongue. Dryden. Theodora & Honori They by th' alluring odour drawn in haste Fly to the dulcet cates, and crowding sip Their palatable bane. J. Philips. Cider, b. For such permutacions few radical words would be mo convenient than Cus or Cush, since dentals being change for dentals, and palatials for palatials, it instantly becom coot, goose, and by transposition, duck, all water birds, al evidently symbolical. Sir W. Jones. On the Origin & Families of Nation Pomona, absent; you, 'midst hoary leaves, Here was (if not still) his [Dr. Chard] name contracted in gden letters (as the fashion was lately on coaches) in the escutcheon sable, and hath behind it, palewise, an abbot's crosier.-Wood. Fasti Oxon. vol. i. p. 12. PALE, v. Fr. Pal; It. and Sp. Palo; Fr. Palissade; It. Palizzata; Sp. Palizada; from the Lat. Palus, (perhaps pagulus, from PALISA'DO. pag-ere, to fix.) Chapman translates έρκος οδοντων—thy pale of ivory. pale, To To enclose or curround with pales, stakes, posts, rails: generally, to enclose or surround. That wodes ne foreste withouten palaised parke. As to the firste sinne in superfluitee of cloathing, which that maketh it so dere, to the harme of the peple, not only the coste of the embrouding, the disguising, endenting or barring, ounding, paling, &c.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale. The hart hath hong his old hed on the pale. Surrey. Description of Spring. My meaning was, further at the head of the riuer in the place of my descent where I would haue left my boates, to haue raised a sconse with a small trench, and a pallisado upon the top of it.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 256. With royal pomp and princely maiestie She is ybrouht into a paled greene, And placed under stately canapee, The warlike feates of both those knights to see. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. And you will pale your head in Henrie's glory, Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 4. Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. i. p. 4. The eye lids are fortified with little stiff bristles, as with palisadoes, against the assault of flies and gnats and such like bold animalcula. H. More. Antidote against Atheism, b. ii. c. 12. The plot contriv'd, before the break of day Dryden. The Cock & the Fox. Some help to sink new trenches, others aid Id. Virgil. Eneis, b. xi. It is not every field or common, which a gentleman pleases to surround with a wall or paling or to stock with a herd of deer that is thereby constituted a legal park. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. e 3 What equivalent can come from the emperor, every part of whose territories contiguous to France is already within the pale of the regicide domínions. Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 2. PALE, or PALL,. PALE, adj. PALEDNESS. PALENESS. PA'LISH. PA'LY. See To APPAL. Fr. Pasle; or moisten, to besprinkle, to Pale is opposed to red or Also to brightness or strength of colour; Faint, dim, wan. Pallid has a similar usage. Pale, v. (which Chaucer and Phaer write pall)— to be or become or cause to be pale or wan; faint, spiritless. And lo a pale hors, and the name was deeth to him that 8 on hym.-Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 6. Ther was gret shoving both to and fro Teift him up and mochel care and wo, Chaucer. The Manciples Prologue, v. 17,004. rysen, the daye sterre wexeth pale and leseth her light. VOL. II. The kynge himself beholding the fyngers so writing. [He] came to the Duke's presence and there stode so sadly They are not of complexion red or pale, Randolph. The Muses' Looking Glass, Act v. sc. 1. Anonymous. The Returne from Parnassus, Act ii. sc. 1. Pala, a tool similar to a spade or mattock, by the broad part of which the earth is turned or dug. In English it is The broad, thin board, or other substance, used by the painter for mixing his colours. Ere yet thy pencil tries her nicer toils, Tickell. To Sir Godfrey Kneller. On his left hand a palette lay, I shall breake your palettes.-Skelton. Elinour Rumming. PALFREY. Fr. Palefroy; It. Palafrèno; Sp. Palafren. The etymologists have written largely Beaumont. Psyche, c. 7. § 71. about this word: it appears clearly to be composed of the three words-par le frein; a horse led by the bridle, (says Nicot,) a lady's horse led by the squire. See MENAGE. While pale-fac'd Dian maketh haste to hide Shirley. Andromana, Act ii. sc. 5. Creet ever wont the cypres sad to bear, Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iv. Ch. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 1. And like a lion wood amongst them fares, There is some little change of the complexion from a Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. i. Now this attraction have we tryed in straws and paleous But of the fire and flambe funerall In which my bodie brennen shall to glede, PALET. The Fr. Palette; It. Palètta, are Id. Boecius, b. ii. superficial breadth, and are derived from the Lat. | Vor he vel of his palefry, & brec is fot bi cas. R. Gloucester, p. 490. William & Harald went tham for to paly, [play] And to the paleis rode ther many a route R. Brunne, p. 68. Chaucer. The Knightes Tule, v. 2498 The erle of Foiz gaue the same daye the kinges knightes and squyers and to ye duke of Thourayne and to the duke of Burbone, mo tha threscore coursers palfraies and mewlettes.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 45. Her wonton palfrey all was overspred Such dire achievements sings the bard, that tells B. Jonson. An Execration vpon Vulcan. PALINODE. Fr. Palinodie; Lat. It. and Sp. Palinodia; Gг. Пaλivædia, waλiv, rursus, retro, and won, cantus. A recantation, contrary song, unsaying of what hath been said, (Cotgrave.) And in the dark groves where they made abode, Drayton. The Ow.. Biside tham on ther schip com a bisshop doun, The mast in hand gan kip, with croice & pallioune. R. Brunne, p. 148. This palle is an induement that euery archebysshop must haue, and is nat in full auctoritie of an archebysshop tyll he haue recyued his palle [of the pope,] and is a thynge of whyte lyke to the bredeth of a stole.-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 221. After his prayer made to God for his grace, he shall offer a pall and a pound of gold, 24 pound of coin, which shall be to him delivered by the Lord Great Chamberlain. Burnet. Records, pt. ii. b. i. No. 4. PAL Come thick night And pall thee in the dunnest smoake of hell, Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome. Merlin Ambrose, being hither brought to the king, slighted that pretended skill of those magicians, as palliated ignorance.-Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 10. Selden. Illustrations. She under sweet words and saluting kisses palliating her palliate themselves under the protection of some worthy To palliat, i. e. to cover. And such cures be called pal- Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus, Act i. sc 2. Nor will my heart-corroding cares abate Dryden. Virgil. Æneis, b. iii. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears Holland. Plinie. Explanations of the Words of Art, vol. i. as their palmary argument, to confront and overturn the history of Moses, do, in an invincible manner, confirm and support it.-Warburton. Divine Legation, b. i. § 1. Sentences-proceeding from the pen of "the first philo Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xix. Pell-mell. (See MALL.) Fr. Palemaille. Florio sopher of the age" in his palmary and capital work. Each virgin soon apply'd Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxii. PALL, v. Skinner thinks from the Fr. ApPALL, n. pailir, pallescere, to grow or become pale. It is probably a consequential usage of the verb to pale, to appale, or appal, (qv.) And see PALE, v. To wane, to decay, to dull or deaden, to grow or become senseless, tasteless, or insipid; cloying or surfeiting; to clog, to surfeit, That other [tonnes] bitter as the galle Through felynge of the bitternese.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. For the kynge was beset with enemies vpon euery side, & ouer that his knyghtes and soldyours were tyred and palled with ouer watche and laboure.-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 170. Men. For this. I'le neuer follow Thy pall'd fortunes more, Who seekes and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act ii. sc. 7. But ah! how insincere are all our joys! Dryden. Annus Mirabilis. The palls or nauseatings which continually intervene are of the worst and most hateful kind of sensation. Shaftesbury. Inquiry concerning Virtue, b. ii. pt. ii. s. 2. Something [is wanting] to excite an appetite to existence in the palled satiety which attends on all pleasures which may be bought, where nature is not left on her own process, where even desire is anticipated, and therefore fruition defeated by meditated schemes and contrivances of delight. Burke. On the French Revolution. PALLET. Minshew and Junius derive from the Fr. Paille; Lat. Palea, straw, q. d. stratum paleâ. It is now applied to Any poor or hard bed. And on a paillet, all that glad night Chaucer. Troil. & Cress b. iii. Wherefore they, for his comforte, bare hym [Hen. IV.] into the abbottes place, and lodgyd hym in a chamber, and there vpon a paylet, layde hym before the fyre, where he laye in great agony a certayne of tyme.-Fabyan, an. 1512. Sir, quad the page, there lieth one in the palet chambre And poor king Henry on a pallet lay, PALLIATE, v. Fr. Palier; It. Pallière; Sp. Paliar; Lat. Palliatus, dressed with a cloak or mantle, (pallium.) They sente the reuerend father Thomas Arundell archbishop of Cauntorbury with certain lordes and citizens of diuers cytyes and boroghes in habite pallgate and dissimuled, into the citee of Paris.-Hall. Hen. IV. Introd. fol. 5. says the It. Palamaglio is "A sticke with a mallet Also the name of the place where this game 15th May 1663. I walked in the Parke, discoursing with the keeper of the Pell Mell, who was sweeping it; who told me of what the earth is mixed that do floor the Mall, and that over all there is cockle-shells powdered, and spread to keep it fast; which, however, in dry weather, turns to dust and deads the ball.-Pepys. Memoirs. Diary. We see a stroke with a racket upon a ball, or with a pail- Digby. On Bodies, c. 9. p. 91. Palmary,-worthy of the palm, prize, or victory; Palmers, a baculis palmarum,-from the staff of palm which they used to bear when returning from the Holy War. See the quotation from Camden; and see PILGRIM, the quotation from Sir W. Scott. But on the morewe a myche puple that camen togidere to the feeste day whanne they hadden herd that Jhesus cam to Jerusalem, token braunchis of palmes and camen forth agens him and crieden, Osanna, blessid is the king of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.-Wiclif. Jon, c. 12. On the morow, muche people that were come to the feast, Then longen folk to gon on pilgrimages, Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 165. Id. Ib. vol. iii. p. 342. palmer, that is, pilgrime, for that they carried palme when Drummond. Sonnets, pt. ii. s. 18. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act i. sc. 1. Lo the same day about nine of the clock, which was the xxix. day of Marche, being palme-sunday, both the hoostes approched in a plaine fielde, betweene Towton and Saxton. Grafion. Hen. VI. an. 39. Horne. On the Apology for Hume's Life & Writings. In that its acme of human prosperity and greatness, in the high and palmy state of the monarchy of France it fell to the ground without a struggle. Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1. PALM, v. PALMIPE DOUS. PALMISTRY. Fr. Palme; Lat. It. and Sp. Palma; Gr. Пaλaun, from πεπαλμαι, perf. pass. of παλλew, concutere: q.d. excussa,seu explicata manus : the hand thrown open or unfolded. Palmistry or Chiromancy, (qv.) — divination by inspection of the hands. From the roguish tricks of the pretenders to this art, to pulm is To trick or play a trick, to impose; to pass or practise a trick, imposition, or delusion. More restrictedly to palm is To hold or keep in the palm, to touch with the palm, to handle. Palmated is applied in Natural History, as palmiped or palmipedous, in Brown and Kay. For the paume hath power. to putten oute the ioyntes. Piers Plouhman, p. 328. Othere gaven strokis with the pawme of her hondis in his face.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 26. And other smote hym wyth the palme of their handes on the face.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Therwith his poulce and paums of his hondes Gower. Con. A. b. vii, Surrey. Prisoner in Windsor. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. Tuke. The Adventures of Five Hours, Act v. Holland. Plinie, b. xi. c. 52. Prior. Henry & Emma PALPABLE. PALPABILITY. Cowper. Task b. 1. Fr. Palpable; It. Palpabile; Sp. Palpable; Lat. Palpabilis, that may be touched. felt, handled; from palpare, to touch, and this, perhaps, from the Gr. Ynλap-e, tangere, contrectare, to touch, to handle. PALPATION. |