Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAR'AL-LEL, v.t.

1. To place so as to keep the same direction, and at an equal distance from something else. Brown.
2. To level; to equal. – Fell. Shak.
3. To correspond to. – Burnet.
4. To be equal to; to resemble in all essential points. – Dryden.
5. To compare. – Locke.