palicium

palicium, ~ia [OF palice < CL 1 palus+2 -īcius] 1 palisade, fence, stockade; b (round fortress or town); c (round domestic building, workplace, garden, or hill); d (round park); e (for combat). 1091 nulli licuit in Normannia fossatum facere in planam terram, nisi tale quod de fundo potuisset terram jactare sine scabello, et ibi non licuit facere ~ium nisi in una regula, et illud sine propugnaculis et alatoriis Consuet. Norm. 507; 1178 in reparatione ~ii prostrati per ventum Pipe 33; 1344 super quam venellam abbas de L. fecit quendam ~ium, continentem in latitudine duos pedes et plus MGL II 451; ~ium, ~cii, est quedam clausura facta ex palis, A. a palys WW; 1573 sepes ‥ fossata, inclus’, pallic’ at omnes alias necessarias separaciones Pat 1104 m. 12/25; 1587 reparaciones pali[c]earum Pat 1300 m. 10.  b 1167 in reparatione ~ii de castello xl s. Pipe 72; ? 1179 ipsi super fossatum totum burgum claudent bono ~io et, exquo clausum fuerit, ~ium illud sustentabunt Regesta Scot. 213; 1230 accedat ad ‥ castrum et videat quid et quantum maeremii opus fecerit ad barbecanas et ~ia ipsius castri reparanda Cl 357; 1307 cum toftis et croftis et vacuis placeis nostris infra ~ium ejusdem ville (Berwick) BBC 324; 1325 pallicium extra castrum super motam (v. 2 mota 4).  c 1211 in quodam pilicio juxta daeriam viij d. Pipe Wint. 141; 1279 inclusit centum acras terre et plus cum foveis et pilatio PQW 349a.; a1281 sic sequendo inter terram siccam et mariscum usque ad ~ium monachorum quod est ex orientali parte grangie Couch. Furness II 539; a1291 includant ‥ pasturas ‥ fossato, muro vel ~io Ib. II 566; 1295 v s. in factura ‥ ~ii circa galeam in grosso KR Ac 5/8 m. 2; 1296 in cccc clavis ferri ad palyceam faciendam circa Galeam vj d. ob. Ac. Galley Newcastle 165; 1305 in pallec’ circa coquinam emendand’, j d. ob. ‥ in j pallecia circa herbarium emendanda et erigenda, iij d. MinAc 991/27; c1450 pro pratis, pascuis et pasturis infra palcium ex occidentali parte de T. MonA II 242.  d 1172 in reparatione palizii parci de Geldeford, xl s. Pipe 141; 1257 claudi et emendari faciat omnes defectus ~ii parci illius Cl 167; 1390 debent eciam claudere et sustinere ‥ xvj perticas ~ii circa parcum de W. Crawley 292; 1337 de Willelmo Cissore de Hoton’ quia saltavit ultra palic’ parci, vj d. KR Ac 131/27 m. 7d..  e 1364 pro meremio recepto ‥ ad clausuram ~ii pro duello ExchScot 129. 2 lattice (of lines in chiromancy). ad finem tercii [sc. digiti] rimulae ‥ parvae ‥ sursum tendentes vulnera corporis produnt nisi ante illi tres digiti palicie conjunguntur Tract. Chirom. f. 282rb.