paring chisel

A joiner's chisel having the basil on one side, used in fitting and finishing; not differing e entially from a firmer-chisel (q. v.). paring-knife, s. 1. A knife used by wood-turners and others for Paris i an Paris-green, s. A poisonous green powder composed of a mixture of double salts of the acetate and the arsenite of copper; used to destroy the potato-bug, or Colorado-beetle. Paris-gypsum, s . Geol.: Gypsum belonging to the Lacustrine gyp series of Montmartre. It is a granular crys talline rock, and, together with the a ociated marls, contains land and fluviatile shells and the skeletons of birds and mammals. Of the last about fifty species have been found, nearly four-fifths of them peri odactyle Ungulata. It was from this formation that Cuvier obtained the bones the study of which did so much to found the science of Comparative Anatomy. Paris-lake, 8. [CARMINE-LAKE.] Paris-red, 8. Chemistry: Finely divided ferric oxide, used for polishing optical gla es, gold and silver ornaments, . Păr-Is (3), s . [See compound.] *Paris-garden, s. A bear-garden; a noisy, disorderly place; in reference to the bear-garden kept by Robert de Paris, on the banks of the Thames, in the reign of Richard II.