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.

A small 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.

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.

Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive.

One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.

Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage.

Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations; parental affection.

In a parental manner.

Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies.

Kinship; parentage.

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as if in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark; a parenthetical style.

In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.

The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.

Deprived of parents.

A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.

One who, or that which, pares; an instrument for paring.

See Parergy.

Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.

Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.

Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; -- applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals. A parethmoid bone.

Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.

By my faith; verily.

Perfect.

Perfectly.

A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.

With the lower focal points all in the same plane; -- said of sets of eyepieces so mounted that they may be interchanged without varying the focus of the instrument (as a microscope or telescope) with which they are used.

To perform.

A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.

See Bargeboard.

Gypsum or plaster stone.

A plasterer.

Plasterwork; A kind of decorative plasterwork in raised ornamental figures, formerly used for the internal and external decoration of houses. the plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth surface and help the draught.

Something made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster.

Of or pertaining to parhelia.

A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene.

See Parhelion.