▪ I. palming, vbl. n.1
(ˈpɑːmɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
The action of palm v.
1. Touching or grasping with the palm of the hand. (In quot. 1686 with play on sense 2.)
| 1686 Dryden Sp. Fryar ii. iii, (He strokes her Face)..Gom. Hold, hold, Father,..Palming is always held foul Play amongst Gamesters. 1734 Fielding Univ. Gallant iii. Wks. 1882 X. 75 There's no good ever comes of romping and palming: I never gave my hand to any man without a glove—except Sir Simon. |
2. The action of concealing something in the palm of the hand, as in cheating at cards or dice, or in conjuring.
| 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 17 Spent..in palming, napping, with how to fix a Die for any purpose. 1710 H. Bedford Vind. Ch. Eng. Pref. 54 The palming by Religious Juglers. 1803 Sporting Mag. XXI. 326 Palming, or handling the cards—so called from the cards being secured in the palm of the hand. 1899 Daily News 6 May 8/5 Such as are fond of palming and conjuring. |
3. palming off (U.S. Law) = passing vbl. n. 2 b. Also attrib.
| 1891 Atlantic Reporter XXI. 613/2 The language of the court imports an intentional deceit and palming off. 1925 Federal Reporter (1926) VII. 604/1 In the case at bar the means are as plainly unlawful as in the usual case of palming off. It is as unlawful to lie about the quality of one's wares as about their maker. 1942 Ibid. CXXIV. 706/1 Under Illinois law the ‘palming off doctrine’ is not treated as merely the designation of a typical class of cases of unfair competition, but as a rule of law itself. 1956 Dior v. Milton in N.Y. Suppl. 2nd Ser. CLV. 452 With the passage of those simple and halcyon days when the chief business malpractice was ‘palming off’, and with the development of more complex business relationships..many courts..have extended the doctrine of unfair competition beyond the cases of ‘palming off’. 1965 A. Bogsch in Ibid. 329/2 The principle of ‘passing off’ or ‘palming off’. |
4. attrib.
| 1812 Byron Waltz xiii, Till some might marvel, with the modest Turk, If ‘nothing follows all this palming work?’ 1812 J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Palming-racket, secreting money in the palm of the hand. |
▪ II. ˈpalming, vbl. n.2
[f. palm n.1 4 + -ing1; cf. blackberrying, etc.]
Gathering ‘palms’.
| 1825 Hone Every-day Bk. I. 396 It is still customary..to go a palming..on Palm Sunday morning;..gathering branches of the willow or sallow with their grey..buds. |
▪ III. ˈpalming, ppl. a.1
[f. palm v. + -ing2.]
That palms; touching or grasping with the hand.
| 1775 Sheridan Rivals ii. i, But country-dances!..to run the gauntlet through a string of amorous palming puppies. |
▪ IV. † palming, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. palm n.2 + -ing2.]
Of a deer's horn: Bearing palms.
| c 1400 [see palmed a. 3]. |