PARCELING
P'ARCELING, participle present tense Dividing into portions.P'ARCELING, noun Among seamen, long narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and bound about a rope like a bandage, bef...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PARCENARY
P'ARCENARY, noun Co-heirship; the holding or occupation of lands of inheritance by two or more persons. It differs from joint-tenancy, which is created by deed or devise; wherea...
PARCENER
P'ARCENER, noun [Latin pars.] parcener or co-parcener is a co-heir, or one who holds lands by descent from an ancestor in common with another or with others; as when land descen...
PARCH
P'ARCH, verb transitive [I know not from what source we have received this word. It corresponds in elements with the Italian bruciare, to burn or roast. Qu. Latin peraresco.]1. ...
PARCHED
P'ARCHED, participle passive Scorched; dried to extremity.
PARCHEDNESS
P'ARCHEDNESS, noun The state of being scorched or dried to extremity.
PARCHING
P'ARCHING, participle present tense Scorching; drying to extremity.1.adjective Having the quality of burning or drying; as the parching heat of African sands.
PARCHMENT
P'ARCHMENT, [Latin pergamena; purgo] The skin of a sheep or goat dressed or prepared and rendered fit for writing on. This is done by separating all the flesh and hair, rubbing ...
PARD
P'ARD, noun [Latin pardus.] The leopard; or in poetry, any spotted beast. Instead of pard we generally use leopard, the lion-pard. Pardale, from the Latin pardalis, is not used.
PARDON
P'ARDON, verb transitive [Latin per and dono, to give; per having the sense of the English for in forgive, and re in Latin remitto, properly to give back or away.]1. To forgive;...
PARDONABLE
P'ARDONABLE, adjective That may be pardoned; applied to persons. The offender is pardonable1. Venial; excusable; that may be forgiven, overlooked or passed by; applied to things...
PARDONABLENESS
P'ARDONABLENESS, noun The quality of being pardonable; venialness; susceptibility of forgiveness; as the pardonableness of sin.
PARDONABLY
P'ARDONABLY, adverb In a manner admitting of pardon; venially; excusably.
PARDONED
P'ARDONED, participle passive Forgiven; excused.
PARDONER
P'ARDONER, noun One that forgives; one that absolves an offender.1. One that sells the pope's indulgences.
PARDONING
P'ARDONING, participle present tense Forgiving; remitting an offense or crime; absolving from punishment.
PARE
PARE, verb transitive [Latin paro; Gr. lame; to mutilate; Heb. to create; to cut off. The primary sense is to thrust or drive, hence to drive off, to separate, to stop by settin...
PARED
PA'RED, participle passive Freed from any thing superfluous on the surface or at the extremities.
PAREGORIC
PAREGOR'IC, adjective [Gr. to mitigate.]Mitigating; assuaging pain; as paregoric elixir.PAREGOR'IC, noun A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne.
PARELCON
PAREL'CON, noun [Gr. to draw out.] In grammar, the addition of a word or syllable to the end of another.
PAREMBOLE
PAREMBOLE, noun parem'boly. [Gr. insertion.] In rhetoric, the insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period. It differs from the parenthesis only in t...
PARENCHYMA
PAREN'CHYMA, noun [Gr. to suffuse.]1. In anatomy, the solid and interior part of the viscera, or the substance contained in the interstices between the blood vessels of the visc...
PARENCHYMATOUS
PARENCHYM'ATOUSPAREN'CHYMOUS, adjective [See the Noun.] Pertaining to parenchyma; spungy; soft; porous.
PARENCHYMOUS
PAREN'CHYMOUS, a. [See the Noun.] Pertaining to parenchyma; spungy; soft; porous.
PARENESIS
PAREN'ESIS, noun [Gr. to exhort.] Persuasion; exhortation. [Little used.]
PARENETIC
PARENET'ICPARENET'ICAL, adjective Hortatory; encouraging.
PARENETICAL
PARENET'ICAL, a. Hortatory; encouraging.