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That which is pared off. Pope. Pare off the surface of the earth, and with the parings raise your hills. Mortimer.

Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.

Sparing none.

Spare; saving; frugal; merciful. Bacon. -- Spar"ing*ly, adv. -- Spar"ing*ness, n.

Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse. Burke.

Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

Act of preparing one's self. [Obs.] Jer Taylor.

Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

An instrument for comparing the relative amount of the light of stars.

ch another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift.

nds connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.

The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.

Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.

ts against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.

The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., bycarding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.

A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. The swains were preparing for a carousal. Sterne.

oken, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.