From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [From Palate.] (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the palate; palatal.
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{Palatine bones} (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in
the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between
the maxillaries.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Palatine \Pal"a*tine\ n. (Anat.)
A palatine bone.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr.
palatium. See {Palace}, and cf. {Paladin}.]
1. Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a
palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
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2. Of or pertaining to the Palatinate.
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3. Of or pertaining to a Palatine[1].
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{Count palatine}, {County palatine}. See under {Count}, and
{County}.
{Palatine hill}, or {The palatine}, one of the seven hills of
Rome, once occupied by the palace of the C[ae]sars. See
also {Palatine Hill} in the vocabulary, and {Palace}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Palatine \Pal"a*tine\, n.
1. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his
domains; a count palatine. See {Count palatine}, under 4th
{Count}.
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2. The Palatine hill in Rome.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
palatine
adj 1: relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index";
"the palatine tonsils" [syn: {palatal}, {palatine}]
2: of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
3: of or relating to a palace
n 1: any of various important officials in ancient Rome
2: (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised
sovereign powers over his lands [syn: {palatine},
{palsgrave}]
3: the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the
location of the first settlement and the site of many
imperial palaces
4: either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of
the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the
floor of the orbits [syn: {palatine}, {palatine bone}, {os
palatinum}]
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