Parasite (n.) An animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.
Parasite (n.) An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager.
Parasite (n.) An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.
Parasitic (a.) Alt. of Parasitical
Parasitical (a.) Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.
Parasitical (a.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3.
Parasiticide (n.) Anything used to destroy parasites.
Parasitism (n.) The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.
Parasitism (n.) The state of being parasitic.
Parasol (n.) A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.
Parasol (v. t.) To shade as with a parasol.
Parasolette (n.) A small parasol.
Parasphenoid (a.) Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals.
Parasphenoid (n.) The parasphenoid bone.
Parastichy (n.) A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.
Parasynaxis (n.) An unlawful meeting.
Parasynthetic (a.) Formed from a compound word.
Paratactic (a.) Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.
Parataxis (n.) The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax.
Paratheses (pl. ) of Parathesis
Parathesis (n.) The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.
Parathesis (n.) A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded.
Parathesis (n.) The matter contained within brackets.
Parathesis (n.) A commendatory prayer.
Parathetic (a.) Of or pertaining to parathesis.
Paratonnerre (n.) A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.
Paraunter (adv.) Peradventure. See Paraventure.
Parauque (n.) A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.
Paravail (a.) At the bottom; lowest.
Paravant (adv.) Alt. of Paravant
Paravant (adv.) In front; publicly.
Paravant (adv.) Beforehand; first.
Paraventure (adv.) Peradventure; perchance.
Paraxanthin (n.) A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.
Paraxial (a.) On either side of the axis of the skeleton.
Paraxylene (n.) A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene. Cf. Metamer, and Xylene.
Parboiled (imp. & p. p.) of Parboil
Parboiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parboil
Parboil (v. t.) To boil or cook thoroughly.
Parboil (v. t.) To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
Parbreak (v. i. & t.) To throw out; to vomit.
Parbreak (n.) Vomit.
Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.
Parbuckle (n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
Parbuckled (imp. & p. p.) of Parbuckle
Parbuckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parbuckle
Parbuckle (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
Parcae (n. pl.) The Fates. See Fate, 4.
Parcase (adv.) Perchance; by chance.
Parcel (n.) A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
Parcel (n.) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
Parcel (n.) An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
Parcel (n.) A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
Parceled (imp. & p. p.) of Parcel
Parcelled () of Parcel
Parceling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parcel
Parcelling () of Parcel
Parcel (v. t.) To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.
Parcel (v. t.) To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
Parcel (v. t.) To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
Parcel (a. & adv.) Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]
Parceling (n.) The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.
Parceling (n.) Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc.
Parcel-mele (adv.) By parcels or parts.
Parcenary (n.) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.
Parcener (n.) A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate.
Parched (imp. & p. p.) of Parch
Parching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parch
Parch (v. t.) To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.
Parch (v. t.) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever.
Parch (v. i.) To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.
Parchedness (n.) The state of being parched.
Parchesi (n.) See Pachisi.
Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.
Parchment (n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.
Parchment (n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
Parcity (n.) Sparingless.
Parclose (n.) A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church.
Pard (n.) A leopard; a panther.
Pardale (n.) A leopard.
Parde (adv. / interj.) Alt. of Pardie
Pardie (adv. / interj.) Certainly; surely; truly; verily; -- originally an oath.
Pardine (a.) Spotted like a pard.
Pardo (n.) A money of account in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts.
Pardon (v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
Pardon (v. t.) An official warrant of remission of penalty.
Pardon (v. t.) The state of being forgiven.
Pardon (v. t.) A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
Pardoned (imp. & p. p.) of Pardon
Pardoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pardon
Pardon (v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
Pardon (v. t.) To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
Pardon (v. t.) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
Pardon (v. t.) To give leave (of departure) to.
Pardonable (a.) Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.
Pardonableness (n.) The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin.
Pardonably (adv.) In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.
Pardoner (n.) One who pardons.
Pardoner (n.) A seller of indulgences.
Pardoning (a.) Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God.