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and nephew and pupil of Jofeph, is reckoned to have ap¬ 
proached neared to the manner of his uncle in his battle- 
pieces. He worked much in Italy and at Vienna ; and 
died in 1722. D'Argenvil/e. 
PAR'ROCK, f. (the diminutive of park.) A paddock, 
a fmall inclofure. Scott. 
PARROQUET', or Paroouet. See Psittacus. 
PAR'ROT,/ [ per roquet , Fr.J A party-coloured bird 
with a hooked bill, remarkable for the exaft imi¬ 
tation of the human voice. See Psittacus. —Who 
taught the parrot human notes to try? Dryden. 
Some will evermore peep through their eyes, 
And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper. Shakefpeare. 
PAR'ROT-FISH,_/! A fifli of tfie Pacific Ocean. See 
Scarus —The other forts were chiefly parrot-fijh. Cook 
and King's Voyage. 
PAR'ROT i'SLANDS, a cluder of ifiands in Dufky Bay, 
Ne w Zealand : three miles fouth-wed of Facile Harbour. 
PAR'ROT’s KE'Y, a fmall ifland in the Spanifh Main, 
near the Mofquito fhore. Lat. 1 2. 7. N. Ion. -82. 56. W. 
PAR'ROTED, adj. [from parrot.'] Taught to fpeak 
by rote like a parrot. Ajh. 
PAR'RY (Richard), a learned divine, was educated 
at Oxford, and in 1604 was made bilhop of St. Afaph. 
He revifed the fird edition of the Welch Bible, which was 
publiflied in 1620. Before his elevation to the epifcopal 
dignity, he was mader of Ruthin fchool, Denbighfliire. 
PAR'RY (John), generally known by the appellation 
of the celebrated blind harper. He was the fird among his 
contemporaries who played either a lelfon or a concerto 
on the treble Wellhharp, an indrument which had been 
long lod to the world, and owed its revival to the genius 
and diligence of this great performed He died at Rhu- 
abon, in Denbighdiire, in 1782, about which time the 
pedal harp feems to have fuperfeded all other harps on 
the continent as well as in our ifland, fo that it appears 
as if its refufeitation was for a very diort period. 
To PAR'RY, v.n. Sparer, Fr.] To put by thrufts; to 
fence. —A man of courage, who cannot fence, and will 
put all upon one thrud, and not dand parrying, has the 
odds againd a moderate fencer. Locke. —Good fencers pufli 
and parry at the famq time. The Spaniards parry with the 
poniard. The ancients parried with their bucklers. 
Chambers. 
With learned {kill, now pufli, now parry, 
From Darii to Bocardo vary. Prior. 
To PAR'RY, v. a To turn afide.—It enables him to 
put by, and parry, fome fubje&s of converfation, which 
might pofiibly lay him under difficulties both what to fay 
and how to look. Ld. Cheftcrfield. 
Vice parries wide 
The undreaded volley with a fword of draw. Cowper's Tajlu 
PAR'RYING, f. The aftion of defending a man’s 
felf, or of davinged’ the thruds, drokes, &c. offered him 
by another. See Fencing. 
PAR'SBERG, a town of Bavaria, in the principality 
of Neuburg : nine miles north-ead of Dietfurt, and eigh¬ 
teen north-wed of Ratifbon. 
PARSCHFNA, a town of Ruffin, in the government 
ofTobolfk, on the Nifnei Tungufka: 560 miles fouth- 
ead of Turuchanlk. Lat. 60. 40. N. Ion. 106. 54. E. 
PAR'SCHWITZ. See Parchwitz. 
To PAR'SE, v. a. [from pars, Lat. a part.] To refolve 
a fentence into the elements or parts of fpeech. It is a 
wbrd only ufed in grammar-fchools.—Let him condrue 
the letter into Englifli, and parfe it over perfectly. Af- 
cham's Sckoolmajlcr. —Let fcholars reduce the words to 
their originals, to the fird cafe of nouns, or fird tenfe of 
veibs, and give an account of their formations and 
changes, their fyntax and dependencies; which is called 
parjing. Watts on the Mind. 
PAR'SEE. SeePERSEE. 
PAR 
PARSHANDA'THA,/. [Heb. revelation of corporeal 
impurities.] A man’s name. EJlher. 
PARSHEPATNAM', a town of Hindoodan, in Ma- 
rawar, on the coad : fix miles north of Tondy. 
PAR'SHORE. See Pershore. 
PARSIMO'NIOUS, adj. [from parfimony.] Covetous; 
frugal; fparing. It is fometimes of a good, fometimes 
of a bad, fenfe.—Extraordinary funds for one campaign 
may fpare us the expenfe of many years, whereas a long 
parfmonious war will drain us of more men and money. 
Addifon. 
PARSIMO'NIOUSLY, adv. Covetoufly ; frugally ; 
fparingly.-—Our ancedors aided parfimonioujly, becaufe 
they only fpent their own treafure for the good of their 
poderity; whereas we fquandered away the treafures of 
our poderity. Swift. 
PARSIMO'NIOUSNESS,/ A difpofition to fpare and 
fave.—To view the Moors in their private roofs, I find 
them without parfunonioufnej's, and placing no character 
of good houfekeeping in abundance of viands. L. Addi- 
fon's IF. Barbary. 
PAR'SIMONY, f. [parfimoniu, Lat.] Frugality ; cove- 
toufnefs ; niggardlinefs; faving temper.—The ways to 
enrich are many : parfmony is one of the bed, and yet is 
not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of li¬ 
berality. Paeon. 
PAR'SING, J'. The aid or exercife of refolving a fen¬ 
tence into the parts of fpeech, and accounting for the con- 
druftion. 
PAR'SLEY,/! [perfol, Fr. perfli, Welfli. Johnfon. —An¬ 
ciently and rightly our word was perfeley, from the Greek 
srUfonKwov, growing on rocks. Todd ] An herb. See 
Apium, vol. i.—Green beds of paijley near the river 
grow. Dryden. 
PAR'SLEY, Macedonian. See Bueon. 
-Mountain. See Athamanta. 
-Piert. See Aphanes. 
-Stone. See Athamanta. 
•- Wild. See Cardiospermum. 
PAR'SLEY-BED,/. That part of a garden where par- 
fley is planted.—Sempronia dug Titus out of the parfey- 
bed, as they ufe to tell children ; and thereby became 
his mother. Locke. 
PAR'SNEP, f. See Pastinaca. —November is drawn 
in a garment of changeable green, and bunches of parj- 
neps and turneps in his right hand. Peacham on Blazoning. 
Cow-Parsnep. See Heracleum. . 
Prickly Parsnep. See Echinophora. 
Water-Parsnep. See Sium. 
PAR'SON, f [derived either from perfona, becaufe 
the parfon “omnium perfonam in ecclefia fuftinet;” or 
from parochianns, the parifb-prieb. Johnfon. — It is from 
perfona, “ecclefiae perfona and fo anciently parfon was 
written perfone. Todd.] The reftor or incumbent of a 
pariffi; one that has a parochial charge or cure of fouls. 
—Abbot was preferred by king James to the biffiopric of 
Coventry and Litchfield, before he had been parfon, 
vicar, or curate, of any pariffi-church. Clarendon.'—A 
clergyman : 
Sometimes comes (lie with a tithe-pig’s tail, 
Tickling the parfon as he lies afleep ; 
Then dreams he of another benefice. Shakefpeare. 
The ancient and honourable appellation of Parson is 
fynonymous with the modern term reflor, i. e. direftor 
or governor of a parifli. He is called parfon, perfona., 
becaufe, by his perfon the church, which is an invifible 
body, is reprefented ; and he is in himfelf a body-corpo¬ 
rate, in order to protect and defend the rights of the 
church (which he perfonates) by a perpetual fucceflion. 
1 Injl. 300. It has been alfo faid, that he is called jxtr- 
fon, becaufe he is bound, by virtue of his office, inprojrria 
perfona fervire Devm, to adminifter the facraments, and 
officiate at the holy altar, in perfon .” Fleta, 1 . 9. c. 18. 
Though a parfon has, during his life, the freehold in 
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