Molucca palm(Bot.), a labiate herb from Asia having a curious cup-shaped calyx. — Palm cabbage, the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food. — Palm cat(Zoöl.), the common paradoxure. — Palm crab(Zoöl.), the purse crab. — Palm oil, a vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oil palm and used in the manufacture of soap and candles. See Elæis. — Palm swift(Zoöl.), a small swift (Cypselus Batassiensis) which frequents the palmyra and cocoanut palms in India. Its peculiar nest is attached to the leaf of the palmyra palm. — Palm toddy. Same as Palm wine. — Palm weevil(Zoöl.), any one of mumerous species of very large weevils of the genus Rhynchophorus. The larvæ bore into palm trees, and are called palm borers, and grugru worms. They are considered excellent food. — Palm wine, the sap of several species of palms, especially, in India, of the wild date palm the palmyra, and the Caryota urens. When fermented it yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also palm toddy. — Palm worm, orPalmworm. (Zoöl.) (a) The larva of a palm weevil. (b) A centipede.

Palm
(Palm) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palmed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Palming.]

1. To handle. [Obs.] Prior.

2. To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle.

They palmed the trick that lost the game.
Prior.

3. To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; — usually with off.

For you may palm upon us new for old.
Dryden.

Palmaceous
(Pal*ma"ceous) a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.

Palma Christi
(||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.]

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

Palmar
(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. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.

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

Palmary
(Pal"ma*ry) a. (Anat.) Palmar.

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

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

3. Hence: Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy. "The palm of martyrdom." Chaucer.

So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
Shak.

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