Parkinsonia 
Parkinsonia (par-km-so'm-a), . 
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FNL. (Plu- parlando (par-lan'do), a. [It., ppr. of parlare, 
speak: see part.] In music, noting a passage 
mier 1703 "after John Parkinson, an English speak: see part.] In music ^n< Li 
herbalist (born 1567, died about 1650).] A ge- or a style of singing m which there: some ap Uament (p a r 'li-me 
nus of leguminous trees of the suborder Cx- proach to declamation or recitative, involvm; , 1~ ML. parliameiitum 
i,,,-.,,,-,,, i 4-im * ,.;], Tfiifatuftlninirfp.. lifl,vine p sneciallv careful enunciation. The word is also . ,,_!., ,,~.q -p. , 
the tribe Euciesalpiniesi, having 
a slightly imbricate or valvate calyx, and linear 
pod. They are handsome spiny evergreens, with pinnate tg 
leaves of numerous minute leaflets, spines in place of p ar l an -|;f (par'lant), n. [< 
the '- wiMe limocnhout " of the' Cape of Good Hope, and P. confers, or parleys. 
Torreyana is the green-barked acacia or polo verde of Mex- 
ico and Arizona. P. aculeata, the Jerusalem-thorn of Ja- 
maica, is a native of America, but is now widely scattered 
throughout the tropics ; it is a shrub about 15 feet high, 
with winged leafstalks and fragrant flowers, used for 
hedges, and by the Indians in Mexico as a remedy for epi- 
lepsy and as a febrifuge. 
. parlant, ppr. of 
One who speaks, 
The place appoynted, parlantes him 
In simple meaning meet 
Farre from their armie all vnarm'd. 
Warner, Albion's England, iii. 19. 
1)V 
i in 1817. 
parkish (par'kish), a. [< park + -wfti.] 
lating to or resembling a park. 
Would give it a very elegant, tasteful, parkish appear- 
ance. J- Baulie. 
park-keeper (pa^'ke^per), . One who has 
the custody of a park, or who is employed to 
preserve order in or otherwise to take care of 
a park, 
parkleaves (piirk'levz), . [Appar. < *park(= 
parlante (par-lan'te), a. [It., < parlare, speak : 
..,-, see part.] In music, same as parlando. 
Parkinson's disease. A form of paralysis, pa- p a rlatory(par'la-to-ri),n.; pl.^artatones(-riz). 
ralysis agitans (which see, under paralysis), [ML.^>arto<onwn,areception-room, parlor: see 
parlor.] The parlor or strangers' room of a con- 
^ e " vent or monastery. 
parlecue, parleycue (par'le-ku), v. t. [Sc. also 
pirlicue; < F. parler a queue, speak at the end: 
parler (see part); a,< L. ad, to, at; queue, 
tail : see cue*, queue.] To recapitulate or sum 
up. 
At the close it was the custom of our minister to par- 
leyeue the addresses of the clergymen who had assisted 
him that is, he repeated the substance of them and en- 
forced their lessons. Reminiscences of a Quinquagenarian. 
Norw. pirkum, hypericum, a reduction of NL. 
hypericum, I,, hyperieon: see Hypericum) + parlecue, parleycue (par le-ku), n. [Sc., <par- 
------ lecue, parleycue, v.] A summing up or capitu- 
lation of discourses previously delivered, 
parlementt, w. A Middle English form of par- 
leaves.] A plant, Hypericum Androssemum. 
Vitice, a kind of withie or willow, called in English 
parkeleaues, chastetree, hemp-tree, or Abrahams balme, 
Fiona. Uament. 
parkway (park' wa), re. A broad thoroughfare parlesyt, n. A Middle English form of palsy. 
planted with trees and intended for recreation parley 1 (par'li), . [Formerly also party ;pio\>. 
as well as for common street traffic. < OF. parlee, a turn of speech, but in sense 
equiv. to part, of which it is practically an ex- 
tension: see part, n.] Discourse or conversa- 
tion ; discussion ; a conference ; specifically, a 
brief conference with an enemy as under a flag 
Opposite the grand stand and across the course is a park- 
way for the carriages. T. C. Crawford, English Life, p. 21. 
parlt (parl), r. [< ME. parlen, < OF. parler, 
F. parler = Sp. parlar = Pg.palrar = It. par- 
lare, < ML. parabolare (also contr. parlare, after 
Bom.), speak, talk, discourse, < L. parabola, a 
comparison, parable, speech, talk: see para- 
ble 1 /] I. intrans. 1. To speak. 
Patriarkes and prophetes nan parted her-of longe, 
That such a lorde and a lyste shulde lede hem alle hennes. 
Piers Plowman (B), xviii. 268. 
2. To talk ; confer with a view to come to an 
understanding; discuss orally. 
Their purpose is to parle, to court, and dance. 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 122. 
I wrong myself 
In parling with you. 
Massinger, Maid of Honour, ii. 5. 
Knute, finding himself too weak, began to parle, 
parliament 
No words to spell, no sums to do, 
No Nepos and no parlyvoo. 
Lowell, Oracle of the Goldfishes. 
-ment), n. [Now spelled to 
'ituini to? parlamentum ; prop., 
as in early mod. ~E., parlament ; < ME. parlement 
= D. parlement = G. parlement, parlament = Sw. 
Dan. parlament = Icel. pniiiment, < OF. parle- 
ment,F. parlement, a speaking, discoursing, con- 
ferring, conference, a legislature, court (= Sp. 
Pg. It. parlamento, parliament, etc.; ML. par- 
lamentum, erroneously piirliamcntum), < parler, 
speak, talk: see part.] If. A conference or 
consultation. 
Thus ended the parlement be-twene the fader and the 
sone. Merlin (E. E. T. S.X iii. 521. 
The Master gunner, who was a madde brayned fellow, 
and the owners seruant had a parlament betweene them- 
selues. Ualiluyt's Voyages, II. 101. 
The interview between the King! William the Conqueror] 
and the magistrates of Le Mans is described Iby a local 
writer] by a word often used to express conferences in a 
word Parliaments whether between prince and prince or 
between princes and the estates of their dominions. 
E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, IV. 380. 
2. A meeting or assembly for conference or 
deliberation; especially, an assembly of the 
people or their representatives to deliberate or 
legislate on national affairs. The word is nearly 
confined to the legislative bodies of Great Britain and 
its colonies. Sometimes it is used with reference to other 
countries, as the German Parliament of 1848, the Italian 
Parliament : usually the word diet or the native name is 
preferred, as the Hungarian Diet, the German Reichstag, 
the Norwegian Storthing, etc. 
Prosecutions of Warres betweene a King and his Parlia- 
ment are the direfull dilacerations of the world. 
N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 67. 
Thy parliament* ador'd on bended knees 
The sov'reignty they were conven'd to please. 
Coicper, Expostulation, 1. 538. 
Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags 
were furl'd 
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
of trace; an informal treating bet ween two hos- Specifically 3. [cap.] The supreme legisla- 
tile parties before or in the course of a contest 

Bee 
Shold sende awaye an herauld at armes, 
To aske a parley f aire and free. 
King Arthur's Death (Child's Ballads, I. 42). 
What 's the business, 
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley 
The sleepers of the house ? Shak., Macbeth, ii. 3. 87. 
Tell me but where, 
Sweet queen of parley [Echo], daughter of the sphere ! 
Milton, Comus, 1. 241. 
Left single, in bold parley, ye, of yore, 
Did from the Norman win a gallant wreath. 
Wordsworth, To the Men of Kent, Oct., 1803. 
To beat or sound a parley (milit.). See beati. 
II. trans. To utter ; express ; speak. 
parl (parl), n. [< parl, v.] 1. Speech; lan- 
guage. 
A tocher 's nae word in a true lover's parle, 
But gie me my love, and a fig for the waiT ! 
Burns, Meg o' the Mill (second version). 
2. Talk ; conference ; conversation ; treaty or 
discussion ; a parley. 
So' frown'd he once when in an angry parle 
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 1. 62. 
After the trumpet has summoned & parle. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 1. 
By parl or composition, truce or league, 
To win him or win from him what I can. 
MUton, P. K., iv. 629. 
Those of heaven commune . . . 
With the noise of fountains wondrous, 
And the parle of voices thund'rous. 
Keats, Ode, Bards of Passion. 
[Obsolete, provincial, or archaic in both uses.] 
To break the parlt. See break. 
parl. An abbreviation of parliament and parlia- 
mentary. 
Milton, Hist. Eng., vi. parley 1 (par'li), v. [< parley^, n. Cf. parl, v.] 
1. intrans. 1. To speak; discourse; confer on 
some point of mutual concern; especially, to 
confer with an enemy, as on an exchange of 
prisoners, or on the cessation of hostilities. 
Now stay, daughter, your hour within, 
While I gae parley wi' my son. 
Cospatricli (Child's Ballads, 1. 156). 
They are at hand 
To parley or to fight. Shak., K. John, It 1. 78. 
As bashfull Suters, seeing Strangers by, 
Parley in silence with their hand or eye. 
Sylvester, tr. of Ou Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. 
The housemaids parley at the gate, 
The scullions on the stair. 
O. W. Holmes, Agnes. 
2. To argue. [Prov. Eng.] 
II. trans. To utter ; speak. 
" That beauty in court which could not parley euphu- 
ism," a courtier of Charles the First's time tells us, "was 
as little regarded as she that now there speaks not French. " 
J. R. Green, Short Hist. Eng., p. 403. 
parley 2 (par'li), n. [Short for parliament.] 
Same as parliament, 7. 
parleycue, . and . See parlecue. 
ppr. of 'parler, speak : see part] Speech; con- 
versation ; discourse ; talk ; language ; manner 
of expression ; conference. 
The interpreter did as he was commanded, word was 
brought to Crassus, and he accepted parlence. 
North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 480. 
A hate of gossip parlance, and of sway, 
Crown'd Isabel, thro* all her placid life. 
Tennyson, Isabel. 
In common parlance, in the usual mode of speech ; in 
ordinary language. 
Pie of Importance in Their Day. Browning (title). 
.. He warn a K od citizens to give them no credence yield 
them no aid or comfort, nor hold any parleifings with them. 
E ' L _ Bynneri Begum's Daughter, xxi. 
.-ip..,,...,, Cri!j r Ii vn"l i- i fA pormntion of 
arieyVOO (par-1 vo ), I. . [A Ci 
F. parlez-vous in such questions as parlez-vous 
francaisf 'do you speak French?': parlez, 2d 
pers. pi. of parler, speak ; vous, < L. vos, you, pi. 
of tu, thou.] To speak French. [Slang.] 
He kept six French masters to teach him to parleyvoo. 
Macaulay, St. Dennis and St. George in the Water. 
The answer of Killian Van Rensellaer was, in his own nai-lninrnn r-nSr Ii v'1 
lordly style, "By wapen recht!" that is to say, by the ParleyVOO (par- ll-vo ), M. 
right of arms, or, in common parlance, by club-law. conventional school study and use of the French 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 181. language. [Humorous.] 
tive body of the United Kingdom of Great Brit- 
ain and Ireland, consisting of the three estates 
of the realm,namely the lords spiritual, the lords 
temporal, and the commons ; the general coun- 
cil of the nation, constituting the legislature, 
summoned by the sovereign's authority to con- 
sult on the affairs of the nation and to enact 
and repeal laws. Primarily, the sovereign may be con- 
sidered as a constituent element of Parliament ; but the 
word a generally used has exclusive reference to the three 
estates above named, ranged in two distinct branches, the 
House of Lords and the House of Commons. The House 
of Lords includes the lords spiritual and lords temporal. 
(See House qf Lords, under lord.) The House of Commons 
consists of 670 members : viz. , for England and Wales, 253 
representatives of county constituencies (counties or di- 
visions of counties), 237 of boroughs, and 5 of universities ; 
for Scotland, 39 representatives of counties, 31 of burghs, 
and 2 of universities; for Ireland, 85 representatives of 
counties, 16 of boroughs, and 2 of a university. The au- 
thority of Parliament extends over the United Kingdom 
and all iU colonies and foreign possessions. The duration 
of a Parliament was fixed by the Septennial Act of 1716 at 
seven years, but it seldom even approaches its limit. Ses- 
sions are held annually, usually from about the middle of 
February to the end of August, and are closed by proroga- 
tion. Government is administered by the ministry (see 
ministry and cabinet), which is sustained by a majority in 
the House of Commons. Should the ministry be outvoted in 
the house on a question of vital importance, it either resigns 
office or dissolves Parliament and appeals to the country. 
The precursors of the Parliament were the Witenagemot in 
the Anglo-Saxon period and the National Council in the 
Norman and Angevin periods. The composition and pow- 
ers of Parliament were developed in the thirteenth and 
fourteenth centuries; the right of representation from 
shires and towns dates from 1295, and the separation of 
the two houses dates from the middle of the fourteenth 
century. Parliamentary government was in large measure 
suspended from 1461 to the middle of the reign of Henry 
VIII. Prolonged struggles between the Parliament and 
the crown took place under James I. and Charles I., which 
led to the Civil War and the Commonwealth. The Trien- 
nial Act of 1694 (modified by the Septennial Act of 1716) 
fixed the life of Parliament at three years, and government 
by party dates from the same period. The right of election 
to Parliament has been greatly modified by the Reform 
Acts of 1832, 1867, and 1884, and the Redistribution Act of 
1885. 
I find that you have made choice of me to be one of your 
Burgesses for this now approaching Parliament. 
HmceU, Letters, I. v. 4. 
When the Duke of Suffolk opened parliament, all the 
members, every time the king's name occurred, bowed 
until their heads all but touched the ground. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 289. 
4. [cap.] One of similar legislative bodies con- 
stituting the legislatures of the Dominion of 
Canada, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, 
and other self-governing colonies of the Brit- 
ish empire. The Parliament of the Dominion of Can- 
ada, established by royal proclamation in 1867, consists of 
two houses a Senate, or upper house, whose members, 80 
in number, are nominated for life by the governor-general, 
and a House of Commons, whose members are elected for 
