a. Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. 1 the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum.
Syn. -- paleocortex [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To make pallid; to blanch. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. integer whole + E. pallial. ] (Zool.) Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The neocortex. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. pallium a mantle. See Pall. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pallial chamber (Zool.), the cavity inclosed by the mantle. --
Pallial sinus (Zool.), an inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. See Illust. of Bivalve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. palliare to clothe, fr. L. pallium a mantle. See Pall the garment. ] A dress; a robe. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. paillard, orig., one addicted to the couch, fr. paille straw. See Pallet a small bed. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A born beggar; a vagabond. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lecher; a lewd person. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Paillasse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak. See Pall the garment. ] 1. Covered with a mantle; cloaked; hidden; disguised. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [ Obs. ] Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Palliated p. pr. & vb. n. Palliating ] 1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. [ 1913 Webster ]

They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease without curing; as, to palliate a disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To cover; cloak; hide; extenuate; conceal. -- To Palliate, Extenuate, Cloak. These words, as here compared, are used in a figurative sense in reference to our treatment of wrong action. We cloak in order to conceal completely. We extenuate a crime when we endeavor to show that it is less than has been supposed; we palliate a crime when we endeavor to cover or conceal its enormity, at least in part. This naturally leads us to soften some of its features, and thus palliate approaches extenuate till they have become nearly or quite identical. “To palliate is not now used, though it once was, in the sense of wholly cloaking or covering over, as it might be, our sins, but in that of extenuating; to palliate our faults is not to hide them altogether, but to seek to diminish their guilt in part.” Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. palliation. ] 1. The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. palliatif. ] Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate, mitigate, or alleviate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which palliates; a palliative agent. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Palliative; extenuating. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pallidus, fr. pallere to be or look pale. See pale, a. ] Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Pallidness; paleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a pallid manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Brachiopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Pallium, and Branchia. ] (Zool.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Bernard Pallissy, the great French potter, was born in Agen, in 1509, and wandered as a glass and portrait painter until he married and settled in Saintes in 1538. While working here as a surveyor his attention was attracted by an enameled cup, and he determined to discover the process and after 16 years of continuous labor and experiment in which he used all his resources and burned the tables and floors for fuel, he succeeded, and though imprisoned in 1562 as a Huguenot he was released by royal edict and appointed "inventor of figulines" to the king. He removed to Paris in 1564, and through the aid of Catherine de Medici was saved from the massacre of St. Bartholomew. From 1575 to 1584 he gave a course of lectures on physics and natural history, demonstrating the origin of springs, the formation of fossil shell, and the best method of purifying water. In 1585, however, he was again arrested as a Huguenot and imprisoned in the Bastille, where he died in 1589. See H. Morley's Palissy the Potter. Student's Cyclopedia, 1897. [ PJC ]

‖n.; pl. L. Pallia E. Palliums [ L. See Pall the garment. ] 1. (Anc. Costume) A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The wool is obtained from two lambs brought to the basilica of St. Agnes, Rome, and blessed. It is worn by the pope, and sent to patriarchs, primates, and archbishops, as a sign that they share in the plenitude of the episcopal office. Before it is sent, the pallium is laid on the tomb of St. Peter, where it remains all night. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle. (b) The mantle of a bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. ramp a prostitute, or rabble. ] A mean wretch. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a pallial sinus. See under Sinus. [ 1913 Webster ]