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h extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.

as when we beg pardon for interrupting a man, or for jostling him in a crowd. The civil magistrate also grants a pardon, and not forgiveness. The two words are, therefore, very clearly distinguished from each other in most cases which relate to the common concerns of life.

as, parol evidence. Parol arrest (Law), an arrest in pursuance of a verbal order from a magistrate. -- Parol contract (Law), any contract not of record or under seal, whether oral or written; a simple contract. Chitty. Story.

One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

sale of certain articles, or of certain offices or prerogatives. -- Patent rolls, the registers, or records, of patents.

early pure lad. The processwas invented in 1833 by Hugh Lee Pattinson, an English metallurgist.

A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors. Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our pedigrees. Camden. His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree. Milton. I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees. Sir P. Sidney. The Jews preserved the pedigre…

One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland. Grand pensionary, the title of the prime minister, or or president of the Council, of Holland when a republic.

ght. Milton. How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend! South.

Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under Flying, and Phalangister.

Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistidæ. They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying.

One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note under Apothecary.

One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.

ing of plants, etc. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al (#), a. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phe*nol"o*gist (#), n.

A philologist. Burton.

A philologist. [R.]

A philologist. [R.] Carlyle.

One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.

An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of…

A phonologist.