Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Palisade (v. t.) To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
(2) - Palisade (n.) Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
(3) - Palisade (n.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.

(1) - Palish (a.) Somewhat pale or wan.

(1) - Pall (n.) Nausea.
(2) - Pall (v. t.) To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
(3) - Pall (v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
(4) - Pall (a.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
(5) - Pall (v. t.) To cloak.
(6) - Pall (n.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
(7) - Pall (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
(8) - Pall (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
(9) - Pall (n.) Same as Pallium.
(10) - Pall (n.) A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
(11) - Pall (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
(12) - Pall (n.) Same as Pawl.

(1) - Palladian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.

(1) - Palladium (n.) A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.
(2) - Palladium (n.) Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights.
(3) - Palladium (n.) Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.