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See Docket.

A warrant. See Docket.

ank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth. Prescott.

Same as Acton. [Obs.]

Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, and the like, of several colors.

A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.

A mosquetaire cuff or glove, or other article of dress fancied to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.

A deep flaring cuff.

A woman's glove with a long, loosely fitting wrist.

See Musket.

It is not clear; -- a verdict given by a jury when a matter is to be deferred to another day of trial.

See Parrakeet.

Same as Parrakeet. [Written also paroket, parroquet, and perroquet.] Paroquet auk or auklet (Zoöl.), a small auk (Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also perroquet auk.

Same as Parquetry.

That part of the lower floor of a theater with seats at the rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries; -- called also, esp. in U. S., orchestra circle or parterre.

See Parquetry.

Formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures. One room parqueted with yew, which I liked well. Evelyn.

A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors.

See Parquet.

See Paroquet, Parakeet.