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One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.

A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.

his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary. Court of Peculiars (Eng. Law), a branch of the Court of Arches having cognizance of the affairs of peculiars. Blackstone. -- Dean of peculiars. See under Dean, 1.

Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.

ect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.

An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.

A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. [Obs.] Bailey.

A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] Chaucer.

place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. Shak. A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Sir W. Scott.

Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer. Plaster cast, a copy of an object obtained by pouring plaster of Paris mixed with water into a mold. -- Plaster of Paris. Etym: [So called because originally bro…

Resembling plaster of Paris. [R.] "Out of gypseous or plasterly ground." Fuller.

of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.

A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.

its blossoms only in fair weather. -- Poor rate, an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor. -- Poor soldier (Zoöl.), the friar bird. -- The poor, those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by t…

A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.

One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.

ee (Gram.), that state of an adjective or adverb which denotes simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as, wise, noble. -- Positive electricity (Elec), the kind of electricity which is developed when glass is rubbed with silk, or which appears at that pole of a voltaic battery attache…

tions are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.

of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.