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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PAR'RYING, ppr. Warding off, as a thrust or blow.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Parry Par"ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parried; p. pr. & vb. n. Parrying.] [F. par['e], p. p. of parer. See Pare, v. t.] 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.

Moby Thesaurus

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