Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wall of a body part, organ, or cavity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun i. In anatomy and zoology:
- noun A wall or inclosure; an envelop or investment; a body-wall; any part which inclosesor bounds a cavity: generally in the plural: as,the thoracic or abdominal parietes (that is,the walls of the chest or belly.
- noun In Cirripedia, the free middle part of the shell, as distinguished from the lateral wings.
- noun One of the perpendicular partitions separating the cells of a honeycomb or a wasps’ nest.
- noun In botany, the side or wall of an ovary or capsule.
- noun The central thickened portion of a valve of the acorn-barnacle (Balanus). The anterior overlapping edge of the valve is the ‘radius,’ the posterior underthrust edge the ‘ala.’
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
wall of anycavity in the body. - noun zoology The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Atque his conatibus minus fuccedentibus, gens noftra nauibus abundans otij impatiens, in alias paries fuas nauigationes inftituerunt.
Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885
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If you thought the tea paries were something, wait and see.
Gay soldier: Obama's 'don't ask' pledge a reprinted IOU 2010
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I can recall some dreadful cases where children are the guilty paries.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Having third paries put on the truth on McCain and Republcans can only help the Democrats in the fall -- especially since the Obama campaign disdains to do this.
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If Senator Bob Casey had any balls, he would switch paries to the Republicans.
Suddenly, Arlen Specter is a Democrat. Ann Althouse 2009
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Guess I'll look elsewhere. jason B saw this a week ago: it is absolutely heartbreakingly brilliant. all paries involved deserve awards noms.
Watch the First Eight Minutes of The Hurt Locker | /Film 2009
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I am registered Independent, I agree and disagree with both paries on a number of party platform stances.
McCain Adviser: What Does "Deal With" Hamas Really Mean, Anyway? 2009
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I also think the paries are blurring badly now and, that as sound minded people.
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Give me a break, what they are not willing to talk about is their own paries morals, because that would be hypacriticle.spell check please lol
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Right now, it is fairly easy — courts can get away with conveniently assuming that both paries to marriage are the real parents of a kid.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Maryland high court rejects gay marriage claim: 2007
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