Chaucer.
Charter party. See under Charter.
Par"ty, adv. Partly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Par"ty-coat`ed (?), a. Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors.
Shak.
{ Par"ty-col`ored, Par"ti-col`ored } (?), a. Colored with different
tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs."
Shak.
Par"ty*ism (?), n. Devotion to party.
Par`um*bil"ic*al (?), a. [Pref. para- + umbilical.] (Anat.) Near the
umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in
man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front
wall of the abdomen.
||Pa*ru"si*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; presence, fr. &?; to be present;
||para` beside + &?; to be.] (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which the
||present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the
||animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.
Par`va*nim"i*ty (?), n. [L. parvus little + animus mind.] The state or
quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness; --
opposed to magnanimity. De Quincey.
Par"ve*nu` (?), n. [F., prop. p. p. of parvenir to attain to, to
succeed, to rise to high station, L. pervenire to come to; per through
+ venire to come. See Par, prep., and Come.] An upstart; a man newly
risen into notice.
{ Par"vis, Par"vise } (?), n. [F. parvis, fr. LL. paravisus, fr. L.
paradisus. See Paradise.] a court of entrance to, or an inclosed space
before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as
place of meeting, as for lawyers. Chaucer.
{ Par"vi*tude (?), Par"vi*ty (?), } n. [L. parvitas, fr. parvus little:
cf. OF. parvitÈ.] Littleness. [Obs.] Glanvill. Ray.
Par"vo*lin (?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in
the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and
mackerel.
Par"vo*line (?), n. (Chem.) A liquid base, C&?;H&?;N, of the pyridine
group, found in coal tar; also, any one of the series of isometric
substances of which it is the type.
||Pas (?), n. [F. See Pace.] 1. A pace; a step, as in a dance. Chaucer.