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a. Having or bearing a palm or palms. [ 1913 Webster ]

Palmed deer (Zool.), a stag of full growth, bearing palms. See 1st Palm, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Palm, v. t. ] One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Palm the tree. ] A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. P. Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all. T. Staveley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4. (b) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., dim. of palme a palm. ] A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of palm the tree: cf. Sp. palmito. ] (Bot.) A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States. In the United States, the name is applied especially to the Chamærops Palmetto, or Sabal Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Royal palmetto, the West Indian Sabal umbraculifera, the trunk of which, when hollowed, is used for water pipes, etc. The leaves are used for thatching, and for making hats, ropes, etc. --
Saw palmetto, Sabal serrulata, a native of Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. The nearly impassable jungle which it forms is called palmetto scrub. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any of several flags adopted by South Carolina after its secession. That adopted in November, 1860, had a green cabbage palmetto in the center of a white field; the final one, January, 1861, had a white palmetto in the center of a blue field and a white crescent in the upper left-hand corner. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. prop. n. South Carolina; -- a nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation of a palmetto tree. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]