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Webster 1913 Edition

Parch

Parch

(pärch)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Parched
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Parching
.]
[OE.
perchen
to pierce, hence used of a piercing heat or cold, OF.
perchier
, another form of
percier
, F.
percer
. See
Pierce
.]
1.
To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain;
as, to
parch
the skin; to
parch
corn.
Ye shall eat neither bread, nor
parched
corn.
Lev. xxiii. 14.
2.
To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat;
as, the mouth is
parched
from fever
.
The ground below is
parched
.
Dryden.

Parch

,
Verb.
I.
To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.
“Parch in Afric sun.”
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Parch

P`ARCH

,
Verb.
T.
[I know not from what source we have received this word. It corresponds in elements with the Italian bruciare, to burn or roast. Qu. L. peraresco.]
1.
To burn the surface of a thing; to scorch; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.
2.
To dry to extremity; as, the heat of the sun's rays parches the ground; the mouth is parched with thirst.

P`ARCH

,
Verb.
I.
To be scorched or superficially burnt; as, corn will dry and parch into barley.
1.
To become very dry.

Definition 2024

parch

parch

English

Verb

parch ‎(third-person singular simple present parches, present participle parching, simple past and past participle parched)

  1. (transitive) To burn the surface of, to scorch.
    The sun today could parch cement.
  2. (transitive) To roast, as dry grain.
    • Bible, Leviticus xxiii. 14
      Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
  3. (transitive) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
    The patient's mouth is parched from fever.
  4. (transitive, colloquial) To make thirsty.
    We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
  5. (transitive, archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas).
  6. (intransitive) To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.
    The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.

Translations

Noun

parch ‎(plural parches)

  1. The condition of being parched.
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 64:
      Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /parx/

Noun

parch m inan

  1. scab; a fungal disease of plants and the lesions it causes

Declension

Noun

parch m anim

  1. (ethnic slur, dated) kike

Declension

Welsh

Noun

parch masculine

  1. respect
  2. Vicar or minister. (abbreviation of Parchedig (Reverend); Rev. is its English equivalent)
Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
He intricately rhymes ... all night long in his druid's seedy nightie in a beer-tent black with parchs.

Etymology

From Middle English parchen, paarchen ‎(“to parch; dry; roast”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English perchen, itself a variant of perishen ‎(“to perish; destroy”).

Pronunciation

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