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Definition of Palping
1. palp [v] - See also: palp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palping
Literary usage of Palping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"After viewing and palping, he very seriously desired to call in assistance, and
has examined it again to-day with Mr. Cline, a surgeon, as he says, ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"... and to visit the prey as if to assure itself of the safety of this object,
and to enjoy the satisfaction of touching it with the mouth and palping it. ..."
3. Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) by Edward Gibbon, Henry North Holroyd Sheffield (1897)
"After viewing and palping, he very seriously desired to call in assistance, and
has examined it again to-day with Mr. Cline,4 a surgeon, as he says, ..."
4. The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq.: With Memoirs of His Life and by Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd Sheffield (1837)
"After viewing and palping, be very seriously desired to call m assistance, and
hoe examined it again to-day with Mr. Cline, a surgeon, as he says, ..."
5. History of Christianity: Comprising All that Relates to the Progress of the by Edward Gibbon (1916)
"After viewing and palping, he very seriously desired " to call in assistance and
has examined it again to-day with " Mr. Cline, a surgeon, as he says, ..."
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