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PANADO, på-na'dò. s. Food made by boiling
bread and water
PANCREAS, påug'kr-44. s. The sweetbread.
PANCREATICK, pâng'krè-ât'tik, a. Contained
in the pancreas.
PANCY,
PANSY,

pân'sè.

s. A flower, a kind of violet. PANDECT, pân'dekt. s. A treatise that comprehends the whole of any science. PANDEMICK, pân-dém'mik. a. 509. Incident to a whole people.

PANDER, pán'dår. s. 98. A pimp, a male bawd,

a procurer

To PANDER, pân'dår. v. a. To pimp, to be subservient to lust or passion. Not used. PANDERLY, pân'dor-lé. a. Pimping, pimplike PANDICULATION, pân-dik-ku-lå'shan. s. The restlessness, stretching, and uneasiness that usually accompany the cold fits of an interraitting fever.

PANG, pång. 8. Extreme pain, sudden pares.

ysm of torment.

To PANG, pång. v. a To torment.
PANICK, pån'nik. s. A sudden and groundless

fear.

PANICK, pân'nik. a.
violently without cause.

Fearing suddenly and

PANNEL, pân'nil. s. 99. A kind of rustick
saddle.

PANNICLE, pân'nè-kl. 405.
PANNICK, pån'nik. 509.
of the Millet kind.

6.

A plant

PANNIER, pân'yår s. 113. A basket, a wicker vessel, in which fruit or other things are carried on a horse.

PANOPLY, pân'no-piè. s. Complete armour. To PANT, pånt. v. n. To palpitate, to beat as the heart in sudden terrour, or after hard labour; to have the breast heaving, as for want of breath; to long, to wish earnestly.

PANTALOON, pân-tâ-lôôn'. s. A man's gar ment anciently worn; a part of the dress of men much resembling trowsers; a character in a pantomime.

PANE, påne. s. A square of glass; a piece mix-PANT, pânt. s. Palpitation, motion of the heart ed in variegated works with other pieces. PANEGYRICK, pân-nè-jêr'rîk. s. 184. An euloan encomiastick piece. PANEGYRIST, pan-ne-jêr'rist. s. One that writes praise, encomiast.

To PANEGYRIZE, pân'è jè-rize. v. a. To praise highly.

PANTHEON, pần theủn. s. 166 A temple of all the gods.

PANTHER, pân'thår. s. 98. A spotted wild beast, a lynx, a pard.

PANTILE, pân'tile. s. A gutter tile. PANTINGLY, pân'ting-lè. ad. 410. With pal pitation.

great family, who keeps the bread. PANTOFLE, pân-tôô'f. s. A slipper. French. PANTOMIME, pân'to-mime. s. 146. One who has the power of universal mimickry, one who expresses his meaning by mute action; a scene, a tale exhibited only in gesture and dumb-show. PANTRY, pân'trè. s. The room in which provisions are reposited.

I have not found this word in any of our Dictionaries, but have met with it in so respectable a writer, that I cannot resist the temptation of inserting it here, especially as it serves to fill up a niche in language, which, I think, never|PANTLER, pânt'lår. s. 98. The officer in a should be empty: I mean, that wherever there is a noun established, there should always be a verb to correspond to it. The passage from which I have taken this word has so much real good sense, and such true genuine humour, that I cannot refrain from extracting the whole paragraph, and relying on the pardon of the inspector for the digression.-"It may be thought ridiculous to assert, that morals have any con-PAP, påp. s. The nipple, a dug; food made for "nection with purity of language, or that the infants with bread boiled in water; the pulp of "precision of truth may be violated through de- fruit. "fect of critical exactness in three degrees of comparison; yet how frequently do we hear, ❝ from the dealers in superlatives, of most admira"ble, super-excellent, and quite perfect people, who,

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PAPA, på-på'. s. 77. A fond name for father, used in many languages.

PAPACY, på'på-sè. s. Popedom, office, dignity of bishops of Rome.

nexed to the bishoprick of Rome

PAPAVEROUS, på-påv'vêr rås. a. Resembling poppies.

PAPER, på'pår. s. 64, 76. Substance made of linen or cotton rags, on which men write and print.

PAPER, på'pår. a. 98. Any thing slight or thin,
made of paper.

To PAPER, på pår. v. a. To register. Not used.
To furnish with paper hangings.
PAPERMAKER, på pår-må-kår. s. One who
makes paper.

PAPER MILL, på pår-mil. 8. A mill in which
rags are ground for paper.

PAPESCENT, på-pês sent. a. 510 Containing pap, pulpy

to plain persons, not bred in the school of ex-|PAPAL, på pål. a. Belonging to the pope, anaggeration, would appear mere common characters, not rising above the level of mediocriCi ty! By this negligence in the just application "of words, we shall be as much misled by these " trope and figure ladies when they degrade, as "when they panegyrize; for, to a plain sober "judgment, a tradesman may not be the most "good-for-nothing fellow that ever existed, merely "because it was impossible for him to execute, "in an hour, an order which required a week; "a lady may not be the most hideous fright the a world ever saw, though the make of her gown "may have been obsolete for a month; nor may one's young friend's father be a monster "of cruelty, though he may be a quiet gentle2 man, who does not choose to live at wateringplaces, but likes to have his daughter stay at home with him in the country."--Hannah More's Strictures on Modern Female Education, vol. i. page 216. If the usage of this word stood. in need of farther support, we have it from the best authority. The author thinks it superflu-PAPILLARY, påp pil-å-rè. a. Having emulgent ous to panegyrize truth; yet, in favour of sound and rational rules (which must be founded in truth. or they are good for nothing,) he ven. tares to quote the Stagirite himself: It is not ལ possible for a true opinion to be contrary to "another true one."-Harris's Philological Inquiries. PANEL, pân'nil. s. 99. A square, or piece of any matter inserted between other bodies; a schedule or roll, containing the names of such Jurors as the sheriff provides to pass upon a trial.

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PAPILIO, på-pil'vò. s. 113. A butterfly, a moth
of various colours.
PAPILIONACEOUS, på-pil-yo-na'shus. a. 357
Resembling a butterfly. Applied chiefly to the
flowers of some plants.

vessels, or resemblances of paps.

There is a set of words of similar derivation and termination, which must be necessarily accented in the same way: these are Axillary, Maxillary, Capillary, Papillary, Pupillary, Armil lary, Mammillary, and Medullary. All these, except the last, which was not inserted, I had accented on the first syllable in a Rhyming and Pronouncing Dictionary published thirty years

ago.

This accentuation I still think the most agreea

559.-Fåte, får, fåll, fât;— mẻ, mêt ;-pine, pîn ;

ble to analogy; and that the inspector may| judge of the usage, I have subjoined the several different modes of accentuation of the different orthöepists:

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Armillary, Medullary, Medullary,

Johnson, Kenrick. Sheridan, Ash, Bailey. -Johnson, Sheridan, Barclay. Ash, Kenrick, W. Johnston, Bailey, Entick.

Johnson, Kenrick, Nares, Fenning.

Sheridan, Ash, W. Johnston, Perry, Buchanan, Bailey, En

tick.

Johnson, Nares, Barclay, Fen-
ning.
Sheridan, Kenrick, Ash, Scott,
Perry, Buchanan, Bailey.
Johnson, Sheridan, Kenrick,
Ash, Scott, Perry, Entick,
Barclay, Fenning.

No examples.

Nares, Bailey.

forated to let out matter, as tapping in a tym

pany.

PARACENTRICAL, pâr-á-sen'trẻ-kál PARACENTRICK, pâr-â-sên'trik. Deviating from circularity.

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PARADE, pår-råde'. S. Show, ostentation; military order; place where troops draw up to do duty and mount guard; guard, posture of defence.

PARADIGM, pår'å-dim. s. 389. Example. PARADISIACAL, pâr-â-dè-zi'â-kål. a. 506 Suiting paradise, making paradise. PARADISE, pâr'ra-dise. s. The blissful regions in which Adam and Eve were placed any place of felicity.

PARADOX, pår rå-dôks. s. A tenet contrary to received opinion; an assertion contrary to ap

pearance.

PARADOXICAL, pâr-å-dôk ́sè̟-kâl. a. Having the nature of a paradox; inclined to new tenets or notions contrary to received opinions. PARADOXICALLY, pår-â-dôk ́sé-kâl-è. ad. In a paradoxical manner.

State of being paradoxical.

Johnson, Kenrick, Ash, Sheri-PARADOXICALNESS, pâr-â-dôk'sè-kál-nês. s.
dan, Scott, Perry, Entick.
Sheridan, Scott, Nares, Smith,
Fenning.

Ash, Perry, Entick, Bailey, Bar-|| clay.

No examples. Johnson, Sheridan, Ash, Kenrick, W. Johnston, Buchanan, Bailey, Barclay, Fenning, Entick. This extract sufficiently shows how uncertain usage is, and the necessity of recurring to principles: and that these are on the side I have adopted, may be gathered from No. 512.-See MAMMILLARY and MAXILLAFY. PAPILLOUS, på-pil'lås. a. The same with PAPILLARY.

There is some diversity in the accentuation of this word, as well as the former: Dr. Johnson and Barclay place the accent on the first syllable; and Mr. Sheridan, Dr Kenrick, Dr. Ash, and Mr. Perry, on the second, as I have done.

PAPIST, på'pist. s. An appellation given by Protestants to one that adheres to the communion of the Pope and Church of Rome. PATISTICAL, på-pis'tè-kål. a Relating to the religion of those called Papists. PAPISTRY, på'pis-trẻ. s. A uame given by Protestants to the doctrine of the Roman Cath olicks.

PAPPOUS, pâp'pås. a. 314. Having soft light down growing out of the seeds of some plants, such as thisties; downy.

PAPPY, pap'pè. a. Soft, succulent, easily divided.

PAR, pår. s. 77. State of equality, equivalence, equal value,

PARABLE, pår'râ-bl. s. 81, 405. A similitude,|| a relation under which something else is fig.

ured.

PARABOLA, på-råb'bỏ-lâ. s. One of the conick sections.

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PARABOLICAL, pâr-râ-bôl ́lè-kâl. PARABOLICK, pir-râ-bôl'îk. 509. Ex pressed by parable or similitude, having the nature or form of a parabola PARABOLICALLY, pâr-ra-ból'lè-kal-è. ad By way of parable or similitude; in the form of a parabola.

PARABOLISM, pâ-ráb'bò-lizm. s. In Algebra, the division of the terms of an equation, by a known quantity that is involved or multiplied in the first term.

PARABOLOID, pâ-råb′bò-lôîd. s. A paraboliform curve in geometry.

PARACENTESIS, pår-a-sên te'sis. s. That operation whereby any of the venters are per

PARADOXOLOGY, pâr-â-dôk-sôl ́lò-jè. s. The use of paradoxes.

PARAGOGE, pår-â-gò'jè. s. A figure whereby a letter or syllable is added at the end of a word, as, my deary for my dear. PARAGON, par'rà-gôn. s. 166. A model, a pattern, something supremely excellent. To PARAGON, pår rå-gôn. v. a. To compare; to equal.

PARAGRAPH, pår'rå-grâf. s. A distinct part of a discourse.

PARAGRAPHICALLY, pâr-rå-grâf'fè-kâl-lè. ad, By paragraphs.

PARALLACTICAL, Para läikik-kül. } a.

PARALLACTICK, pår-rål-lâk'tik. 509. Pertaining to the parallax. PARALLAX, par'rål-låks. 8. The distance be tween the true and apparent place of any star viewed from the earth. PARALLEL, pâr'râ¦-lêl. a Extended in the same direction, and preserving always the same distance, having the same tendency; continuing the resemblance through many particulars, equal

PARALLEL, pâr'rål-lel s. Lines continuing their course, and still remaining at the same distance from each other; lines on the globe marking the latitude; direction conformable to that of another line: resemblance, conformity continued through many particulars, compar ison made; any thing resembling another. To PARALLEL, pår'rål-lël. v. a. To place so as always to keep the same direction with another line; to keep in the same direction with anoth er line; to keep in the same direction; to level; to correspond to; to be equal to, to resemble through many particulars; to compare. PARALLELISM, pâr'râl-lēl-izm. s. State of being parallel.

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PARALLELOGRAM, pâr-â-iêl'lò-grâm. s. geometry, a right lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel and equal. PARALLELOGRAMICAL, pâr-â-lêl-o-gram'mekål. a. 509. Having the properties of a parallelogram.

To PARALOGIZE, på-râľ ́ò-jize. v. n. To reason sophistically. PARALOGISM, pår-râľ ́ld-jîzm. s. A false ar

gument.

PARALOGY, pår-râl'lò-jè, s. 518. False reasoning.

PARALYSIS, pâ-râl'è-sis. s. A palsy. To PARALYZE, pâr'å-lize. v. a. To weaken, to deprive of strength as if struck with a palsy.

The very general use of this word, especially since the French revolution, seems to entitle it to a place in the Dictionaries of our language

-nỏ, move, når, nôt;-tube, tåb, båll;-dil;-påånd;-thin, THIS.

mass; a number of persons, in contempt, any number or quantity, in contempt.

To PARCEL, par'sil. . a. To divide into portions; to make up into a mass.

To PARCH, partsh. v. a. 352. To burn slightly and superficially.

as it not only more forcibly expresses the com-
mon idea than to enervate or to deaden, but serves to
fill up those vacancies in speech, where there is
no verb to correspond to a substantive or ad-
jective. Hence Pope's happy coinage of the
verb to sensualize.-See the verb to PANEGY-
RIZE. A happier iustance of the use of thisT
word, and a better authority for it, cannot be
given than in Hannah More's Strictures on Ed-
ucation, vol. i page 49, where, speaking of the

PARCHI, pårtsh. v. n. To be scorched.
PARCHMENT, pårtsh'ment. s. Skins dressed
for the writer.
PARD, pård.

philosophick and systematick vice of modern in- pår dåle.} s. The leopard: in Po

fidels on the Continent, she says: "This cool, "calculating, intellectual wickedness, eats out "the very heart and core of virtue, and, like a "deadly mildew, blights and shrivels the bloom"ing promise of the human spring. Its be26 numbing touch communicates a torpid slug66 gishness, which paralyzes the soul. It descants "on depravity, and details its grossest acts as "frigidly as if its object were to allay the tumult "of the passions, while it is letting them loose on "mankind, by plucking off the muzzle of pre"sent restraint and future accountableness." PARALYTICAL, pár-lit té-kål. PARALYTICK, pe à-lit tik.009.

a.

Palsied, inclined to palsy. PARAMOUNT, pâr-â-mount. a. Superiour, having the highest jurisdiction; as, Lord Para mount, the chief of the seigniory; eminent, of the highest crder. PARAMOUNT, pâr-â-môånt'. s. The chief, PARAMOUR, pår rå-môôr s. French. A lover

or wooer; a mistress.

PARANYMPH, pâr'râ-nîmf. s. A brideman, one who leads the bride to her marriage, one who countenances or supports another. Not used.

etry, any of the spotted beasts.

To PARDON, pår'd'a, v. a. To excuse an of
fender; to forgive a crime; to remit a penalty
Pardon me, is a word of civil denial or sligh
apology.

PARDON, pår'd'n. s. 170. Forgiveness of ar
offender; forgiveness of a crime, indulgence
remission of penalty; forgiveness received
warrant of forgiveness, or exemption from pun
ishment.
PARDONABLE, pár'd'n-å-bl. a. 501. Venial
excusable.

PARDONABLENESS, pår'd'n-å-bl-nês. s. Ve
nialness, susceptibility of pardon.

PARDONABLY, pår'd'n-â-blè. ad. Venially excusably.

FARDONER, pår'd'n-dr. s. 98. One who før gives another.

To PARE, påre. v. a. To cut off extremities or the surface, to cut away by little and little, to diminish.

PAREGORICK, pâr-è̟-gôr'îk. a. 509. Having the power in medicine to comfort, mollify, and

assuage

PARENCHYMA, på-rẻn'kè-mâ. s. A spongy
substance; the pith of a plant.
PARENCHYMATOUS, pår-en-kim'â-tůs. a. 314.
Spongy, pithy.

PARAPEGM, pâr‍â-pêm. s. 389. A brazen table fixed to a pillar, on which laws and proclamations were anciently engraved, a table of astro-PARENCHYMOUS, på-rèn’kè-mis. a. Spongy, nomical observations.

PARAPEGMA, pår-å-påg ́mâ. s. The same as
Parapegm. Plural, Parapegmata.
PARAPET, par rå-pét. s. A wall breast high.
PARAPHIMOSIS, pâr-ra-fé-mo'sis s. 520 Dis-

ease when the præputium cannot be drawn.
over the glans.

PARAPHERNALIA, pâr-â-fér-nà lè-â. s. Goods
in the wife's disposal.

PARAPHRASE, pår rå-fráze. s A loose inter-
pretation, an explanation in many words.
To PARAPHRASE, pår rå-fráze: v. a. To in-
terpret with laxity of expression, to translate
loosely.

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PARAPHRAST, pâr'rå-fråst. s. A lax interpre-
ter, one who explains in many words.
PARAPHRASTICAL, pâr-a-fras'tè-kål. 509
PARAPHRASTICK, pår-å-frâs tik.
Lax in interpretation, not literal, not verbal.
PARAPHRENITIS, pâr-a-frè-ni'tis. s.
An in-
flammation of the diaphragm.
PARASANG, pâr'à-sång. s.
of length.
PARASITE, pâr'rå-site. s. 155. One that frequents
rich tables, and earns his welcome by flattery
PARASITICAL, pâr-å-sit tè-kâl.
PARASITICK, pår-a-sit'tik. 509
tering, wheedling.
PARASOL, pâr'rå-sole. s. A small sort of cano-
py or umbrella carried over the head to shade
from the sun.

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PARATHESIS, på-rath'è-sis. 8. A figure in Grammar where two or more substantives are put in the same case; as, "He went to the country where he was born [France] and "died there." In Rhetorick, a short hint, with a promise of future enlargement In Printing, the matter contained between two crotchets marked thus [].

To PARBOIL, parboil. v. a. 81. To half boil. PARCEL, pár'sil. s. 99. A small bundle; a part of the whole taken separately; a quantity or

pithy.

PARENESIS, på-rên'è-sis. s. 520. Persuasion

Dr. Johnson, in the folio edition of his Dic tionary, places the accent on the penultimate syllable of this word, and Mr. She idan and Mr Nares on the antepenultimate, aid the latter make the e long. Dr. Johnson has several words of a sunlar termination for his accentua tion; but analogy is clearer for Mr. Sheridan and Mi vares with respect to accent, and di rectly against them with respect to quantity, for it is not the long quantity of the original that can resist the shortening power of the English antepenultimate accent in this word, any more than in Diaresis, Ephemeris, &c which see.

PARENT, parent. s. A father or mother. PARENTAGE, pâr'rên-tadje. s. 90, 515. Extraction, bash, condition with respect to parents. PARENTAL, på-ren'tål. a. Be.oming parents. pertaining to parents.

PARENTHESIS, på-ren'the-sis s. A sentent&
so included in another enten e, as that it may
be taken out, without injurin, the sense of that
which encloses it; being commonly marked
PARENTHETICAL, pâr-ên hêt'è-kål. a. 509,
Pertaming to a parenthesis.

PARER, på'rår. s. 98. A instrument to cut
away the surface.
PARHELION, pâr-hè'lè-ân. s. 113. A mock sun
PARIETAL, på-rl'é-tâl. a. Constituting the
sides or walls.

PARING, paring. 8. 410. That which is pared
off any thing, the rind
PARISH, par rish s. The particular charge of
a secular priest; a particular division or dis-
trict, having offcera of its own, and generally »
church.

PARISH, pår'rish. a. Belonging to the parish,
having the care of the parish, maintained by the
parish.

559.-Fåte, får, fåll, fât,—mè, mĉt;—pine ;--pin,

PARISHIONER, på-rish ́ån-dr. s. One that be-|| PARSIMONIOUSLY, par sẽ mỏnè-us-lẻ. mà. longs to the parish. Frugally, sparingly.

PARITOR, pårʼrẻ-tår. s. 166. A beadle, a sum-PARSIMONIOUSNESS, pår-sè-mò'nè-ds-nès. • moner of the courts of civil law. A disposition to spare and save. PARITY, par ré-tè. s. Equality, resemblance. PARSIMONY, pår'sè-mân-e. s. 503, 557. Fru PARK, park. s. 81. A piece of ground enclosed gality, covetousness, niggardliness. and stored with deer and other beasts of chase. For the o, see DOMESTICK. PARKER, park'år., s. 98. A park-keeper. PARSLEY, pårs lè. s. A plant. PARKLEAVES, pårk'lèvz. s. An herb. PARSNIP, pars'nip. s. 99. A plant. PARLE, parl. 8. Conversation, talk, oral treaty. PARSON, pår's'n. s. 170. The priest of a parish, To PARLEY, pår'lè. v. n. To treat by word of one that has a parochial charge or cure of mouth, to talk, to discuss any thing orally. souls; a clergyman. it is applied to the teach PARLEY, pår'lè. s. Oral treaty, talk, confer- ers of the Presbyterians. ence, discussion by word of mouth. PARLIAMENT, parlè-ment. s. 274. sembly of the king, lords, and ommons; which assembly is of all others the highest, and of greatest authority.

The as

PARLIAMENTARY, par-là-mền tả-rẻ. a. En-
acted by parliament, suiting the parliament,
pertaining to parliament.

PARLOUR, pår lår. s. 314. A room in monas-
teries, where the religious meet and converse;
a room in houses on the first floor, elegantly
furnished for reception or entertainmcut
PARLOUS, pår lås. a. 314. Keen, sprightly,
waggish. Not in use.
PAROCHIAL, pâ-rò'kè-ál. a
parish.
PARODY, pår'rò-dè. s. A kind of writing in
which the words of an author or his thoughts
are taken, and by a slight change, adapted to
some new purpose.

Belonging to a

To PARODY, pår ́rò-dè. v. a. To copy by way of parody.

PARONYMOUS, pâr-ôn'né-mås. a. Resembling another word.

PAROLE, på-rok'. s. Word given as an assur

ance.

PARONOMASIA, pâr-o-no-må'zhè-â. 8.

453. A rhetorical figure, in which, by the change of a letter or syllable, several things are alluded to, as, "They are fiends, not friends." PAROQUET, pâr'd-kwêt. 8. A small species of parrot.

PAROTID, på-rôt'tid. a. 503. Belonging to the glands under and behind the ear.

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In this, and the following word, Dr. Johnson places the accent on the antepenultimate syllable, but Mr Sheridan and Dr. Ash much more properly on the penultimate, as here marked. It may, however, be observed, that Dr. Johnson's accentuation of this word is the most agreeable to analogy, as it comes from the Latin Parotides, which, according to the general rule, by losing a syllable, has its accent removed a syilable higher (see ACADEMY;) but the succeeding word, Parotis, is a perfect Latin word, and therefore preserves its Latin accent on the penultimate. See Princives, No. 503, b, and the word IRREPARABLE. PAROTIS, på-ro'tis. s. 503. A tumour in the glandules behind and about the ears. PAROXYSM, pár rok-sizm. s. 503. A fit, periodical exacerbation of a disease, PARRICIDE, par'ré-side. 8. 143. One who destroys his father; one who destroys or invades any to whom he owes particular reverence; the murder of a father, murder of one to whom reverence is due. PARRICIDAL, pâr-ré-si'dâl. PARRICIDIOUS, pår-ré-sid'yds. to parricide, committing parricide. PARROT, pår råt. 8 166. A particoloured bird of the species of the hooked bill, remarkable for its exact imitation of the human voice. To PARKY, pår rẻ. v. n. To put by thrusts, to fence.

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To PARSE, pårse. v. a. 81. To resolve a sentence into the elements or parts of speech PARSIMONIOUS, pår-sè-mo'nè-ds a. Covetous, frugal, sparing

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The o before n, preceded by k, p, si ort, is under the same predicament as e; that is, when the accent is not on it, the two consonants unite, and the vowel is suppressed; as, beckon, capon, season, mutton, &c. pronounced beck'n, cap'n, seas'n, mutt'n, &c. Parson, therefore, ought to be pronounced with the o suppressed, and not as Mr. Sheridan has marked it.-See Principles, No. 103, 170.

PARSONAGE, pår's'n-ádje.s. 90. The benefice of a parish.

PART, pårt. s. 81. Something less than the whole, a portion, a quantity taken from a larger quantity; that which in division falls to each; share; side, party; particular office or character; character appropriated in a play; business, duty; relation reciprocal. In good part, in ill part; as well done, as ill done in the plural, qualities, powers, faculties; quarters, regions, districts.

PART, pårt. ad. Partly, in some measure. Nat

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To PART, pårt. v. a. To divide, to share, to distribute; to separate, to disunite; to break into pieces; to keep asur.der; to separate com batants; to secern.

To PART, pårt. v. n. To be separated; to take farewell; to have share; to go away, to set out. To part with; to quit, to resign, to lose. PARTABLE, pårt'å-bl. a. 405. Divisible, such as may be parted,

PARTAGE, part'tadje. s. 90. Division, act of
sharing or parting.

To PARTAKE, pår-tåke'. v. n. Preterit, I Par-
took; Participle passive, Partaken. To have
share of any thing; to participate, to have
something of the property, nature, or right; to
be admitted to, not to be excluded.
To PARTAKE, pår-tåke'. v. a. To share, to
bave part in.

PARTAKER, pår-tå kår. s. A partner in posses.
sions, a sharer in any thing, an associate with;
accomplice, associate.
PARTER, pårt år. s. 98. One that parts or
separates.
PARTERRE, pår-tare'. s.
vision of ground.

French. A level di

PARTIAL, pår'shål. a. 81. Inclinea antecedent.
ly to favour one party in a cause, or on one
side of the question more than the other; in-
clined to favour without reason; affecting only
ne part, subsisting only in a part, not universal
PARTIALITY, pår-she-ál'lè-tè. s. 542. Unequal
state of the judgment and favour of one above
the other.

To PARTIALIZE, pår'shål-ize. v. a. To make
partial.
PARTIALLY, pår'shål-lè. ad. With unjust fa
vour or dislike; in part, not totally.
PARTIBILITY, pår-tè-bil'lè-tè. s. Divisibility,
separability.

PARTIBLE, pår'tè-bl. a. 405. Divisible, sepa

rable.

PARTICIPABLE, pår-tis'sè-på-bl. a. Such as
may be shared or partaken.
PARTICIPANT, pår-tis sè-pånt. a. Sharing,
having share or part.
To PARTICIPATE, pår-tis'sè-påte. ▼ B. Το
partake, to have share; to have part of more

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things than one; to have part of something| common with another.

To PARTICIPATE, pår-tis'sè-påte. v. a. To
partake, to receive part of, to share.
PARTICIPATION, pår-tis-sè-pa'shan. s. The
state of sharing something in common; the
act or state of partaking or having part of
something; distribution, division into shares.
PARTICIPIÁL, pår-tè-sîp′pè-âl. a. Having the
nature of a participle.

PARTICIPIALLY, pår-tè-s?p’pè-âl-è. ad. In the
sense or manner of a participle.
PARTICIPLE, pår'tè-sip-pl. s.

A word partaking at once the qualities of a noun and verb. PARTICLE, pår'tẻ-kl. s. 405. Any small portion of a greater substance; a word unvaried by inflexion.

PARTICULAR, pår-tik'ů-lår. a. 179. Relating to single persons, not general; individual, one distinct from others; noting properties or things peculiar; attentive to things single and distinct; single, not general; odd, having something that eminently distinguishes him from others.

PARTICULAR, pår-tik'u-lår. s. 88. A single
instance, a single point; individual, private
person; private interest; private character, sin-
gle self, state of an individual; a minute de-
tail of things singly enumerated; distinct, not
general recital.

PARTICULARITY, pår-tîk-ků-lâr'è-tè. s. Dis-
tinct notice or enumeration, not general asser-
tion; singleness, individuality; petty account,
private incident; something peculiar.
TO PARTICULARIZE, pår-tik'ku-lâ-rize. v. a. To
mention distinctly, to detail, to show minutely.
PARTICULARLY, pår-tîk'kd-lår-lẻ. ad. Dis-
tinctly, singly, not universally; in an extraor-
dinary degree.

PARTISAN, pår'tè-zân. s. 524 A kind of pike
or halberd; an adherent to a faction; the com-
mander of a party.

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All our orthoepists agree in accenting this word on the first syllable. Mr. Nares says, Dr. Johnson has improperly accented this word on the last; but, both in the folio edition of his Dictionary, and the quarto, printed since his death, the accent is on the first. There is not the same uniformity in the accentuation of the companion to this word artisan; for though Mr. Nares, Mr. Perry, Dr. Ash, W. Johnston, Buchanan, Bailey, Fenning, and Entick, accent the first syllable, Dr. Johnson, in both editions of his Dictionary, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Scott, and Mr. Barclay, accent the last and Dr. Kenrick places an accent on both first and last. The same diversity appears in the accentuation of courtesan, a word of exactly the same form; which is accented by Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Scott, W. Johnston, Mr. Nares, Fenning, and Entick, on the last syllable; and by Dr. Ash, Dr. Kenrick, Buchanan, Barclay, Bailey, and Fenning, on the first; and by Mr. Perry both on the first and last. The truth is, these three words are among those which admit of the accent either on the first or last syllable, and this has produced the diversity we find in our Dictionaries. 524. The accent on the first syllable seems the most agreeable to our own analogy, and ought to be preferred. 503.

PARTITION, pår-tish'an. s. The act of divid-
ing, a state of being divided; division, separa-
tion, distinction; part divided from the rest, se-
parate part; that by which different parts are
separated; part where separation is made.
To PARTITION, pår-tisl'an. v. a. To divide
into distinct parts. Little used.

PARTLET, párt'lèt. s. A name given to a hen,
the original signification being a ruff or band.
PARTLY, partlè. ad. In some measure, in
some degree.

PARTNER, part'når. 98. Partaker, sharer,

one who has part in any thing; one who dances with another.

To join, to as.

To PARTNER, pårt'når. v. a.
sociate with a partner. Little used.
PARTNERSHIP, pårt'når-ship. 8.
terest or property; the union of two or more in
the same trade.

Joint in

PARTOOK, pår-töök'. Pret. of Partake.
PARTRIDGE, pår'tridje. s. A bird of game.
PARTURIENT, pår-tu re-ent. a. About to bring
forth.

PARTURITION, pår-tshid-rish'ån. s. The state
of being about to bring forth.
PARTY, pår'tè. s. A number of persons confe
derated by similarity of designs or opinions in
opposition to others; one of two litigants; one
concerned in any affair; side, persons engag-
ed against each other; cause, side; a select as-
sembly; particular person, a person distinct
from, or opposed to another; a detachment of
soldiers.

PARTY-COLOURED, pår ́tè-kål-lår’d. a. Hav-
ing diversity of colours.
PARTY-MAN, pår'tè-mån. 8. A factious per
son; an abetter of a party.
PARTY-WALL, pår te-wall. s. Wall that se.
parates one house from the next.
PARVITUDE, pâr'vè-tåde. s. Littleness, mi-

nuteness.

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PARVITY, pår vè-tè. s. Littleness.
PASCHAL, pás kål. a. 88. Relating to the pass
over; relating to Easter.

To PASH, pash. v. a. To strike, to crush.
PASQUE FLOWER, påsk'add-ar. s. A plant.
PASQUIN, pås'kwin. 414.
PASQUINADE, pås-kwin-åde'. s. A lampoon.
To PASS, pås. v. n. To go, to move from one
place to another, to be progressive; to go, to
make way; to make transition from one thing
to another; to vanish, to be lost; to be spent,
to go away, to be at an end, to be over; to be
changed by regular gradation; to be enacted;
to gain reception, to become current; to occur,
to be transacted; to determine finally, to judge
capitally; to exceed; to thrust, to make a push
in fencing; to omit; to go through the alimen
tary duct; to be in a tolerable state. To pass
away; to be lost, to glide off, to vanish.
To PASS, pås. v. a. To go beyond; to go
through, as, The horse passed the river; to
spend time; to move hastily over; to transfer
to another proprietor; to strain, to percolate;
to vent, to let out; to utter ceremoniously; to
utter solemnly; to transmit; to put an end to
to surpass, to excel; to omit, to neglect; to
transcend, to transgress; to admit, to allow;
to enact a law; to impose fraudulently; to
practise artfully, to make succeed; to send
from one place to another. To pass away
to spend, to waste. To pass by; to excuse, to
forgive, to neglect, to disregard. To pass
over; to omit, to let go unregarded. To come
to pass; to be effected.

PASS, pås. 8. A narrow entrance, an avenue
passage, road; a permission to go or come any
where; an order by which vagrants or impo.
tent persons are sent to their place of abode;
push, thrust in fencing; state, condition.
PASSÁBLE, pâs'så-bl. a 405. Possible to be
passed or travelled through or over; supporta-
ble, tolerable, allowable; capable of admission
or reception.

PASADO, pås-så'dò. s. A push, a thrust-See

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