{ ||Par`a-an`æs*the"si*a, -an`es*the"si*a } (?), n. [NL.; para- + anæsthesia.] (Med.) Anæsthesia of both sides of the lower half of the body.
Pará cress. An annual asteraceous herb (Spilances oleracea) grown in tropical countries as a pungent salad, and also used medicinally.
||Par`a*gen"e*sis (?), n. [NL.; para- + genesis.] (Geol.) (a) The formation of minerals in contact, so as to affect one another's development. (b) The order in which minerals occurring together in rocks and veins have developed.
Pará grass. (a) A tall rather coarse grass (Panicum molle) grown in the tropics for pasturage, and introduced into the southern United States. (b) Piassaba fiber.
Par"a*kite` (?), n. [Para- + kite.] A train or series of kites on one string and flying tandem, used for attaining great heights and for sending up instruments for meteorological observations or a man for military reconnoissance; also, a kite of such a train.
||Par`al*ge"si*a (?), n. [NL.; para- + Gr. 'a`lghsis sense of pain.] (Med.) Disordered sensibility to pain, including absence of sensibility to pain, excessive sensibility to pain, and abnormal painful results of stimuli. -- Par`al*ge"sic (#), a.
Par"al*lel, n. (Elec.) That arrangement of an electrical system in which all positive poles, electrodes, terminals, etc., are joined to one conductor, and all negative poles, etc., to another conductor; -- called also multiple. Opposed to series.
Parts of a system so arranged are said to be in parallel or in multiple.
Parallel standards. (Numismatics) Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.
Parallel sulcus. (Anat.) A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius.
Parallel transformer. (Elec.) A transformer connected in parallel.
Parallel vise. A vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel.
||Par`a*noi"a (?), n. (Med.) A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusious of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks." Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.
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Par`a*noi"ac (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to paranoia; affected with, or characteristic of, paranoia.
Par`a*noi"ac, n. A person affected with paranoia.
Pará nut. The Brazil nut.
Pará rubber. The caoutchouc obtained from the South American euphorbiaceous tree Hevea brasiliensis, hence called the Pará rubber tree, from the Brazilian river and seaport named Pará; also, the similar product of other species of Hevea. It is usually exported in flat round cakes, and is a chief variety of commercial India rubber.
||Par"a*shah (?), n.; pl. - shoth (#) or -shioth (#). [Heb. prshh.] A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.
||Par"a*shoth, n.; pl. of Parashah.
Par"cel post. That branch of the post office having to do with the collection, transmission, and delivery of parcels. The British Inland Parcel Post was established in 1883. The present rates, dating from 1897, are 3d. for parcels not exceeding one pound and 1d. for each additional pound up to the limit of 10 pounds. A general parcel post was established in the United States by Act of August 24, 1912, which took effect Jan. 1, 1913. Parcels must not exceed 11 pounds in weight nor 72 inches in length and girth combined. Provision is made from insuring parcels up to $50.00, and also for sending parcels C.O.D. The rates of postage vary with the distance. See Zone, below.
Par*chee"si, n. See Pachisi.
Parch"ment*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. -ized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. -izing (?).] To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.
Par*fleche" (?), n. [Prob. through Canadian F. fr. Amer. Indian.] A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.
Par*fo"cal (?), a. [Pari- + focal.] (Opt.) With the lower focal points all in the same plane; -- said of sets of eyepieces so mounted that they may be interchanged without varying the focus of the instrument (as a microscope or telescope) with which they are used.
Park, n. Any place where vehicles are assembled according to a definite arrangement; also, the vehicles.
Park, v. t. 1. To bring together in a park, or compact body; as, to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.