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Having an evennumber of digits on the hands or the feet. Qwen.

The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

s resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee. B. H. Hall (1856).

See Parietal, 2.

The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid.

A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. [Obs.] Burton.

A combining form used to indicate connection with, or relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal segment of the skull; as, the parieto-mastoid suture.

A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin.

A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and sarsaparillin.

That which is pared off. Pope. Pare off the surface of the earth, and with the parings raise your hills. Mortimer.

Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.

That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. Cowell.

A parishioner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial. [R.] Bp. Hall.

One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.

A native or inhabitant of Paris, the capital of France.

A female native or resident of Paris.

The use of equivocal or ambiguous words. [R.]