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.

The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.

To make or be partial.

In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed.

The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance.

Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible.

Capable of being participated or shared.

A participator; a partaker.

In a participant manner.

To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of.

Taking part in an activity; as, the participating organizations.

The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.

Capable of participating.

One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.

Affording the opportunity for individual participation; as, participatory democracy.

A participial word.

To form into, or put in the form of, a participle.

A part of speech partaking of the nature of both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.

A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.

A large and expensive scientific instrument used by physicists to accelerate elementary particles (such as protons or electrons) to speeds near that of light, for the purpose of investigating the fundamental properties of matter; sometimes also called an atom smasher, since the particles thus accelerated are often directed at targets of atoms which are fragmented by the impact into their more fundamental component particles.

That branch of physics which investigates the nature of matter, and in particular the properties and behavior of the elementary particles (fundamental particles), of which matter is composed. Included in this field is the more specialized branch of high-energy physics.

A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.

Same as particularize.

A minute description; a detailed statement.

One who holds to particularism.

The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

The act of particularizing.

To mention or attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be circumstantial; as, to particularize in a narrative.

Stated or described in detail.

In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly.

A particular; a detail.

Having the form of a particle.

Matter composed of particles; -- often used in the pl.; as, the quantity of particulates in auto exhaust is strictly regulated.

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.

A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.

The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct characteristic of a partisan.

A suite; a set of variations.

Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.

To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.

Divided into partitions.

An analysis into mutually exclusive categories.

An advocate of partitioning a country.

The act of partitioning.

A word or phrase expressing partition, or denoting a part; as, the phrase /of the team/ in /half of the team/.

In a partitive manner.

A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but later by women alone; a ruff.

In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly.

To associate, to join.

The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.

imp. of Partake.

Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicid/, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird.

The local environment; as, he hasn't been seen around these parts in years.

A song with two or more voice parts.

Departure.

To bring forth young.

Parturition.

Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.

A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing.

Parturient.

The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.

Pertaining to parturition; obstetric.

Partly.

Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors.

Someone who is attending a party{4}; as, the hall was crowded with an overflow of partygoers.

Devotion to party.

The type genus of the Parulidae: wood warblers.

A natural family of New World warblers.

Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.

An ornament or decoration for the person; esp., a decoration consisting of a set of ornaments to be used together; as, a parure of rubies or of embroideries.

The type genus of the family Paridae.

A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.

The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to magnanimity.

The wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi; the goddess of plenty.

An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.

A court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers.

Littleness.

A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel.