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In a parental manner.

Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. [Obs.] Abp. Potter.

Kinship; parentage. [Obs.] Chaucer.

thin curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. "Seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis." Sir T. Browne. Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. Watts.

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks. Lowell.

Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales.

In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.

The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.

The act of one who kills one's own parent. [R.]

Deprived of parents.

Running through the entire length.

The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.

See Phrenetic. [Obs.]

Giving, indicating, or having a preference or precedence; as, a preferential claim; preferential shares.

A system of voting, as at primaries, in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates for an office, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second…

An apprentice. [Obs. or Colloq.] Piers Plowman. "My accuser is my prentice." Shak.

Apprenticehood. [Obs.] This jolly prentice with his master bode Till he was out nigh of his prenticehood. Chaucer.

Apprenticeship. [Obs. or Colloq.] He served a prenticeship who sets up shop. Pope.

emporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.

A complainant; a plaintiff.