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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Palp \Palp\, n. [Cf. F. palpe. See {Palpable}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Palpus}. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Palp \Palp\, v. t. [L. palpare: cf. F. palper.] To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel. [Obs.] To bring a palp[8a]d darkness o'er the earth. --Heywood. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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d8Palpus \[d8]Pal"pus\, n.; pl. {Palpi}. [NL. See {Palp}.] (Zo[94]l.) A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also {palp}. See Illust. of {Arthrogastra} and {Orthoptera}. | |
