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Palette \Pal"ette\, n. [See {Pallet} a thin board.]
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1. (Paint.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a
thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter
lays and mixes his pigments. Hence, any other object,
usually one with a flat surface, used for the same
purpose. [Written also {pallet}.]
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2. Hence: The complete set of colors used by an artist or
other person in creating an image, in any medium. The
meaning of this term has been extended in modern times to
include the set of colors used in a particular computer
application, or the complete set of of colors available in
computer displays or printing techniques.
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3. Hence: The complete range of resources and techniques used
in any art, such as music.
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4. (Anc. Armor) One of the plates covering the points of
junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
--Fairholt.
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5. (Mech.) A breastplate for a breast drill.
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{Palette knife}, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and
no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to
mix colors on the grinding slab or palette.

{To set the palette} (Paint.), to lay upon it the required
pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use
of them in a picture. --Fairholt.
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pallet \pal"let\ (p[a^]l"l[e^]t), n. [OE. paillet, F. paillet a
heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr.
? fine meal, dust, Skr. pala straw, pal[=a]va chaff. Cf.
{Paillasse}.]
A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. --Milton.
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Pallet \Pal"let\, n. [Dim. of pale. See {Pale} a stake.] (Her.)
A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth
of the pale.
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Pallet \Pal"let\, n. [F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and
orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See
{Peel} a shovel.]
1. (Paint.) Same as {Palette}.
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2. (Pottery)
(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.
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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.
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4. (Brickmaking) A board on which a newly molded brick is
conveyed to the hack. --Knight.
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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.
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6. (Horology) 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.
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7. (Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and
the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
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8. (Zool.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the
siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See
Illust. of {Teredo}.
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9. A cup containing three ounces, -- formerly used by
surgeons.
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10. A low movable platform used for temporary storage of
objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is
commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and
typically has openings in the side into which the blades
of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and
move the pallet and the objects on it.
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