paring (paring)

[ He could not endure there should be such Parings off from the Body of his Kingdom. Baker, Chronicles, p. 53. 2. That which is pared off; a thin piece cut, clipped, or shaved off; hence, a scrap: as, cheese- parings; the parings of gra -lands. Thou cam'st but half a thing into the world, And wast made up of patches, parings , shreds. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iv. 3. If you please to spend some of the Parings of your Time, and fetch a Walk in this Grove, you may happily find therein some Recreation. Howell, Letters, iv. 37. 3. The rind or outermost crust. Virginity. consumes itself to the very paring . IMG:content-2356.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] parishen of the county for purposes of local government. (b) One of the 58 territorial divisions of Louisiana, corresponding to the county in other States. (c) A local church or congregation and the geographical limits, generally imperfectly defined, within which its local work is mainly confined. In the Protestant Episcopal Church the original form of the parish is more or le clearly adhered to, each diocese being as a rule divided into geographical parishes, and no new parish being formed or church established in cities without the consent of the three nearest parishes or congregations. (d) An ecclesiastical society, not bounded by territorial limits, nor confined in its personnel to communicants, but composed of all those who choose to unite in maintaining Christian work and worship in a particular local church: used in this sense chiefly in New England. It was remarkable that, of all the busybodies and impertinent people in the parish , not one ventured to put the plain question to Mr. Hooper. Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil. 4. The inhabitants or members of a parish; specifically, in the United Kingdom, those inhabitants of a parish who are entitled to vote in a parish election. Whan thi pari e is togidir mette Thou shall pronounce this idious thing, With cro e & can dell and bell knylling. Myre, Instructions for Parish Priests (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 678. There's the parish of Edmonton offers forty pounds there's the parish of St. Leonard, Shore ditch, offers forty pounds - there's the parish of Tyburn offers forty pounds: I shall have all that if I convict them. Goldsmith, Answer to a Versified Invitation. Paris baby. Same as Paris doll . Paris-ballt, n. A tennis-ball. Palsgrave . ( Hal- to the poor (who pay poor-rates). liwell.) Paris basin, blue. See basin, 9, blue. Paris daisy. Same as marguerite, 2. Paris doll. A figure dre ed in the fashionable costume of the period, with the materials, silk, lace, etc., as actually worn, sent from Paris as a model for dre makers elsewhere to coру. Paris-garden (par'is-gärdn), n. A bear-garden; a noisy, disorderly place: in allusion to the bear-garden so called on the Thames bank, London, kept by Robert de Paris in the reign of Richard II. (1377-99). Do you take the court for Paris - garden ? yerude slaves. Shak., Hen. VIII., v. 4. 2. So was he dry-nurs'd by a bear,... Bred up, where discipline most rare is, In military garden Paris. Yet, to his guest though noway sparing, He ate himself the rind and paring . Pope, Imit. of Horace, ii. 6. 170. Paring and burning, the operation of paring off the surface of worn-out gra -land, or lands covered with coarse herbage, and burning for the sake of the ashes, which serve as a powerful manure, and for the destruction of weeds, seeds, insects, etc. [Eng.]