parching

I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed.

Squalid youths with ghastly grin,

In hollow bitter roots shall bring,

Urine of the unsav'ry goat,

To quell the parchings of thy throat.