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A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification; a wandering religious votary.
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Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body.
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A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to fruit trees.
Examples of palmer in a Sentence
Palmer was originally settled in 1716, but received a notable accession of population from a large Scotch-Irish colony which went from Ulster to Boston in 17 i 8.
At the election of November 1868 Palmer was again returned for Richmond, and Gladstone offered him the office of lord chancellor or the office of a lord justice with a peerage; both offers were declined by Palmer, and he assumed a position of independent opposition to the measure relative to the Irish Church.
Among his college friends were Dean Stanley and Roundell Palmer, 1st earl of Selborne.
Franklin reached London in December 1724, and found employment first at Palmer's, a famous printing house in Bartholomew Close, and afterwards at Watts's Printing House.
At Palmer's he had set up a second edition of Wollaston's Religion of Nature Delineated.
Through his family connexions in the City of London, clients soon came to Palmer's chambers, and his business at the Chancery bar increased rapidly.
In July 1861 he accepted from Lord Palmerston the office of solicitor-general, a knighthood, and a safe seat for the borough of Richmond in Yorkshire, secured for him through the friendly action of Lord Zetland, and thus began the second spell of Palmer's membership of the House of Commons, which continued till his elevation to the woolsack and the peerage.
The treaty of Washington was the means of casting a great duty upon Palmer.
To those who, in order to promote the cause of international arbitration, are desirous of acquiring a knowledge of the dangers and difficulties which beset this mode of settling disputes, the account which Palmer has left of his part in this arbitration may be commended.
The foundations of this measure were laid so long ago as February 1867, when Palmer had moved for a royal commission on the constitution of the courts, and had taken an active part in the work of that commission, of which the first report was made in 1869.
These Memorials, Part I., Family and Personal, in 2 vols., which were published in 1896, Memorials, Part II., Personal and Political, also in 2 vols., were edited by his daughter, Lady Sophia Palmer, and published in 1898.
In Reform 1871 this movement resulted in Munro and Palmer's Syllabus of Latin Pronunciation.
Only the first vacancy was filled up. Dean Merivale was co-opted, and on his resignation Professor, afterwards Archdeacon, Edwin Palmer.
Edward C. Pickering carried on his study of stellar spectra with the funds of the Henry Draper Memorial at Harvard, endowed by his widow (née Mary Anna Palmer) .
See Calamy, s.v.; Palmer's Nonconf.
The best are in English; where we have the extremely paraphrastic, but for its time admirable translation of George Sale (repeatedly printed), that of Rodwell (1861), which seeks to give the pieces in chronological order, and that of Palmer (1880), who wisely follows the traditional arrangements.
It owes its development from a mere pit village very largely to the enterprise of Sir Charles Mark Palmer.
Mitchell Palmer, the new Attorney-General, were subjects of most bitter complaint as the war ended.
A Democratic Liberal Party was organized in the same year, one of its leaders being Governor Palmer; consequently no party had a majority in the legislature elected in 1874.
Of the rivers, the North Platte has its sources in North Park, the Colorado (the Gunnison and Grand branches) in Middle Park, the Arkansas and South Platte in South Park - where their waters drain in opposite directions from Palmer's Lake - the Rio Grande in San Luis Park.
For various reasons the movement in America did not appear on the surface to any great extent, and after the comparative failure of Elihu Palmer's Principles of Nature it expressed itself chiefly in the spread of Unitarianism.
It was incorporated in 1742 as a precinct, in 1761 as a district (formed from parts of Brookfield, Palmer and Western, now Warren, and certain common lands), and in 1775 as a separate township. In 1823 additions were made from Brookfield and Western.
Fyshe Palmer for circulating an address from a society of the friends of liberty to their fellow-citizens in favor of a reform of the House of Commons.
Six miles farther out on Woodward Avenue is Palmer Park of about 140 acres, given to the city in 1894 and named in honour of the donor.
Anastasia bugaenko a palmer and eli.
The unabridged audiobook of the novel is read by actor Geoffrey Palmer.
The drummer, Earl Palmer whilst holding down a solid backbeat is also still playing a 'typical swing ' pattern to sustain the beat.
Arriving at SHOWBUS is Grant Palmer's Renault Master with Rohill 14 seat bodywork.
The CDs contain 51 tracks and are accompanied by a very substantial booklet written by Roy Palmer.
Up until June 2001 we have found three ballads and three criminal broadsides which are dedicated to William Palmer.
Almost simultaneously a new theater in Orchard Street also opened, built by John Palmer, a local chandler and brewer.
David Palmer & Rachael Grinham took just 16 minutes to reach the semis, where they face compatriots Diane Desira & Cameron White.
Third seed Palmer is scheduled to meet compatriot Anthony Ricketts, the sixth seed, in the last eight.
In 1954 Mr P S Palmer was admitted to hospital with nervous debility.
We were less pleased to see the desecration of a memorial to Graham Palmer, a pioneer of the restoration of the Montgomery canal.
Braemar Cottage Chemist Mr Palmer had a dispensary in the room on the left of the entrance to the Cross Keys.
At Annie's funeral it is said that Palmer appeared greatly distressed.
In 1924, Mr Ivan Palmer, a farm foreman from near Bury St Edmunds, became licensee.
John Palmer â New Ash Green, Kent I am afraid there are no really good mirrors for dropped handlebars.
At palmer lake 's return calls seeking all you have of all what.
In particular Cy12R1 includes envelope orography and orographic gravity wave drag based on the Palmer et al.
Palmer's own influences were diverse, the lessons he learned from them highly personal.
The dreaded palmer pigweed has become Roundup resistant, Monsanto admits [21] .
About Hyaluronic Acid History In 1934 Palmer and Meyer isolated a novel polysaccharide from vitreous of bovine eyes.
The Palmer Museum acquired the large daguerreotype portrait of a man named James Duncan in February 1997.
Laura Palmer, the high school homecoming queen, has been murdered.
David Palmer has had a very serious setback to his career.
In his testimony he gave Palmer an alibi for the time when Newton claimed that Palmer had bought strychnine.
Combe St Nicholas Palmer records an oral tradition of a well here revealed in a dream during a drought at Chard.
This doubles the number of ascents of the notoriously tricky route (a Ken Palmer job from about 10 years ago ).