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Webster 1913 Edition

(păr′ȧ-shoōt or păr′ȧ-shṳt)

Noun.

[F., fr.

parer

to ward off, guard +

chute

a fall. See

, and

(Zool.)

A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.

Noun.

[Gr. against.] In aerostation, an instrument to prevent the rapidity of descent.