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Definition of Palming
1. palm [v] - See also: palm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palming
Literary usage of Palming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses by William Horatio Bates (1920)
"CHAPTER XII palming ALL the methods used in the cure of errors of refraction are
simply different ways of obtaining relaxation, and most patients, ..."
2. A Cyclopaedia of Six Thousand Practical Receipts, and Collateral Information by Arnold James Cooley (1850)
"It forms pearly scales, and melts at 1411°, like mar- garic acid. palming.
A new fatty substance obtained by treating castor oil with nitrous acid. ..."
3. An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling: Designed Especially as a by Jonathan Harrington Green (1847)
"Stealing out cards, and palming.—The cheat of stealing cards is practised as
often, perhaps, as any other fraud in card-playing. It is of great advantage to ..."
4. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"was desirous of palming upon the world for a " posthumous one of Shakespeare:
and I sec " u is classed as such in the last edition of tht Mr. Pope ..."
5. Joe Strong, the Boy Wizard: Or, The Mysteries of Magic Exposed by Vance Barnum (1916)
"Passing of articles from one hand to another, involves palming, ... palming is
the basis of many tricks. The explanation of these tricks is very simple, ..."
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