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By my faith; verily. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Perfect. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Perfectly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.

With the lower focal points all in the same plane; -- said of sets of eyepieces so mounted that they may be interchanged without varying the focus of the instrument (as a microscope or telescope) with which they are used.

To perform. [Obs.] Chaucer. Piers Plowman.

A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.

See Bargeboard.

To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. Sir T. Herbert. The pargeted ceiling with pendants. R. L. Stevenson.

A plasterer. Johnson.

Plasterwork; esp.: (a) A kind of decorative plasterwork in raised ornamental figures, formerly used for the internal and external decoration of houses. (b) In modern architecture, the plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth surface and help the draught.

Something made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster. [Obs.] Milton.

Of or pertaining to parhelia.

tter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene.

See Parhelion.

A combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate, paripinnate.

An outcast; one despised by society. Pariah dog (Zoöl.), a mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities. -- Pariah kite (Zoöl.), a species of kite (Milvus govinda) which acts as a scavenger in India.

See Pair royal, under Pair, n.

Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Ægean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble. Parian chronicle, a most ancient chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved on marble in the Isle of Paros, now among the Arundelian marbles.

Same as Artiodactyla.