PAROTID GLAND 



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PARRET 



Parotid Gland. Ijir^.-si ,,f ti,,- 

 salivary rl.ui.U. I.MIIJ* in the re- 

 cea between the lower jaw ami i In- 

 cur, it i .! ir M|IU|M, consist- 



U'T Till- lltlrt. 



k in. \\n ;i>, M. -icon's duct, about 

 s the muscles of 



I In- |:i\v and tin- IIHH-..II- Mi.-iiiliriiin- 

 >f tin- UK. nth, and o|x-ns into the 

 mouth (i|.|osite the second ii|.|.-i 

 molar tooth. Its function 



.-.iliva. M!H. h attaint* the 

 .I food. 



Parousia. nn for com- 



ing, appearance, or rovelati. 

 is used in the Greek version of tin- 

 N.T. for the Second Advent or 

 Second Coming of Clni-t (_' 

 - i. Set Messianic Ho|n-. 



Parquet (Fr. ). Name given to 

 :in inlaid or mosaic wooden tloor 

 ing. Small blocks of wood arc ar 

 ranged in a geometric pattern. Oak 

 is the wood most generally used, 

 other woods of various colours 

 being added for the more elaborate 

 forms of parquetry. 



Parr, CATHERINE (1512-48). 

 Sixth wife of Henry VIII. Born 

 at Kendnl Castle, Westmorland, 



Catherine Parr. Queen o! England. 

 From the portrait by Holbein 



daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, she 

 married, at an early age, Edward 

 Borough, perhaps Lord Borough, of 

 Gainsborough, who died in 1520. 

 Her next husband was Neville, 

 Lord Latimer, who left her a widow 

 for the second time, in 1543, and 

 during the same year she became 

 the wife of Henry'VIII. The mar- 

 riage took place at Hampton Court 

 on July 12. Narrowly escaping a 

 fatal entanglement in the religious 

 controversies of the time, she sur- 

 vived the king, and married Sir 

 Thomas Seymour, June. 1547, but 

 died on Sept. 7, 1548. See History 

 of England, J. Lingard, 1854 ; 

 Lives of the Queens of England, 

 A. Strickland, new ed. 1877. i 



George Parr, 

 English cricketer 



Parr, (JwmtiK (1820 -91) 



.'rn at Kal. lilt.- 



on -Trent, near Nottingham, he was 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^ the son of a 

 /tiP*W I "mail land 

 '* owner and 

 farmer. In 

 1847 he joined 

 the All l-'n.' 

 land eleven 

 captained by 

 Clarke, which 

 he himself cap- 

 tained, 1857- 

 1870. II. 

 |.l.i\i-d also for Nottinghamshire 

 and many times for the players. 

 Parr was regarded as the finest 

 m of his day. He died at 

 it!'.-. .Inn.- 23, 1891. 

 Parr, SAMUEL (1747-1825). 

 British scholar. Born at Harrow, 

 Jan. 26, 1747, the son of a surgeon, 

 he was edu- 

 cated at Har- 

 row School and 

 Emmanuel 

 College, Cam- 

 bridge. He 

 was succes- 

 sively a mas- 

 ter in his old 

 school, in a 

 -lioi.l of his 

 own at Stan- 

 more, and in 



Samuel Parr, 

 British scholar 



other places, and 

 eventually was ordained. In 1783 

 he became perpetual curate of 

 Hatton in Warwickshire, where he 

 lived for the rest of his life, and 

 a prebendary of S. Paul's. Parr 

 was an admirable I /it in scholar, 

 and in his views on education seems 

 to have been in advance of his times. 

 He enjoyed a great contemporary 

 reputation as a talker and scholar. 

 He died at Hatton, March 6, 1825. 

 Parr, THOMAS (c. 1483-1635). 

 English centenarian, known as Old 

 Parr. He is supposed to have lived 

 in ten reigns, 

 from that of 

 Edward I V to 

 that of Charles 

 I. Tradition 

 said that he 

 was born at 

 Winnington, 

 near Alberbury, 

 Shropshire, in 

 1483, and lived 

 there most of 

 his long life. In 1635 the earl of 

 Arundel took him to London that 

 he might be shown at court as a 

 marvel, and in London he died on 

 Nov. 15 of that year at the alleged 

 age of 152, being buried in \\.--t 

 minster Abbey. John Taylor, the 

 water poet, wrote pamphlet. Tin- 

 Olde, Olde, Very Olde Man. ir.rsr.. 

 which is tin- main source of infor- 

 mation about Parr's life. The 

 cottage in which he lived on the 



Thomas Parr, 

 English centenarian 



MIU between Shrewsbury and 

 WeUhpool was sold to a namesake, 

 I. MI no descendant, m I'd 7 



Parrakeet. Name popularly 

 to many small long-tailed 

 parrot*. The ring-necked parra- 

 keet, well known in aviaries, ban 

 green plumage with a red collar. It 

 U about 16 inn. long. and ia foun<l in 

 India and Ox-hiii ( 'hina. Flying in 

 flocks and feeding upon fruit and 

 grain, it is a serious pest to gar- 

 deners and agriculturists. The 

 grass parrakeets of Australia have 

 very beautiful plumage of green 

 ami l.lue, and are popular as pete. 

 They spend most of their time on 

 the ground, as do also the swamp 

 parrakeet and the ground parra- 

 keet, while both have barred tail 

 feathers. See Parrot, colour plate. 



Parral. Town of Chile. It is 

 situated on the longitudinal rly. 

 26 m. S.S.W. of Linares, and is the 

 chief town of a dist. of the same 

 name, which forms part of the prov. 

 of Linares. Pop. 9,000. 



Parral OR HIDALGO DEL PARRAL. 

 City of Mexico, in the state of 

 Chihuahua. An important mining 

 centre, it stands on the river Par- 

 ral, 120 m. S. of Chihuahua. Silver 

 is extensively worked in the neigh- 

 bourhood, and wine-making is a 

 leading industry. Pop. 14,000. 



Parramatta. Town and river 

 of New South Wales, Australia, in 

 Cumberland co. The town is on the 

 riv.-r, 13 m. W.N.W. of Sydney, 

 with which it is connected by road, 

 rly., and river steamer. There are 

 government steam tramways. The 

 orchards of the locality are cele- 

 brated. The river is in reality an 

 extension of Port Jackson, 10 m. 

 in length. Pop. 12,500. 



Parratt, SIR WALTER (1841- 

 1!):24). British organist. Born at 

 HuddcrshYld, Feb. 10, 1841, the son 

 of a musician, 

 he was educa- 

 ted privately. 

 He became 

 organist of a 

 church near 

 his home, and 

 in 1872 w..^ 

 appointed to 

 Magdalen Col- 

 Sir Walter Parratt, 'ege, Oxford. 

 British organist Having been 

 xni.u*rn, there for ten 

 years, he was transferred to S. 

 George's Chapel, Windsor. In 1883 

 he was made professor of the organ 

 at the Royal College of Music, and 

 from 1908-18 was professor of 

 music at Oxford. Knighted in 

 IV.IL'. hi- died .Mar. 27. 1924. 



Parret. River of England. It 

 rises in Dorset, near Cheddington, 

 and flows N.W. through Somerset, 

 past Langport and Bridgwater, to 

 the Bristol Channel, which it enters 



