parfleche (parflesh)

[Appar. a Canadian F. form of an Amer. Ind. word.] The hide of an animal (preferably of a bull-buffalo) from which the hair has been removed by soaking in water mixed with wood-ashes, and which is then stretched on a frame so as to take the desired shape, and allowed to dry. Among almost all the Plains tribes, the common name for a skin so prepared is parfleche , and almost everything made of it is also parfleche. Dodge, Our Wild Indians, p. 254. par for met, par for net, par four net, v. t. Middle English forms of perform. pargana, parganna, n. See pergunnah. pargasite (pär'ga-sīt), n. [ Pargas, a place on the coast of Finland, + -ite2.] A dark-green crystallized variety of amphibole or hornblende. See hornblende. parge-board (pärjʻbōrd), n. Same as barge board. parget (pär'jet), v.; pret. and pp. pargeted or pargetted, ppr. pargeting or pargetting. [ A plaster... with which they not only parget the outside of their houses, but also spread the floors and arches of their room. Sir T. Herbert , Travels in Africa, p. 129. A room otherwise so handsome, with its family portraits, and the pargetted ceiling with pendants, and the carved chimney, in one corner of which my old lord sat reading in his Livy. R. L. Stevens on, Master of Ballantrae, i. 21. To paint; cover or daub with paint. From pargetting , painting, slicking, glazing, and renewing old rivelled faces, good Mercury defend us! B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 4. Hence-3t. To glo over; disguise. Call it what you will, blanch it with apologies, candy it with nature's delights, parget it with concealments, uncleanne is uncleanne still, and like the devil. Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 40. Forbid him rather, Sacred Parliament, to violate the sense of Scripture, and turne that which is spoken of the afflictions of the Church under her pagan enemies to a par getted concealment of those prelatical crying sins. Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. II. in trans. 1. To cover something with parget or plaster.-21. To lay on paint. She's above fifty too, and pargets ! B. Jonson, Epicæne, v. 1.