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Perdulous

PER'DULOUS, adjective [Latin perdo.] Lost; thrown away. [Not used.]

Perdurable

PERDU'RABLE, adjective [Latin perduro; per and duro, to last.]

Very durable; lasting; continuing long. [Not used.]

Perdurably

PERDU'RABLY, adverb Very durably. [Not used.]

Perduration

PERDURA'TION, noun Long continuance. [Not used.]

Perdy

PER'DY, adverb Certainly; verily; in truth.

Peregal

PER'EGAL, adjective Equal. [Not used.]

Peregrinate

PER'EGRINATE, verb intransitive [Latin peregrinor, from peregrinus, a traveler or stranger; peragro, to wander; per and ager.]

To travel from place to place or from one country to another; to live in a foreign country.

Peregrination

PEREGRINA'TION, noun A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; abode in foreign countries.

Peregrinator

PER'EGRINATOR, noun A traveler into foreign countries.

Peregrine

PER'EGRINE, adjective [Latin peregrinus.] Foreign; not native. [Little used.]

Peregrine falcon, a species of hawk, the black hawk or falcon, found in America and in Asia, and which wanders in summer to the Arctic circle.

Perempt

PEREMPT', verb transitive [Latin peremptus, perimo, to kill.]

In law, to kill; to crush or destroy. [Not used.]

Peremption

PEREMP'TION, noun [Latin peremptio.] A killing; a quashing; nonsuit. [Not used.]

Peremptorily

PER'EMPTORILY, adverb [from peremptory.] Absolutely; positively; in a decisive manner; so as to preclude further debate.

Never judge peremptorily on first appearances.

Peremptoriness

PER'EMPTORINESS, noun Positiveness; absolute decision; dogmatism.

Peremptoriness is of two sorts; one, a magisterialness in matters of opinion; the other, a positiveness in matters of fact.

Peremptory

PER'EMPTORY, adjective [Latin peremptorius, from peremptus, taken away, killed.]

1. Express; positive; absolute; decisive; authoritative; in a manner to preclude debate or expostulation. The orders of the commander are peremptory

2. Positive in opinion or judgment. The genuine effect of sound learning is to make men less peremptory in their determinations.

3. Final; determinate.

4. peremptory challenge, in law, a challenge or right of challenging jurors without showing cause.

Perennial

PEREN'NIAL, adjective [Latin perennis; per and annus, a year.]

1. Lasting or continuing without cessation through the year.

2. Perpetual; unceasing; never failing.

3. In botany, continuing more than two years; as a perennial stem or root.

4. Continuing without intermission; as a fever.

PEREN'NIAL, noun In botany, a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves or not. That which retains its leaves during winter is called an evergreen; that which casts its leaves, deciduous, or a perdifoil.

Perennially

PEREN'NIALLY, adverb Continually; without ceasing.

Perennity

PEREN'NITY, noun [Latin perennitas.] An enduring or continuing through the whole year without ceasing.

Pererration

PERERRA'TION, noun [Latin perrro; per and erro, to wander.]

A wandering or rambling through various places.

Perfect

PER'FECT, adjective [Latin perfectus, perficio, to complete; per and facio, to do or make through, to carry to the end.]

1. Finished; complete; consummate; not defective; having all that is requisite to its nature and kind; as a perfect statue; a perfect likeness; a perfect work; a perfect system.

As full, as perfect in a hair as heart.

2. Fully informed; completely skilled; as men perfect in the use of arms; perfect in discipline.

3. Complete in moral excellencies.

Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect Matthew 5:48.

4. Manifesting perfection.

My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9.

Perfect chord, in music, a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the fifth and the octave; a perfect consonance.

A perfect flower, in botany, has both stamen and pistil, or at least another and stigma.

Perfect tense, in grammar, the preterit tense; a tense which expresses an act completed.

PER'FECT, verb transitive [Latin perfectus, perficio.] To finish or complete so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to any thing all that is requisite to its nature and kind; as, to perfect a picture or statue. 2 Chronicles 8:16.

-Inquire into the nature and properties of things, and thereby perfect our ideas of distinct species.

If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:1.

1. To instruct fully; to make fully skillful; as, to perfect one's self in the rules of music or architecture; to perfect soldiers in discipline.

Perfected

PER'FECTED, participle passive Finished; completed.

Perfecter

PER'FECTER, noun One that makes perfect.

Perfectibility

PERFECTIBIL'ITY, noun [from perfectible.]

The capacity of becoming or being made perfect.

Perfectible

PERFECT'IBLE, adjective Capable of becoming or being made perfect, or of arriving at the utmost perfection of the species.

Perfecting

PER'FECTING, participle present tense Finishing; completing; consummating.

Perfection

PERFEC'TION, noun [Latin perfectio.] The state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; as perfection in an art or science; perfection in a system of morals.

1. Physical perfection is when a natural object has all its powers, faculties or qualities entire and in full vigor, and all its parts in due proportion.

2. Metaphysical or transcendental perfection is the possession of all the essential attributes or all the parts necessary to the integrity of a substance. This is absolute, where all defect is precluded, such as the perfection of God; or according to its kind, as in created things.

3. Moral perfection is the complete possession of all moral excellence, as in the Supreme Being; or the possession of such moral qualities and virtues as a thing is capable of.

4. A quality, endowment or acquirement completely excellent, or of great worth.

In this sense, the word has a plural.

What tongue can her perfections tell?

5. An inherent or essential attribute of supreme or infinite excellence; or one perfect in its kind; as the perfections of God. The infinite power, holiness, justice, benevolence and wisdom of God are denominated his perfections.

6. Exactness; as, to imitate a model to perfection

Perfectional

PERFEC'TIONAL, adjective Made complete.

Perfectionate

PERFEC'TIONATE, used by Dryden and Tooke, in lieu of the verb to perfect, is a useless word.

Perfectionist

PERFEC'TIONIST, noun One pretending to perfection; an enthusiast in religion.

Perfective

PERFECT'IVE, adjective Conducing to make perfect or bring to perfection; followed by of.

Praise and adoration are actions perfective of the soul.

Perfectively

PERFECT'IVELY, adverb In a manner that brings to perfection.

Perfectly

PER'FECTLY, adverb In the highest degree of excellence.

1. Totally; completely; as work perfectly executed or performed; a thing perfectly new.

2. Exactly; accurately; as a proposition perfectly understood.

Perfectness

PER'FECTNESS, noun Completeness; consummate excellence; perfection.

1. The highest degree of goodness or holiness of which man is capable in this life.

And above all things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness Colossians 3:14.

2. Accurate skill.

Perficient

PERFI'CIENT, noun [Latin perficiens.] One who endows a charity.

Perfidious

PERFID'IOUS, adjective [Latin perfidus; per and fidus, faithful. Per in this word signifies through, beyond, or by, aside.]

1. Violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; treacherous; as a perfidious agent; a perfidious friend. [See Perfidy.]

2. Proceeding from treachery, or consisting in breach of faith; as a perfidious act.

3. Guilty of violated allegiance; as a perfidious citizen; a man perfidious to his country.

Perfidiously

PERFID'IOUSLY, adverb Treacherously; traitorously; by breach of faith or allegiance.

Perfidiousness

PERFID'IOUSNESS, noun The quality of being perfidious; treachery; traitorousness; breach of faith, of vows or allegiance.

Perfidy

PER'FIDY, noun [Latin perfidia; per and fides, faith.] The act of violating faith, a promise, vow or allegiance; treachery; the violation of a trust reposed. perfidy is not applied to violations of contracts in ordinary pecuniary transactions, but to violations of faith or trust in friendship, in agency and office, in allegiance, in connubial engagements, and in the transactions of kings.

Perflate

PERFLA'TE, verb intransitive [Latin perflo; per and flo, to blow.] To blow through.

Perflation

PERFLA'TION, noun The act of blowing through.

Perfoliate

PERFO'LIATE, adjective [Latin per and folium, a leaf.] In botany, a perfoliate or perforated leaf, is one that has the base entirely surrounding the stem transversely.

Perforate

PER'FORATE, verb transitive [Latin perforo; per and foro; Eng. to bore.]

1. To bore through.

2. To pierce with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through any thing by boring or driving; as, to perforate the bottom of a vessel.

Perforated

PER'FORATED, participle passive Bored or pierced through; pierced.

Perforating

PER'FORATING, participle present tense Boring or piercing through; piercing.

Perforation

PERFORA'TION, noun The act of boring or piercing through.

1. A hole or aperture passing through any thing, or into the interior of a substance, whether natural or made by an instrument.

Perforative

PER'FORATIVE, adjective Having power to pierce; as an instrument.

Perforator

PER'FORATOR, noun An instrument that bores or perforates.

Perforce

PERFORCE, adverb [per and force.] By force or violence.

Perform

PERFORM', verb transitive [Latin per and formo, to make.]

1. To do; to execute; to accomplish; as, to perform two days' labor in one day; to perform a noble deed or achievement.

2. To execute; to discharge; as, to perform a duty or office.

3. To fulfill; as, to perform a covenant, promise or contract; to perform a vow.

PERFORM', verb intransitive To do; to act a part. The player performs well in different characters. The musician performs well on the organ.

Performable

PERFORM'ABLE, adjective That may be done, executed or fulfilled; practicable.

Performance

PERFORM'ANCE, noun Execution or completion of any thing; a doing; as the performance of work or of an undertaking; the performance of duty.

1. Action; deed; thing done.

2. The acting or exhibition of character on the state. Garrick was celebrated for his theatrical performances.

3. Composition; work written.

Few of our comic performances give good examples.

4. The acting or exhibition of feats; as performances of horsemanship.

Performed

PERFORM'ED, participle passive Done; executed; discharged.

Performer

PERFORM'ER, noun One that performs any thing, particularly in an art; as a good performer on the violin or organ; a celebrated performer in comedy or tragedy, or in the circus.

Performing

PERFORM'ING, participle present tense Doing; executing; accomplishing.

PERFORM'ING, noun Act done; deed; act of executing.

Perfumatory

PERFU'MATORY, adjective [from perfume.] That perfumes.

Perfume

PERFU'ME, noun [Latin per and fumus, smoke, or fumo, to fumigate.]

1. A substance that emits a scent or odor which affects agreeably the organs of smelling, as musk, civet, spices or aromatics of any kind; or any composition of aromatic substances.

2. The scent, odor or volatile particles emitted from sweet smelling substances.

No rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field.

PERFU'ME, verb transitive To scent; to fill or impregnate with a grateful odor; as, to perfume an apartment; to perfume a garment.

And Carmel's flower top perfumes the skies.

Perfumed

PERFU'MED, participle passive Scented; impregnated with fragrant odors.

Perfumer

PERFU'MER, noun He or that which perfumes.

1. One whose trade is to see perfumes.

Perfumery

PERFU'MERY, noun Perfumes in general.

Perfuming

PERFU'MING, participle present tense Scenting; impregnating with sweet odors.

Perfunctorily

PERFUNC'TORILY, adverb [Latin perfunctorie, from perfungor; per and fungor, to do or execute.] Carelessly; negligently; in a manner to satisfy external form.

Perfunctoriness

PERFUNC'TORINESS, noun Negligent performance; carelessness.

Perfunctory

PERFUNC'TORY, adjective [supra.] Slight; careless; negligent.

1. Done only for the sake of getting rid of the duty.

Perfuse

PERFU'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin perfusus, perfundo; per and fundo, to pour.] To sprinkle, pour or spread over.

Pergola

PER'GOLA, noun A kind of arbor.

Perhaps

PERHAPS', adverb [per and hap. See Happen.] By chance; it may be.

PERHAPS her love, perhaps her kingdom charmed him.

Periagua

PERIAGUA [See Pirogue.]

Perianth

PER'IANTH, noun [Gr. about, and flower.] The calyx of a flower when contiguous to the other parts of fructification.

Periapt

PER'IAPT, noun [Gr. to fit or tie to.] An amulet; a charm worn to defend against disease or mischief. [Not used.]

Periauger

PERIAUGER

PERICARD'IUM, noun [Gr. around, and the heart.] A membrane that incloses the heart. It contains a liquor which prevents the surface of the heart from becoming dry by its continual motion.

Pericardium

PERICARD'IUM, n. [Gr. around, and the heart.] A membrane that incloses the heart. It contains a liquor which prevents the surface of the heart from becoming dry by its continual motion.

Pericarp

PER'ICARP, noun [Gr. about, and fruit.] The seed-vessel of a plant; a general name including the capsule, legume, silique, follicle, drupe, pome, berry and strobile.

Pericranium

PERICRA'NIUM, noun [Gr. about, and the skull.] The periosteum or membrane that invests the skull.

Periculous

PERIC'ULOUS, adjective [Latin periculosus. See Peril.]

Dangerous; hazardous.

Peridodecahedral

PERIDODECAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr.] Designating a crystal whose primitive form is a four sided prism, and in its secondary form is converted into a prism of twelve sides.

Peridot

PER'IDOT, noun Another name of the chrysolite. It may be known by its leek or olive green color of various shades, and by its infusibility. It is found in grains, granular masses, and rounded crystals.

Periecian

PERIE'CIAN, noun [Gr.] An inhabitant of the opposite side of the globe, in the same parallel of latitude.

Perigee

PER'IGEE

PERIGE'UM, noun [Gr. about, and the earth.] That point in the orbit of the sun or moon in which it is at the least distance from the earth; opposed to apogee.

Perigord-Stone

PER'IGORD-STONE, noun An ore of manganese of a dark gray color, like basalt or trap; so called from Perigord, in France.

Perigraph

PER'IGRAPH, noun [Gr. about, and a writing.]

1. A careless or inaccurate delineation of any thing.

2. The white lines or impressions that appear on the musculus rectus of the abdomen.

Perigynous

PERIG'YNOUS, adjective [Gr. about, and female.] In botany, inserted around the pistil, as the corol or stamens; having the corol or stamens inserted around the pistil, as a flower or plant.

Perihelion

PERIHE'LION

PERIHE'LIUM, noun [Gr. about, and the sun.] That part of the orbit of a planet or comet, in which it is at its least distance from the sun; opposed to aphelion.

Perihexahedral

PERIHEXAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr.] Designating a crystal whose primitive form is a four sided prism, and in the secondary form is converted into a prism of six sides.

Peril

PER'IL, noun [Latin periculum, from Gr. to try, to attempt, that is, to strain; an attempt, danger, hazard; to pass, to thrust in or transfix; Latin experior; Eng. experience.]

1. Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; particular exposure of person or property to injury, loss or destruction from any cause whatever.

In perils of waters; in perils of robbers. 2 Corinthians 11:26.

2. Danger denounced; particular exposure; You do it at your peril or at the peril of your father's displeasure.

PER'IL, verb intransitive To be in danger. [Not used.]

Perilous

PER'ILOUS, adjective Dangerous; hazardous; full of risk; as a perilous undertaking; a perilous situation.

1. Vulgarly used for very, like mighty; as perilous shrewd.

2. Smart; witty; as a perilous [parlous boy.]

[Vulgar and obsolete.]

Perilously

PER'ILOUSLY, adverb Dangerously; with hazard.

Perilousness

PER'ILOUSNESS, noun Dangerousness; danger; hazard.

Perimeter

PERIM'ETER, noun [Gr. about, and measure.] In geometry, the bounds and limits of a body or figure. The perimeters of surfaces or figures are lines; those of bodies are surfaces. In circular figures, instead of perimeter we use circumference or periphery.

Perioctahedral

PERIOCTAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. octahedral.] Designating a crystal whose primitive form is a four sided prism, and in its secondary form is converted into a prism of eight sides.

Period

PE'RIOD, noun [Latin periodus; Gr. about, and way.]

1. Properly, a circuit; hence, the time which is taken up by a planet in making its revolution round the sun, or the duration of its course till it returns to the point of its orbit where it began. Thus the period of the earth or its annual revolution is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 30 seconds.

2. In chronology, a stated number of years; a revolution or series of years by which time is measured; as the Calippic period; the Dionysian period; the Julian period

3. Any series of years or of days in which a revolution is completed, and the same course is to begun.

4. Any specified portion of time, designated by years, months, days or hours complete; as a period of a thousand years; the period of a year; the period of a day.

5. End; conclusion. Death puts a period to a state of probation.

6. An indefinite portion of any continued state, existence or series of events; as the first period of life; the last period of a king's reign; the early periods of history.

7. State at which any thing terminates; limit.

8. Length or usual length of duration.

9. A complete sentence from one full stop to another.

Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.

10. The point that marks the end of a complete sentence; a full stop, thus, (.)

11. In numbers, a distinction made by a point or comma after every sixth place or figure.

12. In medicine, the time of intention and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and remission.

Julian period in chronology, a period of 7980 years; a number produced by multiplying 28, the years of the solar cycle, into 19, the years of the lunar cycle, and their product by 15, the years of the Roman indiction.

PE'RIOD, verb transitive To put an end to. [Not used.]

Periodic

PERIOD'IC

PERIOD'ICAL, adjective

1. Performed in a circuit, or in a regular revolution in a certain time, or in a series of successive circuits; as the periodical motion of the planets round the sun; the periodical motion of the moon round the earth.

2. Happening by revolution, at a stated time; as, the conjunction of the sun and moon is periodical.

3. Happening or returning regularly in a certain period of time. The Olympiads among the Greeks were periodical, as was the jubilee of the Jews.

4. Performing some action at a stated time; as the periodical fountains in Switzerland, which issue only at a particular hour of the day.

5. Pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence.

6. Pertaining to a revolution or regular circuit.

Periodical

PERIOD'ICAL, a. 1. Performed in a circuit, or in a regular revolution in a certain time, or in a series of successive circuits; as the periodical motion of the planets round the sun; the periodical motion of the moon round the earth.2. Happening by revolution, at a stated time; as, the conjunction of the sun and moon is periodical.3. Happening or returning regularly in a certain period of time. The Olympiads among the Greeks were periodical, as was the jubilee of the Jews.4. Performing some action at a stated time; as the periodical fountains in Switzerland, which issue only at a particular hour of the day.5. Pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence.6. Pertaining to a revolution or regular circuit.

Periodically

PERIOD'ICALLY, adverb At stated periods; as a festival celebrated periodically

Periosteum

PERIOS'TEUM, noun [Gr. about, and bone.] A nervous vascular membrane endued with quick sensibility, immediately investing the bones of animals.

The periosteum has very little sensibility in a sound state, but in some cases of disease it appears to be very sensible.

Peripatetic

PERIPATET'IC, adjective [Gr. to walk about.] Pertaining to Aristotle's system of philosophy, or to the sect of his followers.

PERIPATET'IC, noun A follower of Aristotle, so called because the founders of his philosophy taught, or his followers disputed questions, walking in the Lyceum at Athens.

1. It is ludicrously applied to one who is obliged to walk, or cannot afford to ride.

Peripateticism

PERIPATET'ICISM, noun The notions or philosophical system of Aristotle and his followers.

Peripheral

PERIPH'ERAL, adjective Peripheric.

Peripheric

PERIPHER'IC

PERIPHER'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery.

Peripherical

PERIPHER'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery.

Periphery

PERIPH'ERY, noun [Gr. around, and to bear.] The circumference of a circle, ellipsis, or other regular curvilinear figure.

Periphrase

PER'IPHRASE, noun s as z. [Gr. about, and to speak.] Circumlocution; a circuit of words; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a figure of rhetoric employed to avoid a common and trite manner of expression.

PER'IPHRASE, verb transitive To express by circumlocution.

PER'IPHRASE, verb intransitive To use circumlocution.

Periphrasis

PERIPHRASIS. [See Periphrase.]

Periphrastic

PERIPHRAS'TIC

PERIPHRAS'TICAL, adjective Circumlocutory; expressing or expressed in more words than are necessary; expressing the sense of one word in many.

Periphrastical

PERIPHRAS'TICAL, a. Circumlocutory; expressing or expressed in more words than are necessary; expressing the sense of one word in many.

Periphrastically

PERIPHRAS'TICALLY, adverb With circumlocution.

Periplus

PER'IPLUS, noun [Gr. about, and to sail.] Circumnavigation; a voyage round a certain sea or sea coast.

Peripneumonic

PERIPNEUMON'IC, adjective Pertaining to peripneumony; consisting in an inflammation of the lungs.

Peripneumony

PERIPNEU'MONY, noun [Gr. about, and the lungs.] An inflammation of the lungs, or of some part of the thorax, attended with acute fever and difficult respiration.

Peripolygonal

PERIPOLYG'ONAL, adjective [Gr. polygon.] In crystalography, having a great number of sides.

Periscian

PERIS'CIAN, noun [Gr. around, and shadow.] An inhabitant of a frigid zone or within a polar circle, whose shadow moves round, and in the course of the day falls in every point of compass. The Greek word periscii, in the plural, is generally used in geographies; but the English word is preferable.

Perish

PER'ISH, verb intransitive [Latin pereo, supposed to be compounded of per and eo, to go; literally, to depart wholly.]

1. To die; to lose life in any manner; applied to animals. Men perish by disease or decay, by the sword, by drowning, by hunger or famine, etc.

2. To die; to wither and decay; applied to plants.

3. To waste away; as, a leg or an arm has perished.

4. To be in a state of decay or passing away.

Duration, and time which is part of it, is the idea we have of perishing distance.

5. To be destroyed; to come to nothing.

Perish the lore that deadens young desire.

6. To fail entirely or to be extirpated. 2 Kings 9:8.

7. To be burst or ruined; as, the bottles shall perish

Luke 5:37.

8. To be wasted or rendered useless. Jeremiah 9:12.

9. To be injured or tormented. 1 Corinthians 8:11.

10. To be lost eternally; to be sentenced to endless misery. 2 Peter 2:12.

PER'ISH, verb transitive To destroy. [Not legitimate.]

Perishable

PER'ISHABLE, adjective Liable to perish; subject to decay and destruction. The bodies of animals and plants are perishable The souls of men are not perishable

1. Subject to speedy decay.

Property of a perishable nature saved from a wreck, may be sold within a year and a day.

Perishableness

PER'ISHABLENESS, noun Liableness to decay or destruction.

Perisperm

PER'ISPERM, noun [Gr. around, and seed.] A thick, farinaceous, fleshy, horny or woody part of the seed of plants, either entirely or only partially surrounding the embryo, and inclosed within the investing membrane. It corresponds to the albumen of Gaertner.

Perispheric

PERISPHER'IC, adjective [Gr.] Globular; having the form of a ball.

Perissological

PERISSOLOG'ICAL, adjective Redundant in words.

Perissology

PERISSOL'OGY, noun [Gr. redundant, and discourse.] Superfluous words; much talk to little purpose. [Little used.]

Peristaltic

PERISTAL'TIC, adjective [Gr. to involve.] Spiral; vermicular or worm-like. The peristaltic motion of the intestines is performed by the contraction of the circular and longitudinal fibers composing their fleshy coats, by which the chyle is driven into the orifices of the lacteals, and the excrements are protruded towards the anus.

Peristerion

PERISTE'RION, noun [Gr.] The herb vervain.

Peristyle

PER'ISTYLE, noun [Gr. about, and a column.] A circular range of columns, or a building encompassed with a row of columns on the outside.

Perisystole

PERISYSTOLE, noun perisys'toly. [Gr. about, and contraction.] The pause or interval between the systole or contraction, and the diastole or dilatation of the heart.

Perite

PERI'TE, adjective [Latin peritus.] Skillful. [Little used.]

Peritoneal

PERITO'NEAL, adjective Pertaining to the peritoneum.

Peritoneum

PERITONE'UM, noun [Gr. about, and to stretch.] A thin, smooth, lubricous membrane investing the whole internal surface of the abdomen, and more or less completely, all the viscera contained in it.

Periwig

PER'IWIG, noun A small wig; a kind of close cap formed by an intertexture of false hair, worn by men for ornament or to conceal baldness. Periwigs were in fashion in the days of Addison.

PER'IWIG, verb transitive To dress with a periwig or with false hair, or with any thing in like form.

Periwinkle

PER'IWINKLE, noun [Latin vinca.]

1. A sea snail, or small shell fish.

2. A plant of the genus Vinca.

Perjure

PERJURE, verb transitive per'jur. [Latin perjuro; per and juro, to swear; that is, to swear aside or beyond.] Willfully to make a false oath when administered by lawful authority or in a court of justice; to forswear; as, the witness perjured himself.

PER'JURE, noun A perjured person. [Not used.]

Perjured

PER'JURED, participle passive Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely.

Perjurer

PER'JURER, noun One that willfully takes a false oath lawfully administered.

Perjuring

PER'JURING, participle present tense Taking a false oath lawfully administered.

Perjurious

PERJU'RIOUS, adjective Guilty of perjury; containing perjury.

Perjury

PER'JURY, noun [Latin perjurium.] The act or crime of willfully making a false oath, when lawfully administered; or a crime committed when a lawful oath is administered in some judicial proceeding, to a person who swears willfully, absolutely and falsely in a matter material to the issue.

Perk

PERK, adjective Properly, erect; hence, smart; trim.

PERK, verb intransitive To hold up the head with affected smartness.

PERK, verb transitive To dress; to make trim or smart; to prank.

Perkin

PERK'IN, noun Cyderkin; a kind of cyder made by steeping the murk in water.

Perlate acid, the acidulous phosphate of soda.

Perlated acid, or ouretic, biphosphate of soda.

Perlexity

PERLEX'ITY, noun Intricacy; entanglement. The jury were embarrassed by the perplexity of the case.

1. Embarrassment of mind; disturbance from doubt, confusion, difficulty or anxiety.

Perplexity not suffering them to be idle, they think and do, as it were, in a frenzy.

Perlous

PER'LOUS, for perilous, is not used.

Perlustration

PERLUSTRA'TION, noun [Latin perlustro; per and lustro, to survey.]

The act of viewing all over.

Permagy

PER'MAGY noun A little Turkish boat.

Permanence

PER'MANENCE

PER'MANENCY, noun [See Permanent.] Continuance in the same state, or without a change that destroys the form or nature of a thing; duration; fixedness; as the permanence of a government or state; the permanence of institutions or of a system of principles.

1. Continuance in the same place or at rest.

Permanency

PER'MANENCY, n. [See Permanent.] Continuance in the same state, or without a change that destroys the form or nature of a thing; duration; fixedness; as the permanence of a government or state; the permanence of institutions or of a system of principles. 1. Continuance in the same place or at rest.

Permanent

PER'MANENT, adjective [Latin permanens, permaneo, per and maneo, to remain.]

Durable; lasting; continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys the form or nature of the thing. The laws, like the character of God, are unalterably permanent Human laws and institutions may be to a degree permanent but they are subject to change and overthrow. We speak of a permanent wall or building, a permanent bridge, when they are so constructed as to endure long; in which examples, permanent is equivalent to durable or lasting, but not to undecaying or unalterable. So we say, a permanent residence, a permanent intercourse, permanent friendship, when it continues a long time without interruption.

Permanently

PER'MANENTLY, adverb With long continuance; durably; in a fixed state or place; as a government permanently established.

Permansion

PERMAN'SION, noun [Latin permansio.] Continuance. [Not used.]

Permeability

PERMEABIL'ITY, noun [infra.] The quality or state of being permeable.

Permeable

PER'MEABLE, adjective [Latin permeo; per and meo, to pass or glide.]

That may be passed through without rupture or displacement of its parts, as solid matter; applied particularly to substances that admit the passage of fluids. Thus cloth, leather, wood are permeable to water and oil; glass is permeable to light, but not to water.

Permeant

PER'MEANT, adjective [supra.] Passing through. [Not used.]

Permeate

PER'MEATE, verb transitive [Latin permeo; per and meo, to glide, flow, or pass.]

To pass through the pores or interstices of a body; to penetrate and pass through a substance without rupture or displacement of its parts; applied particularly to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand or a filtering stone; light permeates glass.

Permeated

PER'MEATED, participle passive Passed through, as by a fluid.

Permeating

PER'MEATING, participle present tense Passing through the pores or interstices of a substance.

Permeation

PERMEA'TION, noun The act of passing through the pores or interstices of a body.

Permiscible

PERMIS'CIBLE, adjective [Latin permisceo; per and misceo, to mix.]

That may be mixed. [Little used.]

Permissible

PERMIS'SIBLE, adjective [See Permit.] That may be permitted or allowed.

Permission

PERMIS'SION, noun [Latin permissio, from permitto, to permit.]

1. The act of permitting or allowing.

2. Allowance; license or liberty granted.

You have given me your permission for this address.

Permissive

PERMIS'SIVE, adjective Granting liberty; allowing.

1. Granted; suffered without hinderance.

Thus I emboldened spake, and freedom used

Permissive, and acceptance found.

Permissively

PERMIS'SIVELY, adverb By allowance; without prohibition or hinderance.

Permistion

PERMIS'TION

PERMIT', verb transitive [Latin permitto; per and mitto, to send.]

1. To allow; to grant leave or liberty to by express consent. He asked my leave and I permitted him.

2. To allow by silent consent or by not prohibiting; to suffer without giving express authority. The laws permit us to do what is not expressly or impliedly forbid.

What God neither commands nor forbids, he permits with approbation to be done or left undone.

3. To afford ability or means. Old age does not permit us to retain the vigor of youth. The man's indigence does not permit him to indulge in luxuries.

4. To leave; to give or resign.

Let us not aggravate our sorrows,

But to the gods permit the event of things.

[The latter sense is obsolete or obsolescent.]

PERMIT', noun A written license or permission from the custom house officer or other proper authority, to export or transport goods or to land goods or persons.

1. Warrant; leave; permission.

Permit

PERMIT', v.t. [L. permitto; per and mitto, to send.] 1. To allow; to grant leave or liberty to by express consent. He asked my leave and I permitted him.2. To allow by silent consent or by not prohibiting; to suffer without giving express authority. The laws permit us to do what is not expressly or impliedly forbid. What God neither commands nor forbids, he permits with approbation to be done or left undone.3. To afford ability or means. Old age does not permit us to retain the vigor of youth. The man's indigence does not permit him to indulge in luxuries.4. To leave; to give or resign. Let us not aggravate our sorrows, But to the gods permit the event of things.[The latter sense is obsolete or obsolescent.] PERMIT', n. A written license or permission from the custom house officer or other proper authority, to export or transport goods or to land goods or persons. 1. Warrant; leave; permission.

Permittance

PERMIT'TANCE, noun Allowance; forbearance of prohibition; permission.

PERMIXTION. [See Permistion.]

Permixtion

PERMIX'TION, noun [Latin permistio, permixtio.] The act of mixing; the state of being mingled.

Permutation

PERMUTA'TION, noun [Latin permutatio, permuto; per and muto, to change.]

1. In commerce, exchange of one thing for another; barter.

2. In the canon law, the exchange of one benefice for another.

3. In algebra, change or different combination of any number of quantities.

Permute

PERMU'TE, verb transitive [Latin permuto; per and muto, to change.]

To exchange; to barter. [Not used.]

Permuter

PERMU'TER, noun One that exchanges. [Not used.]

Pernancy

PER'NANCY, noun A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind.

Pernicious

PERNI'CIOUS, adjective [Latin perniciosus, from pernicies; perneco, to kill; per and nex, necis, death.]

1. Destructive; having the quality of killing, destroying or injuring; very injurious or mischievous. Food, drink or air may be pernicious to life or health.

2. Destructive; tending to injure or destroy. Evil examples are pernicious to morals. Intemperance is a pernicious vice.

3. [Latin pernix.] Quick. [Not used.]

Perniciously

PERNI'CIOUSLY, adverb Destructively; with ruinous tendency or effects.

Perniciousness

PERNI'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being very injurious, mischievous or destructive.

Pernicity

PERNIC'ITY, noun [Latin pernicitas, from pernix.]

Swiftness of motion; celerity. [Little used.]

Pernoctation

PERNOCTA'TION, noun [Latin pernocto; per and nox, night.]

The act of passing the whole night; a remaining all night.

Perogue

PEROGUE. [See Pirogue.]

Peroration

PERORA'TION, noun [Latin peroratio, from peroro; per and oro, to pray.]

The concluding part of an oration, in which the speaker recapitulates the principal points of his discourse or argument, and urges them with greater earnestness and force, with a view to make a deep impression on his hearers.

Peroxyd

PEROX'YD, noun [per and oxyd.] A substance containing an unusual quantity of oxygen.

Peroxydize

PEROX'YDIZE, verb transitive To oxydize to the utmost degree.

Perpend

PERPEND', verb transitive [Latin perpendo; per and pendo, to weigh.]

To weigh in the mind; to consider attentively. [Little used.]

Perpender

PERPEND'ER, noun A coping stone.

Perpendicle

PERPEND'ICLE, noun [Latin perpendiculum.]

Something hanging down in a direct line; a plumb line.

Perpendicular

PERPENDIC'ULAR, adjective [Latin perpendicularis, from perpendiculum, a plumb line; perpendeo; per and pendeo, to hang.]

1. Hanging or extending in a right line from any point towards the center of the earth or of gravity, or at right angles with the plane of the horizon.

2. In geometry, falling directly on another line at right angles. The line A is perpendicular to the line B.

PERPENDIC'ULAR, noun A line falling at right angles on the plane of the horizon, that is, extending from some point in a right line towards the center of the earth or center of gravity, or any body standing in that direction.

1. In geometry, a line falling at right angles on another line, or making equal angles with it on each side.

Perpendicularity

PERPENDICULAR'ITY, noun The state of being perpendicular.

Perpendicularly

PERPENDIC'ULARLY, adverb In a manner to fall on another line at right angles.

1. So as to fall on the plane of the horizon at right angles; in a direction towards the center of the earth or of gravity.

Perpension

PERPEN'SION, noun [Latin perpendo.] Consideration. [Not used.]

Perpession

PERPES'SION, noun [Latin perpessio, perpetior, to suffer; per and patior.]

Suffering; endurance. [Not used.]

Perpetrate

PER'PETRATE, verb transitive [Latin perpetro; per and patro, to go through, to finish.] To do; to commit; to perform; in an ill sense, that is, always used to express an evil act; as, to perpetrate a crime or an evil design.

Perpetrated

PER'PETRATED, participle passive Done; committed; as an evil act.

Perpetrating

PER'PETRATING, participle present tense Committing; as a crime or evil act.

Perpetration

PERPETRA'TION, noun The act of committing a crime.

1. An evil action.

Perpetrator

PER'PETRATOR, noun One that commits a crime.

Perpetual

PERPET'UAL, adjective [Latin perpetuus, from perpes, perpetis; per and pes, from a root signifying to pass.]

1. Never ceasing; continuing forever in future time; destined to be eternal; as a perpetual covenant; a perpetual statute.

[Literally true with respect to the decrees of the Supreme Being.]

2. Continuing or continued without intermission; uninterrupted; as a perpetual stream; the perpetual action of the heart and arteries.

3. Permanent; fixed; not temporary; as a perpetual law or edict; perpetual love or amity, perpetual incense. Exodus 30:8.

4. Everlasting; endless.

Destructions are come to a perpetual end. Psalms 9:6.

5. During the legal dispensation. Exodus 29:9.

Perpetual curacy, is where all the tithes are appropriated and no vicarage is endowed.

Perpetual motion, motion that generates a power of continuing itself forever or indefinitely, by means of mechanism or some application of the force of gravity; not yet discovered, and probably impossible.

Perpetual screw, a screw that acts against the teeth of a wheel and continues its action without end.

Perpetually

PERPET'UALLY, adverb Constantly; continually; applied to things which proceed without intermission, or which occur frequently or at intervals, without limitation. A perennial spring flows perpetually; the weather varies perpetually

The Bible and common prayer book in the vulgar tongue, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language.

Perpetuate

PERPET'UATE, verb transitive [Latin perpetuo.] To make perpetual; to eternize.

1. To cause to endure or to be continued indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; as, to perpetuate the remembrance of a great event or of an illustrious character. The monument in London perpetuates the remembrance of the conflagration in 1666. Medals may perpetuate the glories of a prince.

2. To continue by repetition without limitation.

Perpetuated

PERPET'UATED, pp. Made perpetual; continued through eternity, or for an indefinite time.

Perpetuating

PERPET'UATING, participle present tense Continuing forever or indefinitely.

Perpetuation

PERPETUA'TION, noun The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction or oblivion through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time.

Perpetuity

PERPETU'ITY, noun [Latin perpetuitas.] Endless duration; continuance to eternity.

1. Continued uninterrupted existence, or duration for an indefinite period of time; as the perpetuity of laws and institutions; the perpetuity of fame.

2. Something of which there will be no end.

Perphosphate

PERPHOS'PHATE, noun A phosphate in which the phosphoric acid is combined with an oxyd at the maximum of oxydation.

Perplex

PERPLEX', verb transitive [Latin perplexus, perplexor; per and plector, to twist; Latin plico, to fold.]

1. To make intricate; to involve; to entangle; to make complicated and difficult to be understood or unraveled.

What was thought obscure, perplexed and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.

2. To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to tease with suspense, anxiety or ambiguity.

We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind.

We are perplexed, but not in despair. 2 Corinthians 4:8.

3. To plague; to vex.

PERPLEX', adjective Intricate; difficult. [Not used.]

Perplexed

PERPLEX'ED, participle passive Made intricate; embarrassed; puzzled.

Perplexedly

PERPLEX'EDLY, adverb Intricately; with involution.

Perplexedness

PERPLEX'EDNESS, noun Intricacy; difficulty from want of order or precision.

1. Embarrassment of mind from doubt or uncertainty.

Perquadrisulphate

PERQUADRISUL'PHATE, noun A sulphate with four proportions of sulphuric acid combined with a maximum oxyd.

Perquisite

PER'QUISITE, noun s as z. [Latin perquisitus, perquiro; per and quoero, to seek.] A fee or pecuniary allowance to an officer for services, beyond his ordinary salary or settled wages; or a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service, in lieu of an annual salary. [The latter is the common acceptation of the word in American.]

Perquisited

PER'QUISITED, adjective Supplied with perquisites. [A bad word and not used.]

Perquisition

PERQUISI'TION, noun s as z. [Latin perquisitus.]

An accurate inquiry or search.

Perroquet

PERROQUET', noun A species of parrot; also, the Alca Psittacula, an aquatic fowl inhabiting the isles of Japan and the western shores of American.

Perry

PER'RY, noun The juice of pears, which being clarified by fermentation, is a pleasant drink.

Perscrutation

PERSCRUTA'TION, noun [Latin perscrutatio, perscrutor.]

A searching thoroughly; minute search or inquiry.