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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Palm  \Palm\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Palmed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Palming}.] 
  1.  To  handle.  [Obs.]  --Prior. 
 
  2.  To  manipulate  with  or  conceal  in  the  palm  of  the  hand; 
  to  juggle. 
 
  They  palmed  the  trick  that  lost  the  game.  --Prior. 
 
  3.  To  impose  by  fraud,  as  by  sleight  of  hand;  to  put  by 
  unfair  means  --  usually  with  off 
 
  For  you  may  palm  upon  us  new  for  old  --Dryden. 




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