Painter's Colic

See Colic, and Lead.

Paisley

Paisley, a manufacturing town of Renfrewshire, Scotland, on both banks of the White Cart, about 3 in. above its junction with the Clyde, 8 m. W. by S. of Glasgow; pop. in 1871, 48,257. The navigation of the Cart to Paisley was improved in 1787, and vessels of 180 tons burden can now go up to the town. Its celebrated manufacture of the finest shawls was introduced about the beginning of the 19th century. Silk gauze, muslins, plaids, chenille, handkerchiefs, cotton, thread, carpets, soap, leather, and malt and distilled liquors, are manufactured; and there are brass founderies, boat-building yards, etc. The town owes its existence to the priory, founded about 1160, on the E. bank of the Cart, by Walter, high steward of Scotland. In 1219 the priory was raised to an abbacy by Pope Honorius III. With the growth of this establishment arose Paisley, which in 1488 was erected by James IV. into a free burgh of barony.

Palamedes

Palamedes, a legendary Greek hero, son of Nauplius and Clymene. He served in the expedition against Troy, and for a time was commander-in-chief in place of Agamemnon, whose measures he opposed. According to the old Cyprian epic, he was drowned while fishing, by Diomedes and Ulysses; but a later tradition is that he was accused of treason by Ulysses, who concealed gold or a forged letter from Priam in his tent, and then charged him with having been bribed by Priam. When Palamedes was led out to die, he exclaimed: "Truth, I lament thee, for thou hast died even before me." He is not mentioned by Homer, but was made the subject of tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and by some represented as the inventor of lighthouses, weights and measures, dice, and the alphabet.

Palatine

Palatine (Hung, nádor), under the old Hungarian constitution, the title of the royal lieutenant, in later periods officiating as mediator between the nation and king, and as president of the upper house of the diet. The archduke Joseph, brother of the emperor Francis, and his son Stephen, were the last palatines, the latter officiating at the beginning of the Hungarian revolution of 1848. - The term was also used as a title (Pol. wojewoda) of the governors of the larger divisions or provinces (woje-wodztwa, palatinates) of independent Poland. - For Count Palatine, see Palatinate.

Pales

Pales, in Roman mythology, the tutelary deity of flocks and shepherds, holding nearly the same place in the religious worship of Rome that Pan held among the Greeks, and represented by some writers as a male and by others as a female. The festival of Pales, called Palilia, was celebrated on April 21, the anniversary of the foundation of Rome by Romulus. The principal rites were the purification of the stables, flocks, and herds by fire and smoke, and the offering of cakes, millet, and milk, followed by prolonged jollity and feasting.

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