Per-dū' or Pĕr'du1, n.
One who is placed on the watch or in ambush. Shak.
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Perdu
Per-dū' or Pĕr'du or Per-dūe' or Pĕr'due2, a.
[Fr. perdu, f. perdue, lost, p. p. of perdre, to lose; Lat. perdere. See PERDITION.]
Sense 1. Lost to view; in concealment; close.
Object not that it is unfitting he should lie perdue who is to walk the round. Fuller.
The moderator, out of view, Beneath the desk had lain perdue. Trumbull.
Sense 2. Abandoned; employed on desperate purposes; accustomed to desperate enterprises. Beau. & Fl.