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.

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.

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.

See Pair royal, under Pair, n.

A native or inhabitant of Paros.

Same as Artiodactyla.

Having an even number of digits on the hands or the feet.

The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

One of the parietal bones.

Any one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st Pellitory.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid.

A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.

A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin.

A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and sarsaparillin.

A form of betting where winners share the total amount wagered, in proporation to their bets, and less a portion for the management; -- used commonly in betting at horse racing track. In parimutuel betting, the payoff for a bet does not have fixed odds, but depends on the amount bet on each outcome.

The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything.

Parts that are pared or cut off.

Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

The chief city of France.

Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.

A parishioner.

Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial.

One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.

Of or pertaining to Paris.

A female native or resident of Paris.

The use of equivocal or ambiguous words.

An intermediate stage or shape of a glass object which is produced in more than one stage.

Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.