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By parcels or parts. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate.

To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. Lev. xxiii. 14.

The state of being parched.

See Pachisi.

See Pachisi.

Scorching; burning; drying. "Summer's parching heat." Shak. -- Parch"ing*ly, adv.

ep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. But here's a parchment with the seal of Cæsar. Shak.

To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.

Sparingless. [Obs.]

A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. [Written also paraclose and perclose.] Hook.

A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch.

Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.

The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch. Jer. Taylor.

The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate. [R.]

Patriarchal.

Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family.

A patriarchate. Ayliffe.