Parkieæ (parkiee)

pl. [NL. (Wight and Arnott, 1834), sists of Parkia (the type) and Pentaclethra, both tropical genera of unarmed trees with twice-pinnate leaves and conspicuous flowers. parkin, parken (pär'kin, -ken), n. A kind of oatmeal gingerbread. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] parking (pär'king), n. [Verbal n. of park, v.] Parks collectively, or a park-like place; also, a strip of turf, with or without trees, in the middle of a street. In some cases, similar parking has been left in the middle of the streets. Encyc. Brit ., XXIV. 382. Spaces were left for a market-place, court-house green, and parking for the palace. Johns Hopkins Hist . Studies , 3d ser., p. 109. IMG:content-2362.png:[ocr errors] F. parler = Sp. parlar = Pg. palrar lare , parabolare (also contr. parlare , after Rom.), speak, talk, discourse, parabola , a comparison, parable, speech, talk: see para- ble1.] I. in trans. 1. To speak. Patriarkes and prophetes han parled her-of longe, That such a lorde and a lyzte shulde lede hem alle hennes. Piers Plowman (B), xviii. 268. 2. To talk: confer with a view to come to an understanding; discu orally. Their purpose is to parle , to court, and dance. Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 122. I wrong myself In parling with you. Mas singer , Maid of Honour, ii. 5. Knute, finding himself too weak, began to parle . Milton , Hist. Eng., vi. II. trans. To utter; expre ; speak. parl (pärl), п. [ parl , v.] 1. Speech; lan- guage. A tocher 's nae word in a true lover's parle , But gie me my love, and a fig for the warl'! So frown'd he once when in an angry parle He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. By parl or composition, truce or league, To win him or win from him what I can. IMG:content-2363.png:[blocks in formation] No words to spell, no sums to do, No Nepos and no parlyvo० . [ML. parlatorium , a reception-room, parlor: see parlor .] The parlor or strangers' room of a con- vent or monastery. pirlicue ; parler à queue , speak at the end: parler (see parl ); à, L. ad, to, at; queue , tail: see cue1 , queue .] To recapitulate or sum up. At the close it was the custom of our minister to par- leycue the addre es of the clergymen who had a isted him that is, he repeated the substance of them and en- forced their le ons. Reminiscences of a Quinquagenarian . parlecue, parleycue (pär'le-kū), n. [Sc., par- lecue , parleycue , v.] A summing up or capitu- lati on of discourses previously delivered. parlementt, n. A Middle English form of par- liament . parlesyt, n. A Middle English form of palsy , parley1 (pär'li), n. [Formerly also parly ; prob. parlee , a turn of speech, but in sense equiv. to parl , of which it is practically an ex- tension: see parl , n.] Discourse or conversa- tion; discu ion; a conference; specifically, a brief conference with an enemy as under a flag of truce; an informal treating between two hos- tile parties before or in the course of a contest. Cf. barley2 . Shold sende awa ye an herauld at armes, To aske a parley faire and free. Prosecutions of Warres betweene a King and his Parlia- ment are the dire full dilacerations of the world. N. Ward , Simple Cobler, p. 67. Thy parliaments ador'd on bended knees The sov'reignty they were conven'd to please. Cowper , Expostulation, 1. 538. Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. Specifically-3. [ cap .] The supreme legisla- tive body of the United Kingdom of Great Brit- ain and Ireland, consisting of the three estates of the realm, namely the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons; the general coun- King Arthur's Death (Child's Ballads, I. 42). cil of the nation, constituting the legislature, What's the busine , That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley The sleepers of the house? Shak . , Macbeth, ii. 3. 87. Tell me but where, Sweet queen of parley [Echo], daughter of the sphere! Milton , Comus, 1. 241. Left single, in bold parley , ye, of yore, Did from the Norman win a gallant wreath. To beat or sound a parley ( mil it .). See beat1 . parleyl (pär'li), v . [ parley1 , n. Cf. parl , v.] I. in trans. 1. To speak; discourse; confer on some point of mutual concern; especially, to confer with an enemy, as on an exchange of prisoners, or on the ce ation of hostilities. Now stay, daughter, your bour within, While I gae parley wi' my son. Cos patrick (Child's Ballads, I. 156). They are at hand As bash full Suters, seeing Strangers by, Parley in silence with their hand or eye. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. The housemaids parley at the gate, The scullions on the stair. 2. To argue. [Prov. Eng.] II. trans. To utter; speak. Same as parliament , 7. parleycue, v . and n. See parlecue . A hate of go ip parlance , and of sway, Crown'd Isabel, thro' all her placid life. F. parlez - vous in such questions as parlez - vous français ? do you speak French?': parlez , 2d pers. pl. of parler , speak; vous , ros , you, pl. of tu , thou.] To speak French. [Slang.] I find that you have made choice of me to be one of your Burge es for this now approaching Parliament. Howell, Letters, I. v. 4. The answer of in lordly styleer By Kill in ens ell eras, his own right of arms, or, in common parlance , by club-law. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 181. two Senate, upper house, whose members, Si in number, are nominated for life by the governor-general, and a House of Commons, whose members are elected for parliament five years by the people of the different provinces, there being one representative for every 20,000 of the population. In the other colonies the two houses are usually styled the Legislative Council and the Legislative A embly. The members of the latter body are elected; the members of the former body may be elected, as in Tasmania, or nominated by the crown, as in New South Wales. 4295 a name given to the Long Parliament after its reduction of numbers in consequence of Pride's Purge, in 1648. The old Parliament, the Rump Parliament (so call'd as retaining some few rotten members of ye other) being dis- solv'd. Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 11, 1660. Short Parliament, the first Parliament of 1640, which lasted only few weeks. parliament (pär'li-ment), v. i. To busy one's 5. In France, before the revolution of 1789, one of several courts, including various proself with parliamentary matters; attend to vincial parliaments, and especially the Parliament of Paris (see below).-6. In law, an a embly of the members of the two Temples (Inner and Middle) to consult upon the affairs of the society. Imp. Dict.-7. [Short for par liament- cake.] Same as parliament - cake. Sadly gorging the boy with apples and parliament . parlous The third great cla of records belonging to the Court of Chancery consists of the parliament - rolls ; these, however, are far from being a perfect collection, as many of the documents containing the proceedings of various parliaments are hopele ly lost. Encyc. Brit ., XX. 311. parliancet, n. [A var. of parlance , as if parley + -ance.] An obsolete variant of parlance . Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 229. parlish (pärlish), a. Some gentle master, Wha aiblins thrang a parliament in ', For Britain's guid his saul in dentin'. Burns , Twa Dogs. parliamental (pär-li-men'tal), a . [= Sp. par lamental ; as parliament + -al .] Of or pertaining to a parliament; parliamentary. Foze , Martyrs, p. 471. A dialectal form of par