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Word Meanings - PARING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything. 2. That which is pared off. Pope. Pare off the surface of the earth, and with the parings raise your hills. Mortimer.

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  • 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.
  • TATTER
    One who makes tatting. Caulfield & S. .
  • 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
  • PARADISIC
    Paradisiacal. Broome.
  • PAR
    See PARR
  • PARROCK
    A croft, or small field; a paddock.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • PARACROSTIC
    A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.
  • 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.
  • PARIETES
    The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.
  • PARABOLE
    Similitude; comparison.
  • SHRIEVE
    A sheriff. Shak.
  • PARGETER
    A plasterer. Johnson.
  • PARIETINE
    A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. Burton.
  • PARANTHRACENE
    An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.
  • SHROWD
    See SHROOD
  • 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.
  • OUTPARAMOUR
    To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
  • INSEPARATE
    Not separate; together; united. Shak.
  • WATER SHREW
    Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.

 

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