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- English Word Parkeria Definition A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.
- English Word Parkesine Definition A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.
- English Word Parking Definition of Park
- English Word Parkleaves Definition A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
- English Word Parlance Definition Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.
- English Word Parlando Definition Alt. of Parlante
- English Word Parlante Definition Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
- English Word Parle Definition To talk; to converse; to parley.
- English Word Parle Definition Conversation; talk; parley.
- English Word Parley Definition Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce.
- English Word Parley Definition To speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners, an armistice, or terms of peace.
- English Word Parleyed Definition of Parley
- English Word Parleying Definition of Parley
- English Word Parleys Definition of Parley
- English Word Parliament Definition A parleying; a discussion; a conference.
- English Word Parliament Definition A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.
- English Word Parliament Definition The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.
- English Word Parliament Definition In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts.
- English Word Parliamental Definition Parliamentary.
- English Word Parliamentarian Definition Of or pertaining to Parliament.