Pal"ate , v. t. To perceive by the taste. [Obs.]
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Pal"ate (?), n. [L. palatum: cf. F. palais,
Of. also palat.]
1. (Anat.) The roof of the mouth.
&fist; The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the maxillary and palatine bones, is called the hard palate to distinguish it from the membranous and muscular curtain which separates the cavity of the
mouth from the pharynx and is called the soft palate, or velum.
2. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is
the organ of taste.
Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.
Pope. 3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. T. Baker.
4. (Bot.) A projection in the throat of
such flowers as the snapdragon.
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