AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
parish: that circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.-the same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.-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.-in louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other states.-of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.
parisian: a native or inhabitant of paris, the capital of france.-of or pertaining to paris.
parity: the quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; a like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning.
park: a piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.-a tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.-a piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation; as, hyde park in london; central park in new york.-a space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a park of wagons; a park of artillery.-a partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.-to inclose in a park, or as in a park.-to bring together in a park, or compact body; as, to park the artillery, the wagons, etc.
parkeria: a genus of large arenaceous fossil foraminifera found in the cretaceous rocks. the species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.
parkesine: a compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized india rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.
parkleaves: a european species of saint john's-wort; the tutsan. see tutsan.
parlance: conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.
parlante: speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
parle: to talk; to converse; to parley.-conversation; talk; parley.
parley: mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce.-to speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners, an armistice, or terms of peace.
parliament: a parleying; a discussion; a conference.-a formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.-the assembly of the three estates of the united kingdom of great britain and ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the house of lords and the house of commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.-in france, before the revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts.
parliamentarian: of or pertaining to parliament.-one who adhered to the parliament, in opposition to king charles i.-one versed in the rules and usages of parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.
parliamentary: of or pertaining to parliament; as, parliamentary authority.-enacted or done by parliament; as, a parliamentary act.-according to the rules and usages of parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion.
parlor: a room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.-the apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.-in large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a london house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.-commonly, in the united states, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.
parlous: attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough. -venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen.
parnassia: a genus of herbs growing in wet places, and having white flowers; grass of parnassus.
parnassian: of or pertaining to parnassus.-any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus parnassius. they inhabit the mountains, both in the old world and in america.
parnassus: a mountain in greece, sacred to apollo and the muses, and famous for a temple of apollo and for the castalian spring.
paroccipital: situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.
parochial: of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties.
parochialism: the quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.
parody: a writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty.-a popular maxim, adage, or proverb.-to write a parody upon; to burlesque.
parol: a word; an oral utterance.-oral declaration; word of mouth; also, a writing not under seal.-given or done by word of mouth; oral; also, given by a writing not under seal; as, parol evidence.
parole: a word; an oral utterance.-word of promise; word of honor; plighted faith; especially (mil.), promise, upon one's faith and honor, to fulfill stated conditions, as not to bear arms against one's captors, to return to custody, or the like.-a watchword given only to officers of guards; -- distinguished from countersign, which is given to all guards.-oral declaration. see lst parol, 2.-see 2d parol.-to set at liberty on parole; as, to parole prisoners.
paronomasia: a play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning.
paronomastical: of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.
paronymous: having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; -- said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc.-having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning; -- said of certain words, as al/ and awl; hair and hare, etc.
paronymy: the quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.
paroophoron: a small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.
parorchis: the part of the epididymis; or the corresponding part of the excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the wolffian body.
parosteal: of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.
parostosis: ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.
parotid: situated near the ear; -- applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear. -of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parotid gland.-the parotid gland.
parotoid: resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.-a parotoid gland.
parovarium: a group of tubules, a remnant of the wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoophoron.
paroxysm: the fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.-any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit.
paroxysmal: of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper.
parquet: a body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.-same as parquetry.
parqueted: formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures.
parquetry: a species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors.
parr: a young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.-a young leveret.
parraqua: a curassow of the genus ortalida, allied to the guan.
parrel: the rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure.-a chimney-piece.
parricide: properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.-the act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.
parrot: in a general sense, any bird of the order psittaci.-any species of psittacus, chrysotis, pionus, and other genera of the family psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. they have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. the gray parrot, or jako (p. erithacus) of africa (see jako), and the species of amazon, or green, parrots (chrysotis) of america, are examples. many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.-to repeat by rote, as a parrot.-to chatter like a parrot.
parry: to ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.-to avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.-to ward off, evade, or turn aside something, as a blow, argument, etc.-a warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.
parse: to resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.
parsee: one of the adherents of the zoroastrian or ancient persian religion, descended from persian refugees settled in india; a fire worshiper; a gheber.-the iranian dialect of much of the religious literature of the parsees.
parsimonious: exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
parsimony: closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.
parsley: an aromatic umbelliferous herb (carum petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish.
parsnip: the aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.
parson: a person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.-any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.
parsonage: a certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.-the glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.-money paid for the support of a parson.
part: one of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent.-an equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient.-a constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element.-a constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense.-quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural.-such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure.-that which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office.-one of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction.-a particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. see to act a part, under act.-one of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc.-to divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever.-to divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.-to separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.-hence: to hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.-to separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.-to leave; to quit.-to be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.-to go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from.-to perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from.-to have a part or share; to partake.-partly; in a measure.
partake: to take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others.-to have something of the properties, character, or office; -- usually followed by of.-to partake of; to have a part or share in; to share.-to admit to a share; to cause to participate; to give a part to.-to distribute; to communicate.
partaker: one who partakes; a sharer; a participator.-an accomplice; an associate; a partner.
parted: of part-separated; devided.-endowed with parts or abilities.-cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc.
partenope: one of the sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile ulysses by her songs.-one of the asteroids between mars and jupiter, descovered by m. de gasparis in 1850.
parterie: articles made of the blades or fiber of the lygeum spartum and stipa (/ macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses.
parterre: an ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.-the pit of a theater; the parquet.
parthenic: of or pertaining to the spartan partheniae, or sons of unmarried women.
parthenogenesis: the production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. it is one of the phenomena of alternate generation.  cf. heterogamy, and metagenesis.-the production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle.
parthenogenetic: of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms.
parthenon: a celebrated marble temple of athene, on the acropolis at athens. it was of the pure doric order, and has had an important influence on art.
parti-colored: colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower.
partial: of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.-inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial.-having a predelection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond.-pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole.
partialist: one who is partial.-one who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect.
partiality: the quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.-a predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting.
partially: in part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed.-in a partial manner; with undue bias of mind; with unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge partially.
partibility: the quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance.
partible: admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible.
participate: acting in common; participating.-to have a share in common with others; to take a part; to partake; -- followed by in, formely by of; as, to participate in a debate.-to partake of; to share in; to receive a part of.-to impart, or give, or share of.
participation: the act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.-distribution; division into shares.-community; fellowship; association.
participial: having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun.-a participial word.
participle: a part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. in the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.-anything that partakes of the nature of different things.
particle: a minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.-any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue.-a crumb or little piece of concecrated host.-the smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity.-a subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely.
particular: relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation.-of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular.-separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.-concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.-containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.-holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant.-forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) some men are wise; (particular negative) some men are not wise.-a separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.-special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc.-one of the details or items of grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises.
particularism: a minute description; a detailed statement.-the doctrine of particular election.-devotion to the interests of one's own kingdom or province rather than to those of the empire.
particularity: the state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.-that which is particular-peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity.-special circumstance; minute detail; particular.-something of special or private concern or interest.
particularize: to give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.-to mention or attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be circumstantial; as, to particularize in a narrative.
particularly: in a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly.-in an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure.
particulate: to particularize.-having the form of a particle.-referring to, or produced by, particles, such as dust, minute germs, etc.
parting: of part-serving to part; dividing; separating.-given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.-departing.-admitting of being parted; partible.-the act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.-a separation; a leave-taking.-a surface or line of separation where a division occurs.-the surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.-the separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.-a joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.-the breaking, as of a cable, by violence.-lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
partisan: an adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.-the commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.-any member of such a corps.-adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.-serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.-a kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.
partisanship: the state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.
partite: divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.