Faire la PARADE, to dress a ship, or to adorn her with a number of flags, pendents, and other colours, which are displayed from different parts of the masts, yards, and rigging.

PARADIS, or BASSIN, the basin of a dock; or an inner harbour.

PARAGE, a space of the sea appointed as the station wherein to rendezvous or cruise; also a part of the sea near any coast.

Mouille en PARAGE, moored, or anchored in an open road, or in the offing.

PARC, an inclosure for containing the magazines and store-houses in a royal dock-yard.

PARC dans un vaisseau, a cot or pen, wherein cattle are inclosed in a ship.

PARCLOSSES, limber-boards.

PARCOURIR, to overhaul; i.e. to open or extend the several parts of a tackle, or other assemblage of ropes, communicating with blocks or dead eyes.

PARCOURIR les coutures, to survey or examine the seams of a ship's sides or decks, and caulk where it is found necessary.

PARÉ, ready, clear, or prepared for any thing.

PARÉ à virer, see all clear to go about! the order to prepare for tacking.

PAREAU, or PARRE, a sort of large bark in the Indies, whose head and stern are exactly alike, so that the rudder may be hung at either end.

PARER un cap, to double a cape. See DOUBLER.

PARER, une ancre, to see the anchor clear for coming-to, &c.

Se PARER, to clear for action, to prepare for battle.

PARFUMER un vaisseau, to smoke a ship, and sluice her with vinegar between-decks, in order to purify her, and expel the putrified air.

PARQUET, a shot-locker on the deck; also a place where shot are kept on a gun-wharf. See EPITIÉ.

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