The upper jaw of the shark is part of the palate, the palate being fused with the quadrate bone which supports the lower jaw.
The palate with the suspensorium is coalesced with the skull, and the teeth are grown together into bony plates.
In some fishes certain parts of the palate or pharyngeal region are well supplied with nerves, but no direct evidence exists that these have a function of discrimination among foods.
The hard palate is composed of spongy tissue that fills with blood when the horse is feeding, which causes the ridges to become prominent, and they then help to keep feed from dropping from the mouth.
Lampas is the name given to a swelling of the mucous membrane covering the hard palate and projecting in a more or less prominent ridge immediately behind the upper incisors.
Where there is some irritation in the mouth, as in stomatitis or during teething, the prominence of the hard palate may persist, owing to the increased blood supply.
The palate tasteth venison and the wise heart false speeches.
Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste?
This fish is usually full of eggs or spawn; and is by Gesner, and other learned physicians, commended for great nourishment, and to be very grateful both to the palate and stomach of sick persons.
It may, as the warder said, be good oatmeal, but to an unaccustomed palate it is not inviting.
But the remembrance of the palate pleasures of the next course, will not allow me to dwell longer upon this.
His palate was as keen for good talk as for good wine.
Even this became insipid, as wanting one main element of misery to the sufferer, and an indispensable condiment to the jaded palate of the connoisseur, viz.
To his fever-parched palate the water tasted a vile draught; and he turned from it in loathing and despair.
Presently the moan for water was again uttered, and now the fevered palate at last began to feel its coolness.
Signal notes which there is no mistaking, have been played on the visual and olfactory organs for some time past, and the palate itself has had foretastes of that which is about to be.
It is therefore to other properties than those which make their appeal to the palate that we must confine ourselves in our mention of mince-pie.
As is usual, that taste had created a desire for more, a desire that seldom slumbered on an Indian palate when strong drinks were connected with its gratification.
Make it warm, and strain it through a tamis sieve into a clean stewpan; then season it to the palate with salt, lemon pickle, cayenne pepper, and tarragon or plain vinegar.
The whole of the liquor to be seasoned to the palate with cayenne pepper and lemon juice.
Make them of a proper thickness with flour and water, add a spoonful of essence of ham, season to the palate with cayenne pepper, and add a small lump of sugar if approved.
Let all simmer together for ten minutes, and rub them through a tamis cloth till the soup is of a proper thickness; season it to the palate with salt; make it boil, and serve it up with a gill of cream in it.
Make it boil, season it well to the palate with cayenne pepper and salt, skim it clean, and serve it up in a bowl.
Season to the palate with cayenne and lemon juice.
Put it over a fire, thicken it with flour and water, keep stirring till it boils, and then season to the palate with anchovie liquor, lemon juice, and cayenne pepper.
To the gratification of my palate they paid the most unwearied attention.
This kind of food is by no means disagreeable to the palate of a European, though at first the mode of eating it may be.
I will here repeat the saying of Hippocrates:--'What pleases the palate nourishes.
But there was not one fastidious palate present, and when the "wolf-mutton" was broiled, each cleaned his joint or his rib with as much gout as if he had been picking the bones of a pheasant.
I drank it in large quantities, for it was hot, and only moistened my palate without quenching the craving of my appetite.
Julius is clearly conscious of hating his saviour, and the consciousness is acid on his palate as he asks, with a wry smile: "What would your plan be if you were in my place?
If freed in truth, why should the sight and smell even of Brooker's sticky loquat-brandy have set the long-denied palate craving?
The spice of adventure her palate craved could be had by corresponding with Van Busch through the man Bough.
The flavour of success upon the palate may, like Imperial Tokay, be sensed but once in a lifetime, but you can never forget that once.
His palate grew dry, as the sweat broke out upon his temples and trickled down the back of his neck, and the palms of his hands were moist and clammy.
She had drunk sweetness, but there had been a tang of something in the cup that cloyed the palate and sickened the soul.
And the throat and palate of the man were parched with the desire of it.
Her desensitized and asphalt palatethrills and throbs beneath the tricklings of Cordon Rouge.
Mornay whose each and every drop of shrimp sauce carries with it to palate and nostril the faint suspicion of champagne.
This our bowe could not drink; and when Sir John very nobly declared he scorned to indulge his palate with rarities, for which he must furnish the foe with money to carry on a war with the nation, the stripling replied, "Rat the nation!
They put in my mouth a sweet, juicy corncob Just when of sensations my palate they rob, Do you wonder such sights make a spirit-pig sob!
As for turkey and plum pudding, they have a deep significance, but it is clearer to the palate than to the brain.
For in judging of any new thing, even of a taste similar to that which he has been formed by habit to like, he finds his palate affected in the natural manner, and on the common principles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
