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Palmetto – Pandects

Palmetto

a fan palm growing in part of the United States. Its leaves the West Indies, Bermuda, and the S. are woven into hats, like those made of chip. The trunks form good stockades, and were used for the purpose during the War of Independence. Also Chamærops humilis, a palm from southern Europe.

Palmetto State

South Carolina.

On its coat of arms is a delineation of one of these trees, for the growth of which the State is famous.

Palm Sunday

the Sunday immediately preceding Easter. It commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm "branches," or rather leaves, for the typical palms, like those of Palestine, have no branches (John xii: 13).

Palni Hills

a range of southern India, linking the S. extremities of the Eastern and Western Gháts; average height of the higher ridge, 7,000 feet.

Palpitation

a sensible abnormal beating of the heart, most frequent in advanced life, indicating want of power adolescents, particularly females, and in and laborious efforts rather than increased excitement and action. It is frequently associated with dyspepsia, and morbid states of the heart.

Pamirs

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Pamlico

a tribe of Indians living on the Pamlico river, in Beaufort co., N. C. They were greatly reduced in numbers by the smallpox in 1696, and by the Tuscarora War of 1711. Those left were absorbed in the Tuscarora tribe.

Pamlico Sound

a shallow lagoon of the United States, on the S. E. coast of North Carolina. It is 80 miles long, from 8 to 30 miles wide, and separated from the ocean by long, narrow, sandy islands.

Pampean Formation

a formation deposited and upheaved since the present Atlantic mollusca have been brought into existence.

Pamphylia

anciently a country on the S. coast of Asia Minor, with Cilicia originally bounded on the inland or N. side by Mount Taurus, but afterward enlarged, so as to reach the confines of Phrygia. Pamphylia is mountainous, was formerly well wooded, and had numerous maritime cities. The inhabitants were a mixed race of aborigines, Cilicians, and Greek colonists.

Pamunkey

a small river in Virginia formed by the union of the North and South Anna. It unites with the Mattapony at West Point to form the York river. In conjunction with the South Anna it is over 100 miles in length.

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Pandects

a collection of laws, systematically arranged, from the works of Roman writers on jurisprudence, to which the Emperor Justinian gave the force of law, 533 A. D.