Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Pare (v. t.) Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
(2) - Pare (v. t.) To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
(3) - Pare (v. t.) To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

(1) - Paregoric (n.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.
(2) - Paregoric (a.) Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.

(1) - Parenchyma (n.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.