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Pare   /pɛr/   Listen
Pare

verb
(past & past part. pared; pres. part. paring)
1.
Decrease gradually or bit by bit.  Synonym: pare down.
2.
Cut small bits or pare shavings from.  Synonym: whittle.
3.
Strip the skin off.  Synonyms: peel, skin.
4.
Remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size.  Synonym: trim.  "Trim the photograph" , "Trim lumber"



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"Pare" Quotes from Famous Books



... treatment to compel him to take their side. On his refusal he barely escaped a like fate by his flight into the woods, carrying with him two other children of the same daughter. The young mother so ruthlessly slain was Nastasie Bellefontaine, wife of Eustache Pare. The other victims of this tragedy of the wilderness were the wife and child of Michel Bellefontaine—a son of Joseph Bellefontaine. This poor fellow had the anguish of beholding his wife and boy murdered before his eyes on his refusal to side with ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond

... it!" lady Feng answered smiling. "You take the newly cut egg-plants and pare the skin off. All you want then is some fresh meat. You hash it into fine mince, and fry it in chicken fat. Then you take some dry chicken meat, and mix it with mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, sweet mushrooms, dry beancurd paste, flavoured with five ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... punished double what they are in other places: where they crack lice with their teeth like monkeys, and abhor to see them killed with one's nails: where in all their lives they neither cut their hair nor pare their nails; and, in another place, pare those of the right hand only, letting the left grow for ornament and bravery: where they suffer the hair on the right side to grow as long as it will, and shave the other; and in the neighbouring provinces, some let ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... brought into approximation and held in place by drilling a small hole from one side into and through the other, commencing half an inch back of the fissure on each side; then drive a light horseshoe nail through the hole and clinch it. Pare the injured claw as short as it ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... F. T. Palmer, in "Culture des Cactees", recommending the following treatment for M. communis: Take a Cereus peruvianus of about the same diameter as that of the base of the Melocactus, cut off the head of the former, but not so low as to come upon the hard, ligneous axis, and then pare off the hard epidermis and ribs for about 1 in. Then take off a slice from the base of the Melocactus, also paring off about 1 in. of the epidermis all round; place the two together, and bind on firmly with strong worsted. In warm weather, a union should take place in about two months, but it will ...
— Cactus Culture For Amateurs • W. Watson


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