Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAR-EM'BO-LE, or PAR-EM'BO-LY, n. [Gr. παρεμβολη, insertion.]

In rhetoric, the insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period. It differs from the parenthesis only in this: the parembole relates to the subject, the parenthesis is foreign from it. – Encyc. Vossius.

PA-REN'CHY-MA, n. [Gr. παρεγχυμα, from παρεγχυω, to suffuse.]

1. In anatomy, the solid and interior part of the viscera, or the substance contained in the interstices between the blood-vessels of the viscera; a spongy substance. – Coxe. Encyc. Parenchyma is the substance or basis of the glands. – Cyc.
2. In botany, the pith or pulp of plants. – Encyc.

PA-REN-CHY-MA'TA, n. [plur.]

The order of Entozoa, comprising those species in which the body is filled with a cellular substance, or even with a continuous parenchyma, the only alimentary organ it contains being ramified canals, which distribute nourishment to its different points, and which in most of them, originate from suckers visible externally.

PAR-EN-CHYM'A-TOUS, or PAR-EN'CHYM-OUS, a. [See the Noun.]

Pertaining to parenchyma; spungy; soft; porous. – Grew. Cheyne.

PA-REN'E-SIS, n. [Gr. παραινεσις; παραινεω, to exhort.]

Persuasion; exhortation. [Little used.] – Dict.

PAR-E-NET'IC, or PAR-E-NET'IC-AL, a.

Hortatory; encouraging. – Potter.

PAR'ENT, n. [L. parens, from pario, to produce or bring forth. The regular participle of pario is pariens, and parens is the regular participle of pareo, to appear. But both verbs probably belong to one family; Eth. ፋረየ fari or feri, to bear: Class Br, No. 35; Heb. פרה farah, id. No. 33.]

1. A father or mother; he or she that produces young. The duties of parents to their children are to maintain, protect and educate them. When parents are wanting in authority, children are wanting in duty. – Ames.
2. That which produces; cause; source. Idleness is the parent of vice. Regular industry is the parent of sobriety. – Manning.

PAR'ENT-AGE, n. [Fr.]

Extraction; birth; condition with respect to the rank of parents; as, a man of mean parentage; a gentleman of noble parentage. – Shak.

PA-RENT'AL, a. [It. parentale.]

1. Pertaining to parents; as, parental government.
2. Becoming parents; tender; affectionate; as, parental care or solicitude.

PA-RENT'AL-LY, adv.

In a tender or parental manner.

PAR-ENT-A'TION, n. [from L. parento.]

Something done or said in honor of the dead. – Potter. Johnson.

PA-REN'THE-SIS, n. [Gr. παρενθεσις; παρα and εντιθημι, insert.]

A sentence, or certain words inserted in a sentence, which interrupt the sense or natural connection of words, but serve to explain or qualify the sense of the principal sentence. The parenthesis is usually included in hooks or curved lines, thus, ( ). These officers, whom they still call bishops, are to be elected to a provision comparatively mean, through the same arts (that is, electioneering arts,) by men of all religious tenets that are known or can be invented. – Burke. Do not suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. – Watts.

PAR-EN-THE'TIC, or PAR-EN-THE'TIC-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to a parenthesis; expressed in a parenthesis. – Hales.
2. Using parentheses.

PA-REN-THET'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In a parenthesis. – Bryant.

PA-REN-THET'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In the manner or form of a parenthesis; by parenthesis. – Campbell.

PA-RENT'I-CIDE, n. [L. parens and cædo.]

One who kills a parent. – Bailey.

PA'RENT-LESS, a.

Deprived of parents.

PAR-ER, n. [from pare.]

He or that which pares; an instrument for paring. – Tusser.

PAR'ER-GY, n. [Gr. παρα, beyond, and εργον, work.]

Something unimportant, or done by the by. [Not used.] – Brown.

PAR'GA-SITE, n. [from the isle Pargas, in Finland.]

Mineral of a grayish or bluish green, in rounded grains, having much luster. It is a variety of hornblend.

PAR'GET, n. [Sp. parche, a plaster; emparchar, to plaster. Qu.]

1. Gypsum or plaster stone. – Encyc.
2. Plaster laid on roofs or walls. – Spenser.
3. Paint. – Drayton. Parget is applied to the several kinds of gypsum, which when slightly calcined, is called plaster of Paris, and is used in casting statues, in stucco for floors, ceilings, &c. – Cyc.

PAR'GET, v.t.

1. To plaster walls.
2. To paint; to cover with paint. – B. Jonson.

PAR'GET-ED, pp.

Plastered; stuccoed.

PAR'GET-ER, n.

A plasterer.

PAR'GET-ING, ppr.

Plastering; as a noun, plaster or stucco.