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A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. [Eng.] Knight.

• Paragraphing
  of Paragraph
• KNIGHTBARONET
  See Baronet.
• Parasita
  An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.
• Paries
  The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
• Knight baro-net
  See Baronet.
• Parsimony
  Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.
• Paralepsis
  See Paraleipsis.
• PARAFFINPARAFFINE
  A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemic
• Parathesis
  The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.
• Parisology
  The use of equivocal or ambiguous words.
• Parchesi
  A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.
• Partaking
  of Partake
• 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.
• PARAPHRAGMA
  One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea. -- Par`a*phrag"mal, a.
• Parbuckled
  of Parbuckle
• Parle
  To talk; to converse; to parley.
• Parabolist
  A narrator of parables.
• Partialism
  Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.
• Paralyzation
  The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.
• PARFLECHE
  A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.

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