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Same as Parrakeet.

A train or series of kites on one string and flying tandem, used for attaining great heights and for sending up instruments for meteorological observations or a man for military reconnoissance; also, a kite of such a train.

Designating an acid called paralactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.

A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.

A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.

lous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]

See Paraleipsis.

Disordered sensibility to pain, including absence of sensibility to pain, excessive sensibility to pain, and abnormal painful results of stimuli. -- Par`al*ge"sic (#), a.

A dweller by the sea. [R.]

A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles.

See Paraleipsis.

Of or pertaining to a parallax.

and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun. Annual parallax, the greatest value of the heliocentric parallax, or the greatest annual apparent change of place of a body as seen from the earth and sun; as, the annual parallax of a fixed star. -- Binocular parallax, the apparent diff…

Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes. Revolutions . . . parallel to the equinoctial. Hakluyt.

Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.

A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius.

A transformer connected in parallel.

A vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel.

Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. [R.] Bp. Hall.

The quality or state of being parallel.