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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parch \Parch\ (p[aum]rch), verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
parched
adjective
1: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats" [syn: {adust}, {baked}, {scorched}, {sunbaked}]
2: toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "parched": Sanforized, adust, ashen, ashy, athirst, attenuated, baked, blistered, burned, burnt, burnt-up, consumed, consumed by fire, corky, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dried-up, droughty, dry, emacerated, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, gutted, incinerated, mummified, preshrunk, pyrographic, pyrolyzed, scorched, sear, seared, sere, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, singed, sun-dried, sunbaked, sunburned, thin, thirsting, thirsty, wasted, wasted away, weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened
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