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A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.

An annual asteraceous herb (Spilances oleracea) grown in tropical countries as a pungent salad, and also used medicinally.

A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.

The Brazil nut.

The caoutchouc obtained from the South American euphorbiaceous tree Hevea brasiliensis, hence called the Pará rubber tree, from the Brazilian river and seaport named Pará; also, the similar product of other species of Hevea. It is usually exported in flat round cakes, and is a chief variety of commercial India rubber.…

A prefix signifying alongside of, beside, beyond, against, amiss; as parable, literally, a placing beside; paradox, that which is contrary to opinion; parachronism.

Anæsthesia of both sides of the lower half of the body.

Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl urea.

A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.

Of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells.

g which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. Chaucer. Declare unto us the parable of the tares. Matt. xiii. 36.

ne of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus.

Similitude; comparison.

Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction.

By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.

Resembling a parabola in form.

The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term. [Obs.]

A narrator of parables.

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.