parmacety
English
Alternative forms
- parmacetty
Etymology
Variant form of spermaceti.
Noun
parmacety (plural not attested)
- (obsolete) Spermaceti.
- (obsolete) A sperm whale.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
- "Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped a boat!--ah, ah!"
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16