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Obediently; submissively.

See Ochery.

An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.

With eyes widely open; watchful; vigilant. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the Orkney islands. "Orkneyan skerries." Longfellow.

A band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold, affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics. Pugin.

The fishhawk.

To superintend; to oversee; to inspect. [Obs.]

Having eyes like an owl's.

The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.

Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox. Burton.

small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser. Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey. Tennyson.

Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.

sion; 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.

ded leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish. As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit. Shak. Fool's parsley. See under Fool. -- Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley. -- Parsley fern (Bot.), a small fern with leaves rese…

A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.

Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.

A cant hook having the end of its lever armed with a spike.

ymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.

The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. [Spelt also peitrel.] See Poitrel. [Obs.] Chaucer.