Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Parallel \Par"al*lel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paralleled}; p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Paralleling}.]
   1. To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be
      parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something
      else.

            The needle . . . doth parallel and place itself upon
            the true meridian.                    --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.

   2. Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character,
      motive, aim, or the like.

            His life is paralleled Even with the stroke and line
            of his great justice.                 --Shak.

   3. To equal; to match; to correspond to. --Shak.

   4. To produce or adduce as a parallel. [R.] --Locke.

            My young remembrance can not parallel A fellow to
            it.                                   --Shak.