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Definition of Parison
1. Noun. (context: glassblowing) A spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parison
1. a lump of pre-moulded glass [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parison
Literary usage of Parison
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"... could be found in the country, nor imj parison with xiv. 27, 43, an interesting
confirmation of the statement (xiii. l'J-22) of the degree to weapons ..."
2. A Collection of Early Prose Romances by William John Thoms (1828)
"parison in that respect with the following contest, recorded in Roscoe's Gena.
Nov. vol. ip 266. When Charles 4th celebrated his nuptials with the Bavarian ..."
3. The Influence of the Second Sophistic on the Style of the Sermons of St by James Marshall Campbell (1922)
"The very few examples of sentence parison is another instance of his moderation.
The following table summarizes the disposition of parallelism in the ..."
4. Italy : Handbook for Travellers: Second Part, Central Italy and Rome by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1872)
"... or sitting on the ground in winter, when the soil is extremely cold in com
parison with the hot sunshine, is also to be avoided. ..."
5. Theory and Calculation of Electric Currents by Jens Lassen La Cour, Ole Sivert Bragstad (1913)
"Comparison of the Amount of Copper in Alternating-current Systems with parison
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