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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Parch \Parch\ (p[aum]rch), v. t. [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 1.6 [wn]:
parched
adj 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"
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