palm¹ /päm/

1. The inner surface of the hand between wrist and fingers
2. The corresponding part of a forefoot, or of a glove
3. The sole of the foot (rare)
4. A handbreadth (7.5 or 10cm, ie 3 or 4 inches)
5. The length of the hand from wrist to fingertip
6. A sailmaker's instrument used instead of a thimble
7. A flat expansion, as of an antler, or the inner surface of an anchor fluke
8. An act of palming
9. (also palmˈ-play) an old game in which a ball was struck with the palm

1. To touch or stroke with the palm
2. To hold in the palm
3. To take swiftly and unseen and conceal in the palm
4. To impose, pass off (esp with off, and on or upon)
5. To bribe

palmar /palˈmər/ adjective

Relating to the palm

palmate /palˈ/ or palmated adjective

1. Hand-shaped
2. Having lobes radiating from one centre (botany)
3. Webfooted (zoology)

palˈmately adverb

palmatifid /pal-matˈi-fid/ adjective (botany)

Shaped like the hand, with the divisions extending about halfway down

palmāˈtion noun

1. Palmate formation
2. A palmate structure or one of its parts or divisions

palmatipartˈite adjective

Palmately divided rather more than halfway

palmatisect /pal-matˈi-sekt/ adjective

Deeply cut in a palmate manner

palmed /pämd/ adjective

1. Having a palm
2. Held or concealed in the palm

palmˈful noun

As much as the palm will hold

palmiped /palˈmi-ped/ or palmipede /-pēd/ noun

A webfooted bird

Webfooted

palmist /pämˈist/ noun

Someone who tells a person's fortune from the lines on his or her palm

palmˈistry noun

palmy or palmie /pämˈi/ noun (Scot)

A stroke of the tawse on the palm

palmˈcorder noun

A small hand-held camcorder

palmˈ-grease or palmˈ-oil noun

A bribe

palmˈtop noun

A small hand-held portable computer (also adjective)

grease someone's palm

To bribe someone

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