Parches vs Larches - What's the difference?

As a verb parches

is .

(head)

(parch)

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To burn the surface of, to scorch.

The sun today could parch cement.

To roast, as dry grain.

* Bible, Leviticus xxiii. 14

Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.

To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.

The patient's mouth is parched from fever.

(colloquial) To make thirsty.

We're parched , hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?

(archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in , a type of mushy peas ).

To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.

The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.

(parches)

The condition of being parched.

* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 64:

Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].