Definition of "parle"

parle

noun
countable and uncountable, plural parles
1. (obsolete) Parley; talk.
  Quotations
  Iul[ia]. Of all the faire reſort of Gentlemen, / That euery day with par’le encounter me, / In thy opinion which is worthieſt loue?
  c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii], page 21, columns 1–2
2. (obsolete) A nasty encounter.
  Quotations
  Hor[atio]. […] So frown’d he once, when in an angry parle / He ſmot the ſledded Pollax on the Ice.
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i], page 152, column 2
verb
third-person singular simple present parles, present participle parling, simple past and past participle parled
1. (obsolete, intransitive) To talk; to converse; to parley.
  Quotations
  […] Knute finding himſelf too weak, began to parle, […]
  1670, John Milton, “The Sixth Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , page 266