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Parr   Listen
noun
Parr  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.
(b)
A young leveret.






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"Parr" Quotes from Famous Books



... the clergy. Dr. Sumner, head master of Harrow, who died in 1771, was devoted to his pipe. The greatest of clerical "tobacconists" of late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century date was the once famous Dr. Parr. It was from him that Dr. Sumner learned to smoke. When he and Parr got together Sumner was in the habit of refilling his pipe again and again in such a way as to be unobserved, at the same time begging Parr not to depart till ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson

... seventeen, upon sober, elderly people, who were dazzled with his accomplishments and regarded him as a youthful prodigy. It is the sort of confession, rather full-blooded and lyrical, which we might easily set down to that phenomenon of refraction. But Lord Lytton prints a letter from Dr. Samuel Parr (whom, by the way, he calls "a man of sixty-four," but Parr, born in 1747, was seventy-four in 1821), which confirms the autobiographer's account in every particular. The aged Whig churchman, who boasted a wider knowledge of Greek ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse



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