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A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. Knight.

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  • KNIGHTLESS
    Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
  • PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
    1. 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 observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
  • PARAVAIL
    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.
  • PARADISIC
    Paradisiacal. Broome.
  • PARENTHESIS
    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
  • PARROCK
    A croft, or small field; a paddock.
  • PAR
    See PARR
  • PARTHIAN
    Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n.
  • PAROSTOSIS
    Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.
  • PARADOXURE
    Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat . See Musang.
  • PARDON
    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.
  • PARACROSTIC
    A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.
  • PARUMBILICAL
    Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.
  • PARIETES
    The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.
  • PARGETER
    A plasterer. Johnson.
  • PARABOLE
    Similitude; comparison.
  • PARIETINE
    A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. Burton.
  • PARANTHRACENE
    An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.
  • PARENTATION
    Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter.
  • PARRY
    1. 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. 2. To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade. The French
  • DESPARPLE
    To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
  • RIPARIOUS
    Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
  • ENTERPARLANCE
    Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
  • PURPURIPAROUS
    Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
  • SPAR-HUNG
    Hung with spar, as a cave.
  • SEPARATISM
    The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
  • UNKNIGHT
    To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
  • OUTPARAMOUR
    To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
  • INSEPARATE
    Not separate; together; united. Shak.

 

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