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▪ I. palus1
Also 5 palusche, palusshe.
[a. OF. palus, paluz (12th c. in Godef.), ad. L. palūs marsh.]
†1. A marsh, a fen; an abyss. Obs. rare.
1471Caxton Recuyell (ed. Sommer) 390 In myddis of this palus was a grete lake or ponde. 1489― Faytes of A. i. xiv. 38 A place..fer from eny palusche or mares grounde. 1490― Eneydos xi. 42 The depe palusshe infernalle.
2. With capital initial and pronunc. |palys|: a wine produced in the Palus region of Bordeaux in France. Also attrib.
1833C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines v. 144 Bassens and Mondferrand grow the second class of Palus wines. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 888 The genuine wines of Bordeaux are of great variety..and the principal vineyards are those of Medoc, Palus, Graves, and Blanche. 1953E. Hyams Vineyards in England 90 Such palus wines are good enough of their kind. 1968New Statesman 29 Nov. 744/2 How many little Palus and/or Bourg wines reach the market as Médoc, or even as St Julien?
▪ II. ‖ palus2 Biol.|ˈpeɪləs|
Pl. pali.
[L. pālus stake.]
In corals, one of the thin, upright, calcareous laminæ or plates, which extend up from the bottom of a corallite to the calix, and are connected by their outer edges with the septa. Hence the dim. ‖ ˈpalulus, pl. paluli.
1872Nicholson Palæont. 92 The chief remaining structures..are what are called ‘pali’, ‘dissepiments’, and ‘tabulæ’. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iii. 163 Small separate pillars between the columella and the septa are termed paluli.
▪ III. palus
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