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Parcel

Part or half; in part; partially.

Parcenary

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

Parcener

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.

Parch

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

Parchment

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

Parchmentize

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

Parclose

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

Pard

A leopard; a panther.

Pardie Parde

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

Pardo

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

Pardon

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

Pardonable

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.

Pardonableness

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

Pardonably

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

Pardoning

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

Pare

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

paregmenon

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

Paregoric

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

Parelcon

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

Parelectronomic

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

Parelectronomy

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

Parelle Parella

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.

parenchyma

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

parenchymal

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.

Parenchymous Parenchymatous

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

parent

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

Parentage

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

Parental

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

Parentation

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

Parenthesize

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

parenthetical parenthetic

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.

Parenthetically

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

Parenthood

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

Parepididymis

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.

Parer

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

Parergy

Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.

Paresis

Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.

Parethmoid

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.

Paretic

Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.

Parfleche

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.

Parfocal

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.

Pargasite

A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.

Parget

Gypsum or plaster stone.

Pargeting

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.

Pargetory

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

Parhelion

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.

Parial

See Pair royal, under Pair, n.

Parian

A native or inhabitant of Paros.

Paridigitate

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

Paries

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

Parietary

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

Parietic

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

Parigenin

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

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.

parimutuel

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.

Paring

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

parings

Parts that are pared or cut off.

Paripinnate

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

Paris

The chief city of France.

Parish

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

Parishioner

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

Parisology

The use of equivocal or ambiguous words.

parison

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

Parity

The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; a like state or degree; equality; equivalence; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning.

parity bit

The bit within a data structure which is assigned a value of 1 or 0 so as to make the parity{7} of the data structure odd or even. Data structures may or may not have parity bits, dpending on whether the system does or does not perform parity checking. The most commonly used parity bit is the eigth (higher-order) bit of a byte, which is used when data transmission uses only the 7 lower-order bits of each byte as significant data; some memory systems use a ninth bit as a parity bit for each eight bits (one byte) of significant data in memory.

parity check

The act or process of testing whether a byte or other data structure has an even or odd number of bits set to the value of 1; -- it is used primarily to detect errors in data, especially in memory banks or in data transmitted over a communications line. The parity can be changed by assigning one bit in each data structure as the parity bit, so that the total number of bits set to the value of 1 is odd (odd parity) or even (even parity). If parity is used for error checking the writing and reading systems must first agree on which type of parity (odd or even) to use; if the reading system detects a deviation from the agreed parity, it signals an error, to be handled by the error-handling processes of the system.

Parjanya

The Hindu god of rain; sometimes identified with Indra.

Park

To promenade or drive in a park; also, of horses, to display style or gait on a park drive.

parked

p. p. of park, v. t., 2; -- of vehicles; as, there were four parked cars across the street.

Parkee Parka

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

Parkeria

A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.

Parkeriaceae

A natural family of ferns coextensive with the genus Ceratopteris; sometimes it is included in the family Polypodiaceae.

Parkesine

A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.

Parkia

A genus of tropical Old World trees, including the nitta trees.

parking

The act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily.

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's

A disease causing parkinsonism, a degenerative nervous disorder; sometimes used loosely as a synonym for parkinsonism. More precisely, parkinson's disease is the term for the underlying physiological disorder and parkinsonism is the term for the set of symptoms associated with the disease. See parkinsonism.

Parkinsonia

A small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees.

parkinsonism

A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).

parkleaves

A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.

parkway

A wide scenic road planted with trees.

parky

Cold; -- of weather.

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