Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
PALLETS
Noun
pallets
plural of pallet
Anagrams
• L-plates, laplets, platels
Source: Wiktionary
PALLET
Pal"let, n. Etym: [OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. pala straw, palava chaff. Cf. Paillasse.]
Definition: A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.
Pal"let, n. Etym: [F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel.]
1. (Paint.)
Definition: Same as Palette.
2. (Pettery) (a) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. (b) A potter's wheel.
3. (Gilding) (a) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. (b) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
4. (Brickmaking)
Definition: A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.
5. (Mach.) (a) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. (b) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Knight.
6. (Horology)
Definition: One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. Brande & C.
7. (Mus.)
Definition: In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
8. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
9. A cup containing three ounces, --
PALLET
Pal"let, n. Etym: [OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. pala straw, palava chaff. Cf. Paillasse.]
Definition: A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.
Pal"let, n. Etym: [F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel.]
1. (Paint.)
Definition: Same as Palette.
2. (Pettery) (a) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. (b) A potter's wheel.
3. (Gilding) (a) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. (b) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
4. (Brickmaking)
Definition: A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.
5. (Mach.) (a) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. (b) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Knight.
6. (Horology)
Definition: One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. Brande & C.
7. (Mus.)
Definition: In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
8. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
9. A cup containing three ounces, --
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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