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||Pal"ma Chris"ti (?). [L., palm of Christ.] (Bot.) A plant (Ricinus ||communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, ||growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an ||herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil ||plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]

Pal"ma*cite (?), n. (Paleon.) A fossil palm.

Pal"mar (?), a. [L. palmaris, fr. palma the palm of the hand: cf. F. palmaire.] 1. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.

2. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.

||Pal*ma"ri*um (?), n.; pl. Palmaria (#). [NL. See Palmar.] (Zoˆl.) One ||of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.

Pal"ma*ry (?), a. (Anat.) Palmar.

Pal"ma*ry, a. [L. palmarius, palmaris, belonging to palms, deserving the palm or prize, fr. palma a palm.] Worthy of the palm; palmy; preÎminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work. Br. Horne.

Pal"mate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]

{ Pal"mate (?), Pal"ma*ted (?), } a. [L. palmatus marked with the palm of a hand, from palma the palm of the hand.]

1. Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

2. (Bot.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. Gray.

3. (Zoˆl.) (a) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. See Illust. (i) under Aves. (b) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.

Pal"mate*ly (?), adv. In a palmate manner.

Pal*mat"i*fid (?), a. [L. palmatus palmate + root of findere to split.] (Bot.) Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.

Pal*mat"i*lobed (?), a. [L. palmatus palmate + E. lobed.] (Bot.) Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.

{ Pal*mat"i*sect (?), Pal*mat`i*sect"ed (?), } a. [L. palmatus palmate + secare to cut.] (Bot.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.

Palm"crist (?), n. The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)

Palmed (?), a. Having or bearing a palm or palms.

Palmed deer (Zoˆl.), a stag of full growth, bearing palms. See lst Palm, 4.

Palm"er (?), n. [From Palm, v. t.] One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.

Palm"er, n.[From Palm the tree.] A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer.

Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together.

P. Plowman.

The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all.

T. Staveley.

Palm"er (?), n. 1. (Zoˆl.) A palmerworm. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. (Angling) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Palm"er*worm` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4. (b) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.