Defn: A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

PALINDROMIC; PALINDROMICAL
Pal`in*drom"ic, Pal`in*drom"ic*al, a.

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.

PALINDROMIST
Pa*lin"dro*mist, n.

Defn: A writer of palindromes.

PALING
Pal"ing, n.

1. Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure. They moved within the paling of order and decorum. De Quincey.

2. The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer. Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]

PALINGENESIA
Pal`in*ge*ne"si*a, n.Etym: [NL.]

Defn: See Palingenesis.