parclose, para close, per close, parclos

[O. Fr. per close, from Lat. per =through, completely, and clausus shut, pa. par. of claudo = to shut.] pardon 1. Arch .: A screen or railing to shut off or inclose an object, as to separate a chapel or altar, or to inclose a tomb, "Bitwixe hem nas but a parclos ." Occleve: MS . Soc. Antiq ., 134, fo. 275. 2. Naut.: The limber-hole. *3. A parlor. "Written upon your parclose door." Becon: Works, p. 63. pard (1), subst. [Latin pard us; Greek pardos =a panther, a leopard; Sp. & Ital. par do.] A panther, a leopard. "Though pierced like pard by hunter's steel, He felt not half that now I feel." Byron: Giaour. pard (2), s . [Contraction of partner .] A Western euphemism for a companion or coadventurer. *par-dal, *par-dale, s. [Lat. pardalis .] [PARD.] A leopard, a panther. "The pardale swift, and the tyger cruel." Spenser: F. Q., I. vi. 26. păr-da-lō-tŭs, s . [Greek pard a lotos =spotted, like the pard; pardalis = a pard (q. v.).] Ornith.: A genus of Piprince ( Swains on ) or Pachycephalide. Bill short, strong, with somewhat gibbous sides; wings long, pointed, the three first quills of equal length. Tail short, even; feet strong, lateral toes free and equal. Locality, Australia and Tasmania. Pard a lotus affinis is very common in the latter island, building a do me shaped nest, formed of gra es lined with feathers, with a hole for entrance in the side.