Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Parole (v. t.) To set at liberty on parole; as, to parole prisoners.
(2) - Parole (a.) See 2d Parol.
(3) - Parole (n.) Oral declaration. See lst Parol, 2.
(4) - Parole (n.) A watchword given only to officers of guards; -- distinguished from countersign, which is given to all guards.
(5) - Parole (n.) Word of promise; word of honor; plighted faith; especially (Mil.), promise, upon one's faith and honor, to fulfill stated conditions, as not to bear arms against one's captors, to return to custody, or the like.
(6) - Parole (n.) A word; an oral utterance.

(1) - Paronomasia (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning.