Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Pallet (n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
(2) - Pallet (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
(3) - Pallet (n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
(4) - Pallet (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
(5) - Pallet (n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
(6) - Pallet (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(7) - Pallet (n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
(8) - Pallet (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
(9) - Pallet (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
(10) - Pallet (n.) A potter's wheel.
(11) - Pallet (n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
(12) - Pallet (n.) Same as Palette.
(13) - Pallet (n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

(1) - Palliate (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
(2) - Palliate (v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
(3) - Palliate (v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
(4) - Palliate (a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
(5) - Palliate (a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

(1) - Palliation (n.) That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised.
(2) - Palliation (n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease.
(3) - Palliation (n.) The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.

(1) - Palliative (n.) That which palliates; a palliative agent.
(2) - Palliative (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

(1) - Pallid (a.) Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.