in a ship, the name of a rope almost like a pair of slings: it is seized both ends together, and then put double about any heavy thing that is to be hoisted in or out of the ship; having the hook of the runner hitched into it, to hoist it up by.

PARCÆ, in the heathen mythology, goddesses, who were supposed to preside over the accidents and events, and to determine the date or period, of human life. See Mythology.