Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pali"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pali \Pa"li\, n. [Ceylonese, fr. Skr. p[=a]li row, line, series,
applied to the series of Buddhist sacred texts.]
A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead
language, except when used as the sacred language of the
Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pali \Pa"li\, n.,
pl. of {Palus}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Palus \Pa"lus\, n.; pl. {Pali}. [L., a stake.] (Zo["o]l.)
One of several upright slender calcareous processes which
surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.
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