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To add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.

The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own.

Of or pertaining to paraphernalia; as, paraphernal property. Kent.

Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.

A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.

Pyrophosphoric. [Obs.]

One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea. -- Par`a*phrag"mal, a.

in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase. In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense. Dryden. Excellent paraphrases of the Psalms of David. I. Disraeli. His sermons a living paraphrase upon his practice. Sowth. T…

One who paraphrases.

A paraphraser. [R.]

A paraphraser. T. Warton.

Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free. -- Par`a*phras"tic*al*ly, adv.

A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.

age or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea. Chaldee Paraphrase, A targum written in Aramaic.

n the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand. Thus we are put to construe and paraphrase our own words to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our enemies. Bp. Stilingfleet. And to be dull was construed to be good. Pope.

An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation.

op of Genoa, in the 13th century, translated and printed by Caxton in 1483, and partially paraphrased by Longfellow in a poem thus entitled. -- Golden marcasite tin. [Obs.] -- Golden mean, the way of wisdom and safety between extremes; sufficiency without excess; moderation. Angels guard him in the golden mean. Pope.…

s; not free. A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts. Hooker.

on; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden.

Having the character of parody. Very paraphrastic, and sometimes parodical. T. Warton.