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ical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher. He hears the parson pray and preach. Longfellow. Parson bird (Zoöl.), a New Zealand bird (Prosthemadera Novæseelandiæ) remarkable for its powers of mimicry and its ability to articulate words. Its color is glossy black, with a curious tuft of…

A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.

Furnished with a parson.

Of or pertaining to a parson; clerical. Vainglory glowed in his parsonic heart. Colman. -- Par*son"ic*al*ly, adv.

Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement. [Colloq.]

Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n.

Wearing an apron. A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.

granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole. Blackstone. -- Common of estovers, the right of taking wood from another's estate. -- Common of pasture, the right of feeding beasts on the land of another. Burill. -- Common of pis…

nterpretation properly precedes construction, but it does not go beyond the written text. Parsons. Construction of an equation (Math.), the drawing of such lines and figures as will represent geometrically the quantities in the equation, and their relations to each other. -- Construction train (Railroad), a train for…

To join in wedlock; to marry. [Colloq.] A parson who couples all our beggars. Swift.

ate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman.

ect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building. If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone.

r from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation. Appropriations of the several parsonages . . . would heave been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated. Blackstone.

ch; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job. Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle.

prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up). Fleet parson, a clergyman of low character, in, or in the vicinity of, the Fleet prison, who was ready to unite persons in marriage (called Fleet marriage) at any hour, without public notice, witnesses, or consent of parents.…

nd. Pennant. A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson. Macaulay.

To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. "An appeal lies in this case." Parsons.

The parsonage; a clergyman's house. [Scot.] Capital manse, the manor house, or lord's court.

To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.