1892. Illustrated Bits, 22 Oct. 14, 2. She can't get the comehither over me for all her palaver.
Verb. 1. See subs. 2.
2. (colloquial Scots').—To fuss.
Pale. To leap the pale, verb.
phr. (old colloquial).—To break
bounds; to exceed.
1593. Shakspeare, Com. Errors, ii. 1, 100. But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale And feeds from home.
1609. The Man in the Moone, sig. C. 4. If you proceede as you have begune . . . your leaping the pale will cause you looke pale.
1847. Tennyson, Princess, ii. Deep, indeed, Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared To leap the rotten pales of prejudice.
Paleface, subs. (American colloquial).—A
white: in poetry and
fiction, as from an Indian dialect.
18[?] G. H. Colton, Tecumseh, ii. 18. [F]. Then shall the paleface sink to-*night.
1826. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xxxiii. The hunting grounds of the Lenape contained vales as pleasant, streams as pure, and flowers as sweet as the heaven of the pale-faces.
18[?] Durfee, Whatcher, iv., xxxv. The palefaced strangers came.
Palestine in London, subs. phr.
(old).—See quot. and Holy
Land.
1821. Egan, Real Life, ii. 165. Palestine in London, or the Holy Land, includes that portion of the parish of St. Giles, Bloomsbury, inhabited by the lower Irish.
Palette, subs. (old).—A hand:
see Daddle.
Palliard, subs. (Old Cant.).—1.
A born beggar; a tramp; primarily
a vagabond who lies on straw.
[From. Fr. paillard].—Awdeley
(1567); Coles (1724); New
Cant. Dict. (1725); Grose
(1785); Lex. Bal. (1811).
1573. Harman, Caveat (1814), 26. These Palliards be called also Clapper-*dogens, these go with patched clokes, and haue their morts with them which they cal wiues.
1608. Dekker, Belman of London, [Grosart, Wks., iii. 99]. A palliard carryes about him (for feare of the worst) a Certificate . . . where this Mort and he were marryed, when all is but forged.
1611. Middleton and Dekker, Roaring Girl, v. 1. And couch till a palliard docked my dell.
1616. Beaumont and Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas, ii. 2. No, base palliard, I do remember yet.
1687. Dryden, Hind and Panther, ii. 563. Thieves, panders, palliards, sins of every sort.
c.1696. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Palliards, c. the Seaventh Rank of the Canting Crew, whose Fathers were Born Beggers, and who themselves follow the Same Trade, with Sham Sores, making a hideous Noise, Pretending grievous Pain, do extort Charity.
1707. Shirley, Triumph of Wit [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 35]. Palliards all thou didst excel.
1748. Dyche, Dict. A cant name for wretched men and women, who live by begging, thieving—anything but honest industry. The women go with one, or more small children, in a dirty, ragged condition, who cry, as though starved, the women making a doleful tale. Her male companion lies begging in fields, streets, &c., with cleymes or artificial sores, the flesh raw and shocking to the sight; the impostor pretending great pain, deceives the compassionate, charitable, and well-disposed passengers, whom, when opportunity presents, he can recover his limbs to rob, and even murder, if resisted. [Condensed].
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, iii. v. Adjoining him was the palliard, a loathsome tatterdemallion, his dress one heap of rags, and his discoloured skin one mass of artificial leprosy and imposthumes.
2. (old).—A lecher; a womanizer (q.v). Hence palliardise
fornication; and palliardy
whoredom.
