Paries :: Paries (n.) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

Parietal :: Parietal (a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them..

Parietal :: Parietal (a.) Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.

Parietal :: Parietal (a.) Of pertaining to the parietes.

Parietal :: Parietal (a.) 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..

Parietal :: Parietal (a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta..

Parietal :: Parietal (n.) One of the parietal bones.

Parietal :: Parietal (n.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes..

Parietary :: Parietary (a.) See Parietal, 2..

Parietary :: Parietary (n.) Any one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st Pellitory.

Parietes :: Parietes (pl. ) of Parie.

Parietes :: Parietes (n. pl.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium..

Parietes :: Parietes (n. pl.) The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.

Parietic :: Parietic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid..

Parietine :: Parietine (n.) A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.

Parieto- :: Parieto- () 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..

Parigenin :: Parigenin (n.) A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin..

Parillin :: Parillin (n.) 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..

Paring :: Paring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Par.

Paring :: Paring (v. t.) The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything.

Paring :: Paring (v. t.) That which is pared off.

Paripinnate :: Paripinnate (a.) Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

Paris :: Paris (n.) A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.

Paris :: Paris (n.) The chief city of France.

Parish :: Parish (n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein..

Parish :: Parish (n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc..

Parish :: Parish (n.) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live..

Parish :: Parish (n.) In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States..

Parish :: Parish (a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor..

Parishen :: Parishen (n.) A parishioner.

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