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Pa*lo"la (?), n. [Fr. the native name.] (Zoˆl.) An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food.

||Pa`lo*me"ta (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A pompano.

Palp (plp), n. [Cf. F. palpe. See Palpable.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Palpus.

Palp, v. t. [L. palpare: cf. F. palper.] To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel. [Obs.]

To bring a palpËd darkness o'er the earth.

Heywood.

Pal`pa*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch. Arbuthnot.

Pal"pa*ble (?), a. [F. palpable, L. palpabilis, fr. palpare to feel, stroke; cf. palpus the soft palm of the hand.] 1. Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form. Shak.

Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness.

Milton.

2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors. "Three persons palpable." P. Plowman.

gross as a mountain, open, palpable.

Shak.

-- Pal"pa*ble*ness, n. -- Pal"pa*bly, adv.

Pal*pa"tion (?), n. [L. palpatio, fr. palpare. See Palpable.] 1. Act of touching or feeling.

2. (Med.) Examination of a patient by touch. Quain.

||Pal*pa"tor (?), n. [L., a stroker.] (Zoˆl.) One of a family of ||clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary ||palpi.

||Pal"pe*bra (?), n.; pl. PalpebrÊ (#). [L.] (Zoˆl.) The eyelid.

Pal"pe*bral (?), a. [L. palpebralis, fr. palpebra: cf. F. palpÈbral.] Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

Pal"pe*brate (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having eyelids.

Palped (plpt), a. (Zoˆl.) Having a palpus.

||Pal"pi (pl"p), n., pl. of Palpus. (Zoˆl.) See Palpus.

Pal"pi*corn (?), n. [See Palpus, and Cornu.] (Zoˆl.) One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennÊ, and long maxillary palpi.

Pal"pi*fer (?), n. [Palpus + L. ferre to bear.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Palpiger.

Pal"pi*form (?), a. [Palpus + -form: cf. F. palpiforme.] (Zoˆl.) Having the form of a palpus.

Pal"pi*ger (?), n. [See Palpigerous.] (Zoˆl.) That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.

Pal*pig"er*ous (?), a. [Palpus + -gerous.] (Zoˆl.) Bearing a palpus. Kirby.

Pal"pi*tant (?), a. [L. palpitans, p. pr.] Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. Carlyle.