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A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.

• PARALLELVISE
  A vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel.
• Consistent
  Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.
• Parallelogram
  A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles.
• Protectoral
  Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.
• PROTECTRESSPROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• Consistently
  In a consistent manner.
• Parallelogrammatic
  Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.
• Protectorate
  Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.
• Consistorial
  Of or pertaining to a consistory.
• Parallelogrammic
  Alt. of Parallelogrammical
• Protectorial
  Same as Protectoral.
• Consistorian
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.
• Parallelogrammical
  Having the properties of a parallelogram.
• Protectorless
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• Consistories
  of Consistory
• Parallelopiped
  A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.
• Protectorship
  The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.

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