▪ I. palmed, a.
(pɑːmd)
[f. palm n.2 + -ed2; repr. L. palmātus.]
1. Having a ‘palm’ or flat expanded part with projecting points, as a deer's horn; palmate; carrying palmate horns. ? Obs.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans E iv, Too brawnchis first pawmyd he most haue. 1575 Turberv. Venerie 56 This heade should be called a palmed toppe. 1622 Drayton Poly-olb. xxiii. (1748) 355 The proud palmed deer Forsake the closer woods. 1697 Phil. Trans. XIX. 505 All of the Deer Kind, carrying the same sort of Palmed Horns. |
2. palmate as a leaf.
| 1766 J. Bartram Jrnl. 17 Jan. 40 Here we cut down three tall palm or cabbage trees, and cut out the top bud, the white tender part of the rudiments of the great leaves, which will be 6 or 7 foot long, when full grown, and the palmed part 4 in diameter. |
3. In parasynthetic comb.: Having a palm or palms (of a specified kind).
| c 1400 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) iii, Of the bucke..His heede is pamynge and longe pamed. 1611 Cotgr. s.v. Paumé, A full-paulmed Stags head. 1613 Chapman Masque Wks. 1873 III. 115 She..loves hounds and high pallmd harts. 1852 R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 197 He carried the smart dogskin wash-leather palmed glove of his right hand in his left one. 1889 Daily News 18 July 7/1 The average palmed, square tipped man is the average man of sense. |
▪ II. palmed, ppl. a.
(pɑːmd)
[f. palm v.2 + -ed1.]
Concealed in the palm of the hand.
| 1896 Daily News 3 June 8/3 Keeping the hand closed, until the opportunity occurs for getting rid of the palmed article. |