Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 16
Parasite (n.) (Zool.) 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.) (Zool.) An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager.
Parasite (n.) (Zool.) An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo. Parasitic
Parasite (n.) An animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host [ant: host].
Parasite (n.) A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage [syn: leech, parasite, sponge, sponger].
Parasitic (a.) Alt. of Parasitical.
Parasitical (a.) Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. "Parasitic preachers." -- Milton.
Syn: leechlike, bloodsucking.
Parasitical (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3.
Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. (Zool.) See Jager. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n.
Parasitic (a.) Relating to or caused by parasites; "parasitic infection" [syn: parasitic, parasitical].
Parasitic (a.) Of or pertaining to epenthesis [syn: epenthetic, parasitic].
Parasitic (a.) Of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence" [syn: parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking].
Parasiticide (n.) Anything used to destroy parasites. -- Quain.
Parasitism (n.) The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite. "Court parasitism." -- Milton.
Parasitism (n.) (Bot. & Zool.) The state of being parasitic.
Parasitism (n.) The relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage).
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. [R.]
Parasol (n.) A handheld collapsible source of shade [syn: parasol, sunshade].
Parasolette (n.) A small parasol.
Parasomnia (n.) 異睡症 A sleep disorder characterized by abnormal behavior or physiological events during sleep or during the transitional state between sleep and waking. Examples include nightmare disorder, sleep terror disorder, sleepwalking disorder, restless-legs syndrome (see Ekbom’s syndrome), and confusional arousal, among others. The parasomnias recognized in DSM-IV-TR form one of two broad groups of primary sleep disorders, the other being dyssomnias. Those recognized in DSM-5 and DSM-5-TR are part of a larger category of sleep-wake disorders. See also dysfunctions associated with sleep, sleep stages, or partial arousals.
Parasphenoid (a.) (Anat.) 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.) (Bot.) A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.
Parasympathetic nervous system (n.) The part of the autonomic nervous system that tends to act in opposition to the sympathetic nervous system, as by slowing down the heartbeat and dilating the blood vessels. It regulates the function of many glands, such as those that produce tears and saliva, and stimulates motility and secretions of the digestive system. Compare Sympathetic nervous system.
Parasympathetic nervous system (n.) Originates in the brain stem and lower part of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system: stimulates digestive secretions; slows the heart; constricts the pupils; dilates blood vessels [syn: parasympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic].
Parasynaxis (n.) (Civil Law) An unlawful meeting.
Parasynthetic (a.) Formed from a compound word. "Parasynthetic derivatives." -- Dr. Murray.
Paratactic (a.) (Gram.) Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.
Parataxis (n.) (Gram.) The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax. -- Brande & C.
Paratheses (n. pl. ) of Parathesis
Parathesis (n.) (Gram.) The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.
Parathesis (n.) (Rhet.) A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded. -- Smart.
Parathesis (n.) (Print.) The matter contained within brackets.
Parathesis (n.) (Eccl.) A commendatory prayer. -- Shipley.
Parathetic (a.) Of or pertaining to parathesis.
Parathyroid glands (n.) 副甲狀腺 A set of four small glands on the undersurface of the thyroid gland that function in the endocrine system. The parathyroid glands secrete a hormone that regulates the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus.
Parathyroid gland (n.) Any one of four endocrine glands situated above or within the thyroid gland [syn: parathyroid gland, parathyroid].
Paratonnerre (n.) A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.
Paraunter (adv.) Peradventure. See Paraventure. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Compare: Paraventure
Paraventure (adv.) Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Parauque (n.) (Zool.) A bird ({Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.
Paravail (a.) (Eng. Law) At the bottom; lowest. -- Cowell.
Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. -- Wharton. Paravant
Paravail. () Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another. He is called tenant paravail, because it is presumed he has the avails or profits of the land. F. N. B. 135; 2 Inst, 296.
Paravant (adv.) Alt. of Paravant.
Paravant (adv.) In front; publicly. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Paravant (adv.) Beforehand; first. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Paraventure (adv.) Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Paraxanthin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.
Paraxial (a.) (Anat.) On either side of the axis of the skeleton.
Paraxylene (n.) (Chem.) A hydrocarbon ({C6H4(CH3)2) 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.
Compare: Xylene
Xylene (n.) (Chem.) Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.
Note: Each of these xylenes is the nucleus and prototype of a distinct series of compounds.
Parboiled (imp. & p. p.) of Parboil.
Parboiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parboil.
Parboil (v. t.) To boil or cook thoroughly. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Parboil (v. t.) To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
Parboil (v. t.) Hence: (Fig.) To do (something) only part way, or incompletely. Also used intransitively.
Parboil (v.) Cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them" [syn: blanch, parboil].
Parbreak (v. i. & t.) To throw out; to vomit. [Obs.] -- Skelton.
Parbreak (n.) Vomit. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
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. -- Totten.
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.
Parcae (n. pl.) [L.] The Fates. See Fate, 4.
Parcae (n.) Any of the three Roman goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Greek Moirai and similar to the Norse Norns.
Parcase (adv.) Perchance; by chance. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Parcel (n.) A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. [Archaic] "A parcel of her woe." -- Chaucer.
Two parcels of the white of an egg. -- Arbuthnot.
The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government. -- J. A. Symonds.
Parcel (n.) (Law) 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.
This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. -- Shak.
Parcel (n.) A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. -- Cowper.
Bill of parcels. See under 6th Bill.
Parcel office, An office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery.
Parcel post, That department of the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of parcels; also, the transmission through the parcel post deparment; as, to send a package by parcel post. See parcel post in the vocabulary.
Part and parcel. See under Part.
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. "Their woes are parceled, mine are general." -- Shak.
These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. -- Dryden.
The broad woodland parceled into farms. -- Tennyson.
Parcel (v. t.) To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. [R.]
That mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my disgraces by Addition of his envy. -- Shak.
Parcel (v. t.) To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
To parcel a rope (Naut.), To wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it. -- Totten.
To parcel a seam (Naut.), To cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.
Parcel (a. & adv.) Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]
The worthy dame was parcel-blind. -- Sir W. Scott.
One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded]. -- Tennyson.
Parcel poet, A half poet; a poor poet. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Parcel (n.) A wrapped container [syn: package, parcel].
Parcel (n.) The allotment of some amount by dividing something; "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians" [syn: parcel, portion, share].
Parcel (n.) An extended area of land [syn: tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel].
Parcel (n.) A collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, packet, parcel].
Parcel (v.) Divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land."
Parcel (v.) Cover with strips of canvas; "parcel rope."
Parcel (v.) Make into a wrapped container.
Parcel, () estates. Apart of the estate. 1 Com. Dig. Abatement, H 511 p. 133; 5 Com. Dig. Grant, E 10, p. 545. To parcel is to divide an estate. Bac, Ab. Conditions, 0.
Parceling (n.) The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.
Parceling (n.) (Naut.) 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.
Parceling (n.) The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state" [syn: allotment, apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation].
Parcel-mele (adv.) By parcels or parts. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Parcenary (n.) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.
Note: It differs in many respects from joint tenancy, which is created by deed or devise. In the United States there is no essential distinction between parcenary and tenancy in common. -- Wharton. Kent.
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.
Parch (v. i.) To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry. "Parch in Afric sun." -- Shak.
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.
Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. -- Lev. xxiii. 14.
Parch (v. t.) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever. The ground below is parched. -- Dryden.
Parch (v.) Cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth" [syn: parch, sear].
Parchedness (n.) The state of being parched.
Compare: Pachisi
Pachisi, Parchesi, Parchisi (n.) A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.
Pachisi, Parchesi, Parchisi (n.) A game adopted from the Indian game, using disks, as of pasteboard, and dice; it is played on a cross-shaped board. [U. S. & Eng.]
Parchesi (n.) See Pachisi.
Parchesi (n.) An ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board [syn: pachisi, parchesi, parchisi].
Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.
Parchment (n.) 羊皮紙；仿羊皮紙 [U]；羊皮紙文稿（或文件）[C] The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.
But here's a parchment with the seal of C[ae]sar. -- Shak.
Parchment (n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
Parchment paper. See Papyrine.
Parchment (n.) A superior paper resembling sheepskin.
Parchment (n.) Skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on [syn: parchment, sheepskin, lambskin].
Parchment, MI -- U.S. city in Michigan
Population (2000): 1936
Housing Units (2000): 873
Land area (2000): 0.855291 sq. miles (2.215193 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.033619 sq. miles (0.087074 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.888910 sq. miles (2.302267 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62340
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 42.325639 N, 85.567832 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 49004
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Parchment, MI
Parchment
Parcity (n.) Sparingless. [Obs.]
Parclose (n.) (Eccl. Arch.) A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. [Written also paraclose and perclose.] -- Hook.
Pard (n.) A leopard; a panther.
And more pinch-spotted make them Than pard or cat o'mountain. -- Shak.
Pardale (n.) A leopard.
Parde (adv. / interj.) Alt. of Pardie.
Pardie (adv. / interj.) Certainly; surely; truly; verily; -- originally an oath.
Pardine (a.) (Zool.) Spotted like a pard.
Pardine lynx (Zool.), A species of lynx ({Felis pardina"> Pardine lynx (Zool.), a species of lynx ({Felis pardina) inhabiting Southern Europe. Its color is rufous, spotted with black.
Pardo (n.) A money of account in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts.
Pardon (n.) 原諒，饒恕，寬恕 [C] [U] [（+for）]；【律】赦免，特赦 [C ] The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings. -- Shak.
But infinite in pardon was my judge. -- Milton.
Usage: Used in expressing courteous denial or contradiction; as, I beg your pardon; or in indicating that one has not understood another; as, I beg pardon; or pardon me?.
Pardon (n.) An official warrant of remission of penalty.
Sign me a present pardon for my brother. -- Shak.
Pardon (n.) The state of being forgiven. -- South.
Pardon (n.) (Law) 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.
Syn: Forgiveness; remission. See Forgiveness.
Pardoned (imp. & p. p.) of Pardon.
Pardoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pardon.
Pardon (v. t.) 原諒，饒恕 [（+for）] [O1] [O4]；赦免 To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant. -- 2 Kings v. 18.
I pray you, pardon me; pray heartily, pardon me. -- Shak.
Pardon (v. t.) To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
I pray thee, pardon my sin. -- 1 Sam. xv. 25.
Apollo, pardon My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle! -- Shak.
Pardon (v. t.) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it. -- Shak.
Pardon (v. t.) To give leave (of departure) to. [Obs.]
Even now about it! I will pardon you. -- Shak.
Pardon me, Forgive me; excuse me; -- a phrase used also to express courteous denial or contradiction, or to request forgiveness for a mild transgression, such as bumping a person while passing.
Syn: To forgive; absolve; excuse; overlook; remit; acquit. See Excuse.
Pardon (n.) The act of excusing a mistake or offense [syn: forgiveness, pardon].
Pardon (n.) A warrant granting release from punishment for an offense [syn: pardon, amnesty].
Pardon (n.) The formal act of liberating someone [syn: amnesty, pardon, free pardon].
Pardon (v.) Accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands" [syn: excuse, pardon].
Pardon (v.) Grant a pardon to; "Ford pardoned Nixon"; "The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President."
Pardonable (a.) 可原諒的；可寬恕的；可赦免的 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.
Pardonable (a.) Admitting of being pardoned [ant: unpardonable].
Pardonableness (n.) The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. -- Bp. Hall.
Pardonably (adv.) 可原諒地；可寬恕地；可赦免地 In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably. -- Dryden.
Pardonably (adv.) In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree; "he was excusably late" [syn: excusably, forgivably, pardonably] [ant: inexcusably, unforgivably, unpardonably].
Pardoner (n.) One who pardons. -- Shak.
Pardoner (n.) A seller of indulgences. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Pardoner (n.) A person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense [syn: pardoner, forgiver, excuser].
Pardoner (n.) A medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences
Pardoning (a.) Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God.