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- English Word Parhelium Definition See Parhelion.
- English Word Pari- Definition A combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate, paripinnate.
- English Word Pariah Definition 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.
- English Word Pariah Definition An outcast; one despised by society.
- English Word Parial Definition See Pair royal, under Pair, n.
- English Word Parian Definition Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble.
- English Word Parian Definition A native or inhabitant of Paros.
- English Word Parian Definition A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.
- English Word Paridigitata Definition Same as Artiodactyla.
- English Word Paries Definition The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
- English Word Parietal Definition Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.
- English Word Parietal Definition Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.
- English Word Parietal Definition Of pertaining to the parietes.
- English Word Parietal Definition 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.
- English Word Parietal Definition Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.
- English Word Parietal Definition One of the parietal bones.
- English Word Parietal Definition One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.
- English Word Parietary Definition See Parietal, 2.
- English Word Parietary Definition Any one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st Pellitory.
- English Word Parietes Definition of Paries
- English Word Parietes Definition The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.
- English Word Parietes Definition The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.
- English Word Parietic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid.
- English Word Parietine Definition A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.
- English Word Parieto- Definition 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.
- English Word Parigenin Definition A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin.
- English Word Parillin Definition A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and sarsaparillin.
- English Word Paring Definition The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything.
- English Word Paring Definition That which is pared off.
- English Word Paring Definition of Pare