Pope

Who made the spider parallels design, Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line? 2. Line on the globe marking the latitude. 3. Direction conformable to that of another line.

Dissentions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run; So lines, that from their parallel decline, More they proceed, the more they still disjoin. Garth.

4. Resemblance; conformity continued through many particulars; likeness.

Such a resemblance of all parts,
Life, death, age, fortune, nature, arts;
She lights her torch at theirs to tell,
And shew the world this parallel.

Denham.

'Twixt earthly females and the moon, All parallels exactly run. Swift's Miscellany. 5. Comparison made.

The parallel holds in the gainlessness, as well as laboriousness of the work. Decay of Piety. A reader cannot be more rationally entertained, than by comparing and drawing a parallel between his own private character, and that of other perAddison.

sons.

6. Any thing resembling another.

Thou ungrateful brute, if thou wouldst find thy parallel, go to hell, which is both the region and the emblem of ingratitude. South.

For works like these, let deathless journals tell, Noue but thyself can be thy parallel, Pope. To PARALLEL. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To place, so as always to keep the same direction with another line.

The Azores having a middle situation between these continents and that vast tract of America, the needle seemeth equally distracted by both, and diverting unto neither, doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian. Brown 2. To keep in the same direction; to level. The loyal sufferers abroad became subjected to pelled and driven from their flights; so paralleling in their exigencies the most inmediate objects of that monster's fury.

the worst effect of banishment, and even there ex

Fell.

His life is parallel'd Ev'n with the stroke and line of his great justice. Shakesp.

3. To correspond to.

That he stretched out the north over the empty places, seems to parallel the expression of David, he stretched out the earth upon the waters. Burnet. 4. To be equal to; to resemble through. many particulars.

In the fire, the destruction was so swift, sudden, vast, and miserable, as nothing can parallel in story. Dryden.

5. To compare.

1 parallel'd more than once, our idea of substance, with the Indian philosopher's he-knewnot-what, which supported the tortoise. Locke. PARALLELISM. n. s. [parallelisme, Fr. [from parallel.] State of being parallel. The parallelism and due proportionated inclination of the axis of the earth. More's Divine Dial.

Speaking of the parallelism of the axis of the earth, I demand, whether it be better to have the axis of the earth steady and perpetually parallel to itself, or to have it carelessly tumble this way and that way. Ray on the Creation. PARALLELOGRAM. n. s. wœçálλn1@ and yeaμus; parallelograme, Fr.] geometry, a right lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel and equal. Harris.

In

PARAMOUNT. adj. [par and mount.] 1. Superiour; having the highest jurisdiction: as, lord paramount, the chief of the seigniory: with to.

The experiment we made in a loadstone of a parallelogram, or long figure, wherein only inverting the extremes, as it came out of the fire, we altered the p les. Brown. We may have a clear idea of the æra of a parallelogram, without knowing what relation it bears to the area of a triangle. Watts. PARALLELOGRA'MICAL. adj. [from parallelogram.] Havin the properties 2. of a parallelogram.

PARALLELO'PIPED. n. s. [from parallelopipede, Fr.] A solid figure contained under six parallelograms, the opposites of which are equal and parallel; or it is a prism, whose base is a parallelogram: it is always triple to a pyramid of the same base and height.

Harris.

Two prisms alike in shape I tied so, that their axes and opposite sides being parallel, they comNewton posed a parallelopiped. Crystals that hold lead are yellowish, and of a cubic or parallelopiped figure. Woodward. PARALOGISM. n. s. [waçałógioμos, paralogisme, Fr.] A false argument.

Leagues within the state are ever pernicious to monarchies; for they raise an obligation, paramount to obligation of sovereignty, and make the king, tanquam unus ex nobis. Bacon. The dogmatist's opinioned assurance is paraGlanville. mount to argument.

If all power be derived from Adam, by divike institution, this is a right antecedent and paramount to all government; and therefore the positive laws of men cannot determine that which is itself the foundation of all law. Locke.

Mankind, seeing the apostles possessed of a power plainly paramount to the powers of all the known beings, whether angels or dæmons, could not question their being inspired by God. W'est. Eminent; of the highest order.

John a Chamber was hanged upon a gibbet raised a stage higher in the midst of a square gal lows, as a traitor paramount; and a number of his chief accomplices were hanged upon the lower story round him. PARAMOUNT. n. s. The chief.

In order came the grand infernal peers, 'Midst came their mighty paramount. PARAMOUR. n. s. [par and amour,

1. A lover or wooer.

That because they have not a bladder of gall, 2. like those we observe in others, they have no gall at all, is a paralogism not admittable, a fallacy that dwells not in a cloud, and needs not the sun to scatter it. Brown's Vulgar Errors. Modern writers, making the drachma less than the denarius, others equal, have been deceived by a double paralogism, in standing to nicely upon

the bare words of the ancients, without examining the things.

Arbuthnot.

If a syllogism agree with the rules given for the construction of it, it is called a true argument: if it disagree with these rules, it is a paralogism, or false argument.

PARALOGY. n. s. False reasoning.

Brown.

That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour? Shakesp. PA'RANYMPH. n. s. [ragà and wppi; paranymphe, Fr.]

1. A brideman; one who leads the bride to her marriage.

That Methuselah was the longest liver of all the posterity of Adam, we quietly believe; but 2. that he must needs be so, , is perhaps below paralogy to deny. PARALYSIS. n. s. [waçaλvois; paralysie, Fr.] A palsy. PARALYTICAL. adj. [from paralysis; PARALY'TICK. paralytique, Fr.] Pal

sied; inclined to palsy.

Nought shall it profit, that the charming fair,
Angelic, softest work of heav'n, draws near
To the cold shaking paralytick hand,
Senseless of beauty.

The Timnian bride Had not so soon prefer'd

Thy paramymph worthless to thee compar'd, Successor in thy bed. Milton's Agonistes. One who countenances or supports another.

Sin hath got a paranymph and a solicitor, a warrant and an advocate. Taylor's Worthy Commun. PARAPEGM... [παραπήγμα παραπήγνυμι.] A brazen table fixed to a pillar, on which laws and proclamations were anciently engraved: also a table set up publickly, containing an account of the rising and setting of the stars, eclipses of the sun and moon, the seasons of the year, &c. whence astrologers give this name to the tables, on which they draw figures according to their art. Philips.

Our forefathers, observing the course of the sun, and making certain mutations to happen in his progress through the zodiack, set them down in thei parapegms, or astronomical canons. Brovn PARAPET. n. s. [parapet, Fr. parapetto, Ital.] A wall breast high.

There was a wall or parapet of teeth set in our mouth to restrain the petulancy of our words. Ben Jonson. PARAPHIMO'SIS. n. s. [Taçapiμwoię; paraphimose, Fr] A disease when the præputium cannot be drawn over the glans.

PARAPHERNALIA. n. s. [Lat. paraphernaux, Fr.] Goods in the wife's disposal.

PARAPHRASE. n. s. [xa ú@gaois; paraphrase, Fr.] A loose interpretation; an explanation in many words.

All the laws of nations were but a paraphrase upon this stan ing rectitudef nature, that was ready to enlarge itself into suitable determinations, upon all emergent objects and occasions. South.

In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense, and that too amplified, but not altered: such is Mr Waller's translation of Virgil's fourth Eneid. Dryden To PARAPHRASE. v. a. [paraphraser, Fr. wnęάpa.] To interpret with laxity of expression; to translate loosely.

We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words, to free ourselves from the ignorance and malice of our adversaries. Stillingfleet.

these are called parceners, and are but as one heir.

Some parasitick preachers have dared to call those martyrs, who died fighting against me. King Charles. Dict, PA'RASOL. n. s. A small canopy or um-PA'RCENARY. n. s. [from parsonier. Fr.] brello carried over the head, to shelter A holding or occupying of land by more from rain and the heat of the sun. Dict persons pro indiviso, or by joint tenants, PARASYNEXIS. n. s. In the civil law, otherwise called coparceners: for if they a conventicle or unlawful meeting Dict. refuse to divide their common inheritTo PA'RBOIL. v. a. [parbouiller, Fr.] To ance, and chuse rather to hold it jointly, half boil; to boil in part. they are said to hold in parcinarie.

Parboil two large capons upon a soft fire, by the space of an hour, tiil, in effect, all the blood be gone.

Bacon.

Donne.

From the sea into the ship we turn, Like parboil'd wretches, on the coals to burn. Like the scum starved men did draw From parboil'd shoes and boots. To PA'RBREAK. v. n. [brecker, Dut.]

Donne.

To vomit. Obsolete. PA'RBREAK. n. s. [from the verb.] Vo

mit. Obsolete.

Her filthy parbreak all the place defiled has. Spenser. PARCEL. n. s. [parcelle, Fr particula, Lat.]

Hooker.

The Chaldean paraphrast renders Gerah by Meath. Arbuthnot.

[παρὰ

and

PARAPHRA'STICAL. adj. [from paraPARAPHRA'STICK. phrase.] Lax interpretation; not literal; not verbal. PARAPHRENITIS. n. s. [açù Peritis; paraphrenesie, Fr.] Paraphrenitis is an inflammation of the diaphragmi The symptoms are a violent fever, a most exquisite pain increased upon inspiration, by which it is distinguished from a pleurisy, in which the greatest pain is in expiration. Arbuthnot.

PARAQUETO. n. s. A little parrot. PARASANG. n. s. [parasanga, low Lat.] A Persian measure of lenght.

Since the mind is not able to frame an idea of any space without parts, instead thereof it makes use of the common measures, which, by familiar

use, in each country, have imprinted themselves on the memory; as inches and feet, or cubits and Locke. parasangs.

PARASITE. n. s. [parasite, Fr. parasita, Lat.] One that frequents rich tables, and earns his welcome by flattery.

He is a flatterer,

A parasite, a keeper back of death,
Who gently would dissolve the hands of life,
Which false hopes linger.
Shakesp.

Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune. Shakesp.

Diogenes, when mice came about him, as he was eating, said, I see that even Diogenes nourisheth parasites. Bacon.

Thu, with trembling fear,

Or like a fawning parasite, obey'd;
Then to thyself ascrib'st the truth foretold. Milton.

The people sweat not for their king's delight, T'enrich a pimp, or raise a parasite. Dryden, PARASITICAL. adj. [parasitique, Fr. PARASITICK. from parasite.] Flatf tering; wheedling.

The bishop received small thanks for his parasitick presentation. Hukewell on Providence.

A small bundle.

A part of the whole; part taken separately.

Women, Silvius, had they mark'd him In parcels, as I did, would have gone near To fall in love with him.

Shakesp.

I drew from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage delate; Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not distinctively. Shakesp Othello. An inventory thus importing The several parcels of his plate, his treasure, Rich stuffs and ornaments of houshold. Shakesp. With what face could such a great man have begged such a parcel of the crown lands, one a vast sum of money, another the forfeited esta e? Davenant.

I have known pensions given to particular persons, any one of which, if divided into smaller parcels, and distributed to those who distinguish themselves by wit or learning, would answer the end. Swift.

The same experiments succeed on two parcels of the white of an egg, only it grows somewhat thicker upon mixing with an acid. Arbuthnot.

3. A quantity or mass.

Neuton. contempt.

The Syrian star

With his sultry breath infects the sky;
The ground below is parch'd, the heav'ns above
us fry.
Dryden.
Full fifty years

I have endur'd the biting winter's blast,
And the severer heats of parching summer. Ronce.
The skin grows parched and dry, and the whole
body lean and
Blackmore.
meagre
A man distressed with thirst in the parched
places of the wilderness, searches every pit, but
finds no water.
Rogers

To PARCH. v. n. To be scorched. We were better parch in Africk sun, Than in the pride and salt scoru of his eves. Shakesp If to prevent the acrospiring, it be thrown thin, many corns will dry and parch into barley. Mortimer. PARCHMENT. n. s. [parchemin, Fr. pergamena, Lat.] Skins dressed for the writer. Among traders, the skins of sheep are called parchment, those of calves vellum.

Is not this a lamentable thing, that the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment; that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Shakesp. Henry VI. In the coffin, that had the books, they were found as fresh as if newly written, being written in parchment, and covered with watch candles of Bacon.

Ten brace of grey-hounds, snowy fair,

And tall as stags, ran loose, aud cours'd around his chair,

A match for pards in flight, in grappling for the bear. Dryden.

To PARDON. v. a. [ pardonner, Fr.] 1. To excuse an offender.

When 1 beheld you in Cilicia, An enemy to Rome, I pardon'd you.

2. To forgive a crime.

Dryden.

Jeremiah.

I will pardon all their iniquitics.
Forgiveness to the injur'd does belong,
But they ne'er pardon who commit the wrong.
Dryden

3. To remit a penalty.

That thou may'st see the diff'rence of our spirit, I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it. Shakesp. 4. Pardon me, is a word of civil denial, or slight apology.

Sir, pardon me, it is a letter from my brother. Shakesp. PARDON. n. s. [pardon, Fr. from the the verb.]

1. Forgiveness of an offender. 2. Forgiveness of a crime.

He that pleaseth great men, shall get pardon for iniquity. Ecclus. xx. 27.

A slight pamphlet, about the elements of architecture, hath been entertained with some pardon among my friends.

But infinite in pardon is my judge.

Wotton.

Milton.

What better can we do than prostrate fall, Before him reverent, and there confess

Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Wating the ground?

Milton.

There might you see

Milton.

Indulgencies, dispenses, pardons, bulls,
The sport of winds.

3. Remission of penalty.

4. Forgiveness received.

A man may be safe as to his condition, but, in the mean time, dark and doubtful as to his apprehensions: secure in his pardon, but miserable in the ignorance of it; and so passing all his days in the disconsolate, uneasy vicissitudes of hopes and fears, at length go out of the world, not knowing whither he goes. South. 5. Warrant of forgiveness, or exemption from punishment.

The battle done, and they within our power, Shall never see his pardon. Shakesp. King Lear. PARDONABLE. adj. (pardonable, Fr. from pardon.] Venial; excusable.

That which we do being evil, is notwithstanding by so much more pardonable, by how much the exigencies of so doing, or the difficulty of doing therwise, is greater, unless this necessity or difficulty have originally risen from ourselves." Hooker. A blind man sitting in the chimney corner is pardonable enough, but sitting at the helm, he is intolerable. South

What English readers, unacquainted with Greek or Latin, will believe me, when we confess we derive all that is pardonable in us from ancient fountains? Dryden. PARDONABLENESS. n. s. [from pardonable Venialness; susceptibility of pardon.

Saint John's word is, all sin is transgression of the law; Saint Paul's, the wages of sin is death: paat these two together, and this conceit of the natural pardonableress of sin vanishes away. Hall. PARDONABLY. adv. [from pardonable.] Venially; excusably.

I may judge when I write more or less pardonably. Dryden.

PARDONER. n. s. [from pardon.] 1. One who forgives another.

This is his pardon, purchas'd by such sin,

Lat.] A father or mother.

All true virtues are to honour true religion as their parent, and all well ordered commonweales to love her as their chiefest stay. Hogher.

His custom was, during the warmer season of the year, to spend an hour before evening-prayer in catechising; whereat the parents and older sort were wont to be present. Tell.

to such as would buy them, against | PARENT. n. s. [parent, Fr. parens, whom Luther incensed the people of Germany. Cowell. To PARE. v. a. [This word is reasonably deduced by Skinner from the French phrase, parer les ongles, to dress the horses hoofs when they are shaved by the farrier: thus we first said, pare your nails; and from thence transferred the word to general use.] To cut off extremities of the surface; to cut away by little and little to diminish. If pare be used before the thing diminished, it is followed immediately by its accusative; if it precedes the thing taken away, or agrees in the passive voice with the thing taken away, as a nominative, it then requires a particle, as away, off.

The creed of Athanasius, and that sacred hymn of glory, than which nothing doth sound more heavenly in the ears of faithful men, are now reckoned as superfluities, which we must in any case pare oway, lest we cloy God with too much service. Hooker. I have not alone Imploy'd you where high profits might come home;

But par'd my present havings to bestow
My bounties upon you.
Shakesp. Henry VIII.
I am a man, whoni fortune hath cruelly scratch'd.
-Tis too late to pare her nails now. Shakesp.
The lion, mov'd with pity, did endure
To have his princely paws all par'd away Shakesp.
The king began to pare a little the privilege of
clergy, ordaining that clerks convict should be
burned in the hand.
Bacon's Henry VII.

Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin, He pares his apple, that will cleanly feed. Herbert. Whoever will partake of God's secrets, must first look into his own, he must pare off whatsoever is amiss, and not without holiness approach Taylor.

to the holiest of all holies.

All the mountains were pared off the earth, and the surface of it lay even, or in an equal convexity every where with the surface of the sea. Burnet.

The most poetical parts, which are description and images, were to be pared away, when the body was swoln into two large a bulk for the representation of the stage.

Dryden.

Now

threads.

the pope's indulgencies and sold them.

sion; exhortation.

Dict.

As a publick parent of the state, My justice, and thy crime, requires thy fate. Dryd. In vain on the dissembled other's tongue Had cunning art, and sly persuasion hung And real care in vain and native love In the true parent's panting breast had strove. Prior. PARENTAGE. n. s. [parentage Fr. from parent.] Extraction; birth; condition with respect to the rank of parents. A gentleman of noble parentage, Of fair demeasns, youthful and nobly allied

Shakesp. Milton.

Though men esteem thee low of parentage, Thy father is th' eternal king. To his levee go, And from himself your parentage may know. Dryd. We find him not only boasting of his parentage, as an Israelite at large, but particularizing his (.escent from Benjamin. Atterbury. PARENTAL. adj [from parent.] Becoming parents; pertaining to parents.

It overthrows the careful course and parental provision of nature, whereby the young ones, newly excluded, are sustained by the dam Brown.

These eggs hatched by the warmth of the sun into little worms, feed without any need of parental care. Derham. Yung ladies, on whom parental controul sits heavily, give a man of intrigue room to think that they want to be parents. Clarissa. PARENTATION. n. s. [from parento, Lat.] Something said or done in honour of the dead.

PARENTHESIS. n. s. [ parenthese, Fr. παρὰ ἐν τίθημι.] Α sentence so included in another sentence, as that it may be taken out, without injuring the sense of that which incloses it: being commonly marked thus, ( ).

In vain is my person excepted by a parenthesis of words, when so many are armed against me with swords. King Charles. In his Indian relations, are contained strange and incredible accounts; he is seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis, in any author.

Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis, and thus stretch out your discourse, and divert you from the point FARENTHETICAL. adj. [from parenth‹Watts's Legick. sis.] Pertaining to a parenthesis. PARER. n. s. [from pare.] An instrument to cut away the surface.

A bone and a varer, like sole of a boot, To pare away grasse, and to raise up the root. Tusser. PARERGY. n. s. [raça and igyor.] Something unimportant: something done by the by.

Scripture being serius. and commonly omitting such parergies, it wi.. De unreasonable to condenn all laughter Brown PA'RGET. n. s. Plaster laid roof's of rooms.

Woodward.

Of English taic, the coarser sort is called plaster | or parget: the finer, spaad. To PARGET. v. a. [from the noun.] To plaster; to cover with plaster.

There are not more arts of disguising our corporeal blemishes than our moral; and yet, while we thus paint and parget our own deformities, we cannot allow any the least imperfection of another's to remain undetected. Governm of the Tongue. PA'RGETER. n. s. [from parget.] A plas

terer.

PARHELION. n. s. [waça and os.] A [παρα ἥλιος.] mock sum.

To neglect that supreme resplendency, that shines in God, for those dim representations of it, that we so doat on in the creature, is as absurd, as it were for a Persian to offer his sacrifice to a parkelion, instead of adoring the sun. Boyle.

PARIETAL. adj. [from paries, Lat.] Constituting the sides or walls.

The lower part of the parietal and upper part of the temporal bones were fractured. Sharp. PARIETARY. n. s. [parietaire, Fr.] An herb. Ainsworth. PA'RING. n. s. [from pare.] That which is pared off any thing: the rind.

Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese; and consumes itself to the very paring.

To his guest, tho' no way sparing, He eat himself the rind and paring.

Shakesp.

Pope.

In May, after rain, pare off the surface of the earth, and with the parings raise your hills high, Mortimer. and enlarge their breadth." PARIS. n. s. [aconitum.] An herb. Ainsworth.

PARISH. n. s. [parochia, low Lat. paroisse, Fr. of the Greek wago:nía, i. e. accolaram conventus, acco.atus, sacra vicinia.] The particular charge of a sccular priest. Every church is either cathedral, conventual, or parochial: cathedral is that where there is a bishop seated, so called a cathedra: conventual consists of regular clerks, professing some order of religion, or of a dean and chapter, or other college of spiritual men parochial is that which is instituted for saying divine service, and administering the holy sacraments to the people dwelling within a certain compass of ground near unto it. Our realm was first divided into parishes by Honorius, archbishop of Canterbury, in the year of our Lord 636. Cowell.

Dametas came piping and dancing, the merriest man in a parish. Sidney.

more

By the Catholick church is meant no than the common church, into which all such persons as belonged to that parish, in which it was built, were wont to congregate. Pearson.

The tythes, his parish freely paid, he took; But never su'd, or curs'd with bell or book. Dryd PARISH. adj.

1. Belonging to the parish; having the care of the parish.

A parish priest was of the pilgrim train, An awful, reverend, and reli_ious man. Dryden Not parish clerk, who calls the psalms so clear.

Gay. The office of the church is performed by the parish priest, at the time of his interment. Auliffe. A man, after his natural death, was not capable

of the least parish office. Arbuthnot and Pope. The parish allowance to poor people, is very seldom a comfortable maintenance. Law. 2. Maintained by the church.

The ghost and the parish girl are entire new characters. Gay,

Shakesp.

Hail, bishop Valentine, whose day this is, All the air is thy diocese; And all the chirping choristers And other birds are thy parishimmers.

Donne.

In the greater out-parishes, many of the parishioners, through neglect, do perish. Graunt.

I have deposited thirty marks, to be distributed among the poor parishioners. Addison's Spectator. PARITOR. n. s. [for apparitor.] A beadle; a summoner of the courts of civil law.

You shall be summoned by an host of paritours; you shall be sentenced in the spiritual court. Dryden. PA'RITY. n. s. [parité, Fr. paritas, Lat.] Equality; resemblance.

We may here justly tax the dishonesty and shamefulness of the mouths, who have upbraided us with the opinion of a certain stoical parity of sins. Hall

That Christ or his apostles ever commanded to set up such a parity of presbyters, and in such a way as those Scots endeavour, I think is not very disputable. King Charles. Survey the total set of animals, and we may, in their legs or organs of progression, observe an equality of ler gth and parity of numeration? not any to have an odd leg, or the movers of one side Brown not exactly answered by the other.

Those accidental occurrences, which excited Socrates to the discovery of such an invention,might fall in with that man that is of a perfect parity with Socrates. Hale. Their agreement, in essential characters, makes rather an identity than a parity. Glanville. Women could not live in that parity and equality of expence with their husbands, as now they do. Graunt.

By an exact parity of reason, we may argue, if a man has no sense of those kindnesses that pass upon him, from one like himself, whom he sees and knows, how much less shall his heart be affected with the grateful sense of his favours, whom he converses with only by imperfect speculations, by the discourses of reason, or the discoveries of faith?

South

PARK. n. s. [peanɲuc, Sax. parc, Fr.] A piece of ground inclosed and stored with wild beasts of chase, which a man may have by prescription or the king's grant. Manwood, in his forest law, defines it thus: a park is a place for privilege for wild beasts of venery, and also for other wild beasts that are beasts of the forest and of the chase: and those wild beasts are to have a firm peace and protection there, so that no man may hurt or chase them within the park, without license of the owner: a park is of another nature, than either a chase or a warren; for a park must be inclosed, and may not lie open; if it does, it is a good cause of seizure into the king's hands: and the owner cannot have action against such as hunt in his park, if it lies open.

Cowell.

Of all the gentlemen,

That every day with parle encounter me,
In thy opinion, which is worthiest love? Shakery.
Our trumpet call'd you to this general parie.
Shakerp.

The bishop, by a parle, is, with a show Of combination, cunningly betray'd. Daniel. Why meet we thus, like wrangling advocates, To urge the justice of our cause with words? I hate this parle; 'tis tame: if we must meet, Give me my arms. Rowe's Ambitious Step-mother. To PARLEY. v. n. [from parler, Fr.] To treat by word of mouth; to talk; to discuss any thing orally. It is much used in war for a meeting of enemies to talk.

A Turk desired the captain to send some, with whom they might more conveniently parley. Knolles's History.

He parleys with her a while, as imagining she would advise him to proceed Broome.

PA RLEY. n. s. [from the verb.] Oral treaty; talk; conference; discussion by word of mouth.

Seek rather by parley to recover them, than by the sword. Sidney. Well, by my will, we shall admit no parley: A rotten case abides no handling. Shakesp.

Summon a parley, we will talk with him. Shak. Let us resolve never to have any parley with our lusts, but to make some considerable progress in our repentance. Calamy.

Parley and holding intelligence with guil: in the most trivial things, he pronounced as treason to ourselves, as well as unto God. Fell.

Prior.

No gentle means could be essay'd; 'Twas beyond parley when the siege was laid. Dryd. Force never yet a generous heat did gain; We yield on parley, but are storm'd in vain. Dryd. Yet when some better fated youth Shall with his am'rous parley move thee, Reflect one moment on his truth, Who, dying thus, persists to love thee. PARLIAMENT. n. s. [parliamentum, low Lat. parlesent, Fr.] In England, is the assembly of the king and three estates of the realm; namely, the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and commons, for the debating of matters touching the commonwealth, especially the making and correcting of laws; which assembly or court is, of all others, the highest, and of greatest authority. Cowell. The king is fled to London, To call a present court of parliament.

Shakesp

Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart, To make a shambles of the parliament house. Shak, The true use of parliaments is very excellent; and be often called, and continued as long as is Bacon. necessary.

I thought the right way of parliaments the most safe for my crown, as best pleasing to my people. King Charles. These are mob readers: if Virgil and Martial stood for parliament men, we know who would Dryden. carry it.

or rareness, but likewise for dissections and trials. Bacon.

To PARK. v. a. [from the noun.] To inclose as in a park.

How are we park d, and bounded in a pale? A little herd of England's tim'rous deer, Maz'd with a yelping kennel of French curs. Shakesp.

ment.] Enacted by parliament; pertaining to parliament.

To the three first titles of the two houses, or lines, and conquest, were added two more; the authorities parliamentary and papal. Bacon.

Many things, that obtain as common law, had their original by parliamentary acts or constit tions, made in writings by the king, lords, and Hale.

commons.

Back again fair Alma led them right, And soon into a goodly parlour brought. Spenser. It would be infinitely more shameful, in the dress of the kitchen, to receive the entertainments of the parlour. South. Roof and sides were like a parlour made A soft recess, and a cool summer shade. Dryden. The first, forgive my verse if too diffuse, Perform'd the kitchen's and the parlour's use; The second, better bolted and immur'd, From wolves his out-door family secur'd. Harte. PARLOUS. adj. [This might seem to come from parler, Fr. to speak; but Junius derives it, I think rightly, from perilous, in which it answers to the Latin improbus.] Keen; sprightly; waggish.

Midas durst communicate

To none but to his wife his ears of state; One must be trusted, and he thought her fit. As passing prudent, and a parlous wit. Dryden. PARLOUSNESS. n. s. [from parlous.] Quickness; keenness of temper. PARMA-CITTY. n. s. Corruptedly for sperma ceti. Ainsworth. PARNEL. n. s. [The diminutive of patronella.] A punk; a slut. Obsolete. Skinner.

PAROCHIAL. adj. [ parochialis, from parochia, low Lat.] Belonging to a parish.

The married state of parochial pastors hath given them the opportunity of setting a more exact and universal pattern of holy living to the people committed to their charge. Atterbury. PARODY. n. s. [parodie, Fr. nagwdía.] A kind of writing, in which the words of an author or his thoughts are taken, and by a slight change adapted to some new purpose.

The imitations of the ancients are added together with some of the parodies and allusions to the most excellent of the moderns. Pope's Dunciad. To PARODY. v. a. [parodier, Fr. from parody.] To copy by way of parody.

I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace, in which I introduce you advising me. Pope. PARO'NYMOUS. adj. [πagúruμos.] Resembling another word.

Shew your critical learning in the etymology of terms, the synonimous and the paronymous or kindred names. Watts.

PAROLE. n. s. [parole. Fr.] Word given as an assurance; promise given by a prisoner not to go away.

Love's votaries enthral each other's soul, Till both of them live but upon parole.

Cleavel.

Be very tender of your honour, and not fall in Love; because I have a scruple whether you can keep your parole, if you become a prisoner to the ladies. Swift. PARONOMA'SIA. n. s. [magwroμacía.] A rhetorical figure, in which, by the change of a letter or syllable, several Voi II.

PARRICIDE. n. s. [parricide, Fr. parricida, Lat.]

1. One who destroys his father. I told him the revenging gods 'Gainst parricides did all their thunder bend; Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond The child was bound to th' father. Shakesp.

2. One who destroys or invades any to whom he owes particular reverence, as his country or patron.

3. [Parricide, Fr. parricidium, Lat.] The murder of a father; murder of one to whom reverence is due.

Although he were a prince in military virtue approved, and likewise a good law-maker; yet his cruelties and parricides weighed down his virtues. Bucon.

Morat was always bloody, now he's base; And has so far in usurpation gone, He will by parricide secure the throne. Dryden. PARRICIDAL, adj. [from parricida, PARRICIDIOUS. Lat.] Relating to parricide; committing parricide.

He is now paid in his own way, the parricidious animal, and punishment of murtherers is upon him. Brown.

PARROT. n. s. [perroquet, F.] A particoloured bird of the species of the hooked bill, remarkable for the exact imita tion of the human voice See PAROQUET Some will evermore peep through their eyes, And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper. Shakesp. Who taught the parrot human notes to try? 'Twas witty want, fierce hunger to appease. Dryd. To PA'RRY. v. n. [parer, Fr.] To put by thrusts; to fence.

A man of courage, who cannot fence, and will put all upon one thrust, and not stand parrying, has the odds against a moderate fencer. I could

By dint of logick strike thee mute;
With learned skill, now push, now parry,
From Darii to Bocardo vary.

Locke.

Prior.

To PARSE. v. a. [from pars, Lat.] To resolve a sentence into the elements or parts of speech. It is a word only used in grammar schools.

Let him construe the letter into English, and parse over perfectly. Ascham's Schoolmaster. Let scholars reduce the words to their original, to the first case of nouns, or first tense of verbs, and give an account of their formations and changes, their syntax and dependencies, which is called parsing. Watts on the Mind.

PARSIMO'NIOUS. adj. [from parsimony.] Covetous; frugal; sparing. It is sometimes of a good, and sometimes of a bad

Parsimonious age and rigid wisdom. PARSIMO'NIOUSLY. udv. [from parsimonious.] Covetously; frugally; sparingly.

Our ancestors acted parsimoniously, because they only spent their own treasure for the good of their posterity; whereas we squandered away the treaPARSIMONIOUSNESS. n. s. [from parsisures of our posteriry. Swift. monious] A disposition to spare and

save.

PARSIMONY. n. s. [parsimonia, Lat.] Frugality; covetousness; niggardliness; saving temper.

The ways to enrich are many; parsimony is one of the best, and yet it is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality. Bacon.

Swift.

These people, by their extreme parsimony, soon grow into wealth from the smallest beginnings. PA'RSLEY. n. s. [ persil, Fr. apium, Lat.] persli, Welsh.] An herb.

A wench married in the afternoon, as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit. Shakesp. Green beds of parsley near the river grow. Dryd. Sempronia dug Titus out of the parsley-bed, as they use to tell children, and thereby become his mother. Locke.

PA'RSNEP, n. s. [ pastinaca, Lat] A plant. November is drawn in a garment of changeable green, and bunches of parsneps and turneps in his right hand. Peacham. PARS N. n. s. [Derived either from persona, because the parson omnium personam in ecclesia sustinet; or from parochianus, the parish priest.] 1. The priest of a parish; one that has a parochial charge or cure of souls.

2.

Abbot was preferred by king James to the bishoprick of Coventry and Litchfield, before he had been parson, vicar, or curate of any parish church. Clarendon.

A clergyman.

Sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail, Tickling the parson as he lies asleep: Then dreams he of another benefice.

Shakesp.

3. It is applied to the teachers of the presPARSONAGE. n. s. [from parson.] The byterians. benefice of a parish

I have given him the parsonage of the parish. Add. PART. n. s. [pars, Lat.]

1. Something less than the whole; a portion; a quantity taken from a larger quantity.

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