O. Fr. _padou-ir_, L. B. _padu-ire_, to pasture; whence _padouen_ and _paduentum_, pasture.

PAITLATTIS, _s. pl._ Uncertain.

_Dunbar._

PALAD, _s._

V. ~Pallat~.

PALAVER, _s._ Idle talk, S.

Hisp. _palabra_, Fr. _palabre_, a word.

_To_ ~Palaver~, _v. n._ To use a great many unnecessary words, S.

_To_ PALE, _v. a._ To make an incision in a cheese, S.

_Ramsay._

Flandr. _poel-en_, excavare.

~Pale~, _s._ The instrument used for trying the quality of a cheese, S.

PALYARD, _s._ A lecher, a rascal.

Fr. _paillard_, id.

_Lyndsay._

~Palyardry~, s. Wh.o.r.edom.

_Douglas._

PALL, PEAL, _s._ Any rich or fine cloth.

_Gawan and Gol._

Isl. _pell_, textum pretiosum; O. Fr. _paile_, seric.u.m.

PALLACH, PALLACK, _s._

1. A porpoise, S.

_Sibbald._

2. A l.u.s.ty person, S. B.

_Journ. Lond._

PALLALL, PALLALLS, _s._ A game of children, in which they hop on one foot through different triangular s.p.a.ces chalked out, driving a bit of slate or broken crokery before them, S.; in E. _Scotch-hop_.

PALLAT, PALAD, _s._ The crown of the head, S.

_Douglas._

O. Fr. _palet_, sorte d"armure de tete; Roquef.

PALLET, _s._ A ball.

Fr. _pelotte_, id.

_Burel._

PALLET, _s._ A sheep"s skin not dressed, S. B.

E. _pelt_, Su. G. _palt_, a garment.

PALM-SONDAY, _s._ The sixth Sabbath in Lent, S.

_Wyntown._

A. S. _palm sunnan daeg_.

PALM, PALME, _s._ The index of a clock or watch, S.

_Z. Boyd._

Fr. _paulme_, or E. _palm_, used as _hand_, S. to denote the index of any time-piece.

PALTRIE, _s._ Trash.

V. ~Peltrie~.

PALWERK, _s._ Spangled work.

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