Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 17
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.
The king began to pare a little the privilege of clergy. -- Bacon.
Pare (v.) Decrease gradually or bit by bit [syn: pare, pare down].
Pare (v.) Cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood" [syn: whittle, pare].
Pare (v.) Strip the skin off; "pare apples" [syn: skin, peel, pare].
Pare (v.) Remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber" [syn: pare, trim].
Paregoric (a.) Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.
Paregoric (n.) (Med.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.
Paregoric (n.) Medicine used to treat diarrhea [syn: paregoric, camphorated tincture of opium].
Pareidolia (n.) [U] Psychology Specialized UK [2] 空想性錯視（英語：Pareidolia），也被稱為空想性錯覺、幻想性錯覺，是一種心理現象，指的是大腦對外界的刺激（一副畫面或一段聲音）賦予一個實際的意義，但只是巧合，實際上「意義」並不存在。Is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, seeing faces in inanimate objects, or lunar pareidolia like the Man in the Moon or the Moon rabbit. The concept of pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music in random noise, such as that produced by air conditioners or fans. [3] [4]
Parelcon (n.) (Gram.) The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb.
Parelectronomic (a.) (Physiol.) Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.
Parelectronomy (n.) (Physiol.) A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed. Parella
Parella (n.) Alt. of Parelle.
Parelle (n.) (Bot.) A name for two kinds of dock ({Rumex Patientia and R. Hydrolapathum).
Parelle (n.) (Bot.) A kind of lichen ({Lecanora parella) once used in dyeing and in the preparation of litmus.
Parembole (n.) (Rhet.) A kind of parenthesis.
Parement (n.) See Parament. [Obs.]
Paremptosis (n.) Same as Parembole.
Parenchyma (n.) (Biol.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.
Parenchyma (n.) Animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels.
Parenchyma (n.) The primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems.
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. [R.] Parenetic
Parenetic (a.) Alt. of Parenetioal.
Parenetioal (a.) Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive. [R.] -- F. Potter.
Parent (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord. -- Eph. vi. 1.
Parent (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.
Regular industry is the parent of sobriety. -- Channing.
Parent cell. (Biol.) See Mother cell, under Mother, also Cytula.
Parent nucleus (Biol.), A nucleus which, in cell division, divides, and gives rise to two or more daughter nuclei.
See Karyokinesis, and Cell division, under Division.
Parent (n.) A father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian [ant: child, kid].
Parent (n.) An organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained.
Parent (v.) Bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent].
Parent
Mother
Predecessor
The ancestor node in a tree that points to the current node (one of its child nodes). (2005-09-15)
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. "Wilt thou deny thy parentage?" -- Shak.
Though men esteem thee low of parentage. -- Milton.
Parentage (n.) The state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man" [syn: parenthood, parentage].
Parentage (n.) The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [syn: parentage, birth].
Parentage (n.) The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock].
Parentage. () Kindred. Vide 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1955; Branch; Line.
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.
The careful course and parental provision of nature. -- Sir T. Browne.
Parental (a.) Designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced [ant: filial].
Parental (a.) Relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent; "parental guidance" [syn: parental, maternal, paternal] [ant: filial].
Parentally (adv.) In a parental manner.
Parentation (n.) Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. [Obs.] -- Abp. Potter.
Parentele (n.) Kinship; parentage. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Parentheses (n. 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. "Seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis." -- Sir T. Browne.
Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. -- Watts.
Parenthesis (n.) (Print.) One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.
Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas are logically parenthetical. In def. 1, the phrase "by way of comment or explanation" is inserted for explanation, and the sentence would be grammatically complete without it. The present tendency is to avoid using the distinctive marks, except when confusion would arise from a less conspicuous separation. parentheses
See left
parenthesis, right parenthesis. (1997-12-03)
Parenthesize (v. t.) To make a parenthesis of; to include within
parenthetical marks. -- Lowell. parenthetic
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 ; a parenthetical style.
A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. -- Hales.
Parenthetical (a.) Using or containing parentheses.
Parenthetical (a.) Added within parentheses to amplify or explain; as, parenthetical remarks.
Parenthetic (a.) Qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks" [syn: parenthetic, parenthetical].
Parenthetically (adv.) In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.
Parenthetically (adv.) In a parenthetical manner; "he added parenthetically that he would not attend the wedding ceremony".
Parenthood (n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
Parenthood (n.) The state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man" [syn: parenthood, parentage].
Parenticide (n.) The act of one who kills one's own parent. [R.]
Parenticide (n.) One who kills one's own parent; a parricide. [R.]
Parentless (a.) Deprived of parents.
Parepididymis (n.) (Anat.) 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.) [L.] See Parergy.
Parergy (n.) Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Paresis (n.) (Med.) Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.
Parethmoid (a.) (Anat.) 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. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Parfit (a.) Perfect. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Parfitly (adv.) Perfectly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Parforn (v. t.) Alt. of Parfourn.
Parfourn (v. t.) To perform. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Piers Plowman.
Pargasite (n.) (Min.) 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. -- Sir
T. Herbert.
The pargeted ceiling with pendants. -- R. L. Stevenson.
Parget (v. t.) To paint; to cover over. [Obs.]
Parget (v. i.) To lay on plaster.
Parget (v. i.) To paint, as the face. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Parget (n.) Gypsum or plaster stone.
Parget (n.) Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. -- Knight.
Parget (n.) Paint, especially for the face. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Parget (n.) Plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys [syn: {parget}, {pargeting}, {pargetting}].
Parget (v.) Apply ornamental plaster to.
Pargeter (n.) A plasterer. -- Johnson.
Pargeting (n.) Plasterwork; esp.:
Pargeting (n.) A kind of decorative plasterwork in raised ornamental figures, formerly used for the internal and external decoration of houses.
Pargeting (n.) (In modern architecture), The plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth surface and help the draught.
Pargeting (n.) Plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys [syn: parget, pargeting, pargetting].
Pargeting (n.) Ornamental plasterwork [syn: pargeting, pargetting, pargetry].
Pargeting (n.) Ornamental plastering [syn: pargeting, pargetting].
Pargetory (n.) Something made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Parhelic (a.) Of or pertaining to parhelia.
Parhelic (a.) Relating to or resembling a parhelion [syn: parhelic, parheliacal].
Parhelia (n. 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. -- Balfour (Cyc. of India).
Pariah (n.) An outcast; one despised by society.
Pariah dog (Zool.), A mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities.
Pariah+kite+(Zool.),+A+species+of+kite+({Milvus+govinda">Pariah kite (Zool.), a species of kite ({Milvus govinda) which acts as a scavenger in India.
Pariah (n.) A person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael].
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 chronicle, A most ancient chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved on marble in the Isle of Paros, now among the Arundelian marbles.
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.) (Zool.) Same as Artiodactyla.
Paridigitate (a.) (Anat.) Having an even number of digits on the hands or the feet. -- Owen.
Parietes (n. pl. ) of Paries.
Paries (n.) (Zool.) 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.
At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee. -- B. H. Hall (1856).
Parietal (a.) (Anat.) Of pertaining to the parietes.
Parietal (a.) (Anat.) 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.) (Bot.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.
Parietal (n.) (Anat.) One of the parietal bones.
Parietal (n.) (Zool.) 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.) (Bot.) Any one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st Pellitory.
Parietes (n. pl.) (Anat.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.
Parietes (n. pl.) (Bot.) The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.
Paries (n.; pl. Parietes.) (Zool.) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
Parietic (a.) (Chem.) 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. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Parieto- () (Anat.) 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.) (Chem.) A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin.