Definition of "parison" [par•i•son]

• A spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace. (noun)

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• "Line 7, 'Desiring this man's art and that man's scope', deftly displays the figure of rhetoric known as parison, or the symmetrical repetition of words in grammatically parallel phrases."
• "(Many cellphones, by com-parison, operate at 2 GHz.)"
• "Of course, the use of white lead in ancient Rome paled in parison to the workout it got during the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries."