PALETTE

Pal″ette (?), n. [[See Pallet a thin board.]] 1. 1. (Paint.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also pallet.]
2. 2. (Anc. Armor) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. Fairholt.
3. 3. (Mech.) A breastplate for a breast drill.
Palette knife, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to mix colors on the grinding slab or palette. — To set the palette (Paint.), to lay upon it the required pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use of them in a picture. Fairholt.