To set at hazard. This word is not in the N.E.D.
1828. As well, sir, might you ask the adventurer at Faro, who paralees (I believe, sir, that most of us are old enough to remember the term, although I trust that with the practice it is quite obsolete), who paralees I say stake, winnings and all upon a single card, why he does not uniformly double his stake.—Speech of Mr. Bernard in the Senate of Virginia: Richmond Whig, Feb. 20, p. 1/3.
