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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,
And, pack-horse like, jogs on beneath his load.

Pomfret. The Fortunate Complaint.

O what a precious pack of votaries
Unkennel'd from the prisons, and the stews,
Pour in, all opening in their idol praise.

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?
Are they padders, or Abram men, that are your consorts?
Massinger. Way to Pay Old Debts, Act ii. sc. 1.

Two toasts, with all their trinkets gone,
Padding the streets for half-a-crown.

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,
And spurr'd, as jockies use to break,
Or padders to secure a neck.

Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 1.

With a spacious plain, without hedge or stile,
And an easy pad-nag to ride out a mile.
Dr. Pope. The Old Man's Wish.

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,
Glad here to kennel in a pad of straw.

Drayton. Elenor Cobham to Duke Humphry.

We shall not need to say what lack
Of leather was upon his back;
For that was hidden under pad,
And breach of knight gall'd full as bad.

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,
As now they are, and making practis'd smiles
As in a looking glasse; and then to sigh, as 'twere
The mort o' th' deere; oh, that is entertainment
My bosome likes not, nor my browes.

Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act i. sc. 2.

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PADUASO Y. A silk (soye) originally manu factured at Padua.

Old Robin, all his youth a sloven,
At fifty-two, when he grew loving,
Clad in a coat of paduason,

A flaxen wig, and waistcoat gay,

Powder'd from shoulder down to flank,

In courtly stile addresses Frank.-Swift. Robin & Harry
Rather let him [the dancer] his active limbs display
In camblet thin, or glossy paduasoy.

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,
A treatise of humility is found.

Dryden. The Hind and the Panther
PEONY. Lat. Paonia. See the quota
PEONIED. tion from Holland.

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
Which spungie Aprill at thy hest betrims.

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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,
From hand to mouth, but never a brave swimmer,
Born up by th' chin, as I bore up myself,
With my strong industry that never fail'd me.
Beaum. & Fletch. Wit at several Weapons, Act i. sc. 1.
Besides the paddle-staff and other ceremonies.

While paddling ducks the standing lake desire,
Or battening hogs roll in the stinking mire.

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,
Working her formall rowmes in wexen frame,
The grieslie todestoole growne there mought I see,
And loathed paddockes lording on the same.
Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. December.
Hec. Oh, sir, you've fitted me.
Alma. And here's a spawn or two
Of the same paddock-brood too for your son.

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,
He sauh suylk oste of paiens that alle he was in drede.
R. Brunne, p. 16.
All Cristen folk ben fro that contree
Thurgh payenes, that conquereden all aboute
The plages of the North by lond and see.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4962.
The nexte houre of Mars folwing this
Arcite unto the temple walked is
Of fierce Mars, to don his sacrifice
With all the rites of his payen wise

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,
An ell or two of prospect we command,
But never peep beyond the thorny bound,
Or oaken fence that hems the paddock round.

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.

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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.

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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,
Not shall their names e'er in my page appear;
To bolster baseness I account it vile.

Drayton. Pastorals, Ecl. 5.

He shut or closed the book; is an expression proper unto
the paginal books of our times, but not so agreeable unto
dunes or rolling books in use among the Jews, not onely
in elder times, but even unto this day.
Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 6.

PaThe tender page with horny fists was gall'd;
And he was gifted most that loudest bawl'd.
Dryden. Religio Laici.
Persina. Why name you Virgil with such fops as these?
He's truly great, and must for ever please:
Nor fierce, but awful, in his manly page,
Bold in his strength, but sober in his rage.

Id. Persius, Sat. 1.

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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
and assayled the kynge Salhadyne and the Sarazins; there
in sporte there semed a great bataile, and it endured a good
space: this pagiaunt was well regarded.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 157.
With him Patroclus,
Vpon a lazie bed, the liue long day
Breakes scurrill jests,

And with rediculous and aukward action
(Which, slaunderer, he imitation calls)

He pageants vs.-Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cres. Act i. sc. 3.
Wonder it is to see in diuerse minds

How diversly love doth his pageants play,
And shewes his powre in variable kindes.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 5.

To prove that we are extremely proud in the midst of all
this pageantry-we should be extremely angry at any man
that should say we are proud, and that's a sure sign we are
so.-Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 8.

Why should not we these pageantries despise,
Whose worth but in our want of reason lies.
Dryden. Lucretius, b. ii.
Mark now the difference, ye that boast your love
Of kings, between your loyalty and ours,
We love the man, the paltry pageant you.

Cowper. Task, b. v.
PAIL, n.
In Sp. Paila is a great bowl or
PAILFUL, n.pail; in Fr. Paelle, a small pan;
and in It. Padella, a frying pan. Caseneuve de-
rives from the Lat. Patella, from patere, to open;
all having their applications from the openness or
expansiveness of the vessel or utensil.

PAGE, v. Fr. Page; It. Pàggio; Sp. Page.
PAGE, n. Skinner and others derive from the
Gr. Das, which among the Greeks denoted not
only a boy but a servant. Caseneuve, from peda-
And neere the shore we found certain water, wherewith
og Boxhornius,-from bagoes, an attendant we filled certaine bottles made of the skins of those seales
foot of the king among the Persians and contayning ech of them aboue a great paile of water.
Macedonians. Reland,-from the Turkish Peck.
Wachter, from the Sw. Poike, a little boy. (See
Menage and Wachter.) Tooke says, that "as
Servants were contemptuously called harlot, varlet,
valet, and knave; so they were called pack, patch,
and page." He produces the two instances given

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 418.
As thicke as flyes in spring,
That in a sheepe-cote (when new milk assembles them)
make wing,

And buzze about the top full pailes.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xvi.
When a house is on fire, we must every one cast in his
Bp. Hall, Ser. 34. Psalm xlv. 8.
And twice besides her beastings never fail
To store the dairy with a brimming pail.

below, one from Dives and Pauper, and the other pailful to the quenching of the flames.
from History of Prince Arthur, to show that the
office was not originally one of honour; and derives
the word (page) from the A. S. Pac-an, to pack,
and, consequentially, to impose upon.
PACK, and PATCH.

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.
PAIN, v.
PAIN, n.
PAINABLE.
PAINFUL.
PAINFULLY.

PAINFULNESS.
PAINING, n.
PAINLESS.
PAINLESSNESS.

A. S.

Dryden. Virgil, Past. 3.
See PALL-MALL.

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toilsome, laborious, difficult:-full of labour, dill.
gence, industry, carefulness; laborious, diligent,
nible.
industrious, careful. And so Chaucer uses pe-

Ther to he nom gret peyne of hem.-R. Gloucester, p. 377.
So long was the trayne, or it wer brouht to stalle,
It wer to me grete payne for to telle it alle.

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
Ye shul be ded by mighty Mars the rede.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1748.

Alone I went in my playing
The smale foules song harkening
That pained hem full many a paire,

To sing on bowes blossomed faire.-Id. Rom. of the Rose.
My body is ay so redy and so penible
To waken that my stomak is destroied.

Id. The Somproures Tale, v. 7428.

She was ay on in herte and in visage
And ay the further that she was in age,
The more trewe (if that it were possible)
She was to him in love, and more penible.

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
in other offyce, where vnto appertayneth greatte cure or dis-
patchinge of sondry great affayres, peynfulnesse, namyd in
Latyne tollerantia, is wonderful comendable.
Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. iii. c. 10.
Then first of all began the Galles to fortifye their campes,
and they were dismayde in heart, bicause they were men
not acquainted with paynes takynge.

Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 196.
And ever more these hags themselves did paine,
To sharpen him, and their owne cursed tongs did straine.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 12.
The gentle knight her soone with carefull paine
Uplifted light, and softly did uphold.-Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 1.
He soft arrived on the grassie plaine,
And fairly paced forth with easie paine.

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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,
That beares as much renowne for archery;
Stoop with their painles shafts, and strike them dead,
As one would sleepe, and neuer keepe the bed.
Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xv.
Could the Physitians have given her, if not health, yet
relaxation and painelessnesse, her meanes had not been
misbestowed. but now, shee suffered many things from
them.-Bp. Hall. Cont. The Bloody Issue healed.

I give two thousand more, it may be three, Sir,
A poor gratuity for your pains-taking.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Spanish Curate, Act iv. sc. 5.
Pain has the same efficacy and use to set us on work that

To torture; to punish: and consequentially pleasure has, we being as ready to employ our faculties to
to toil, labour, or work hard or diligently at:
(with less force,) to toil, to labour. Pain, the
noun, is applied to-

Saving a child that was of half yere age,
The feeling or sensation caused by torture, or
torment; and (also with less force) to uneasy,
Id. The Reves Tale, v. 3971. disagreeable, displeasing sensations or feelings;

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
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act iv. sc. 3.

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.
Locke. Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 7.
The manicles of Astyages were not therefore the lesse
weighty, and paynable for being composed of gold or silver.
Evelyn. Of Liberty & Servitude, c. 2.
The labour'd earth your pains have sow'd and till'd;
'Tis just you reap the product of the field.

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
Aboute ys ssoldren, and theron y peynt was and ywort
The ymage of our Lady, inwan [in whom] was al ys thogt.
R. Gloucester, p. 174.

For if a painter would paint a pike
With asses feet, and headed as an ape,
It cordeth not, so were it but a yape.

I sawe Envy in that painting,
Had a wonderfull loking
For she ne looked but awrie

Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. ii.

Or ouerthwart, all baggingly.-Id. Rom. of the Rose.

For right as she [Nature] can peint a lily whit
And red a rose, right with swiche peinture

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.
Paul. Had our Prince
(Jewell of children) seene this houre, he had payr'd
Well with this lord; there was not full a moneth
Between their births.
Id. Ib. Act v. sc. 1.

He looking lompish and full sullen sad,
And hanging downe his heavy countenance;
She chearfull, fresh, and full of ioyance glad,
As if no sorrow she ne felt ne drad;

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,
That all this famous antique history
Of some th' aboundance of an ydle braine
Will iudged be, and painted forgery,
Rather then matter of iust memory.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1

Wom. Why gentle Madam?

Emil. It [rose] is the very emblem of a maid:
For when the West wind courts her gently
How modestly she blowes, and paints the Sun
With her chaste blushes.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act ii. sc. 2.
Paints her, 'tis true, and does her cheek adorn,
With the same art, wherewith she paints the morn.

Waller. On the Mis-report of her being painted.

His colours laid so thick on every place,
As only show'd the paint, but hid the face.
Dryden. To Sir Robert Howard.
The show'ry arch

Delights and puzzles the beholder's eye,
That views the wat'ry brede, with thousand shows
Of painture vary'd, yet 's unskill'd to tell
Or where one colour rises, or one faints.

J. Philips. Cider, b. ii.
By woe, the soul to daring action swells;
By woe in paintless patience it excells.

Savage. The Wanderer, c. 2.

True poetry the painter's power displays;
True painting emulates the poet's lays;
The rival sisters fond of equal fame,
Alternate change their office and their name.

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,
The whilk ge salle & ouh, to maynten with me
To mak it lesse no louh, ne peired salle it be.

R. Brunne, p. 313.
Now alle the cuntre peires, vnnethis ouht they left.
Id. p. 296.
Engle his wife he drofe away, & held in peyrment.
Id. p. 58.
For what profitith it to a man if he winne al the world
and do peyringe to his soule?-Wiclif. Mark, c. 8.

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
If I speake ought to paire or loos,
Your court shall not so well be cloos
That they ne shall wite it at last.-Chaucer. R. of Rose.

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,
Ylad wyth thys menye, and the quene to hyre al so.
R. Gloucester, p. 190.

This Cambuscan, of which I have you told
In real vestments, sit on his deis
With diademe, ful high in his paleis.

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.

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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

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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
Nor are you,

Pomona, absent; you, 'midst hoary leaves,
Swell the vermillion cherry; and on yon trees
Suspend the pippins, paiatable gold.

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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.
PALE, n.
PALIFICATION.
PALISA'DE.

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.
R. Brunne, p. 110.
But dayes schulen come in thee. and thin enemyes schulen
envyrowne thee with a pale.-Wielif. Luke, c. 19.

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,
And rob his temples of the diademe,
Now in his life, against your holy oath?

Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 4.
The cloud-assembler answered: What words flie
(Bold daughter) from thy pale of ivorie?

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.
Among which notes I haue said nothing of pallification,
er pyling of the ground-plot commanded by Vitruvius.
Reliquiae Wottonianæ, p. 19.

The plot contriv'd, before the break of day
Saynt Reynard through the hedge had made his way;
The pale was next, but proudly with a bound
He leapt the fence of the forbidden ground.

Dryden. The Cock & the Fox.

Some help to sink new trenches, others aid
To ram the stones, or raise the palisade.

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.

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See To APPAL. Fr. Pasle;
It. Pallido; Sp. Palido; Lat.
Pallidus; from pallere, which
Vossius suggests may be from
the Gr. Пavy-ev, humectare,
conspergere, albefacere; to wet

or moisten, to besprinkle, to
whiten.

Pale is opposed to red or
ruddy; whitish or approaching
to white.

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,
So unweldy was this sely palled gost.

Chaucer. The Manciples Prologue, v. 17,004.
When Phoebus the sonne beginnethe to sprede hys clere-
Desse with rosen chariottes, than the sterre dymmed palethe
white cheres by the flambes of the sonne that ouercom-

rysen, the daye sterre wexeth pale and leseth her light.

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The kynge himself beholding the fyngers so writing.
fully troubled him.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 5.
Then was ye kynges face paal and his cogitacions so fere-

[He] came to the Duke's presence and there stode so sadly
and so paly without any worde speaking, that the Duke
demaunded of him what should signifie, that dumpishenes
of mynde, and inward sighyng, the whyche by his counte-
naunce, manifestly appeared and was euident. He modestly
answered, Most noble and redoubted lord, this palenes of
visage, and dedly loke doth prognosticate ye time of my
death to approche & be at hande.-Hall. Edw. IV. an. 15.

They are not of complexion red or pale,
But a sweet mixture of the flesh and blood,
As if both roses were confounded there.

Randolph. The Muses' Looking Glass, Act v. sc. 1.
Phi. Band be those musty mewes, where we have spent
Our youthfull daies in paled languishment.

Anonymous. The Returne from Parnassus, Act ii. sc. 1.
Gabriel observ'd her doubtful look
Where paledness and blushes mutually
Their timorous and graceful station took.

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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,
Or on thy palette lie the blended oils,
Thy careless chalk has half achiev'd thy art,
And her just image makes Cleora start.

Tickell. To Sir Godfrey Kneller.
"Load, load the pallet boy!" hark! Hogarth cries,
"Fast as I paint, fresh swarms of fools arise!"
P. Whitehead. Honour: a Satire, 1747

On his left hand a palette lay,
With many a tint of colours gay;
While guided with an easy slight,
The flying pencil grac'd his right.

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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
Her borrow'd glory in some neighb'ring cloud,
Envying the beauty of the new-born day.

Shirley. Andromana, Act ii. sc. 5.

Creet ever wont the cypres sad to bear,
Acheron banks the palish popelar.-Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 3.
Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
Each battaile sees the other's vmber'd face.

Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iv. Ch.

No nightly trance, or breathed spell
Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell.
Milton. Odes. The Hymn, § 19.
Thou shalt liue,
That I may tell pale-hearted Feare, it lies:
And sleepe in spight of thunder.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 1.

And like a lion wood amongst them fares,
Dealing his dreadfull blowes with large dispence,
Gainst which the pallid death finds no defence.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 11.
The point, that brisled the darke earth, cast a reflection
round,
Like pallid lightnings throwne from Jove.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. x.
[They] some times appear pallidly sad, as if they were
going into their graves.
Bp. Taylor. Artificial Handsomeness, p. 43.
Let no man then be discouraged with the pallidness of
Piety at first, nor captivated with the seeming freshness of
Terrenity: both will change.-Feltham, pt. ii. Res. 66.

There is some little change of the complexion from a
greater degree of pallor to a less, possibly to some little
quickening of redness.
Bp. Taylor. Artificial Handsomeness, p. 42.
Now cold Despair, succeeding in her stead,
To livid paleness turns the glowing red.

Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. i.
There the red anger dar'd the pallid fear.-Id. Ib. b. ii.
And now the pale-fac'd empress of the night
Nine times had fill'd her orb with borrow'd light.
Id. Ovid, Epis. 11.
Fear
O'er all his paly visage glides.-Langhorn. Owen of Carron.
PALEOUS. From the Lat. Palea; the ear,
straw, and all together threshed and beaten upon
a paved floor, was so called, (Pliny, b. xviii. c. 10.)
Strawy, chaffy.

Now this attraction have we tryed in straws and paleous
bodies, in needles of iron equilibrated, &c.
Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 4.
PALE'STRAL. Palestrall plaies, in Chaucer,
which were celebrated at the funeral rites of the
(says Junius,) are palæstral games (ludi palastrici)
great.

But of the fire and flambe funerall

In which my bodie brennen shall to glede,
And of the fest and playis palestrall
At my vigile, I pray thee take gode hede
That that be well.
Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. v.

PALET.
is applied to the various articles distinguished by a

The Fr. Palette; It. Palètta, are

Id. Boecius, b. ii. superficial breadth, and are derived from the Lat.

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Vor he vel of his palefry, & brec is fot bi cas.

R. Gloucester, p. 490.

William & Harald went tham for to paly, [play]
Tales togider thei tald, ilk on a gode palfray.

And to the paleis rode ther many a route
Of lordes, upon stedes and palfreis.

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
With tinsell trappings, woven like a wave,
Whose bridle rung with golden bels and bosses brave.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 2

Such dire achievements sings the bard, that tells
Of palfrey'd dames, bold knights, and magic spells.
Tickell. On the Prospect of Peace.
PALINDROME. Gr. Παλινδρομια, recursus
παλινδρομείν, recurrere, from παλιν, retro, and δρεμ
ev, currere, to run back. Applied to-
Words or sentences which, when read back
wards, have the same succession of letters.
And so some godlier monster had begot,
Or spun out riddles, and weav'd fiftie tomes
Of logogriphes and curious palindromes.

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,
Sung many a sad and mournful palinod.

Drayton. The Ow..
Orpheus is made to sing a palinodia or recantation, for
his former error and polytheism.
Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 303.

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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,
That my keene knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heauen peepe through the blanket of the darke
To cry hold hold. Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act i. sc. 5.
His lyon's skin chaunged to a pall of gold,
In which, forgetting warres, he onely ioyed
In combats of sweet love, and with his mistress toyed.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 5.

Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome.
Whose friend in iustice thou hast euer bene,
Send thee by me their tribune and their trust,
This palliament of white and spotlesse hue,
And name thee in election for the empire.

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
hellish design entertains him [King Edward.]-Id. Ib. s. 12.
Horace had his Mæcenas and Virgil his Augustus, and it
is the accustomed manner of our modern writers, alwaies to

palliate themselves under the protection of some worthy
patron.-Boulton. Medicina, (1665.) Ded.

To palliat, i. e. to cover. And such cures be called pal-
liative, which search not to the root and cause, but give a
shew only of cure; as when a sore is healed up aloft, and
yet festereth underneath: and so sweet pomanders doe pal-
liate a stinking breath, occasioned by a corrupt stomack or
diseased lungs, and such like.

Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus, Act i. sc 2.
Cardinal Pole was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury
in the church of Grey-Fryers at Greenwich. On the 25th of
the said month, [1555] being our Lady-day, he received his
an
pall in Bow Church in London, where he made a grave ser-
mon touching the use, profit, and first institution of the pall.
Wood. Athena Oxon. vol. i.

Nor will my heart-corroding cares abate
With splendid palls, and canopies of state.

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Dryden. Virgil. Æneis, b. iii.

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears
The palm, "That all men are about to live,"
For ever on the brink of being born.

Holland. Plinie. Explanations of the Words of Art, vol. i.
Young. Complaint, Night 1.
A whole system ought to be produced, it ought not to be
Their high notions of the antiquity of the religion and
half-measure: it ought to be no palliative; but a legis-learning of the Egyptians, which they incessantly produce,
lative provision, vigorous, substantial, and effective.
Burke. Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill.
PALLID. See PALE.
PALL-MALL. Also written Pail-mail, and

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
Her ready skill, and wrought of golden thread
A costly net, which o'er a pall they spread
Of finest silk.

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
Whiche maketh a man's herte palle,
Whose dronkeship is a sikenesse,

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,
Shall neuer finde it more.

Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act ii. sc. 7.

But ah! how insincere are all our joys!
Which sent from heaven like lightning make no stay:
Their palling taste the journey's length destroys,
Or grief sent post o'ertakes them on the way.

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
By Troilus he [Pandarus] lay.

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
without, that I dare well say, to do your grace pleasure, the
thing were right hard that he would refuse.
Grafton. Rich. III. an. 1.

And poor king Henry on a pallet lay,
And scarcely ask'd which side had got the day.
Drayton. The Miseries of Q. Margaret.

PALLIATE, v.
PALLIATE, adj.
PALLIATION.
PALLIATIVE, adj.
PALLIATIVE, n. To cloak or cover; to
conceal, to hide; and, consequentially, to disguise,
or give a false appearance to; to extenuate, to
mitigate. See the quotation from Pliny.

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
at one end to play at a wooden ball with.
the name of such a game."

Also the name of the place where this game
was played.

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-
mail beetle upon a bowl makes it flie from it.

Digby. On Bodies, c. 9. p. 91.
PALM, n.
Fr. Palme; Lat. It. and Sp.
PALMER. Palma; the name is said to have
PALMETTO. been given to the tree because
PA'LMY. the spread or expansion of the
PALMARY. branches bears a resemblance to
the palm (palma) of the hand. Applied (met.) to-
Victory; because a crown of palm was placed
upon the head of the conqueror.

Palmary,-worthy of the palm, prize, or victory;
having superior merit or excellence.

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,
when they heard that Jesus should come to Jerusalem,
toke braunches of palme trees, & went and met him, & cried:
Hosanna, blessed is he that in the name of the Lord, com-
meth king of Israel.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Then longen folk to gon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken strange strondes.
Chaucer. Prol. v. 13.
It is reported at Saffron Walden that a pilgrim purposing
to do good to his country, stole an head of saffron, and hid
the same in his palmer's staffe, which he had made hollow
before of purpose, and so he brought this root into this
realme, with venture of his life.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 165.
During our voyage we liued on nothing else but raspices,
of a certaine round graine little and blacke, and of the rootes
of palmitos which we got by the riuer side.

Id. Ib. vol. iii. p. 342.
Him als accompanyd upon the way
A comely palmer, clad in black attyre,
Of ripest yeares, and heires all hoarie gray,
That with a staffe his feeble steps did stire,
Least his long way his aged limbes should tire.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1.
Some [names] from that which they commonly carryed, as

palmer, that is, pilgrime, for that they carried palme when
they came from Hierusalem.-Camden. Remaines. Surnames.
Strong cities die, die do high palmy reigns.

Drummond. Sonnets, pt. ii. s. 18.
In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.

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.

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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.
PALM, n.
PALMATED.
PALMIPEDE.

PALMIPE DOUS.
PALMISTER.

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
They gan to frote, and wete his temples twain.
Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. fil.
Gebus and Alpetragus eke,
Of palmestry, whiche men seke,
The bokes made.

Gower. Con. A. b. vii,
The palm-play, where, despoyled for the game,
With dazed yies oft we by gleames of loue
Haue mist the ball, and gote sighte of our dame.

Surrey. Prisoner in Windsor.
As when a den of bloodie Lucern's cling
About the goodly palmed hart.

Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xi.
Die. A gypsy told me by my palm long since,
A sour-fac'd damsel should be my undoing.

Tuke. The Adventures of Five Hours, Act v.
Some vain palmesters have gone so far as to take upon
them, by the sight of the hand, to judge of fortunes.
Bp. Hall. Remains, p. 133.
Surely, these physiognomers and chiromantines or palmes-
trie, as frivolous and foolish as they be, yet now adajes are
in credite, and every man is full of them.

Holland. Plinie, b. xi. c. 52.
Some waterfowl, which are palmiped or whole-footed, have
very long necks and yet but short legs, as swans and geese.
Ray. On the Creation, pl. i.
It is palmipedous, or fin-footed like swans and geese.
Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 1.
With the fond maids in palmistry he deals:
They tell the secret first, which he reveals.

Prior. Henry & Emma
Great skill have they in palmistry, and more
To conjure clean away the gold they touch,
Conveying worthless dross into its place.

PALPABLE.
PALPABLY.

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.

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