Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

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2. A lecher; a lewd person. [Obs.] Dryden.

PALLIASSE
Pal*liasse", n.

Defn: See Paillasse.

PALLIATE Pal"li*ate, a. Etym: [L. palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak. See Pall the garment.]

1. Covered with a mant [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

PALLIATE
Pal"li*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palliated(); p. pr. & vb. n.
Palliating().]

1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.] Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert.

2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift.

3. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease. To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. Cowper.