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Palm

noun

The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers. Synonym: thenar.

A linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand.

Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves. Synonym: palm tree.

An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event. Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, ribbon.

verb

(past & past part. palmed; pres. part. palming)

Touch, lift, or hold with the hands. Synonym: handle.

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"Palm" Quotes from Famous Books

... much more forcibly than an equally fancy bonnet of the model of last year; although when viewed in the perspective of a quarter of a century, it would, I apprehend, be a matter of the utmost difficulty to award the palm for intrinsic beauty to the one rather than to the other of these structures. So, again, it may be remarked that, considered simply in their physical juxtaposition with the human form, the high gloss of a gentleman's hat ...

— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen

... called John arose and placed himself in a neat fighting attitude.—Fetch on the fellah that makes them long words!—he said,—and planted a straight hit with the right fist in the concave palm of the left hand with a click like a cup and ball.—You small boy there, hurry up ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

... (as one knows) a continual emblem of the marriage of Jesus Christ with the Church. It is an emblem from beginning to end. Especially does the ingenious Dom Calmet demonstrate that the palm-tree to which the well-beloved goes is the cross to which our Lord Jesus Christ was condemned. But it must be avowed that a pure and healthy moral philosophy is still preferable ...

— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire

... round a snow-white ram, There wreathe his venerable horns with flowers; While peaceful as if still an unwean'd lamb, The patriarch of the flock all gently cowers His sober head, majestically tame, Or eats from out the palm, or playful lowers His brow, as if in act to butt, and then Yielding to their small hands, draws ...

— Don Juan • Lord Byron

... was there, and had the pleasure of receiving our first caller. She was a prim little old woman who looked pleased and expectant, who wore a neat cap and front, and whose eyes were as bright as black beads. She wore no bonnet, and had thrown a little three-cornered shawl, with palm-leaf figures, over her shoulders; and it was evident that she was a near neighbor. She was very short and straight and thin, and so quick that she darted like a pickerel when she moved about. It occurred to me at once that she was a very capable person, and ...

— Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

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