pard2 (pard)

[Short for pardner, a corrupt form of partner.] A partner; a mate; an accomplice; a boon companion. [Slang, U. S.] He was the bulliest man in the mountains, pard! S. L. Clemens, Roughing It, ii. pardah, n. Same as purdah . pardalet, n. [= Sp. pardal , pardalis , πάρδαλις , a pard: see pard1 .] Same as pard1 . The pardale swift and the tygre cruell. Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 26. Nexte vnto him came flockes of beasts, great numbers of horses with Lyons, and Pardailes carted in Cages, which hee brought as presents to geue vnto Alexander. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Curtius, v. pardalote (pär'da-lōt), n. A bird of the genus Pard a lotus.