A small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees.

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).

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

A wide scenic road planted with trees.

Cold; -- of weather.

Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.

Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.

The act of betting the winnings from a prior bet, plus the original stake, on a subsequent bet; the second or later such bet in a series; also, a series of such bets, with the stakes for later bets coming from the winnings of earlier bets.

Conversation; talk; parley.

To speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners, an armistice, or terms of peace.

A parleying; a discussion; a conference.

Parliamentary.

One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I.

In a parliamentary manner.

A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor. Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained; a room in a private house where people can sit and talk and relax, not usually the same as the dining room.

Same as parlor.

The type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens.

Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy.

A genus of herbs growing in wet places, and having white flowers; grass of Parnassus.

One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made little use of emotion as poetic material; -- so called from the name (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first poems were collected in 1866.

Same as Parnassian.

A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring.

The policy or principles of the Parnellites.

One of the adherents of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91) in his advocacy of home rule for Ireland.

Situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.

Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties; parochial schools.

The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.

The state of being parochial.

To render parochial; to form into parishes.

In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes.

A parishioner.

Having the character of parody.

One who writes a parody; one who parodies.

To write a parody upon; to burlesque.

See Paroquet.

Given or done by word of mouth; oral; also, given by a writing not under seal; as, parol evidence.

To set at liberty on parole; as, to parole prisoners.

A group of individuals with authority to determine whether a prisoner will be granted parole{5} from a particular prison.

A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.

A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning.

Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.

Paronomasia.

A whitlow, or felon{3}.

A paronymous word.

Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; -- said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc.

The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.

A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.

Same as Parrakeet.

The part of the epididymis, or the corresponding part of the excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the Wolffian body.

Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.

Pertaining to parostosis.

On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear.

The parotid gland.

Inflammation of the parotid glands.

Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs. A parotoid gland.

The nativity of our Lord. The last day.

A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoophoron.

The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.

Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper.

A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.

Formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures.

A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors.

See Parquet.

A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling. A young leveret.

A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan.

The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure.

Boldness or freedom of speech.

Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide.

Parricidal.

A croft, or small field; a paddock.

To chatter like a parrot.

The glory pea. See under Glory.

One who simply repeats what he has heard.

Any of several gaudy tropical fishes of the family Scaridae having parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth.

A genus containing one species, the irontree.

A genus of trees containing only one species, a deciduous tree of Himalaya.

Mechanically imitated or repeated without thought or understanding; as, a mere parrotlike word-calling process; a voice quality sounding parrotlike.

Servile imitation or repetition.

A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.

To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.

A unit of length used in describing astronomical distances, equal to 3.26 light years, or 3.086 x 1013 km. Abbreviated pc. The derived units of kiloparsec (kpc, 1000 parsecs) and megaparsec (mpc, one million parsecs) are often found in discussion of astronomical distances.

The religion and customs of the Parsees.

One who parses.

Same as Parsee.

Same as Parseeism.

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.

The quality of being parsimonious; extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.

Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.

An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish.

The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.

A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.

Furnished with a parson.

Of or pertaining to a parson; clerical.

Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement.

Partly; in a measure.

A working schedule occupying less than full time, i.e. less than 35 hours per week.

Somone who works part-time; a part-time employee. Contrasted with full-timer.

See Partible.

To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share.

One who partakes; a sharer; a participator.

An edible British crab.

Separated; divided.

One who, or which, parts or separates.

An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

A poem in honor of a virgin.

Of or pertaining to the Spartan Partheni/, or sons of unmarried women.

A genus of woody vines having disklike tips on the tendrils.

The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.

Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms.

Parthenogenetic.

Same as Parthenogenesis.

A celebrated marble temple of Athena, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.

One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.

Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. A native of Parthia.

To make motley or parti-colored.

Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly. Same as Party-colored.

Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower.

Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.

Partiality; the doctrine of the Partialists.

One who is partial.