Paring

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pare \Pare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Paring}.] [F. parer to pare, as a horse's hoofs, to dress or
     curry, as, leather, to clear, as anchors or cables, to parry,
     ward off, fr. L. parare to prepare. Cf. {Empire}, {Parade},
     {Pardon}, {Parry}, {Prepare}.]
     1. To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or


        extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's
        hoof.
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     2. To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin,
        rind, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off
        or away; as, to pare off the rind of fruit; to pare away
        redundancies.
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     3. Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
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              The king began to pare a little the privilege of
              clergy.                               --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Paring \Par"ing\, n. [From {Pare}, v. t.]
     1. The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of
        anything.
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     2. That which is pared off. --Pope.
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              Pare off the surface of the earth, and with the
              parings raise your hills.             --Mortimer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  paring
       n 1: a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been
            shaved from something [syn: {sliver}, {shaving}]
       2: (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is
          pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel; "she could
          peel an apple with a single long paring"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "paring":
     afterglow, afterimage, balance, bit, bones, butt, butt end,
     candle ends, chaff, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, crumb,
     culm, cut, cutting, dandruff, deadwood, debris, detritus,
     dishwater, dollop, draff, dregs, dust, end, fag end, filings,
     flake, floccule, flocculus, flock, fossil, fragment, garbage, gash,
     gob, gobbet, hogwash, holdover, hunk, husks, leavings, lees,
     leftovers, lump, modicum, moiety, morsel, odds and ends, offal,
     offscourings, orts, parings, particle, piece, potsherds, rags,
     rasher, raspings, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant,
     residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, sawdust,
     scale, scoop, scourings, scrap, scrap iron, scraps, scum, scurf,
     shadow, shard, shards, shaving, shavings, shiver, shred, slack,
     slag, slice, sliver, slop, slops, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip,
     snippet, splinter, stitch, straw, stubble, stump, survival,
     sweepings, swill, tares, tatter, trace, vestige, wastage, waste,
     waste matter, wastepaper, weeds