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- English Word Parathesis Definition A commendatory prayer.
- English Word Parathetic Definition Of or pertaining to parathesis.
- English Word Paratonnerre Definition A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.
- English Word Paraunter Definition Peradventure. See Paraventure.
- English Word Parauque Definition A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.
- English Word Paravail Definition At the bottom; lowest.
- English Word Paravant Definition Alt. of Paravant
- English Word Paravant Definition In front; publicly.
- English Word Paravant Definition Beforehand; first.
- English Word Paraventure Definition Peradventure; perchance.
- English Word Paraxanthin Definition A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.
- English Word Paraxial Definition On either side of the axis of the skeleton.
- English Word Paraxylene Definition A hydrocarbon 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.
- English Word Parboil Definition To boil or cook thoroughly.
- English Word Parboil Definition To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
- English Word Parboiled Definition of Parboil
- English Word Parboiling Definition of Parboil
- English Word Parbreak Definition To throw out; to vomit.
- English Word Parbreak Definition Vomit.
- English Word Parbuckle Definition 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.
- English Word Parbuckle Definition A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
- English Word Parbuckle Definition To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
- English Word Parbuckled Definition of Parbuckle
- English Word Parbuckling Definition of Parbuckle
- English Word Parcae Definition The Fates. See Fate, 4.
- English Word Parcase Definition Perchance; by chance.
- English Word Parcel Definition A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- English Word Parcel Definition A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
- English Word Parcel Definition An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- English Word Parcel Definition A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.