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over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage. Sir W. Parish.

A parish priest in the Greek Church. Shipley.

Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties. "Parochial pastors." Bp. Atterbury. Hence, limited; narrow. "The parochial mind." W. Black.

quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.

To render parochial; to form into parishes.

In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes. Bp. Stillingfleet.

A parishioner. [Obs.] Ld. Burleigh.

A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.

A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.

A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.

his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary. Court of Peculiars (Eng. Law), a branch of the Court of Arches having cognizance of the affairs of peculiars. Blackstone. -- Dean of peculiars. See under Dean, 1.

Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.

ect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.

An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.

A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] Chaucer.

place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. Shak. A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Sir W. Scott.

its blossoms only in fair weather. -- Poor rate, an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor. -- Poor soldier (Zoöl.), the friar bird. -- The poor, those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by t…

A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.

of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.