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To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry. "Parch in Afric sun." Shak.

To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.

ing external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of…

To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop. [R.] "Peace your tattlings." Shak. When the thunder would not peace at my bidding. Shak.

t occurs in such places; peat moss. -- Peat moss. (a) The plants which, when decomposed, become peat.

xtracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.

One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant. Goldsmith.

Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity.

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke.

n European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.

ipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery. Henslow.

The number of years in which the simple interest of any sum becomes equal to the principal.

appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious. Japanese persimmon, Diospyros Kaki and its red or yellow edible fruit, which outwardly resembles a tomato, but contains a few large seeds.

To become perverted; to take the wrong course. [R.] Testament of Love.

To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out. [Slang, U.S.]

To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

mall 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.

To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.

and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation. Bartlett.

A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait. Dunglison.