Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 19
Paronomastic (a.) Alt. of Paronomastical.
Paronomastical (a.) Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.
Paronomasy (n.) Paronomasia.
Paronychia (n.) A whitlow, or felon.
Paronym (n.) A paronymous word.
Paronymous (a.) Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; -- said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc.
Paronymous (a.) Having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning; -- said of certain words, as al/ and awl; hair and hare, etc.
Paronymy (n.) The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.
Paroophoron (n.) A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.
Paroquet (n.) Same as Parrakeet.
Parorchis (n.) The part of the epididymis; or the corresponding part of the excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the Wolffian body.
Parosteal (a.) (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.
Parostosis (n.) Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.
Parostotic (a.) Pertaining to parostosis.
Parotic (a.) On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear.
Parotid (a.) 腮腺的；耳下腺的 Situated near the ear; -- applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear.
Parotid (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parotid gland.
Parotid gland (Anat.), One of the salivary glands situated just in front of or below the ear. It is the largest of the salivary glands in man, and its duct opens into the interior of the mouth opposite the second molar of the upper jaw.
Parotid (n.) (Anat.) 耳下腺；腮腺 The parotid gland.
Parotid (a.) Relating to or located near the parotid gland.
Parotitis (n.) Inflammation of the parotid glands.
Parotoid (a.) Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.
Parotoid (n.) A parotoid gland.
Parousia (n.) （耶穌）再來 The nativity of our Lord.
Parousia (n.) The last day.
Parousia (n.) (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment [syn: {Second Coming}, {Second Coming of Christ}, {Second Advent}, {Advent}, {Parousia}].
Parovarium (n.) A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoophoron.
Paroxysm (n.) (Med.) （疾病週期性）發作；（感情的）爆發 The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions. -- Arbuthnot.
Paroxysm (n.) Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit.
The returning paroxysms of diffidence and despair. -- South.
Paroxysm (n.) A sudden uncontrollable attack; "a paroxysm of giggling"; "a fit of coughing"; "convulsions of laughter" [syn: paroxysm, fit, convulsion].
Paroxysm (n.) （尤指不可控制的感情）突發 A sudden and powerful expression of strong feeling, especially one that you cannot control.
// In a sudden paroxysm of jealousy he threw her clothes out of the window.
// Paroxysms of laughter.
Compare: Jealousy
Jealousy (n.) (pl. jealousies) [U] 妒忌；猜忌 [U] [C]；戒備，警惕 [U] The state or feeling of being jealous.
‘A sharp pang of jealousy.’
‘Resentments and jealousies festered.’
Paroxysmal (a.) Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper.
Paroxytone (a.) A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.
Parquet (n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.
Parquet (n.) Same as Parquetry.
Parquetage (n.) See Parquetry.
Parqueted (a.) Formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures.
Parquetry (n.) A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors.
Parquette (n.) See Parquet.
Parr (n.) A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.
Parr (n.) A young leveret.
Parrakeet (n.) Alt. of Parakeet.
Parakeet (n.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.
Parral (n.) Alt. of Parrel.
Parrel (n.) (Naut.) The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure. -- Totten.
Parrel (n.) A chimney-piece. -- Halliwell.
Parraqua (n.) (Zool.) A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan.
Parrhesia (n.) (Rhet.) Boldness or freedom of speech.
Parricidal (a.) Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide.
Parricide (n.) Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.
Parricide (n.) The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.
Parricide (n.) Someone who kills his or her parent.
Parricide (n.) The murder of your own father or mother.
Parricide, () civil law. One who murders his father; it is applied, by extension, to one who murders his mother, his brother, his sister, or his children. The crime committed by such person is also called parricide. Merl. Rep. mot Parricide; Dig. 48, 9, 1, 1. 3, 1. 4.
Parricide, () This offence is defined almost in the same words in the penal code of China. Penal Laws of China, B. 1, s. 2, Sec. 4.
Parricide, () The criminal was punished by being scourged, and afterwards sewed in a sort of sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and then thrown into the sea, or into a river; or if there were no water, he was thrown in this manner to wild beasts. Dig. 48, 9, 9; C. 9, 17, 1, 1. 4, 18, 6; Bro. Civ; Law, 423; Wood's Civ. Law, B. 3, c. 10, s. 9.
Parricide, () By the laws of France parricide is the crime of him who murders his father or mother, whether they, be the legitimate, natural or adopted parents of the individual, or the murder of any other legitimate ascendant. Code Penal, art. 297. This crime is there punished by the criminal's being taken to the place of execution without any other garment than his shirt, barefooted, and with his head covered with a black veil. He is then exposed on the scaffold while an officer of the court reads his sentence to the spectators; his right hand is then cut off, and he is immediately put to death. Id. art. 13.
Parricide, () The common law does not define this crime, and makes no difference between its punishment, and the punishment of murder. 1 Hale's P. C. 380; Prin. Penal Law, c. 18, Sec. 8, p. 243; Dalloz, Dict. mot Homicide.
Parricidious (a.) Parricidal.
Parrock (n.) A croft, or small field; a paddock.
Parrot (n.) In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.
Parrot (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.
Parrot (v. t.) To repeat by rote, as a parrot.
Parrot (v. i.) To chatter like a parrot.
Parroter (n.) One who simply repeats what he has heard.
Parrotry (n.) Servile imitation or repetition.
Parrot's-bill (n.) The glory pea. See under Glory.
Parried (imp. & p. p.) of Parry.
Parrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parry.
Parry (v. t.) To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.
-- Locke.
Vice parries wide The undreaded volley with a sword of straw. -- Cowper.
Parry (v. t.) To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.
The French government has parried the payment of our claims. -- E. Everett.
Parry (v. i.) To ward off, evade, or turn aside something, as a blow, argument, etc. -- Locke.
Parries (n. pl. ) of Parry.
Parry (n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.
Parry (n.) (Fencing) Blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword.
Parry (n.) A return punch (especially by a boxer) [syn: counterpunch, parry, counter].
Parry (v.) Impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball); "block an attack" [syn: parry, block, deflect].
Parry (v.) Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep].
Parsed (imp. & p. p.) of Parse.
Parsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parse.
Parse (v. t.) (Gram.) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.
Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly. -- Ascham.
Parse (v.) Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence).
Parsee (n.) One of the adherents of the Zoroastrian or ancient Persian religion, descended from Persian refugees settled in India; a fire worshiper; a Gheber.
Syn: Parsi.
Parsee (n.) The Iranian dialect of much of the religious literature of the Parsees.
Parsee (n.) A member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin; descended from the Persians; now found in western India [syn: Parsee, Parsi].
Parseeism (n.) The religion and customs of the Parsees.
Syn: Parsiism.
Parseeism (n.) The faith of a Zoroastrian sect in India [syn: Parsiism, Parseeism].
Parser (n.) One who parses.
Parser (n.) A computer program that divides code up into functional components; "compilers must parse source code in order to translate it into object code."
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An algorithm or program to determine the syntactic structure of ("to parse") a sentence or string of symbols in some language. A parser normally takes as input a sequence of tokens output by a lexical analyser. It may produce some kind of abstract syntax tree as output. A parser may be produced automatically from a grammar by a parser generator such as yacc.
A parser is normally part of some larger program, like a compiler, which takes the output of the parser and attempts to extract meaning from it in some way, e.g. translating it into another language.
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Parsimonious (a.) Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious. -- Bacon.
Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war will drain us of more men and money. -- Addison.
Syn: Covetous; niggardly; miserly; penurious; close; saving; mean; stingy; frugal. See Avaricious.
Parsimonious (a.) Excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence" [syn: parsimonious, penurious].
Parsimony (n.) Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness. -- Bacon.
Awful parsimony presided generally at the table. -- Thackeray.
Syn: Economy; frugality; illiberality; covetousness; closeness; stinginess. See Economy.
Parsimony (n.) Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily [syn: parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching].
Parsimony (n.) Extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness].
Parsley (n.) (Bot.) An aromatic umbelliferous herb ({Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish.
As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit. -- Shak.
Fool's parsley. See under Fool.
Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley.
Parsley fern (Bot.), A small fern with leaves resembling parsley ({Cryptogramme crispa).
Parsley piert (Bot.), A small herb ({Alchemilla arvensis"> Parsley piert (Bot.), a small herb ({Alchemilla arvensis) formerly used as a remedy for calculus.
Parsley (n.) Annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves [syn: parsley, Petroselinum crispum].
Parsley (n.) Aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food.
Parsnip (n.) The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.
Parson (n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.
Parson (n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.
Parsonage (n.) A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
Parsonage (n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.
Parsonage (n.) Money paid for the support of a parson.
Parsoned (a.) Furnished with a parson.
Parsonic (a.) Alt. of Parsonical.
Parsonical (a.) Of or pertaining to a parson; clerical.
Parsonish (a.) Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement.
Part (n.) 一部分，部分 [C] [U] [（+of）]；部，篇；分冊，分輯；節，段；集 [C]；部件，零件 [C] One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent.
And kept back part of the price, . . . and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles'feet. -- Acts v. 2.
Our ideas of extension and number -- do they not contain a secret relation of the parts ? -- Locke.
I am a part of all that I have met. -- Tennyson.
Hence, specifically:
Part (n.) An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient.
An homer is the tenth part of an ephah. -- Ex. xvi. 36.
A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward. -- Shak.
Part (n.) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element.
All the parts were formed . . . into one harmonious body. -- Locke.
The pulse, the glow of every part. -- Keble.
Part (n.) A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense. "Men of considerable parts." -- Burke. "Great quickness of parts." -- Macaulay.
Which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them. -- Shak.
Part (n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural. "The uttermost part of the heaven." -- Neh. i. 9.
All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and fears. -- Dryden.
Part (n.) (Math.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure.
Part (n.) That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office.
We have no part in David. -- 2 Sam. xx. 1.
Accuse not Nature! she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. -- Milton.
Let me bear My part of danger with an equal share. -- Dryden.
Hence, specifically:
Part (n.) One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction.
For he that is not against us is on our part. -- Mark ix. 40.
Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part. -- Waller.
Part (n.) A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See {To act a part}, under {Act}.
That part Was aptly fitted and naturally performed. -- Shak.
It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf. -- Shak.
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. -- Pope.
Part (n.) (Mus.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc.
{For my part}, So far as concerns me; for my share.
{For the most part}. See under {Most}, a.
{In good part}, As well done; favorably; acceptably; in a friendly manner; as, to take an act in good part. -- Hooker.
{In ill part}, Unfavorably; with displeasure.
{In part}, In some degree; partly.
{Part and parcel}, An essential or constituent portion; -- a reduplicative phrase. Cf. {might and main}, {kith and kin}, etc. "She was . . . part and parcel of the race and place." -- Howitt.
{Part of speech} (Gram.), A sort or class of words of a particular character; thus, the noun is a part of speech denoting the name of a thing; the verb is a part of speech which asserts something of the subject of a sentence.
{Part owner} (Law), One of several owners or tenants in common. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}.
{Part singing}, Singing in which two or more of the harmonic parts are taken.
{Part song}, A song in two or more (commonly four) distinct vocal parts. "A part song differs from a madrigal in its exclusion of contrapuntual devices; from a glee, in its being sung by many voices, instead of by one only, to each part." -- Stainer & Barrett.
Syn: Portion; section; division; fraction; fragment; piece; share; constituent. See {Portion}, and {Section}.
Parted (imp. & p. p.) of Part.
Parting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Part.
Part (v. t.) 使分開，使分離 [（+from）]；使分成幾部分，使分裂；將（頭髮）分線 To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. "Thou shalt part it in pieces." -- Lev. ii. 6.
There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues. -- Keble.
Part (v. t.) To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.
To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee. -- Pope.
They parted my raiment among them. -- John xix. 24.
Part (v. t.) To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. -- Ruth i. 17.
While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. -- Luke xxiv. 51.
The narrow seas that part The French and English. -- Shak.
Part (v. t.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.
The stumbling night did part our weary powers. -- Shak.
Part (v. t.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.
The liver minds his own affair, . . . And parts and strains the vital juices. -- Prior.
Part (v. t.) To leave; to quit. [Obs.]
Since presently your souls must part your bodies. -- Shak.
Part (v. t.) To separate (a collection of objects) into smaller collections; as, to part one's hair in the middle.
{To part a cable} (Naut.), To break it.
{To part company}, To separate, as travelers or companions.