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and to make and maintain fire-engines; and, by 9 Geo. I. 
c. 28, for purchasing workhoufes for the poor. 
PARIS'IAN, adj. Belonging to Paris. 
PARIS'IAN, f. A native of Paris, an inhabitant of 
Paris. 
PARISIAN I'SLAND, an ifland of North America, 
in Lake Superior, near the fouth-eaft coaft. Lat. 46. 30. N. 
Ion. 85! W. 
PARIS'II (Ptolemy), a people of Britain, having the 
Brigantes to the north and weft, the German Sea to the 
welt, and the Coritani to the fouth, from whom they 
were feparated by the Humber; and occupying thatdif- 
trift which is called Holdernefs, or, as Pvlr. Camden ima¬ 
gines, the whole eall riding of Yorkshire. The Parifii 
are fuppofed to have derived their name from the two 
Britifh words Pour IJ'a, which fignify Low Pafture, and 
which are defcriptive of the fituation and ufe of their 
country. However this may be, it is evident that our 
Parifii never attained to any great degree of power or confe- 
quence, but were always fubjedl to the authority, and 
followed the fate, of their more powerful neighbours, 
the Brigantes. Their only town was Pituaria, probably 
Patrington in Holdernefs. 
PARI'SIS, f. A French money of account, formerly a 
real coin Itruck at Paris, at the fame time with the Tour- 
nois Struck at Tours. The Parifis exceeded the Tour- 
nois by one-fourth ; fo that the livre or pound Parifis 
. was twenty-five fols, and the livre Tournois twenty. 
The fols and deniers Parifis, &c. were in proportion. 
PARISO'T, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aveiron : ten miles fouth-weft of Villefranche, and 
twenty-one weft of Sauveterre. 
PARISYL'LABLE, f. [from the Gr. ncc^ct, with, and 
cv'KkuQov, a Syllable.] A word that has an equal number 
of Syllables in all its cafes. Cole. 
PARISYL'LABIC, or Parisyllab'ical, adj. Hav¬ 
ing the fame number of Syllables in all its cafes. 
PARI'TA, a town of South America, in the province 
of Panama : five miles north of Santos. 
PAR'ITEE HO'TUN, a town of Chinefe Tartary : 
445 miles ealt-north-eaft of Pekin. Lat. 42. 28. N. Ion. 
125. 16. E. 
PARI'TI,/. in botany. See Hibiscus. 
PAR'ITOR,^! [for appurator.] A beadle; a fummo- 
ner of the courts of civil law.—You Shall be Summoned 
by a holt of pantours-, you Shall be Sentenced in the Spi¬ 
ritual court. Dryden. 
PARTIY, J'. [paritas, Lat.] Equality; refemblance. 
—Survey the total Set of animals; and we may, in their 
legs or organs of progression, obferve an equality of length 
and parity of numeration ; not any to have an odd leg, or 
the movers of one fide not exadtly anfwered by the other. 
Brown. —Their agreement in effential characters makes 
rather an identity than a. parity. GlanviUe. —By an exadt 
parity of reafon, we may argue, if a man has no fenfe of 
thofe kindneffes that pafs upon him from one like himfelf, 
whom he fees and knows, how much lefs Shall his heart 
be affedted with the grateful fenfe of His favours whom 
he converfes with only by imperfect Speculations, by the 
-difcourfes of reafon, or the discoveries of faith ? South. 
PA'RIUM, in ancient geography, a town Situated in 
the Propontide, between Lampfacus and Priapus. Its 
territory was fertile, and produced excellent wines; and 
it had a good port. This town was founded by the Mi- 
lefians, the Erithrasans, and the inhabitants of the ifle of 
Paros, from which it took its name. Augustus esta¬ 
blished a colony in this place; and, like many others, it 
w'as governed by a Senate or council compofed of decu- 
rions. The worftiip of Apollo and Diana was transported 
from Adraltia to Parium, where a large and Splendid altar 
was eredted, the work of the celebrated Hermocreon. 
Strabo. Pliny alfo mentions a Statue of Cupid, belonging 
to this city, the produdtion of Praxiteles, and not infe¬ 
rior in beauty to the Venus of Cnidus. 
Parium was ravaged in the year 267 by the Heruli, a 
German nation ; but thefe barbarians were defeated and 
driven into their own country by the emperor Gallienus, 
in confequence of which a triumphal arch was eredted; 
which arch confuted of three arcades, upon which the 
emperor appeared in a car drawn by two elephants, be¬ 
tween two Vidtories, which prefented to him a crown of 
laurel. When the government of proconsular Alia was 
divided into Several provinces, Parium was comprised in 
the new province of the Hellefpont, of which Cyzicus 
was the metropolis. Now Camanar. 
PARIVO'A, /! in botany. See Dimorpha grandiflora. 
PARIYATE'KA, /'. The Sanfcrit name of a Species 
of Nydtanthes; and in the mythological legends of the 
Hindoos it is a golden tree, yielding in its fruit whatever 
the heart can defire. It is fabled to have arifen from the 
ocean when churned by the gods and demons, as de¬ 
scribed under the article Kurmavatara, and to have 
fallen to the lot of the demigod Indra, regent of the fir¬ 
mament, who hence, and from Similar poffeffions, is called 
the Lord of Wealth. The name is commonly pro¬ 
nounced parijat, and it is often alluded to in the holy 
tales and fables of the Hindoos. There is a treatife on 
Hind 00 mufic in the Perfian language, probably a trans¬ 
lation from the Sanfcrit, named after this all-yielding tree 
Pariyateka. 
PARK, f. [parens, Lat. from parco, parcere, “to 
Spare becaufe parks were deftined for the Safe keeping 
of deer and other animals, that they might not be ex- 
pofed to common hunting.] A piece of ground enclofed 
and Stored with wild beafts of chafe.—Manwood, in his 
Forcft-law, defines it thus : A park is a place of privilege 
for wild beafts of venery, and alfo for other wild beafts 
that are beafts of the foreft and of the chafe: and thofe 
wild beafts are to have a firm peace and protedtion there, 
fo that no man may'hurt or chafe them within the park, 
without licenfe of the owner. Cowel —We have parks and 
inclofures of all forts of beafts and birds, which we ufe 
not only for view or rarenefs, but likewife for diffedtions 
and trials. Bacon. 
A park differs from a foreft, in that, as Compton ob- 
ferves, a fubjedl may hold a park by prescription, or the 
king’s grant; which he cannot do with refpedt- to a foreft. 
A park differs from a chafe alfo ; becaufe a park muft be 
inclofed ; if it lie open, it is a good caufe of Seizing it into 
the king’s hands, as a free chafe may be if it be inclofed. 
Nor can the owner have any adtion againft Such as hunt 
in his park if it lie open. 
Du-Cange refers the invention of parks to king Henry 
I. of England ; and the firft park in England is Said to 
have been that of Woodftock in Oxfordfhire, made by 
him, which was walled round with ftone, and Seven miles 
in circumference : the royal example was firft follow'ed 
by Henry earl of Warwick, to'preferve his deer-and 
other animals for hunting; after which the practice of 
park-making became general among perfons ofopuler.ee. 
But Spelman fhows it to be much more ancient ; and it 
was in ufe among the Anglo-Saxons. Zofimus allures 
11s alfo, that the ancient kings of Perfia had parks. 
The clergy of rank, at all times, had the privilege of 
hunting in their own parks and inclofures; and accor¬ 
dingly, at the time of the reformation, the fee of Nor¬ 
wich only was in the pofleffion of not lefs than thirteen 
parks, well ftocked with deer and other animals for the 
chafe. 
No man can now eredt a park without a licenfe under 
the broad feal; for the common law does not; encourage 
matters of pleafure, which bring no profit to the com¬ 
monwealth. Wood's Inji. 207. But there may be a park 
in reputation, eredted without lawful warrant; and the 
owner of fuch park may bring his adtion againft perfons 
killing his deer. Ibid. See the article Game, vol. viii. 
p. 233. 
To a park three things are required. 1. A grant 
thereof. 2. Inclofures by pale, wall, or hedge. 3. Beafts 
of a park, fuch as buck, doe, &c. and, where all the deer 
are 
