(horse racing) Any betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house take are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets.

Dealing with the same matter or subject. / (law) A canon of construction holding that the meaning of an ambiguous law can be determined in light of other statutes on the same subject matter.

plural of pari-mutuel

A complex butter-based sauce served with grilled beef.

(obsolete, nautical, slang) Having joined the United States Navy, either because of destitution or in order to flee problems on land.

A book, held in a parish church, in which baptisms, marriages and burials are recorded.

plural of parish

A church that serves as the religious centre of a parish; the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.

In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church. / The community attending that church; the members of the parish.

(transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes. / (intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.