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An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate. Etching figures (Min.), markings produced on the face of a crystal by the action of an appropriate solvent. They have usually a definite form, and are important as revealing the molecular structure. -- Etching needle, a sharp-poin…

Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous. Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails Shak. The fiery spirit of his forefathers. W. Irwing.

Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.

Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel. McElrath.

Frostily. [Obs.] The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton.

To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. Blackstone.

A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.

A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.

essage expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle. The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and natural. Walsh.

To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

Having the form of a membrane or of parchment.

A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to the doorpost; -- in use among orthodox Hebrews.

Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians.

An apparatus, consisting of a number of cells whose sides are of parchment paper, for conducting the process of osmosis. It is used esp. in sugar refining to remove potassium salts from the molasses.

A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.

A piece of parchment or a schedule, containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury. Blackstone.

Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

A roll of parchment; a parchment record. Clerk of the pells, formerly, an officer of the exchequer who entered accounts on certain parchment rolls, called pell rolls. [Eng.]

Like parchment.