parmacety
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant form of spermaceti.
Noun
[edit]parmacety (plural not attested)
- (obsolete) Spermaceti.
- (obsolete) A sperm whale.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- "Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped a boat!--ah, ah!"