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Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.

An apparitor. "Summoned by an host of paritors." Dryden.

Pellitory. [Obs.] Chaucer.

equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning. "No parity of principle." De Quincey. Equality of length and parity of numeration. Sir T. Browne.

as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like. Chaucer. While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear. Waller.

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

, The keeper of a park. Sir M. Hale.

A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.

A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.

A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.

Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance. A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. Tennyson.

Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.

To talk; to converse; to parley. [Obs.] Shak. Finding himself too weak, began to parle. Milton.

scussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce. We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain. Dryden. To beat a parley (Mil.), to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference with the enemy.

A parleying; a discussion; a conference. [Obs.] But first they held their parliament. Rom. of R.

Parliamentary. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to Parliament. Wood.

In a parliamentary manner.

Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority. Bacon.

The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. Piers Plowman.