\Pal"let\, n. [OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw,
fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. ? fine meal,
dust, Skr. pala straw, pal[=a]va chaff. Cf. {Paillasse}.]
A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. --Milton.

\Pal"let\, n. [F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and
orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See
{Peel} a shovel.]
1. (Paint.) Same as {Palette}.
2. (Pettery)
   (a) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers,
       etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
       It is oval, round, and of other forms.
   (b) A potter's wheel.
3. (Gilding)
   (a) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the
       pillow, and to apply it.
   (b) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
4. (Brickmaking) A board on which a newly molded brick is
   conveyed to the hack. --Knight.
5. (Mach.)
   (a) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
   (b) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain
       pump. --Knight.
6. (Horology) One of the pieces or levers connected with the
   pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which
   receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or
   balance wheel. --Brande & C.
7. (Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and
   the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
8. (Zo["o]l.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the
   siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See
   Illust. of {Teredo}.
9. A cup containing three ounces, -- ?ormerly used by
   surgeons.