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

Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure. Totten.

A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan.

Boldness or freedom of speech.

Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide.

Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

Parricidal. [Obs.]

A croft, or small field; a paddock. [Prov. Eng.]

, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidæ, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis)…

The glory pea. See under Glory.

One who simply repeats what he has heard. [R.] J. S. Mill.

Servile imitation or repetition. [R.] Coleridge. "The supine parrotry." Fitzed. Hall.

To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm. Locke. Vice parries wide The undreaded volley with a sword of straw. Cowper.

A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.

n almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles. Chaparral cock; fem. Chaparral hen (Zoöl.), a bird of the cuckoo family (Geococcyx Californianus), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuck…

The puffin.

irds of the family Fringilligæ, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, unde…

Asparagus. [Colloq.] See the Note under Asparagus.

An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica (E. passerina).