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Excessive care. Dryden.

Too careful. Shak.

To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.

To outstare. [Obs.] Shak.

The posterior nares. See Nares.

One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.

To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.

The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb.

Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.

A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

A kind of lichen (Lecanora parella) once used in dyeing and in the preparation of litmus.

A kind of parenthesis.

See Parament. [Obs.]

Same as Parembole.

The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.

Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration.

Exhortation. [R.]

Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive. [R.] F. Potter.