Crossword-Solution: PARV 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The order of the Fish, or Mahî Marâtib, was first instituted by Khusrû Parvîz, King of Persia, and grandson of the celebrated Naushîrvân the Just.

Such forms as magnōrum, omnium; magnīs, omnibus, would ordinarily lead to ambiguity; yet where there is no ambiguity, they sometimes occur; as,-- parvīs compōnere magna, _to compare great things with small_ Otherwise the Latin says: magnārum rērum, magnīs rēbus, etc.

Parv.) Cotgrave offers a much wider choice for the French original-- "Estourdi (étourdi), dulled, amazed, astonished, dizzie-headed, or whose head seemes very much troubled; (hence) also, heedlesse, inconsiderate, unadvised, witlesse, uncircumspect, rash, retchlesse, or carelesse; and sottish, blockish, lumpish, lusk-like, without life, metall, spirit" Sly and its variant Sleigh have degenerated in the same way as crafty and cunning, both of which once meant skilled.

Parv.)-- but may also stand for cow, as we find, in defiance of gender and sex, such entries as Robert le cow, William le vache.

Parv.) Margaret Paston, writing (1460) of the revived hopes of Henry VI., says-- "Now he and alle his olde felawship put owt their fynnes, and arn ryght flygge and mery." HAWK NAMES We have naturally a set of names taken from the various species of falcons.