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An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.

ence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.

Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher. He hears the parson pray and preach. Longfellow. Parson bird (Zoöl.), a New Zealand bird (Prosthemadera Novæseelandiæ) remarkable for its powers of mimicry and its ability to articulate words. Its color is glossy…

An accomplice; an associate; a partner. [Obs.] Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.

Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass. A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. Kent.

A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct. Burrill.

hich the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover. [Written also patin, patine.]

ht or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent. If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend. Shak.

ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue.

To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.

To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.] If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. Shak.

lace, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.

Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy. Southey.

A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix.

A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.

A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel. [British Slang] See Bobby.

Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow.

A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. [India]

The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. High permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton. You have given me your permission for this address. Dryden.