Chapter Painterly to Pale of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Palatinate
(Pa*lat"i*nate) v. t. To make a palatinate of. [Obs.] Fuller.

Palatine
(Pal"a*tine) a. [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr. palatium. See Palace, and cf. Paladin.] Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.

Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. — Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Cæsars. See Palace.

Palatine
(Pal"a*tine) n.

1. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.

2. The Palatine hill in Rome.

Palatine
(Pal"a*tine), a. [From Palate.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the palate.

Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.

Palatine
(Pal"a*tine) n. (Anat.) A palatine bone.

Palative
(Pal"a*tive) a. Pleasing to the taste; palatable. [Obs.] "Palative delights." Sir T. Browne.

Palatize
(Pal"a*tize) v. t. To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; as, to palatize a letter or sound. — Pal`a*ti*za"tion n. J. Peile.

Palato-
(Pal"a*to-) [From Palate.] A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.

Palatonares
(||Pal`a*to*na"res) n. pl. [NL. See Palato-, and Nares.] (Anat.) The posterior nares. See Nares.

Palatopterygoid
(Pal`a*top*ter"y*goid) a. [Palato- + pterygoid.] (Anat.) Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.

Palaver
(Pa*la"ver) n. [Sp. palabra, or Pg. palavra, fr. L. parabola a comparison, a parable, LL., a word. See Parable.]

1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate.

This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers.

Carlyle.

Palaver
(Pa*la"ver), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Palavered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Palavering.] To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully.

Palavering the little language for her benefit.

C. Bront

Palaverer
(Pa*la"ver*er) n. One who palavers; a flatterer.

Pale
(Pale) a. [Compar. Paler ; superl. Palest.] [F. pâle, fr. pâlir to turn pale, L. pallere to be o look pale. Cf. Appall, Fallow, pall, v. i., Pallid.]