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.

An apparitor.

Pellitory.

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

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.

The process of performing a parity check.

The Hindu god of rain; sometimes identified with Indra.

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

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

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

The keeper of a park.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.