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palmer
(encz) | palmer,poutník n: Zdeněk Brož |
Palmer
(gcide) | Palmer \Palm"er\, n. [From Palm the tree.]
A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a
branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land
and its sacred places. --Chaucer.
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Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. --P.
Plowman.
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The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer
had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain,
designed place or places, but the palmer to all. --T.
Staveley.
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Palmer
(gcide) | Palmer \Palm"er\, n. [From Palm, v. t.]
One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
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palmer
(wn) | Palmer
n 1: United States golfer (born in 1929) [syn: Palmer, {Arnold
Palmer}, Arnold Daniel Palmer] |
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palmer
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Palmerworm
(gcide) | Palmerworm \Palm"er*worm`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers,
devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The
name is applied also to other voracious insects. --Joel.
i. 4.
(b) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which
destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the
larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears
in vast numbers.
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arnold daniel palmer
(wn) | Arnold Daniel Palmer
n 1: United States golfer (born in 1929) [syn: Palmer, {Arnold
Palmer}, Arnold Daniel Palmer] |
arnold palmer
(wn) | Arnold Palmer
n 1: United States golfer (born in 1929) [syn: Palmer, {Arnold
Palmer}, Arnold Daniel Palmer] |
elizabeth palmer peabody
(wn) | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
n 1: educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United
States (1804-1894) [syn: Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody,
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody] |
oreortyx picta palmeri
(wn) | Oreortyx picta palmeri
n 1: California partridge; slightly larger than the California
quail [syn: mountain quail, mountain partridge,
Oreortyx picta palmeri] |
oscar palmer robertson
(wn) | Oscar Palmer Robertson
n 1: United States basketball guard (born in 1938) [syn:
Robertson, Oscar Robertson, Oscar Palmer Robertson] |
palmer
(wn) | Palmer
n 1: United States golfer (born in 1929) [syn: Palmer, {Arnold
Palmer}, Arnold Daniel Palmer] |
palmer peninsula
(wn) | Palmer Peninsula
n 1: a large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200
miles north toward South America; separates the Weddell Sea
from the South Pacific [syn: Antarctic Peninsula, {Palmer
Peninsula}] |
penstemon palmeri
(wn) | Penstemon palmeri
n 1: fragrant puffed-up white to reddish-pink flowers in long
narrow clusters on erect stems; Arizona to New Mexico and
Utah [syn: balloon flower, scented penstemon,
Penstemon palmeri] |
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