Parrying

2 definitions found

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

  Parry \Par"ry\ (p[a^]r"r[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parried}
     (p[a^]r"r[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Parrying}.] [F. par['e], p.
     p. of parer. See {Pare}, v. t.]
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     1. To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a
        thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.


        --Locke.
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              Vice parries wide
              The undreaded volley with a sword of straw.
                                                    --Cowper.
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     2. To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.
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              The French government has parried the payment of our
              claims.                               --E. Everett.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "parrying":
     bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery,
     dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, hairsplitting, hedging,
     logic-chopping, nit-picking, paltering, pettifoggery,
     prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffle,
     shuffling, sidestepping, subterfuge, suppressio veri,
     tergiversation, trichoschistism, weasel words