Perdu (a.) Alt. of Perdue
Perdue (a.) Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close.
Perdue (a.) Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless.
Perduellion (n.) Treason.
Perdulous (a.) Lost; thrown away.
Perdurability (n.) Durability; lastingness.
Perdurable (n.) Very durable; lasting; continuing long.
Perdurance (n.) Alt. of Perduration
Perduration (n.) Long continuance.
Perdure (v. i.) To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.
Perdy (adv.) Truly. See Parde.
Pere (n.) A peer.
Peregal (a.) Fully equal.
Peregrinate (v. i.) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
Peregrinate (a.) Having traveled; foreign.
Peregrination (n.) A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries.
Peregrinator (n.) One who peregrinates; one who travels about.
Peregrine (a.) Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic.
Peregrine (n.) The peregrine falcon.
Peregrinity (n.) Foreignness; strangeness.
Peregrinity (n.) Travel; wandering.
Perel (n.) Apparel.
Perempt (v. t.) To destroy; to defeat.
Peremption (n.) A quashing; a defeating.
Peremptorily (adv.) In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.
Peremptoriness (n.) The quality of being peremptory; positiveness.
Peremptory (a.) Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.
Peremptory (a.) Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical.
Peremptory (a.) Firmly determined; unawed.
Perennial (a.) ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.
Perennial (a.) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
Perennial (a.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.
Perennial (n.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.
Perennially (adv.) In a perennial manner.
Perennibranchiata (n. pl.) Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus.
Perennibranchiate (a.) Having branchae, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.
Perennibranchiate (a.) Belonging to the Perennibranchiata.
Perennity (n.) The quality of being perennial.
Pererration (n.) A wandering, or rambling, through various places.
Perfect (a.) Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
Perfect (a.) Well informed; certain; sure.
Perfect (a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
Perfect (n.) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
Perfected (imp. & p. p.) of Perfect
Perfecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perfect
Perfect (a.) To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
Perfecter (n.) One who, or that which, makes perfect.
Perfectibilian (n.) A perfectionist.
Perfectibilist (n.) A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2.
Perfectibility (n.) The quality or state of being perfectible.
Perfectible (a.) Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.
Perfection (n.) The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection.
Perfection (n.) A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
Perfection (v. t.) To perfect.
Perfectional (a.) Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection.
Perfectionate (v. t.) To perfect.
Perfectionism (n.) The doctrine of the Perfectionists.
Perfectionist (n.) One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.
Perfectionment (n.) The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection.
Perfective (a.) Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; -- usually followed by of.
Perfectively (adv.) In a perfective manner.
Perfectly (adv.) In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly.
Perfectness (n.) The quality or state of being perfect; perfection.
Perfervid (a.) Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.
Perficient (a.) Making or doing throughly; efficient; effectual.
Perficient (n.) One who performs or perfects a work; especially, one who endows a charity.
Perfidious (a.) Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend.
Perfidious (a.) Involving, or characterized by, perfidy.
Perfidiously (adv.) In a perfidious manner.
Perfidiousness (n.) The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.
Perfidies (pl. ) of Perfidy
Perfidy (n.) The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.
Perfit (a.) Perfect.
Perfix (v. t.) To fix surely; to appoint.
Perflable (a.) Capable of being blown through.
Perflate (v. t.) To blow through.
Perflation (n.) The act of perflating.
Perfoliate (a.) Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.
Perfoliate (a.) Surrounded by a circle of hairs, or projections of any kind.
Perforata (n. pl.) A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa.
Perforata (n. pl.) A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.
Perforated (imp. & p. p.) of Perforate
Perforating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perforate
Perforate (v.) To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.
Perforate (a.) Alt. of Perforated
Perforated (a.) Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
Perforation (n.) The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.
Perforation (n.) A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture.
Perforative (a.) Having power to perforate or pierce.
Perforator (n.) One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome.
Perforce (adv.) By force; of necessary; at any rate.
Perforce (v. t.) To force; to compel.
Performed (imp. & p. p.) of Perform
Performing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perform
Perform (v. t.) To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.
Perform (v. t.) To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform a duty; to perform a promise or a vow.
Perform (v. t.) To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.
Perform (v. i.) To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ.
Performable (a.) Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.
Performance (n.) The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.