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within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. "Seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis." Sir T. Browne. Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. Watts.

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks. Lowell.

Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales.

In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.

The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.

The act of one who kills one's own parent. [R.]

Deprived of parents.

A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.

One who, or that which, pares; an instrument for paring.

See Parergy.

Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.

A parethmoid bone.

Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.

A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

othing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

Appearance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Apparentness; state of being apparent. Coleridge.

or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view. The moon . . . apparent queen. Milton.

Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak.