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Palmary

Palmary \Pal"ma*ry\, a. (Anat.) Palmar.

Palmary

Palmary \Pal"ma*ry\, a. [L. palmarius, palmaris, belonging to palms, deserving the palm or prize, fr. palma a palm.] Worthy of the palm; palmy; pre["e]minent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work.
--Br. Horne.

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palmary

a. 1 Worthy of the palm; preeminent; superior. 2 principal; chief 3 (context anatomy English) palmar

Usage examples of "palmary".

Once again, I raised my estimate of how much money this Grand Feast must pour into the Palmary economy.

This was one of the Patth elite diplomatic corps, possibly even the Palmary ambassador himself.

It was my people on Palmary who stood guard over the spaceport during your mad rush off the planet.

She saw kleptomancers of Palmary and outcasts of Serpenttooth plotting in the present.

But my friend, an anxiously religious man, now, as then, very dear to me, a Protestant still, pointed out the palmary words of St.

Liet Kynes saw little of his father during his earliest childhood Many of the duties that would ordinarily have been filled by his father had been taken over by Stilgar a Fremen fifteen years Liet Kynes senior whom Pardot Kynes had seen joined to his son in blood brotherhood in 101 j8 Raised with the rest of the sietch children he was taught the ways of bled and sietch, palmary and desert He learned Fremen history as related by the Sayyadina water discipline and customs, and the fanatic hatred the Fremen had possessed for all those of House Harkonnen since the day Beast Rabban had been gi\en jurisdiction over Arrakis in 10162 To anyone not knowing his parentage, the boy would have seemed like any other Fremen youngster, the product of generations of life on the desert planet .

He talked to the Fremen about water, about dunes anchored by grass, about palmaries filled with date palms, about open qanats flowing across the desert.