Palm

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To Handle.

II. Palm ·noun The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

III. Palm ·add. ·vt To "grease the palm" of; to bribe or tip.

IV. Palm ·noun Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree.

V. Palm ·vt To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means;

— usually with off.

VI. Palm ·noun A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.

VII. Palm ·vt To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to Juggle.

VIII. Palm ·noun Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy.

IX. Palm ·noun The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.

X. Palm ·noun A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, — used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, ·etc.

XI. Palm ·noun The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer;

— so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.

XII. Palm ·noun A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand;

— used in measuring a horse's height.

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