palatine
palatine is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.
- 2.The Palatine hill in Rome.
- 3.Of or pertaining to the palate. Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.
- 4., (Anat.) A palatine bone.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is one invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count called?
- What is of or pertaining to the palate. Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries called?
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