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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'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.
  2. 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…
  3. Pér'ma-nent-ly, adv.p. 972In a permanent manner; with long continuance; durably.
  4. Per-măn’sion, n.p. 972Continuance. [Obs.] Browne.
  5. Pĕr'me-a-bĭl'i-ty, n.p. 972The quality or state of being permeable.
  6. 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.
  7. Pĕr'me-a-bly, adv.p. 972In a permeable manner.
  8. Pĕr'me-ant, a.p. 972Passing through; permeating. Browne.
  9. 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…
  10. Pĕr'me-ā'tion, n.p. 972The act of permeating or passing through the pores or interstices of a body.
  11. 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.
  12. Per-mīs'çi-ble, a.p. 972Capable of being mixed; admitting mixture.
  13. 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.”…
  14. Per-mis'si-ble, a.p. 972Proper to be permitted; allowable; sufferable. If otherwise expedient, the nomenclature is permissible. Sir W. Hamilton.
  15. Per-mis'si-bly, adv.p. 972In a permissible manner; by allowance.
  16. 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.…
  17. Per-mĭs'sĭve, a.p. 972Granting liberty; allowing. “By his permissive will.” Milton. 2. Suffered without hinderance; granted. Thus I, emboldened, spake, and freedom used Permissive, and acceptance found. Milton.
  18. Per-mĭs'sĭve-ly, adv.p. 972By allowance; without prohibition or hinderance.
  19. Per-mĭs'tion, n.p. 972The act of mixing; the state of being mixed.
  20. Per-mit′, v. t.p. 972To give over; to resign; to give in charge; to refer; to leave. For provided our duty be secured, for the degrees and for the instruments every man is permitted to himself. Bp. Taylor. Let us not…
  21. Per-mit′, v. t.p. 972To grant permission; to give leave or license.
  22. Pĕr’mit or Per-mit’, n.p. 972Warrant; leave; permission; specifically, 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.
  23. Per-mĭt'tançe, n.p. 972The act of permitting; allowance; forbearance of prohibition; permission. Thus we see how this unclean permittance defeats the sacred and glorious end both of the moral and judicial law. Milton.
  24. Pĕr'mit-tee', n.p. 972One to whom permission is given.
  25. Per-mĭt'ter, n.p. 972One who permits.
  26. Per-mĭx', v. t.p. 972To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]
  27. Per-mix'tion, n.p. 972See PERMISTION.
  28. Per-mūt'a-ble, a.p. 972Admitting of being permuted; exchangeable.
  29. Per-mūt'a-ble-ness, n.p. 972The state of being permutable.
  30. Per-mūt'a-bly, adv.p. 972In a permutable manner; by interchange.
  31. Pĕr'-mu-tā'-tion, n.p. 972The act of permuting; exchange of one thing for another; mutual transference; radical change. “The intolerable distresses brought upon them by the violent convulsions and permutations that have been…
  32. Per-mu'te', v. t.p. 972To put one for the other; to transfer mutually or reciprocally; to exchange; to barter. [Obs.]
  33. Per-mu't'er, n.p. 972One who permutes. [Obs.]
  34. Pĕrn, v. t.p. 972(Law.) To take profit of; to make profitable. [Obs.] Sylvester.
  35. Pérn, n.p. 972(Ornith.) A bird that feeds on bees, wasps, and the like; the honey-buzzard; Pernis apivorus.
  36. Pér'na, n.p. 972(Zoöl.) A genus of mollusks whose shells have the hinge margin very thick, with a row of pits in the form of furrows, to receive the cartilage. Baird.
  37. Pĕr'nan-çy, n.p. 972(Law.) A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind. Blackstone.
  38. Pĕr'nel, n.p. 972Pimpernel. See PIMPERNEL.
  39. Per-nĭ'cion, n.p. 972Destruction; perdition. [Obs.] Hudibras.
  40. Per-nĭ'ciōus, a.p. 972[Lat. perniciosus, from pernicies, destruction, from pernecare, to kill or slay completely, from the prefix per, thoroughly, and necare, to kill, slay, from nex, necis, a violent death; Fr.…
  41. Per-nī'ciŏŭs-ly, adv.p. 972In a pernicious manner; destructively; with ruinous effect.
  42. Per-nī'cioŭs-ness, n.p. 972The quality of being pernicious or very injurious, mischievous, or destructive.
  43. Per-nĭs'i-ty, n.p. 972Swiftness of motion; celerity. [Obs.]
  44. Pēr'ni-o, n.p. 972(Med.) A chilblain. Dunglison.
  45. Pēr'nis, n.p. 972(Ornith.) A genus of birds; the pern, or honey-buzzard.
  46. Pēr'noe-tā'li-an, n.p. 972One who watches or keeps awake all night. [Obs.]
  47. Pĕr'/noe-tā/tion, n.p. 972The act of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. “By instruments of humility, by self-denial, by fasting, and sackcloth, and pernoctations in prayer.” Bp. Taylor.
  48. Pēr'nor, n.p. 972(Law.) One who takes the profits.
  49. Pe-rōgue', n.p. 972See PIROGUE.
  50. Pĕr'o-nate, a.p. 972(Bot.) Laid thickly over with a woolly substance ending in a sort of meal.
  51. Pĕr'ō-ne, n.p. 972(Anat.) The small bone of the leg; the fibula.
  52. Pēr'o-nē'al, a.p. 972Pertaining to the fibula, or small bone of the leg.
  53. Pĕr/o-rā'tion, n.p. 972(Rhet.) The concluding part of an oration; a final summing up, review, and re-urging of the principal topics of a discourse. His enthusiasm kindles as he advances; and, when he arrives at his…
  54. Per-ŏx'ide, n.p. 972(Chem.) That oxide of a given base which contains the greatest quantity of oxygen.
  55. Per-ŏx'id-īze, v. t.p. 972To oxidize to the utmost degree. Cutbush.
  56. Per-pĕnd', v. t.p. 972To weigh in the mind; to consider attentively. [Rare.] “Perpend my words.” Shak.
  57. Per-pend'er, n.p. 972A large stone reaching through a wall so as to appear on both sides of it, and therefore having the ends smooth;—called also perbend, per-pend-stone, and perpent-stone.
  58. Per-pĕn'di-cle, n.p. 972Something hanging down in a direct line; a plumb line. [Obs.]
  59. Pēr'pen-dī'e'ū-lar, a.p. 972Exactly upright; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth. 2. (Geom.) At right angles to a given…
  60. Pēr'pen-dĭc'ū-lar, n.p. 972A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction. 2. (Geom.) A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each…