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In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers. Carlyle.

Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia. Pampas cat (Zoöl.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about…

ented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the promotion of trade relations.

A festival; a public assembly. [Obs.] S. Harris.

To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.

A public walk; a promenade. Dress parade, Undress parade. See under Dress, and Undress. -- Parade rest, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. Wilhelm.

An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.

In front; publicly. [Obs.] Spenser.

A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws. They made request that it might be lawful for them to summon a parliament of Gauls. Golding.

ars of each person be considered. Milton. Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public . . . or such as concern our particular. Whole Duty of Man.

ity or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy. Win the noble Brutus to our party. Shak. The peace both parties want is like to last. Dryden.

Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley.

ht of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor.

A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.

Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies.

One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.

To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle. An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating despotism. Burke.

The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.

One who peculates. "Peculators of the public gold." Cowper.

be of a brand that has stood the test of a specified number of years' use in an important public work. [Cant, U. S.]