'Palp' definitions:
Definition of 'Palp'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Palp'
From: GCIDE
- Palp \Palp\, v. t. [L. palpare: cf. F. palper.] To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- To bring a palp[`e]d darkness o'er the earth. --Heywood. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'palp'
From: GCIDE
- Palpus \Pal"pus\, n.; pl. Palpi. [NL. See Palp.] (Zool.) A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera. [1913 Webster]