Pared (imp. & p. p.) of Pare
Paring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pare
Pare (v. t.) To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
Pare (v. t.) To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
Pare (v. t.) Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
Paregoric (a.) Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.
Paregoric (n.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.
Parelcon (n.) The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb.
Parelectronomic (a.) Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.
Parelectronomy (n.) A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.
Parella (n.) Alt. of Parelle
Parelle (n.) A name for two kinds of dock (Rumex Patientia and R. Hydrolapathum).
Parelle (n.) A kind of lichen (Lecanora parella) once used in dyeing and in the preparation of litmus.
Parembole (n.) A kind of parenthesis.
Parement (n.) See Parament.
Paremptosis (n.) Same as Parembole.
Parenchyma (n.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.
Parenchymal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.
Parenchymatous (a.) Alt. of Parenchymous
Parenchymous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration.
Parenesis (n.) Exhortation.
Parenetic (a.) Alt. of Parenetioal
Parenetioal (a.) Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive.
Parent (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
Parent (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.
Parentage (n.) 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 (a.) Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations.
Parental (a.) Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care.
Parentally (adv.) In a parental manner.
Parentation (n.) Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies.
Parentele (n.) Kinship; parentage.
Parentheses (pl. ) of Parenthesis
Parenthesis (n.) A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes.
Parenthesis (n.) One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.
Parenthesize (v. t.) To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.
Parenthetic (a.) Alt. of Parenthetical
Parenthetical (a.) Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark.
Parenthetical (a.) Using or containing parentheses.
Parenthetically (adv.) In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.
Parenthood (n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
Parentticide (n.) The act of one who kills one's own parent.
Parentticide (n.) One who kills one's own parent; a parricide.
Parentless (a.) Deprived of parents.
Parepididymis (n.) 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 (v. t.) One who, or that which, pares; an instrument for paring.
Parergon (n.) See Parergy.
Parergy (n.) Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.
Paresis (n.) Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.
Parethmoid (a.) 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.
Parethmoid (n.) A parethmoid bone.
Paretic (a.) Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.
Parfay (interj.) By my faith; verily.
Parfit (a.) Perfect.
Parfitly (adv.) Perfectly.
Parforn (v. t.) Alt. of Parfourn
Parfourn (v. t.) To perform.
Pargasite (n.) A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.
Pargeboard (n.) See Bargeboard.
Pargeted (imp. & p. p.) of Parget
Pargeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parget
Parget (v. t.) To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
Parget (v. t.) To paint; to cover over.
Parget (v. i.) To lay on plaster.
Parget (v. i.) To paint, as the face.
Parget (n.) Gypsum or plaster stone.
Parget (n.) Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
Parget (n.) Paint, especially for the face.
Pargeter (n.) A plasterer.
Pargeting (n.) Plasterwork; esp.: (a) A kind of decorative plasterwork in raised ornamental figures, formerly used for the internal and external decoration of houses. (b) In modern architecture, the plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth surface and help the draught.
Pargetory (n.) Something made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster.
Parhelic (a.) Of or pertaining to parhelia.
Parhelia (pl. ) of Parhelion
Parhelion (n.) 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.
Parhelium (n.) See Parhelion.
Pari- () A combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate, paripinnate.
Pariah (n.) One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.
Pariah (n.) An outcast; one despised by society.
Parial (n.) See Pair royal, under Pair, n.
Parian (a.) Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble.
Parian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paros.
Parian (n.) A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.
Paridigitata (n. pl.) Same as Artiodactyla.
Parjdigitate (a.) Having an evennumber of digits on the hands or the feet.
Parietes (pl. ) of Paries
Paries (n.) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
Parietal (a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.
Parietal (a.) Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.
Parietal (a.) Of pertaining to the parietes.
Parietal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.
Parietal (a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.
Parietal (n.) One of the parietal bones.
Parietal (n.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.
Parietary (a.) See Parietal, 2.
Parietary (n.) Any one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st Pellitory.
Parietes (n. pl.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.
Parietes (n. pl.) The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.
Parietic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid.
Parietine (n.) A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.
Parieto- () A combining form used to indicate connection with, or relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal segment of the skull; as, the parieto-mastoid suture.
Parigenin (n.) A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin.