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To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. Sir T. Herbert. The pargeted ceiling with pendants. R. L. Stevenson.

Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.

The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.

A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. [Obs.] Burton.

ucer. While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear. Waller.

rgo or ballast. -- Parliament hinge (Arch.), a hinge with so great a projection from the wall or frame as to allow a door or shutter to swing back flat against the wall. -- Long Parliament, Rump Parliament. See under Long, and Rump.

not against us is on our part. Mark ix. 40. Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part. Waller.

ng, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions. No sight could pass Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass. Dryden.…

small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.

ch was passed from hand to hand. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. Clarendon.

Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.

A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.

species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; -- also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.

Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall. Knight.

post (Arch.), a part of the framing of an open timber roof; a post set close against the wall, and resting upon a corbel or other solid support, and supporting the ends of a collar beam or any part of the roof.

up. Here in the body pent. J. Montgomery. No pent-up Utica contracts your powers. J. M. Sewall.

A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively. "The penthouse of his eyes." Sir W. Scott.

A buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College, England.

A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in which layer certain new vessels originate.

The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.