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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Parry \Par"ry\ (p[a^]r"r[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parried (p[a^]r"r[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Parrying.] [F. par['e], p. p. of parer. See Pare, v. t.] [1913 Webster] 1. To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm. --Locke. [1913 Webster] Vice parries wide The undreaded volley with a sword of straw. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade. [1913 Webster] The French government has parried the payment of our claims. --E. Everett. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "parrying": bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, nit-picking, paltering, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tergiversation, trichoschistism, weasel words