Columbian Cyclopedia (Volume 22) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... PARIETAL--PARING AND BURNING. PARIETAL, a. pti-rl't-tal F. pariital--trom L. parietalis--fromparici or parictem, a wall: It. parietcUe: pertaining to walls; in anat., constituting tho sides or walls--applied to a large flat bone on each side of tho head (see Skull): in bot., growing from tho side or wall of another organ--applied to placentas on the wall of tho ovary. PABIKTAItY, n. pl-ri'6-tl-rl, a plant, tho common pollitory of old walls. Pakietes, n. plu. pd-rl't-tiz, the inclosing walls of any cavity. PARIETIN, n. par-i'l-tln: a yellow coloring matter, found in tho plant Pametltt pariUina: see also CHBYSOPHAKIO ACID. PARIETO-, prefix pa-rl-U-o-L. paries, genit. parictis; o connective: a wall. PARIETOSPLANCIINIC, a. par-i'et-o-splan(ik'nXk L. paries, a wall, parietis, of a wall; Or. splangchna, bowels or entrails: denoting one of the nervous ganglia of the Mollusca, which supplies the walls of the body, and the viscera. PARIMA SIERRA, pA-re'md se-ir'ra: great mountain system in the n.e. portion of S. America; known also as the Highlands of Guiana. It lies between the plains of the Rio Negro and Amazon, and those of the lower Orinoco river. A large part of the range is a plateau about 2,000 ft. above sea-level, much of it heavily vooded, but containing many valleys with fine natural pastures, and traversed by barren ridges with numerous elevated peaks, of which iiiravaca and Duida rise about S,000 ft. The w. portion is the most rugged. A strip of lowland lies between the mountains and the ocean. The Essequibo, Orinoco, and the Rio Branco rivers rise in this range. PAR IMPAR, phrase par hn'p&r L.: odd or even. PARING And BURNING: agricultural operation of cutting off the surface of tho soil in thin slices, which are then dried and burned; the most effect...