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A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.

n any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow.

The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra. -- Par*ap`o*phys"ic*al, a.

les induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

To talk; to converse; to parley. [Obs.] Shak. Finding himself too weak, began to parle. Milton.

One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.

The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. Piers Plowman.

A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.

Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.

ng a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.

rations. Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust.

One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore. [R.] Colridge.

One versed in patristics.

To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

chet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. [Written also paul, or pall.] Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. -- Pawl rim or ring (N…

rated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed.

is old guilt." Chaucer. Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom. Dryden.

One versed in, or a student of, penology.

A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.