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Spall :: Spall (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface..

Palliative :: Palliative (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

Pallium :: Pallium (n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.

Palliatory :: Palliatory (a.) Palliative; extenuating.

Pallas :: Pallas (n.) Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva..

Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..

Ancile :: Ancile (n.) The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome..

Pall :: Pall (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.

Escapement :: Escapement (n.) The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration..

Palliation :: Palliation (n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease..

Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults..

Vergette :: Vergette (a.) Divided by pallets, or pales; paly..

Pall :: Pall (n.) Nausea.

Lean :: Lean (n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

Sigillaria :: Sigillaria (n.) A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it..

Page :: Page (n.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

Unearthly :: Unearthly (a.) Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound..

Roller :: Roller (n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them..

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