Word Meanings - PALANQUIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place.

• Projectile
  Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
• Singlet
  An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.
• SINGLESURFACED
  Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.
• Eighteen
  Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
• Personage
  Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.
• Personification
  The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
• Placentas
  of Placenta
• Projection
  The act of throwing or shooting forward.
• Singleton
  In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
• SINGLETAX
  A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue. Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively h
• Eighteenmo
  See Octodecimo.
• Indiadem
  To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.
• Personal
  Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
• Personifier
  One who personifies.
• Placenta
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.
• Projectment
  Design; contrivance; projection.
• Singletree
  The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.
• Eighteenth
  Next in order after the seventeenth.

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