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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Pĕr'i-spĕrm, n.p. 971(Bot.) The albumen of a seed. Gray.
  2. Pĕr'i-sphĕr'ie or Pĕr'i-sphĕr'ie-al, a.p. 971Having the form of a ball; globular.
  3. Pĕr'is-so-lŏg'ic-al, a.p. 971Redundant in words. [Rare.]
  4. Pĕr'is-sŏl'o-gy, n.p. 971Superfluous words; much talk to little purpose. [Rare.] Campbell.
  5. Pĕr/i-stăl'tic, a.p. 971(Anat.) Contracting in successive circles;—a term applied to the vermicular motion of the alimentary canal, and similar structures, by which their contents are forced onward. It consists in the…
  6. Pĕr'is-tē'ri-on, n.p. 971The herb vervain.
  7. Pe-rĭs'te-rīte, n.p. 971(Min.) A variety of feldspar containing a small proportion of magnesia. Dana.
  8. Pēr'i-stōme, n.p. 971(Bot.) The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. Gray.
  9. Pēr'i-stō'mi-ūm, n.p. 971The same as PERISTOME.
  10. Pēr'i-strēph'ie, a.p. 971Turning round, or rotatory; revolving.
  11. Pĕr'i-stȳle, n.p. 971(Arch.) A range of columns round a building or square, or a building encompassed with a row of columns on the outside. Guilt.
  12. Pĕr'i-sys'to-le, n.p. 971(Med.) The pause or interval between the systole or contraction, and the diastole or dilatation, of the heart.
  13. Pe-rīte', a.p. 971Skilled; skillful. [Obs.] Whitaker.
  14. Pĕr'i-thē'ci-ūm, n.p. 971(Bot.) An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification. Henslow.
  15. Pe-rit'o-moûs, a.p. 971(Min.) Cleaving in more directions than one parallel to the axis, the faces being all of one quality.
  16. Pĕr'i-to-nē'al, a.p. 971Pertaining to the peritoneum.
  17. Pĕr′-i-to-nē′um, n.p. 971(Anat.) A thin, smooth, serous membrane, investing the whole internal surface of the abdomen, and more or less completely all the viscera contained in it, and of which it forms the surface.
  18. Pēr'i-trō'chi-ūm, n.p. 971(Mech.) The wheel and axle; axis in peritrochio. See AXIS.
  19. Pĕr'-i-trō'pal, a.p. 971Rotatory; circuitous. 2. (Bot.) Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.
  20. Pĕr'ĭ-vĭs'cer-al, a.p. 971Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity.
  21. Pĕr'-i-wig, n.p. 971A small wig; a kind of close cap formed by an intertexture of false hair, worn by men for ornament or to conceal baldness; a peruke; a scratch.
  22. Pĕr'i-wĭg, v. t.p. 971To dress with a periwig, or with false hair. Swift.
  23. Pér'-i-wĭnk, n.p. 971A periwinkle. [Obs.]
  24. Per'i-winkle, n.p. 971(Zoöl.) A gasteropodous mollusk, having a turbinated shell; Littorina littorea. Baird. 2. [O. Eng. perwinkle, parvenke, Fr. pervenche, It. & Lat. pervinca, A-S. pervince, pinevincle.] (Bot.) A…
  25. Pĕr'jure, v. t.p. 971To render guilty of perjury; to cause to swear before a court of justice to what one knows to be untrue, or does not know to be true; to forswear; — used reflexively; as, to perjure one's self. 2. To…
  26. Pĕr'jure, n.p. 971A perjured person. [Obs.] Shak.
  27. Pĕr'jured, a.p. 971Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; being sworn falsely. “Their perjured oath.” Spenser. “These perjured beings.” “I mean, in perjured witness.” Shak.
  28. Pĕr'jur-er, n.p. 971One who willfully takes a false oath lawfully administered.
  29. Per-jū'ri-oŭs or Per'ju-rōus, a.p. 971Guilty of perjury; containing perjury.
  30. Pér'ju-ry, n.p. 971False swearing; the act or crime of willfully making a false oath, when lawfully administered; or the crime committed when a lawful oath is administered, in some judicial proceeding, to a person who…
  31. Pĕrk, a.p. 971Pert; uppish; smart; trim; vain. “Perk as a peacock.” Spenser.
  32. Pĕrk, v. i.p. 971To hold up the head with affected smartness. “That Edward’s miss thus perks it in your face.” Pope.
  33. Pĕrk, v. t.p. 971To dress up; to make trim or smart; to prank. Shak.
  34. Pĕr'kin, n.p. 972A kind of weak cider, made by steeping the refuse pomace in water; ciderkin.
  35. Pĕr'kin-ism, n.p. 972(Med.) A remedial treatment, which consisted in drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration; — so called from Dr. Elisha Perkins, of…
  36. Pĕr'kin-ist, n.p. 972One who believes in, or practices, Perkinism. Dunglison.
  37. Pēr'kin-ist'ic, a.p. 972Of, or pertaining to, Perkinism. Dunglison.
  38. Pĕrk'y, a.p. 972Perk; pert; jaunty; trim. “There amid perky larches and pine.” Tennyson.
  39. Per-lā'ceous, a.p. 972Resembling pearl; pearly.
  40. Pĕr'lite, n.p. 972(Min.) The same as PEARL-STONE.
  41. Pĕr'loüs, a.p. 972Perilous; parlous. [Obs.] Spenser.
  42. Pĕr'lus-trā'tion, n.p. 972The act of viewing all over. [Rare.] Howell.
  43. Pĕr'mā, n.p. 972A little Turkish boat.
  44. Pĕr'ma-gy, n.p. 972A man who rows or manages a Turkish boat. Bailey.
  45. Pĕr'ma-nence or Pĕr'ma-nen'cy, n.p. 972The condition or quality of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness. China is an instance of permanence without progression. Coleridge.
  46. Pĕr'ma-nent, a.p. 972Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; lasting; continuing. Permanent way, the road-bed and…
  47. Pér'ma-nent-ly, adv.p. 972In a permanent manner; with long continuance; durably.
  48. Per-măn’sion, n.p. 972Continuance. [Obs.] Browne.
  49. Pĕr'me-a-bĭl'i-ty, n.p. 972The quality or state of being permeable.
  50. Pēr'me-a-ble, a.p. 972Admitting of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; penetrable; — used especially of the passage of fluids. “Each of which has become permeable to the same beams of light.” I. Taylor.
  51. Pĕr'me-a-bly, adv.p. 972In a permeable manner.
  52. Pĕr'me-ant, a.p. 972Passing through; permeating. Browne.
  53. Pér'me-āte, v. t.p. 972To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; — applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as…
  54. Pĕr'me-ā'tion, n.p. 972The act of permeating or passing through the pores or interstices of a body.
  55. Pĕr'mi-an, a.p. 972(Geol.) Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the carboniferous, and regarded as closing the carboniferous age and paleozoic era. Dana.
  56. Per-mīs'çi-ble, a.p. 972Capable of being mixed; admitting mixture.
  57. Per-miss', n.p. 972A permitted choice or selection; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent. [Obs.] “Administering one excess against another to reduce us to a permiss.”…
  58. Per-mis'si-ble, a.p. 972Proper to be permitted; allowable; sufferable. If otherwise expedient, the nomenclature is permissible. Sir W. Hamilton.
  59. Per-mis'si-bly, adv.p. 972In a permissible manner; by allowance.
  60. Per-mĭs'sion, n.p. 972The act of permitting; allowance; formal consent; leave; license or liberty granted. Do as thou find'st Permission from above. Milton. You have given me your permission for this address. Dryden. Syn.…