A collector or writer of proverbs.

The fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell.

A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters, by a change in crystal structure without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite; called also allomorph.

The change of one mineral species to another, so as to involve a change in physical characters without alteration of chemical composition.

Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism.

The highest or chief.

In a paramount manner.

A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.

By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words.

A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.

Anthracene; -- called also paranaphthaline.

A stout strait-edged knife used in Malayasia and Indonesia.

A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called /cranks./ Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.

A person affected with paranoia.

Affected with paranoia; as, a paranoid schizophrenic.

Of or pertaining to parapsychology; pertaining to forces or mental processes, such as extrasensory perception or psychokinesis, outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; as, paranormal phenomena.

An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.

Some as Nucleolus.

A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride. The bridesmaid who conducted the bride to the bridegroom.

Bridal; nuptial.

A gelatinous modification of pectin.

An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.

A proteinaceous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.

Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.

Having a parapet.

To add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.

The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own.

Of or pertaining to paraphernalia; as, paraphernal property.

A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.

Pyrophosphoric.

One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea.

To make a paraphrase.

One who paraphrases.

A paraphraser.

A paraphraser.

Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free.

A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.

Palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord.

A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.

The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

Of or pertaining to parapsychology; pertaining to forces or mental processes outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; as, parapsychological research.

One who studies or is versed in parapsychology.

The field of study concerned with psychological phenomena not explainable by the laws of physics, especially extrasensory perception, telepathy, psychokinesis, precognition, and clairvoyance.

A special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and metathorax of certain insects.

See Parrakeet.

A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.

One of two apartments adjoining the stage, probably used as robing rooms.

Among the Jews, the evening before the Sabbath.

Of or pertaining to a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc.

A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion.

A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.

pl. of Parashah.

An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc. A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata.

Of or pertaining to parasites; parasitic.

Capable of destroying parasites, especially capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms.

Anything used to destroy parasites.

A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.

To shade as with a parasol.

Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. The parasphenoid bone.

A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.

An unlawful meeting.

Formed from a compound word.

Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.

The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax.

Of or pertaining to parathesis.

A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.

Peradventure. See Paraventure.

A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.

At the bottom; lowest.

Peradventure; perchance.

A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.

On either side of the axis of the skeleton.

A hydrocarbon (C6H4(CH3)2) of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene. Cf. Metamer, and Xylene.

To boil or cook thoroughly.

Vomit.

To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

The Fates. See Fate, 4.

Perchance; by chance.

Part or half; in part; partially.

By parcels or parts.

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate.

To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.

The state of being parched.

See Pachisi.

See Pachisi.

Scorching; burning; drying.

same as Pachisi.

A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.

The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.

To convert to a parchmentlike substance, especially by sulphuric acid.

Sparingless.

A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church.

A leopard; a panther.

A leopard.

Certainly; surely; truly; verily; -- originally an oath.

Spotted like a pard.

A money of account once used in in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts. (in 1913).

To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.

Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.

The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin.

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

One who pardons.

Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God.

To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

Juxtaposing words having a common derivation, as in the phrase "sense and sensibility".

A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.

The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb.

Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.

A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

A name for two kinds of dock (Rumex Patientia and Rumex Hydrolapathum). A kind of lichen (Lecanora parella) once used in dyeing and in the preparation of litmus.

A kind of parenthesis.

See Parament.

Same as Parembole.

The soft cellular substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, the soft tissue of glands, and the like.

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.

Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration.

Exhortation.