pard

noun

1. (archaic, literary)A leopard; a panther.

   “Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel …”

   “Ten Brace, and more, of Greyhounds, snowy fair, And tall as Stags, ran loose, and cours'd around his Chair, A Match for Pards in flight, in grappling, for the Bear”

   “In a mistake of the gall-bladder for some part of South America it is mostly found in the pard […]”

   “St. Jerome takes the pard of Jeremiah to mean the onslaught of Alexander upon India. His contemporary, St. Ambrose, avers that the pard’s variety of hue signifies the various impulses of the soul.”

2. (colloquial)Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation

   “He had long believed, in secret, that his old pard, Tom Terror, was the leader of the Thugs that infested the famous pass; he was confident of it now, and it would be safe to say that, as he rode along, his neck did not itch as formerly.”

   “'He's my pard, and you shall not bully him,' he cried.”

   “The American thrust a gold piece into his hand, saying: 'Take it, pard! it's your pot; and don't be skeer'd. This ain't no necktie party that you're asked to assist in!'”

3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of periodic and random deviations, a form of electrical noise.

   “This article describes a power supply conditioning circuit that can reduce Periodic And Random Deviations (PARD) on the output voltages of DC power supplies...”