 2 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parry \Par"ry\ (p[a^]r"r[y^]), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Parried}
(p[a^]r"r[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Parrying}.] [F. par['e], p.
p. of parer. See {Pare}, verb (used with an object)]
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.
Vice parries wide
The undreaded volley with a sword of straw.
--Cowper.
2. To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.
The French government has parried the payment of our
claims. --E. Everett.
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
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