parepididymal 
parepididymal (pa-rep-i-did'i-mal), a. [< NL. 
pa-repididumix + -a 1.1 Of or pertaining to the 
parepididymis. 
parepididymis (pa-rep-i-did'i-mis), . [NL., 
< Gr. impa, beside, + NL. epididymis, q. v.] 
The organ of Giraldes. See under organ 1 . Also 
called corpus iniiomiiiatum, paradidymis. pareunia ( pa -r6'ni-a), n. \ 
parepithymia (par : ep-i-thim'i-a), [NL. < ^^eside ,< Tap& Reside 
Gr. vapa, beside, + eiriBv/ua, desire.] InpatlioL, > & 
4290 
affected with paresis: as, a paretic affection ; a 
paretic patient Paretic dementia. Same as de- 
mentia paralytica (which see, under dementia). 
II. . One who suffers from paresis. 
He had had some of the mental symptoms of the general 
paretic, from some of which he recovered. 
Alien, and Neural., VII. 627. 
[NL., < Gr. Trapcwof, 
' ?, a bed.] Coi- 
parhomoeon 
with figures in relief or sunk in the surface ; 
pargeting. 
It hath a strong Fort, two Seraglio's, the walls whereof 
glister with red Marble and Parget of diners colours. 
Purchas, 1'ilgrimage, p. 385. 
Oolde was the parget; and the seeling bright 
Did shine nil scaly with great plates of golde. 
Spmeer, Visions of Bellay, 1. 23. 
4t. Paint, especially paint for the face. 
mo. Beauty's self, by herself 1 
perverted desire. excellence (piir ek-se-lons'). [F. : par, by ; Scorn'd paintings, permit, and the borrow'd hair. 
parer (par'er), n, [< parel + -erl.] 1. One P * r ^,." excellence.] By virtue of manifest Dayton, Eclogues, IT. 
who or that which pares; specifically, an in- guperiority . by the highest right, claim, or qual- pargeter (par'jet-er), n. [< parget + -erl.] 
ification; "preeminently. One who pargets; a plaster- 
parfayt, inter j. [ME., also parfei; < OF. par er. 
fei, parfoy, by faith: par(< L.j?er),by; fei,foi, pargeting, pargetting 
faith: gee/Oft*.] By (my) faith; in faith; verily, (par' jet-ing), . [Formerly 
Apple-parer. 
The cutter is carried on an upright A t niv 
projecting arm k which is once during each r 
clined cam on the upper side of the bevel-w] 
Hlvotei 
n-vo 
upper 
.1 partial revolution and thro' . _. 
may be readily removed from the fork. 
Som maner comfort shal I have, parfay. 
Ckaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 495. 
parfilage (par'fi-laj), n. [P., < parfilcr, undo 
the threads, < par, by, + filer, thread, rope : 
see file 3 .1 A pastime consisting in unravel- 
ing pieces of textile material, especially those 
which have gold or silver thread in their com- 
position. The practice seems to have originated in an 
attempt to save the valuable material in the case of soiled 
or defaced stuffs ; but it has sometimes become a sort of 
craze, especially in the eighteenth century, when women 
would beg from their friends new and valuable garments, 
galloons, and the like, that they might prosecute this 
amusement. 
parfit (par'fit), a. An obsolete or dialectal form 
of perfect. 
d at bottom, having a parfitly (par'fit-li), adv. An obsolete or dia- 
.lution struck by an ,. , eotal f orm of per f ectt y_ 
also pergetting, < ME. parget- 
tynge, spargettynge; verbal 
n.of parget,r.1 Plaster-work 
of various kinds ; especially, 
a sort of ornamental work in 
plastering, with raised or in- 
dented patterns and orna- 
ments, much used in the in- 
terior and often on the ex- 
terior of houses of the Tu- 
dor period . Numbers of wooden 
houses with outer walls so orna- 
mented, belonging to the time 
of Queen Elizabeth, still exist in 
Pargeting, at Wyvenhoe, 
Essex, England. 
heel./", causing ittomaki. _ 
ng_the knife back so that the apple parfitnBSS (par'fit-nes), 11. 
lectal form of perfectness. 
strument for paring: as, an apple-parer, or a Parfleche (par-flesh') n [Appa: 
peach,pawr.-8. In agri., an instrument for **"if&i 3 
scraping off weeds or grass or loosening their 
roots ; specifically, a horse-hoe having a single 
broad flat blade. is gtre tched on a frame so as to take the 
desired shape, and allowed to dry. 
Among almost all the Plains tribes, the common name 
an animal (preferably of a bull-buffalo) from 
in water mixed with wood-ashes, and which 
England. 
The whitenesse and smoothnesse 
of the excellent pargeting was a 
thing I much observ'd, being almost as even and polish'd 
as if it had been of marble. Evelyn, Diary, Nov. 10, 1644. 
parge-WOrkt, " [An error for parget-wortc.1 
i. a Canadian game as pargeting. 
A border of freet or parge worke . . . the seeling is of 
ic same fret or parge worke. 
An obsolete or dia- 
A hone and a parer, like sole of a boot, 
To pare away grass, and to raise up the root. 
Tusser, March's Husbandry. 
for a skin so prepared is parfleche, and almost everything 
made of it is also parfleche. 
Dodge, Our Wild Indians, p. 254. 
The women with short peckers, or parerg, because they 
vse them sitting, of a foot long, and about flue inches in 
breadth, doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to 
raise vp the weeds, grasse, and old stubbesof corne stalks pariormet, parfomet, parlOUrnet, '' ' Middle 
with their roots. Hakluyt'i Voyages, III. 271. English forms of perform. 
parerethesis (par-e-reth'e-sis), n. [NL., < Gr. pargana, parganna,, . See pergmmah. 
napd, beside, + epeBi&iv, excite: see crethimn.1 pargasite (par'ga-sit), . [< Pargets, a place 
Morbid excitement. on the coast of Finland, + -ite^.1 A dark-green 
;. 403). (Bowes.) 
parhelia, . Plural ot parhelion, parhelium. 
parheliacal (par-he-li'a-kal), a. [< parhelion 
+ -ae + -al.1 Of or pertaining to or constitut- 
ing a parhelion or parhelia Parheliacal ring, a 
name given by Bravais to a white horizontal band pass- 
ing through the sun, either incomplete or extending 
round the horizon, produced by the reflection of the 
sun's rays from the vertical faces of ice-prisms in the 
atmosphere. 
parhelic (piir-hel'ik), a. [< parhelion + -ic.1 
Same as parheliacal Parhelic circle. Same as par- 
heliacal ring (which see, above). 
pi. parhelia (-a). 
parergon (pa-rer'gon), . [< OF. parergue = crystallized variety of amphiboleorhornblende. parhelion (par-he'li-on), 
Sp. parergon = Pg, Tr._ nnmwnn. < T,. narKrann. See hornblende. 
an extra ornament, 
neut. of vapepyof, beside the" main' work, sub- parget (par'jet), r. ; pret. and pp. pargeted or *pa'neiion*.NL?nariielion, < Gr. irap$im>, va, 
ordinate, incidental, < irapd, beside, + Ipyov, pargetted, ppr. pargeting or pargetting. [<ME. a mock f 
Pg. It. parergo, < L. parergon, See hornblende. [Also parhelium (formerly also parelie, < P.); 
int, < Gr. napepyov, a by-work, parge-board (parj bord), n. Same as barge- _ F p ar heUe, partite = Sp. parelia, parelio = 
jject, an appendix, accessory, board. Pg. parhelia, parelio = It. pareglio, parelio, < L. 
:, beside the main work, sub- parget (par jet), r. ; pret. and pp. pargeted or pare lion, NL. parhelion, < Gr. napijlMv, irapfi.toc, 
work.] A work executed incidentally; a work 
subordinate or subsidiary to another: as, Ay- 
liffe's "Parergon." 
It was intended to be merely a parergon a "second 
subject," upon which daylight energies might be spent, 
while the hours of night were reserved for cataloguing 
those stars that "are bereft of the baths of ocean." 
A. M. Clerke, Astron. in 19th Cent., p. 187. 
parergyt (par'er-ji), n. [Irreg. < L. parergon: 
see parergon.1 Same as parergon. 
The Scriptures being serious, and commonly omitting 
such pareryies, it will be unreasonable from hence to con- 
demn all laughter. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vii. 16. 
paresis (par'e-sis), n. [= "F.paresie,( NL. pare- 
sis, < Gr. irapeatt;, a letting go, paralysis, \ Tra- 
ptevat, relax, < mzpa, from, + ievai, let go.] An 
incomplete degree of paralysis General pare- 
sis. Same as dementia paralytica (which see, under de- 
mentia). 
pareso-analgesia (par"e-so-an-al-je'si-a), . 
[NL., < Gr. tretptotf, paralysis, + avaXyriaia, pain- 
lessness: see analgesia.1 Same as Morvan's 
disease. 
paresseuset, n. [F. , prop. fern, otparesseux, idle, 
< paresse, idleness.] In the costume of the 
seventeenth century, a partial wig ; a front of 
curls, or the like, worn by women when not in 
full dress. 
paresthesia, n. See partesthesia. 
paresthesis, paraesthesis (par-es-the'sis), n. 
[NL. pariesthesis, < Gr. irapa, beside, + 
8un , < Trapo, beside, + 
sun. Cf. 
pargetyn,pargetm,pargetc, also spargettyn, spar- w^awfe^V An ' intensification of a circular 
chyn, perhaps < : ML. spargitare^, spnnkle ^fre- space in a S ol ar halo, generally in prismatic 
quently, < L. spargere, sprinkle: see spark, 
sprinkle. Otherwise < ML. "parietarc, plaster 
a wall, < L. paries (pariet-), wall: see paries.1 
I. trans. 1. To cover with parget or plaster; 
ornament with pargeting. 
A plaster . . . with which they not only parget the out- 
side of their houses, . . . but also spread the floors and 
arches of their room. 
Sir T. Herbert, Travels in Africa, p. 12!). 
A room otherwise so handsome, with its family portraits, 
and the paryetted ceiling with pendants, and the carved 
chimney, in one corner of which my old lord sat reading 
in his Livy. R. L. Stevenson, Master of Ballantrae, i. 
2f. To paint ; cover or daub with paint. 
From pargetting, painting, slicking, glazing, and renew- 
ing old rivelled faces, good Mercury defend us ! 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 4. 
Hence 3f. To gloss over; disguise. 
Call it what you will, blanch it with apologies, candy it 
with nature's delights, parget it with concealments, tin- 
cleanness is uncleanness still, and like the devil. 
Rev. T. Adarw, Works, II. 40. 
Forbid him rather, Sacred Parliament, to violate the 
sense of Scripture, and turne that which is spoken of the 
afflictions of the Church under her pagan enemies to a par- 
getted concealment of those prelatical crying sins, 
Milton, On Def. of Humb. Kemonst. 
II. intrans. 1. To cover something with par- 
get or plaster. 2f. To lay on paint. 
She 's above fifty too, and pargete ! 
B. Jonson, Epicoane, v. 1. 
colors, sometimes dazzhngly bright. The phe- 
nomenon, on account of its rough resemblance to the sun 
itself, is popularly called a mock sun. Two or more parhe- 
sensation: see esthesis.1 Same as parsesthesia. parget (par'jet), n. [Formerly also pargit; < 
paresthetic, parsesthetie (par-es-thet'ik), a. 
Of, characterized by, or affected with pawesthe- 
sia. 
In addition to a number of paragthelic symptoms, there 
was a paralysis of the leg on the same side as the head- 
injury. Alien, and Neural., X. 442. 
ME. parget, perget, pergete, pergitte, pariette, 
parget.] 1. Gypsum or plaster-stone. 2. parhelium, n. 
Halos and Parhelia. 
lia are seen at the same time ; and variously arranged white 
circles, arcs, and bands intersect the halo, or lie tangent 
to it at the same points. Halos are produced by the re- 
fraction of rays through suspended ice-crystals which tend 
to fall in one or more special positions, and parhelia are 
due to the excess of crystals so situated. When the sun 
is near the horizon and the ice-prisms in a vertical position 
largely preponderate, parhelia are formed on the halo both 
to the right and left of the sun, and at the same level. As 
the sun rises, the parhelia gradually separate outward from 
the halo. If there is an excess of hexagonal prisms with 
their axes horizontal, and if the axes of the prisms are per- 
pendicular to the line joining the sun and the observer, 
parhelia will be produced which will be situated on the 
halo above and below the sun. 
Same &$ parhelion. [Bare.] 
' , par-i- 
iApuctf, 
the ab- 
PaUadiits, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 16. normal secretion of sweat. 
paretic (pa-ret'ik), a. andn. [< paresis (paret-) 3. Plaster-work; especially, a more or less or- parhomoeon (par-ho-me'on), n. 
+ -ic.1 I. a. Pertaining to, of the nature of , or namental facing for exterior walls, decorated Trap6/ioiov, neut. of 7rap6/xuof, nearly alike, < 
