a promise, vow or allegiance; treachery; the violation || PER'I-GEE, of a trust reposed. ↑ PER/FLA-BLE, a. [L. perflo.] Having the wind driven PER-FLATE, v. t. [L. perflo.] To blow through. PER-FO LI-ATE, a. [L. per and folium.] In botany, a per- PER FO-RATE, v. t. [L. perforo.] 1. To bore through. PER-FO-RATION, n. The act of boring or piercing PER FO-RA-TIVE, a. Having power to pierce. PER-FORM', v. i. To do; to act a part. PER-FORM A-BLE, a. That may be done, executed or fulfilled; practicable. Brown. PER-FORMANCE, n. 1. Execution or completion of any thing; a doing. 2. Action; deed; thing done. 3. The acting or exhibition of character on the stage. 4. Coinposition; work written. 5. The acting or exhibition of feats. PER-FORMED, (per-formd') pp. Done; executed; discharged. PER-FORM'ER, n. One that performs any thing, particu- PER-FORMING, ppr. Doing; executing; accomplishing. PER-FUME', or PER FUME, n. [Fr. parfum; Sp. per- PER-FOME', v. t. To scent; to fill or impregnate with a grateful odor. Pope. PER-FUM ED, (per-fümd') pp. Scented; impregnated with PER-FUM ER, n. 1. He or that which perfumes. 2. One PER-FUMING, ppr. Scenting; impregnating with sweet *PER-FUNC/TO-RI-LY, adv. [L. perfunctorie.] Careless- carelessness. Whitlock. PER-FUNCTO-RY, a. 1. Slight; careless; negligent. 2. Done only for the sake of getting rid of the duty. PER-FOSE', v. t. [L. perfusus.] To sprinkle, pour or spread over. Harvey. PER GO-LA, n. [It.] A kind of arbor. Finett. PER-HAPS, adv. [per and hap.] By chance; it may be. PER-I-AGUA. PE-RIC-LI-TATION, n. 1. The state of being in danger. PER-I-CRA'NI-UM, n. [Gr. nepi and Koaviov.] The perios PER-I-DO-DE-CA-HEDRAL, a. [Gr. пept, and dodecahe- TER I-DOT, n. [Fr.] Another name of the chrysolite. n. [Gr. wept and y.] That point in the PE-RIG/Y-NOUS, a. [Gr. nept and yon.] In botany, in- PER-I-HEX-A-HE/DRAL, a. [Gr. nept, and herahedral.] PERIL, n. [Fr.; It. periglio; L. periculum.] 1. Danger; † PERIL, v. i. To be in danger. Milton. PERIL-OUS-LY, adv. Dangerously; with hazard. PER-I-O€-TA-HE DRAL, a. [Gr. not, and octahedral.] PERI-OD, n. [L. periodus; Fr. periode.] 1. Properly, a †PE'RI-OD, v. t. To put an end to. Shak PER-I-PA-TETIE, a. [Gr. Reginarηtikos.] Pertaining to PER-I-PA-TETIC, n. 1. A follower of Aristotle, so called PER-I-PA-TETI-CISM, a. The notions or philosopłacal ure. PERI-PHRASE, n. [Gr. ntot patis.] Circumlocution; a a. Circumlocutory; expressing PER-I-PHRASTI-CAL, or expressed in more words than are necessary; expressing the sense of one word many. PER-I-PHRASTI-CAL-LY, adv. With circumlocution. PERI-PLUS, n. [Gr. mependous.] Circumnavigation; a voyage round a certain sea or sea-coast. Vincent. PER-IP-NEU-MONIC, a. Pertaining to peripneumony; consisting in an inflammation of the lungs. PER-IP-NEO/MO-NY, n. [Gr. Repe and Rvcuμwv.] An inflammation of the lungs, or of some part of the thorax. PER-I-PO-LYGO-NAL, a. [Gr. nept, and polygon.] In crystalography, having a great number of sides. PE-RISCIAN, n. [Gr. EpLOKIO.] An inhabitant of a PE-RISCI-I, frigid zone, or within a polar circle, whose shadow moves round, and in the course of the day falls in every point of compass. PE RIS CIAN, a. Having shadows all around. PERISH, v. i. [Fr. perir.] 1. To die; to lose life in any manner. 2. To die; to wither and decay. 3. To waste away. 4. To be in a state of decay or passing away. 5. To be destroyed; to come to nothing. 6. To fail entirely, or to be extirpated. 2 Kings ix. 7. To be burst or ruined. 8. To be wasted or rendered useless. Jer. ix. 9. To be injured or tormented. 1 Cor. viii. 10. To be lost eternally; to be sentenced to endless misery. 2 Pet. ii. PERISH, v. t. To destroy. [Not legitimate.] PER ISH-A-BLE, a. 1. Liable to perish; subject to decay and destruction. 2. Subject to speedy decay. Stat. of CORR. PER ISH-A-BLE-NESS, n. Liableness to decay. Locke. PERI-SPERM, n. [Gr. nepe and oncopa.] A thick, farinaceous, fleshy. horny or woody part of the seed of plants. PER-I-SPHERIC, a. [Gr. Ept and opaipa.] Globular; having the form of a ball. Journ. of Science. PER-IS-SO-LOĜ'J-€AL, a. Redundant in words. PER-IS-SOL/O-GY, n. [Gr. #epicvohoyia.] Superfluous words; much talk to little purpose. [Little used.] PER-I-STAL TI¤, a. [Gr. nepioraλTIKOS.] Spiral; vermicular or worm-like. The peristaltic motion of the intestines is performed by the contraction of the circular and longitudinal fibres composing their fleshy coats, by which the chyle is driven into the orifices of the lacteals, and the excrements are protruded towards the anus. PER-IS-TERI-ON, n. [Gr.] The herb vervain. Dict. PERI-STYLE, n. [Gr. nepierudov.] A circular range of columns, or a building encompassed with a row of col umns on the outside. PER-I-SYS TO-LE, n. [Gr. nɛpɩ and overoλn.] The pause or interval between the systole or contraction, and the diastole or dilatation of the heart. PE-RITE', a. [L. peritus.] Skillful. [Little used.] PER-I-TONE-AL, a. Pertaining to the peritoneum. PER-I-TO-NEUM, n. [Gr. пEOLTOVALOV.] A thin, smooth, lubricous membrane investing the whole internal surface of the abdomen, and, more or less completely, all the viscera contained in it. PERI-WIG, n. [Ir. pereabhic; qu. D. paruik; Fr. perruque.] A small wig; a kind of close cap formed by an intertexture of false hair, worn by men for ornament or to conceal baldness. PERI-WIG, v. t. To dress with a periwig or with false hair, or with any thing in like form. Swift. PERI-WIN-KLE, n. [Sax. peruince; It. pervinca.] 1. A sea snail, or small shell fish. 2. A plant. PER JURE, (per jur) v. t. [L. perjuro.] Willfully to make a false oath when administered by lawful authority or in a court of justice; to forswear. PER JURE, n. A perjured person. Shak. PER JURED, pp. Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely. PER JUR-ER, n. One that willfully takes a false oath lawfully administered. PER JUR-ING, ppr. Taking a false oath lawfully adminis tered. PER-JORIOUS, a. Guilty of perjury; containing perjury. PER JU-RY, n. [L. perjurium.] The act or crime of willfully making a false oath, when lawfully administered. PERK, a. W. perc.] Properly, erect; hence, smart; trim. PERK, r. i. [W. percu.] To hold up the head with affected smartness. Pope. PERK, . t. To dress; to make trim or smart; to prank. PERK IN, n. Ciderkin; a kind of cider made by steeping the murk in water. Encyc. PERLATE ACID. The acidulous phosphate of soda. PER-LUSTRATION, n. [L. perlustro.] The act of view ing all over. Howell. PER MA-GY, n. A little Turkish boat. Dict. the form or nature of a thing; duration; fixedness. 2. Continuance in the same place or at rest. PER MA-NENT, a. [L. permanens.] Durable; lasting; continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys the form or nature of the thing.-Permanent is equivalent to durable or lasting, but not to undecaying or unalterable. PER MA-NENT-LY, adv. With long continuance; durably; in a fixed state or place. PER-MAN SION, n [L. permansio.] Continuance. PER-ME-A-BILITY, R. The quality or state of being permeable. Journ. of Science. PER ME-A-BLE, a. [L. permeo.] That may be passed through without rupture or displacement of its parts, as solid matter. PER ME-ANT, a. Passing through. Brown. PER ME-ATE, v. t. [L. permeo.] To pass through the pores of interstices of a body; to penetrate and pass through a substance without rupture or displacement of its parts. PER ME-A-TED, pp. Passed through, as by a fluid. PER ME-A-TING, ppr. Passing through the pores or inter stices of a substance. PER-ME-ATION, n. The act of passing through the pores or interstices of a body PER-MISCI-BLE, a. [L. permisceo.] That may be mixed. [Little used.] PER-MIS SI-BLE, a. That may be permitted or allowed. PER-MISSION, n. [L. permissio.] 1. The act of permitting or allowing. 2. Allowance; license or liberty granted. PER-MIS/SIVE, a. 1. Granting liberty; allowing. Milton. 2. Granted; suffered without hinderance. Milton. PER-MISSIVE-LY, adr. By allowance; without prohibition or hinderance. PER MIS TION, or PER-MIXTION, n. [L. permistio, permixtio.] The act of mixing; the state of being mingled. PER-MIT', v. t. [L. permitto.] 1. To allow; to grant leave or liberty to by express consent. 2. To allow by silent consent or by not prohibiting; to suffer without giving express authority. 3. To afford ability or means. 4. To leave; to give or resign. *PER-MIT', n. 1. 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. 2. Warrant; leave permission. PER-MITTANCE, n. Allowance; forbearance of prohibition; permission. Derham. PER-MIXTION. See PERMISTION. PER-MU-TATION, n. [L. permutatio.] 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. PER-MOTE, e. t. [L. permuto.] To exchange; to barter PER-MOT'ER, n. One that exchanges. PER NAN-CY, n. [Norm. perner.] A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind. PER-NICIOUS, a. [L. perniciosus.] 1. Destructive; hav ing the quality of killing, destroying or injuring; very injurious or mischievous. 2. Destructive; tending to injure or destroy. 3. [L. perniz.] Quick; [obs.] PER-NY"CIOUS-LY, ade. Destructively; with ruinous tendency or effects. Ascham. PER-NI-CIOUS-NESS, n. The quality of being very injurious, mischievous or destructive. PER-NICI-TY, n. [L. pernicitas.] Swiftness of motion, celerity. [Little used.] Ray. PER-NOC-TATION, n. [L. pernocto.] The act of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. PE-ROGUE. See PIROGUE. PER-O-RATION, n. [L. peroratio.] The concluding part of an oration, in which the speaker recapitulates the principal points of his discourse. PER-OXYD, . [per and oryd.] A substance containing an unusual quantity of oxygen. Davy. PER-OXY-DIZE, v. t. To oxydize to the utmost degree. PER-PEND', v. t. [L. perpendo.] To weigh in the mind; to consider attentively. [Little used.] Shak. PER-PENDER, n. [Fr. parpaing.] A coping stone. PER-PENDI-CLE, n. [L. perpendiculum.] Something hanging down in a direct line; a plumb-line. PER PEN-DIC U-LAR, a. (L. perpendicularis.] 1. Hanging or extending in a right line from any point towards the centre 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. PER-PEN DICU-LAR, n. 1. A line falling at right angles on the plane of the horizon.-2. In geometry, a line falling at right angles on another line. PER-PEN-DIC-U-LARI-TY, #. The state of being perpen dicular. Watts. PER-PEN-DICU-LAR-LY, ade. 1. In a manner to fall on another line at right angles. 2. So as to fall on the plane of the horizon at right angles; in a direction towards the centre of the earth or of gravity. + PER-PENSION, n. [L. perpendo.] Consideration. PER-PES'SION, n. [L. perpessio.] Suffering; endurance. PER PE-TRATE, v. i. [L. perpetro.] To do; to commit, an evil act. to perform; in an ill sense, that is, always used to express || PER PE-TRA-TED, pp. Done; committed; as an evil act. PERPE-TRA-TING, ppr. Committing; as a crime or evil act. PER-PE-TRATION, n. 1. The act of committing a crime. 2. An evil action. K. Charles. PER PE-TRA-TOR, n. One that commits a crime. PER-PET U-AL, a. [Fr. perpetuel; L. perpetuus.] 1. Never-ceasing; continuing forever in future time; destined to be eternal. 2. Continuing or continued without intermission; uninterrupted. 3. Permanent; fixed; not temporary. 4. Everlasting; endless. 5. During the legal dispensation. PER-PETU-AL-LY, adv. Constantly; continually; applied to things which proceed without intermission, or which occur frequently or at intervals, without limitation. PER-PETU-ATE, v. t. [L. perpetuo.], 1. To make perpetual; to eternize. 2. To cause to endure or to be continued indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion. 3. To continue by repetition without limitation. PER-PET U-A-TED, pp. Made perpetual; continued through || eternity, or for an indefinite time. PER-PETU-A-TING, ppr. Continuing forever or indefi nitely. PER-PET-U-A'TION, n. The act of making perpetual. PER-PE-TUI-TY, n. [L. perpetuitas.] 1. Endless duration; continuance to eternity. 2. Continued uninterrupted existence, or duration for an indefinite period of time. 3. Something of which there will be no end. PER-PHOSPHATE, n. A phosphate in which the phosphoric acid is combined with an oxyd at the maximum of oxydation. PER-PLEX', v. t. [L. perplexus.] 1. To make intricate; to involve; to entangle; to make complicated and difficult to be understood or unraveled. 2. To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to tease with suspense, anxiety or ambi. guity. 3. To plague; to vex. †PER-PLEX', a. Intricate; difficult. Glanville. PER-PLEX ED, (per-plext') pp. Made intricate; embarrassed; puzzled. PER-PLEX ED-LY, adv. Intricately; with involution. PER-PLEX ED-NESS, n. 1. Intricacy; difficulty from want of order or precision. 2. Embarrassment of mind from doubt or uncertainty. PER-PLEX'I-TY, n. 1. Intricacy; entanglement. 2. Embarrassment of mind; disturbance from doubt, confusion, difficulty or anxiety. PER-PO-TATION, n. [L. per and poto.] The act of drinking largely. PER-QUAD-RI-ŠUL PHATE, n. A sulphate with four proportions of sulphuric acid combined with a maximum oxyd. PER QUI-SITE, n. [L. perquisitus.] 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. PER QUI-SIT-ED, a. Supplied with perquisites. Savage. PER-QUI-SITION, n. [L. perquisitus.] An accurate inquiry or search. Ainsworth." PER-RO-QUET', n. [Fr.] A species of parrot; also, the alca psittacula, an aquatic fowl. PERRY, n. [Fr. poire.] The juice of pears, which, being clarified by fermentation, is a pleasant drink. PER-SERU-TATION, n. [L. perscrutatio.] A searching thoroughly; minute search or inquiry. PER/SE-CUTE, v. t. [Fr. persecuter.] 1. In a general sense, to pursue in a manner to injure, vex or afflict; to harass with unjust punishment; to inflict pain from hatred or malignity.-2. Appropriately, to afflict, harass or destroy for adherence to a particular creed or system of religious principles, or to a mode of worship. 3. To harass with solicitations or importunity. PER'SE-CU-TED, pp. Harassed by troubles or punishments unjustly inflicted, particularly for religious opinions. PER SE-CU-TING, ppr. Pursuing with enmity or vengeance, particularly for adhering to a particular religion. PER-SE-CUTION, n. 1. The act or practice of persecuting. 2. The state of being persecuted. PER/SE-CU-TOR, n. One that persecutes; one that pursues another unjustly and vexatiously, particularly on account of religious principles. PER-SE-VER ANCE, n. [Fr.; L. perseverantia.] 1. Persistence in any thing undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business or enterprise begun.-2. In theology, continuance in a state of grace to a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance. †PER-SE-VER'ANT, a. Constant in pursuit of an undertaking. Ainsworth. t PER-SE-VER'ANT-LY, adv. With constancy. Spiritual Conquest. PER-SE-VERE', v. i. [L. persevero.] To persist in any pusiness or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any design or course commenced; not to give over or abandon what is undertaken. PER-SE-VERING, ppr. 1. Persisting in any business or course begun. 2. a. Constant in the execution of a purpose or enterprise. PER-SE-VERING-LY, adv. With perseverance or can tinued pursuit of what is undertaken. PER SI-FLAGE, n. [Fr.] A jeering; ridicule. H. Mare. PER-SIM'MON, n. A tree and its fruit. Mease. PER-SIST', v. i. [L. persisto.] To continue steadily and PER-SISTENT, a. In botany, continuing without with- PER-SISTIVE, a. Steady in pursuit ; not receding from a purpose or undertaking; persevering. Shak. PER SON, (per'sn) n. [L. persona.] 1. An individua! human being consisting of body and soul. 2 A man, woman or child, considered as opposed to things, or detact from them. 3. A human being, considered with respect to the living body or corporeal existence only 4. A buman being, indefinitely; one; a man. 5. A human being represented in dialogue, fiction, or on the stage; character. 6. Character of office.-7. In grammar, the nominative to a verb; the agent that performs, or the patient that suffers, any thing affirmed by a verb.-8. In law, an artifcial person is a corporation or body politic.-In person, by one's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. PER/SON, . t. To represent as a person; to make to resemble; to image. Milton. PER SON-A-BLE, a. 1. Having a well-formed body or person; graceful; of good appearance.-2. In law, enabled to maintain pleas in court. 3. Having capacity to take any thing granted or given. PERSON-AGE, n. [Fr. personnage.] 1. A man or woman of distinction. 2. Exterior appearance; stature; air. 3. Character assumed. 4. Character represented. PER SON-AL, a. [L. personalis.] 1. Belonging to men or women, not to things; not real. 2. Relating to an individual; affecting individuals; peculiar or proper to him or her, or to private actions or character. 3. Pertaining to the corporal nature; exterior; corporal. 4. Present in person; not acting by representative.-Personal estate, in law, movables; chattels; things belonging to the person; as money, jewels, furniture, &c., as distinguished from real estate in land and houses.-Personal identity, in metaphysics, sameness of being, of which consciousness is the evidence.-Personal verb, in grammar, a verb conjugated in the three persons. † PERSON-AL, n. Â movable. PER-SON-ALITY, n. 1. That which constitutes an individual a distinct person, or that which constitutes individuality. 2. Direct application or applicability to a per son. PER SON-AL-LY, adv. 1. In person; by bodily presence; not by representative or substitute. 2. With respect to an individual; particularly. 3. With regard to numerical existence. PERSON-ATE, v. t. 1. To represent by a fictitious or assumed character so as to pass for the person represented. 2. To represent by action or appearance; to assume the character and act the part of another. 3. To pretend hypocritically; [..] 4. To counterfeit; to feign; as, a personated devotion. Hammond. 5. To resemble. Shak. 6. To make a representation of, as in picture; [obs.] 7. To describe; [obs.] 8. [L. persono.] To celebrate loudly; Jobs.] PER/SON-ATE, v. i. To display a fictitious character. PERSON-ATE, a. [L. persona, a mask.] Masked. PER-SON-ATION, n. The counterfeiting of the person and character of another. Bacon. PER SON-A-TOR, n. 1. One who assumes the character of another. 2. One that acts or performs. B. Jonson, PER-SON-I-FI-ЄA'TION, n. The giving to an inanimate being the figure or the sentiments and language of a rational being; prosopopia. PER-SON'I-FIED, pp. Represented with the attributes of a person. PER-SONI-FY, v. t. [L. persona and facie.] To give animation to inanimate objects; to ascribe to an inanimate being the sentiments, actions or language of a rational being or person. PER-SON'I-FY-ING, ppr. Giving to an inanimate being the attributes of a person. PER'SON-IZE, v. t. To personify. [Not much used.] property, right or duty of. 2. To have relation to. Acts i PER-TER-E-BRA'TION, n. [L. per and terebratio.] The act of boring through. Ainsworth. through which objects are viewed. 2. The art of drawing ||PER-TAIN', v. i. [L. pertineo.] 1. To belong; to be the on a plane surface true resemblances or pictures of objects, as the objects appear to the eye from any distance and situation, real and imaginary. 3. A representation of ob jects in perspective. 4. View; vista. 5. A kind of painting, often seen in gardens and at the end of a gallery, designed expressly to deceive the sight by representing the continuation of an alley, a building, a landscape or the like. PER-SPECTIVE-LY, adv. Optically; through a glass; by representation. Shak. PERSPI-CA-BLE, 4. Discernible. Herbert. PER-SPI-CACIOUS, a. [L. perspicaz.] 1. Quick-sighted; sharp of sight. 2. Of acute discernment. PER-SPI-CACIOUS-NESS, n. Acuteness of sight. PER-SPI-CACI-TY, n. [L. perspicacitas.] 1. Acuteness of sight; quickness of sight. 2. Acuteness of discernment or understanding. PER SPI-CA-CY, n. Acuteness of sight or discernment. PER-SPI CIENCE, n. [L. perspiciens.] The act of looking sharply. PER SPI-CIL, n. [L. per and speculum.] An optic glass. [Little used.] Crashaw. PER-SPI-COLTY, n. [Fr. perspicuité ; L. perspicuitas.] 1. Transparency; clearness; that quality of a substance which renders objects visible through it; [little used.] 2. Clearness to mental vision; easiness to be understood; freedom from obscurity or ambiguity; that quality of writing or language which readily presents to the mind of another the precise ideas of the author. PER-SPICUOUS, a. [L. perspicuus.] 1. Transparent; translucent; [1. u.] 2. Clear to the understanding; that may be clearly understood; not obscure or ambiguous. PER SPIOU-OUS-LY, adv. Clearly; plainly; in a manner to be easily understood. Bacon. PER-SPICUOUS-NESS, n. Clearness to intellectual vision;|| plainness; freedom from obscurity. PER-SPI-RA-BIL'I-TY, n. The quality of being perspirable. PER-SPI-RA-BLE, a. [from L. perspiro.] 1. That may be perspired; that may be evacuated through the pores of the skin. 2. Emitting perspiration; [not proper.] PER SPI-RA TION, n. [L. perspiro.] 1. The act of perspiring; excretion by the cuticular pores; evacuation of the fluids of the body through the pores of the skin. 2. Matter perspired. PER-SPI-RA-TIVE, a. Performing the act of perspiration. PER-SPI-RA-TO-RY, a. Perspirative. Berkeley. PER SPIRE, v. i. [L. per and spire.] 1. To evacuate the fluids of the body through the pores of the skin. 2. To be evacuated or excreted through the pores of the skin. PER SPIRE, v. t. To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin. Smollett. PER STRINGE, (per-strinj') v. t. [L. perstringo.] To graze; to glance on. Burton. PERSUAD A-BLE, a. That may be persuaded. PERSUAD'A-BLY, adr. So as to be persuaded. PER SUADE, (per-swade') v. t. [L. persuadeo.] 1. To influence by argument, advice, entreaty or expostulation; to draw or incline the will to a determination by presenting motives to the mind. 2. To convince by argument, or by evidence presented in any manner to the mind. 3. To inculcate by argument or expostulation; [1. u.] 4. To treat by persuasion; [obs.] PER SUADED, pp. Influenced or drawn to an opinion or determination by argument, advice or reasons suggested; convinced; induced. PER SUADER, n. 1. One that persuades or influences another. Bacon. 2. That which incites. Milton. PER-SUADING, ppr. Influencing by motives presented. PER SUA-SI-BIL/I-TY, n. Capability of being persuaded. PERSUASI-BLE, a. [L. persuasibilis.] That may be persuaded or influenced by reasons offered. PER SUASI-BLE-NESS, n. The quality of being influenced by persuasion. PER SUASION, (per-swa/zhun) n. [Fr. ; L. persuasio.] 1. The act of persuading. 2. The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction proceeding from auguments and reasons offered by others, or suggested by one's own reflections. 3. A creed or belief; or a sect or a party adhering to a creed or system of opinions. PERSUASIVE, a. Having the power of persuading; influencing the mind or passions. PERSUASIVE-LY, adv. In such a manner as to persuade or convince. Milton, PER-SUASIVE-NESS, n. The quality of having influence on the mind or passions. Taylor, PER SUA SO-RY, a. Having power to persuade. PER SULPHATE, n. A combination of sulphuric acid with the peroxyd of iron. Webster's Manual. PERT, 4. [W. pert.] 1. Lively; brisk; smart. 2. Forward; saucy; bold; indecorously free. Addison. PERT, . An assuming, over-forward, or impertinent person. Goldsmith. PERT, e. i. To behave with pertness; to be saucy. Bp. Gauden. PER-TI-NA CIOUS, a. [L. pertinax.] 1. Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose or design with obstinacy; obstinate; perversely resolute or persistent. 2. Resolute firm; constant; steady. PER-TI-NACIOUS-LY, adv. Obstinately; with firm or perverse adherence to opinion or purpose. PER-TI-NA'CIOUS-NESS, n. [L. pertinacia.] 1. Firm or PER-TI-NACI-TY, unyielding adherence to opinion or purpose; obstinacy. 2. Resolution; constarey. PER TI-NA-CY, n. Obstinacy; stubbornness; persistency; resolution; steadiness. [Little used.] Taylor. PER TI-NENCE, n. [L. pertinens.] Justness of relation PER TI-NEN-CY, to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; suitableness. PER TI-NENT, a. [L. pertinens.] 1. Related to the subject PER TIN GENT, a. [L. pertingens.] Reaching to. ness. 2. Saucily; with indecorous confidence or boldness. PERT NESS, n. 1. Briskness; smartness. 2. Sauciness; forward promptness or boldness. 3. Petty liveliness; sprightliness without force, dignity or solidity. PER-TURB', ) v. t. [L. perturbo.] 1. To disturb; to *PERTUR-BATE, agitate; to disquiet. 2. To disorder; to confuse. PER-TUR-BA TION, n. [L. perturbatio.] 1. Disquiet or agitation of mind. 2. Restlessness of passions; great uneasiness. 3. Disturbance disorder; commotion in public affairs. 4. Disturbance of passions; commotion of spirit. 5. Cause of disquiet. PER-TUR BATOR, n. One that disturbs or raises comPER TURB ER, motion. [Little used.] PER-TURBED, (per-turbd) pp. Disturbed; agitated; dis quieted. PER-TOSE', a. [L. pertusus.] 1. Punched; pierced with PER-TOSED, holes.-2. In botany, full of hollow dots on the surface, as a leaf. PER-TOSION, n. [L. pertusus.] 1. The act of punching, piercing or thrusting through with a pointed instrument. 2. A little hole made by punching; a perforation. PERUKE, n. [Fr. perruque; It. perrucca.] An artificial cap of hair; a periwig. Wiseman. PER UKE, v. t. To dress in adscititious hair PER UKE-MA-KER, n. A maker of perukes; a wig-ma. ker. PE-RO'SAL, n. 1. The act of reading. 2. Careful view or examination; [unusual.] Tatler. PE-ROSE, v. t. 1. To read, or to read with attention. 2 PE-RO VI-AN, a. Pertaining to Peru, in S. America.-Pe rurian bark, the bark of the cinchona, a tree of Peru⚫ called also Jesuits' bark. PER-VADE', v. t. [L. pervado.] 1. To pass through an aperture, pore or interstice; to permeate. 2. To pass or spread through the whole extent of a thing and into every minute part. 3. We use this verb in a transitive form to express a passive or an intransitive signification. PER-VADED, pp. Passed through; permeated; penetrated in every part. PER-VADING, Ppr. Passing through or extending to every part of a thing. PER-VA'SION, n. The act of pervading or passing through the whole extent of a thing. Boyle. PER-VERSE', (per-vers) a. [L. perversus.] 1. Literally, turned aside; hence, distorted from the right. 2. Obstnate in the wrong; disposed to be contrary; stubborn; untractable. 3. Cross; petulant; peevish; disposed to cross and vex. PER VERSE LY, (per-versly) ade. With intent to vex; crossly; peevishly; obstinately in the wrong. PER-VERSENESS, . Disposition to cross or vex; untractableness; crossness of temper. 2. Perversion; [obs.] PER-VER SION, n. [Fr. ; L. perversus.] The act of perverting; a turning from truth or propriety; a diverting from the true intent or object; change to something worse. PER-VERSI-TY, n. Perverseness; crossness; disposition to thwart or cross. Norris. PER-VERSIVE, a. Tending to pervert or carrupt. PER-VERT', v. t. [L. perverto.] 1. To tim from truth, propriety, or from its proper purpose; to distort from its true use or end. 2. To turn from the right; to corrupt PER-VERTED, pp. Turned from right to wrong; distorted corrupted; misinterpreted; misemployed PER-VERTER, n. One that perverts or turns from right to wrong; one that distorts, misinterprets or misapplies. PER-VERTI-BLE, a. That may be perverted. Ainsworth. PER-VERTING, ppr. Turning from right to wrong; distorting; misinterpreting; misapplying; corrupting. PER-VESTI-GATE, v. t. [L. pervestigo.] To find out by research. Cockeram. PER-VES-TI-GA'TION, n. Diligent inquiry; thorough research. Chillingworth. PER-VI-CACIOUS, a. [L. pervicaz.] Very obstinate; stubborn; willfully contrary or refractory. Denham. PER-VI-CACIOUS-LY, adv. With willful obstinacy. PER-VI-CACIOUS-NESS, PER-VI-CAC'I-TY, n. Stubbornness; willful obPERVI-CA-CY, stinacy. [Little used.] PER VI-OUS, a. [L. pervius.] 1. Admitting passage; that may be penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; penetrable. 2. That may be penetrated by the mental sight. 3. Pervading; permeating; [not proper.] PER/VI-OUS-NESS, n. The quality of admitting passage or of being penetrated. Boyle. FE-SADE', n. [Fr. passade.] The motion of a horse when he raises his fore quarters, keeping his hind feet on the ground without advancing. PE'SO, n. A Spanish coin weighing an ounce; a piaster; a piece of eight. Sp. Dict. PESSA-RY, n. [Fr. pessaire.] A solid substance composed of wool, lint or linen, mixed with powder, oil, wax, &c., made round and long like a finger, to be introduced into the neck of the matrix for the cure of some disorder. PEST, n. [Fr. peste; L. pestis.] 1. Plague; pestilence; a fatal epidemic disease. 2. Any thing very noxious, mischievous or destructive. PESTER, v. t. [Fr. pester.] 1. To trouble; to disturb; to †PESTI-DUCT, n. [L. pestis and duco.] That which conveys or brings contagion. Donne. PES-TIFER-OUS, a. [L. pestis and fero.] 1. Pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious. 2. Noxious to peace, to morals or to society; mischievous; destructive. 3. Troublesome; vexatious. Shak. PESTI-LENCE, n. [L. pestilentia.] 1. Plague, appropriately so called; but in a general sense, any contagious or infectious disease that is epidemic and mortal. 2. Corruption or moral disease destructive to happiness. PESTI-LENT, a. [L. pestilens.] 1. Producing the plague, or other malignant, contagious disease; noxious to health and life. 2. Mischievous; noxious to morals or society; destructive. 3. Troublesome; mischievous; making disturbance; corrupt. PES-TI-LENTIAL, a. 1. Partaking of the nature of the plague or other infectious disease. 2. Producing or tending to produce infectious disease. 3. Mischievous; destructive; pernicious. South. PESTI-LENT-LY, adv. Mischievously; destructively. PES-TIL-LATION, n. [L. pistillum.] The act of pounding and bruising in a mortar. [Little used.] Brown. PESTLE, (pes) n. [L. pistillum.] An instrument for pounding and breaking substances ín a mortar.--Pestle of pork, a gammon of bacon. Ainsworth. †PESTLË, v. i. To use a pestle. B. Jonson. PET, n. [contracted from petulant.] A slight fit of peevishness or fretful discontent. PET, n. [formerly peat. Qu. W. pêth.] 1. A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand. 2. A fondling; any little animal fondled and indulged. PET, v. t. To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge. PET, v. i. To take offence; to be in a slight passion. * PETAL, or PET'AL, n. [Fr. petale.] In botany, a flower leaf. FET ALED, a. Having petals; as a petaled flower. PET'A-LINE, a. Pertaining to a petal. Barton. PET A-LISM, n. [Gr. neraλiopos.] A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans, by which they proscribed a citizen. PET AL-ITE, n. [Gr. neraλov.] A rare mineral. PETA-LOID, a. [petal, and Gr. eidos.] Having the form of petals. Barton. PET AL-SHAPED, a. Having the shape of a petal. PE-TARD', n. [It., Sp. petardo; Fr. petard.] An engine of war made of metal, nearly in the shape of a hat, to be loaded with powder and fixed on a madrier or plank, and used to break gates, barricades, draw-bridges and the like, by explosion. PE-TAR. The same as petard PE-TE CHI-Æ, n. [Sp. petequia; It. petecchia.] Purple spots which appear on the skin in malignant fevers. PE-TE CHI-AL, a. [Sp. petequial.] Spotted. A petechial fever is a malignant fever accompanied with purple spots on the skin. PET'E-REL, or PET'REL, n. An aquatic fowl of the genus procellaria. PETER-PENCE, n. A tax or tribute formerly paid by the PETI-O-LAR, a. 1. Pertaining to a petiole, or proceed. PETI-O-LA-RY, ing from it. 2. Formed from a petiole. 3. Growing on a petiole. PETI-O-LATE, a. Growing on a petiole; as a petiolate PET'I-OLED, leaf. Martyn. PETI-OLE, n. [L. petiolus.] In botany, a leaf-stalk; the foot-stalk of a leaf. PETIT, (petty) a. [Fr. See PETTY.] Small; little; mean. This word petit is now generally written petty. PETIT-MAITRE, (pet'te-mãe-tur) n. [Fr.] A spruce fellow that dangles about females; a fop; a coxcomb. PE-TITION, n. [L. petitio.] 1. In a general sense, a request, supplication or prayer; but chiefly and appropriately, a solemn or formal supplication; a prayer addressed by a person to the Supreme Being. 2. A formal request or supplication from an inferior to a superior. 3. The paper containing a supplication or solicitation. PE-TITION, v. t. To make a request to; to ask from; to solicit; particularly, to make supplication to a superior for some favor or right. PE-TITION-A-RI-LY, adv. By way of begging the question. PE-TY TION-A-RY, a. 1. Supplicatory; coming with a petition. 2. Containing a petition or request. Swift. PE-TITION-ER, n. One that presents à petition, either verbal or written. PE-TITION-ING, ppr. Asking as a favor, grant, right or mercy; supplicating. PE-TITION-ING, n. The act of asking or soliciting; solicitation; supplication. PET'I-TO-RY, a. Petitioning; soliciting. Brewer. PE-TONG', n. The Chinese name of a species of copper of a white color. Pinkerton. PE TRE, Sec SALTPETRE. PETER, PE-TRE AN, a. [L. petra.] Pertaining to rock. PET-RI-FACTION, n. 1. The process of changing into stone; the conversion of wood or any animal or vegetable substance into stone or a body of stony hardness. 2. That which is converted from animal or vegetable substance into stone.-3. In popular usage, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation. PET-RI-FACTIVE, a. 1. Pertaining to petrifaction. 2 Having power to convert vegetable or animal substances into stone. PE-TRIFIC, a. Having power to convert into stone. +PETRI-FI-CATE, v. t. To petrify. Hall. PET-RI-FI-CATION, n. 1. The process of petrifying. 2 That which is petrified, a petrifaction. 3. Obduracy; callousness. PETRI-FIED, pp. 1. Changed into stone. 2. Fixed in amazement. PETRI-FY, v. t. [L. petra and facio.] 1. To convert to PET-RO-SI-LICIOUS, a. Consisting of petrosilex. PETITI-FOG, v. i. [Fr. petit and voguer.] To do small business; as a lawyer. [Vulgar.] PET TI-FOG-GER, n. An inferior attorney or lawyer whe is employed in small or mean business. PET TI-FOG-GER-Y, n. The practice of a pettifogger, tricks; quibbles. Milton. PET TI-NESS, n. Smallness; littleness. Shak. PET TISH-LY, adv. In a pet; with a freek of ill-temper. PET TI-TÕES, n. The toes or feet of a pig; sometimes used for the human feet in contempt. PETTO, n. [It., from L. pectus.] The breast; hence, petto, in secrecy; in reserve. Chesterfield. |