Perjurous (a.) Guilty of perjury; containing perjury.
Perjuries (pl. ) of Perjury
Perjury (v.) False swearing.
Perjury (v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.
Perked (imp. & p. p.) of Perk
Perking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perk
Perk (v. t.) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.
Perk (v. i.) To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily.
Perk (a.) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.
Perk (v. i.) To peer; to look inquisitively.
Perkin (n.) A kind of weak perry.
Perkinism (n.) A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.
Perky (a.) Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.
Perlaceous (a.) Pearly; resembling pearl.
Perlid (n.) Any insect of the genus Perla, or family Perlidae. See Stone fly, under Stone.
Perlite (n.) Same as Pearlite.
Perlitic (a.) Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite.
Perlous (a.) Perilous.
Perlustration (n.) The act of viewing all over.
Permanable (a.) Permanent; durable.
Permanence (n.) Alt. of Permanency
Permanency (n.) The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.
Permanent (a.) Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.
Permanently (adv.) In a permanent manner.
Permanganate (n.) A salt of permanganic acid.
Permanganic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, one of the higher acids of manganese, HMnO4, which forms salts called permanganates.
Permansion (n.) Continuance.
Permeability (n.) The quality or state of being permeable.
Permeable (a.) Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light.
Permeably (adv.) In a permeable manner.
Permeant (a.) Passing through; permeating.
Permeated (imp. & p. p.) of Permeate
Permeating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Permeate
Permeate (v. t.) To 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, water permeates sand.
Permeate (v. t.) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
Permeation (n.) The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.
Permian (a.) 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.
Permian (n.) The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.
Permians (n. pl.) A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia.
Permiscible (a.) Capable of being mixed.
Permiss (n.) A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.
Permissibility (n.) The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.
Permissible (a.) That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.
Permission (n.) The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.
Permissive (a.) Permitting; granting leave or liberty.
Permissive (a.) Permitted; tolerated; suffered.
Permissively (adv.) In a permissive manner.
Permistion (n.) The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture.
Permitted (imp. & p. p.) of Permit
Permitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Permit
Permit (v. t.) To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.
Permit (v. t.) To grant (one) express license or liberty to do an act; to authorize; to give leave; -- followed by an infinitive.
Permit (v. t.) To give over; to resign; to leave; to commit.
Permit (v. i.) To grant permission; to allow.
Permit (n.) Warrant; license; leave; permission; specifically, a written license or permission given to a person or persons having authority; as, a permit to land goods subject to duty.
Permittance (n.) The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave.
Permittee (n.) One to whom a permission or permit is given.
Permitter (n.) One who permits.
Permix (v. t.) To mix; to mingle.
Permixtion (n.) See Permission.
Permutable (a.) Capable of being permuted; exchangeable.
Permutation (n.) The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.
Permutation (n.) The arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4.
Permutation (n.) Any one of such possible arrangements.
Permutation (n.) Barter; exchange.
Permute (v. t.) To interchange; to transfer reciprocally.
Permute (v. t.) To exchange; to barter; to traffic.
Permuter (n.) One who permutes.
Pern (v. t.) To take profit of; to make profitable.
Pern (n.) The honey buzzard.
Pernancy (n.) A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.
Pernel (n.) See Pimpernel.
Pernicion (n.) Destruction; perdition.
Pernicious (a.) Quick; swift (to burn).
Pernicious (a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
Pernicity (n.) Swiftness; celerity.
Pernio (n.) A chilblain.
Pernoctalian (n.) One who watches or keeps awake all night.
Pernoctation (n.) The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night.
Pernor (v.) One who receives the profits, as of an estate.
Pernot furnace () A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.
Pernyi moth () A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.
Perofskite (n.) A titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic crystals.
Perogue (n.) See Pirogue.
Peronate (a.) A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery.
Peroneal (a.) Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula.
Perorate (v. i.) To make a peroration; to harangue.
Peroration (n.) The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.
Peroxidation (n.) Act, process, or result of peroxidizing; oxidation to a peroxide.
Peroxide (n.) An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest oxides. Cf. Per-, 2.
Peroxidized (imp. & p. p.) of Peroxidize
Peroxidizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peroxidize
Peroxidize (v. t.) To oxidize to the utmost degree, so as to form a peroxide.
Perpend (v. t.) To weight carefully in the mind.
Perpend (v. i.) To attend; to be attentive.
Perpender (n.) A large stone reaching through a wall so as to appear on both sides of it, and acting as a binder; -- called also perbend, perpend stone, and perpent stone.
Perpendicle (n.) Something hanging straight down; a plumb line.
Perpendicular (a.) Exactly upright or vertical; 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.
Perpendicular (a.) At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc.
Perpendicular (n.) A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.