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 Chambre de parement. The chamber of Presence.  Lict de parement. A womans childbed; also, a bed of State, or, a great Sparuer bed, that serues onely for shew, or to set out a roome.  Muraille à deux paremens de pierre de taille. Hauing two courses of, or couered on both sides with, free stone.

Parence: f. as Parure (in the last sence.)

Parennité. Looke Perennité. Parensus. Vn par. A surplusage, ouerplus, remainder;  Le parensus. The before-named.

Parent: m. A kinsman, cousin, allie.  Parent de Moyse. ''A Cuckold. Looke'' Moyse. Parens sans amis, Amis sans pouvoir, Pouvoir sans vouloir, Vouloir sans effect, Effect sans profit, Profit sans vertu, ne vaut vn festu: Pro. Assez parens assez tourmens: Prov. Many kinsmen much affliction.  Qui a mal aux dents a mauvais parents: Prov. He that is famished hath but ill friends.

Parentage: m. Parentage, kindred, affinitie, alliance.  Parentage d'hanetons. ''Kindred intertained for some lecherous respect. Seeke'' Haneton. Parenté: f. A parentage; linage, bloud, stocke, familie, kindred; also, affinitie, consanguinitie, neereneße of bloud.  Bonne amitié seconde parenté: Pro. A sound friend is a second kinsman.

Parentelle: f. Kindred, affinitie, consanguinitie, alliance.

Parenthese: f. A Parenthesis.

Parer. To decke, tricke, trimme, garnish, adorne, dresse comely, dight gracefully; furnish handsomely, order decently; (also, to prepare, or prouide sufficiently;) also, to hang richly, as a roome with Arras; also, to ward, or defend a blow; whence, Parer l'escu aux coups de; to oppose his shield against the blowes of; also, to pare the hoofe of a horse.  Se parer de. To couer, shrowd, or shelter himselfe vnder.  Parer le drap. To dreße, or smooth cloth with cards made of Tazles.  Parer l'enlisseure à faire toile. To starch the yarne whereof Linnen cloth is to be made.  Parer du fruict sur paille. To ripen, or mellow fruit in straw.  Il para sa masse. He charged, or lift vp, his club.  Parez vn herisson il semblera baron: Prov. Tricke vp an Vrchin he will seeme a Baron; good apparrell (as Loue) couers many a fault.

Parergue: m. An addition, appendix, accesse; a thing put vnto, though no part of, the matter; any thing that is besides the principall question, point, or purpose in hand.

Paresol. as Ombrelle. Paresse: f. Sloath, lazineße, idlenesse, lithernesse, loytering, sluggishnesse, languishing negligence.

Paresser. To laze it, slug it, loyter, liue idly.

Paresseusement. Sloathfully, lazily, most idly.

Paresseux: m. euse: f. Sloathfull, sluggish, lazie, lither, loytering, most negligent; (and hence) also, dull, slow; cold, vnlustie, languishing.  Le paresseux aime bien besongne faicte: Pro. The sluggard loues alife things done to his hand.  Iamais dormeur ne fit bon guet, ny paresseux ne fit beau faict: Prov. The sleepie head, and sloathfull hand, watch, and worke, ill alike.

Paret: m. A wall. ¶Langued. Paretoine: m. A certaine fattie Painters white.

Pareure. as Parure. Parfaict: m. cte: f. Perfected, performed, accomplished, consummated, finished, fully made or done vp; also, perfect, complete, excellent, absolute, singular.

Parfaictement. Perfectly, completely, excellently, absolutely.

Parfaire. To perfect, performe, consummate, accomplish, finish, end fully, goe through-stitch with, make or doe vp throughly.  Mal fait qui ne parfait; &, Rien ne fait qui ne parfait: Pro. He does but ill, or as ill as nothing, who leaues a worke before he ends it.  Rien n'est bien faict que ce que Dieu parfait: Pro. Nothing's well done which God hath not a hand in.

Parfaiseur: m. A perfecter, accomplisher, finisher, through-doer; a sure card; a performer of what he vndertakes.

Parfiler. To spinne all, or spinne throughly.

Parfin. à la parfin. At length, at last, in the end, when all is done, when all comes to all.

Parfois. Sometimes, now and then.

Parfondeur: f. Profunditie.

Se Parforcer. To labour, striue, indeauour throughly; to attempt seriously, to doe his best or vtmost.

Parfournir. To performe, consummate, accomplish, fulfill; also, to supply, furnish, fill, or make vp.

Parfum: m. Perfume, sweet odour.

Parfumatoire: com. Perfumatorie, perfuming; vsed in, or for, perfumes; whence, Canon parfum. See Canon. Parfumer. To perfume; to sweeten, to giue a delicate sent or smell vnto.

Pargoys. Cousteau pargoys. A paltrie little childs knife.

Parguarir. To cure soundly, heale throughly.

Pariage: m. Equalitie, correspondencie, matching; a due and iust exchange, equall tearmes, like for like, one for another.  Droict de pariage. Looke Droict. Parier. To bett, lay, stake downe, at game; also, to breed, ingender, beget, or bring forth, young.

Parietaire: f. Pellitorie of the wall.

Parietaux: m. (The name of) two bones, which be in the vpper, and fore-part of the skull.

Parisien: m. enne: f. Parisien, of Paris; whence;  Matines Parisiennes. The Maßacre of Paris.

Parisis. ''Of Paris; after the Parisien fashion, or computation. Seeke'' Livre, & Sol. Parité: f. Paritie, equalitie, euennesse, likenesse.

Paritoire: f. Pellitorie of the wall.

Parjure: com. (Subst.) A periurer, or periured person, a fore-Sworne wretch.

Parjure: com. (Adject.) Periured, oath-falsifying, absolutely forsworne.

Parjurement: m. Periurie, forswearing, oath-falsifying, faith-breaking.

Se Parjurer. To forsweare himselfe; to violate faith giuen; to breake, or falsifie his oath.

Parlant: m. ante: f. Speaking, talking, vttering his mind.

Parlé: m. ée: f. Spoken, vttered, talked, discoursed of

Parlement: m. A speaking, talking, discoursing; reasoning, arguing; a parleying, communing, conferring, conuersing with; also, a supreame, or soueraigne Court, or Session, of Justice, established in eight capitall Cities of France; viz. Paris, Grenoble, Tholose, Dijon, Rouën, Aix, Renes, & Bordeaux''. (In old time, and when''