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In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Parochial. [Obs.] "Parochian churches." Bacon.

A croft, or small field; a paddock. [Prov. Eng.]

To support; to patronize. [Obs.] Urquhart.

The act of patrocinating or patronizing. [Obs.] "Patrocinations of treason." Bp. Hall.

See Patrocination.

A process of desilverizing argentiferous lead by repeated meltings and skimmings, which concentrate the silver in the molten bath, the final skimmings being nearly pure lad. The processwas invented in 1833 by Hugh Lee Pattinson, an English metallurgist.

Earth, rock, etc., which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U. S.]

A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.

Same as Peptohydrochloric.

Designating a hypothetical acid (called peptohydrochloric acid, pepsinhydrochloric acid, and chloropeptic acid) which is supposed to be formed when pepsin and dilute (0.1-0.4 per cent) hydrochloric acid are mixed together.

The region surrounding the anus, particularly of echinoderms.

Inflammation of the tissues about the rectum.

The wheel which, together with the axle, forms the axis in peritrochio, which see under Axis.

Same as Acraspeda.

Having an umbrella-shaped or bell-shaped body, with a wide, open cavity beneath; -- said of certain jellyfishes.

Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.

A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle. Jamieson.

Any pleurocarpic moss.

s in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.