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Paraxanthin
n.
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A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.
Paraxial
a.
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On either side of the axis of the skeleton.
Paraxylene
n.
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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.
Parboiled
imp. & p. p.
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of Parboil
Parboiling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Parboil
Parboil
v. t.
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To boil or cook thoroughly.
Parboil
v. t.
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To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
Parbreak
v. i. & t.
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To throw out; to vomit.
Parbreak
n.
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Vomit.
Parbuckle
n.
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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.
Parbuckle
n.
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A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
Parbuckled
imp. & p. p.
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of Parbuckle
Parbuckling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Parbuckle
Parbuckle
v. t.
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To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
Parcae
n. pl.
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The Fates. See Fate, 4.
Parcase
adv.
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Perchance; by chance.
Parcel
n.
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A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
Parcel
n.
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A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
Parcel
n.
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An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
Parcel
n.
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A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
Parceled
imp. & p. p.
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of Parcel
Parcelled
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of Parcel
Parceling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Parcel
Parcelling
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of Parcel
Parcel
v. t.
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To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.
Parcel
v. t.
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To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
Parcel
v. t.
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To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
Parcel
a. & adv.
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Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]
Parceling
n.
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The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.
Parceling
n.
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Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc.