These are the meanings of the letters PARL when you unscramble them.
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Alp (n.)
A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc.
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Alp (n.)
Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.
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Alp (n.)
A bullfinch.
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Lap (n.)
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
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Lap (n.)
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
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Lap (n.)
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
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Lap (n.)
That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.
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Lap (n.)
The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).
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Lap (n.)
The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
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Lap (n.)
One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.
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Lap (n.)
In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
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Lap (n.)
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
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Lap (n.)
A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.
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Lap (v. t.)
To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
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Lap (v. t.)
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
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Lap (n.)
To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
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Lap (n.)
To wrap or wind around something.
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Lap (n.)
To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
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Lap (n.)
To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
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Lap (n.)
To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
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Lap (v. i.)
To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
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Lap (v. i.)
To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
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Lap (v. i.)
To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
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Lap (v. t.)
To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
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Lap (n.)
The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
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Lap (n.)
The sound of lapping.
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Lar (n.)
A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.
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Lar (n.)
A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.
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Pal (n.)
A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate.
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Par (n.)
See Parr.
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Par (prep.)
By; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.
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Par (n.)
Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
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Par (n.)
Equality of condition or circumstances.
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Rap (n.)
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
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Rap (v. i.)
To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
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Rap (v. t.)
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
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Rap (v. t.)
To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
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Rap (n.)
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
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Rap (v.)
To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
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Rap (v.)
To hasten.
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Rap (v.)
To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
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Rap (v.)
To exchange; to truck.
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Rap (n.)
A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.