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Formed from a compound word. "Parasynthetic derivatives." Dr. Murray.

Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.

The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax. Brande & C.

A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded. Smart.

Of or pertaining to parathesis.

A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.

Peradventure. See Paraventure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.

At the bottom; lowest. Cowell.

In front; publicly. [Obs.] Spenser.

Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.

On either side of the axis of the skeleton.

A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene. Cf. Metamer, and Xylene.

To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.

To throw out; to vomit. [Obs.] Skelton.

g a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.

The Fates. See Fate, 4.

Perchance; by chance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. [Archaic] "A parcel of her woe." Chaucer. Two parcels of the white of an egg. Arbuthnot. The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government. J. A. Symonds.