Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Palatine \Pal"a*tine\, a. [From Palate.] (Anat.)
   Of or pertaining to the palate.

   {Palatine bones} (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in
      the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between
      the maxillaries.