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Boldness or freedom of speech.

To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically. Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly. Ascham.

and kin, etc. "She was . . . part and parcel of the race and place." Howitt. -- Part of speech (Gram.), a sort or class of words of a particular character; thus, the noun is a part of speech denoting the name of a thing; the verb is a part of speech which asserts something of the subject of a sentence. -- Part owner…

A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and ex…

Departing. "Speed the parting guest." Pope.

A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.

A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal language.

Estimation; character. [Obs.] Common speech gives him a worthy pass. Shak.

rticular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause. How commentators each dark passage shun. Young.

A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. Smart.

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech. The jargon and patois of several provinces. Sir T. Browne.

Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.

Uttering few words; brief in speech. [R.]

Brevity in speech. [R.]

The sliding weight on a steelyard. [Written also pee.]

Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord. "The eternal love and pees." Chaucer.

The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. [In the last sense written also pea and pee.] Fore peak. (Naut.) See under Fore.

See Peen.

Written with a pen; composed. "Their penned speech." Shak.

A peer. [Obs.] Chaucer.