Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 39
Perambulator (n.) One who perambulates.
Perambulator (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.
Perambulator (n.) A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing ; a baby carriage; -- called also pram, in Britain.
Compare: Ambulator
Ambulator (n.) One who walks about; a walker.
Ambulator (n.) (Zool.) (a) A beetle of the genus Lamia.
Ambulator (n.) (Zool.) (b) A genus of birds, or one of this genus.
Ambulator (n.) An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator. -- Knight.
Perambulator (n.) A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher].
Perameles (n.) (Zool.) Any marsupial of the genus Perameles, which includes numerous species found in Australia. They somewhat resemble rabbits in size and form. See Illust. under Bandicoot.
Perbend (n.) See Perpender.
Compare: Perpender
Perpender (n.) (Masonry) 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.
Perbreak (n.) [Obs.] See Parbreak.
Perbromate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of perbromic acid.
Perbromic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid, HBrO4, of bromine.
Perbromide (n.) (Chem.) A bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than any other bromide of the same substance or series.
Perca (n.) (Zool.) A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch.
Perca (n.) Type genus of the Percidae [syn: Perca, genus Perca].
Percale (n.) [F.] A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear, and for bedsheets.
Percale (n.) A fine closely woven cotton fabric.
Percaline (n.) [F.] A fine kind of cotton goods, usually of one color, and with a glossy surface, -- much use for linings.
Percarbide (n.) (Chem.) A compound containing a relatively large amount of carbon. [R.]
Percarburet (n.) (Chem.) A percarbide. [Obsoles.]
Percarbureted (a.) (Chem.) Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon.
Percase (adv.) Perhaps; perchance. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Perce (v. t.) To pierce. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Perceivable (a.) 可感知的；可認識的 Capable of being perceived; perceptible. -- Per*ceiv"a*bly, adv.
Perceivable (a.) Capable of being perceived especially by sight or hearing; "perceivable through the mist".
Perceivable (a.) Capable of being apprehended or understood [syn: apprehensible, intelligible, graspable, perceivable, understandable].
Perceivably (adv.) 可知覺地；可察覺地；可領會地 In a way that can be seen, heard, or noticed.
// My energy levels shifted perceivably.
// The drop-down menu is perceivably slow.
Perceivance (n.) Power of perceiving. [Obs.] "The senses and common perceivance." -- Milton.
Perceived (imp. & p. p.) of Perceive.
Perceiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perceive.
Perceive (v. t.) 察覺，感知；理解，領悟 To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord. -- Reid.
Perceive (v. t.) To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark; to discern; to see; to understand.
Jesus perceived their wickedness. -- Matt. xxii. 18.
You may, fair lady, Perceive I speak sincerely. -- Shak.
Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understandings, we are still in the dark. -- Locke.
Perceive (v. t.) To be affected of influented by. [R.]
The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air here below. -- Bacon.
Syn: To discern; distinguish; observe; see; feel; know; understand.
Usage: To Perceive, Discern. To perceive a thing is to apprehend it as presented to the senses or the intellect; to discern is to mark differences, or to see a thing as distinguished from others around it. We may perceive two persons afar off without being able to discern whether they are men or women. Hence, discern is often used of an act of the senses or the mind involving close, discriminating, analytical attention. We perceive that which is clear or obvious; we discern that which requires much attention to get an idea of it. "We perceive light, darkness, colors, or the truth or falsehood of anything. We discern characters, motives, the tendency and consequences of actions, etc". -- Crabb.
Perceive (v. t.) To become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" [syn: {perceive}, {comprehend}].
Perceive (v. t.) Become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest".
Perceiver (n.) (pl. -s) 感知者 One who perceives (in any of the senses of the verb). -- Milton.
Perceiver (n.) A person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses [syn: perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder].
Percely (n.) Parsley. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Compare: Parsley
Parsley (n.) (Bot.) An aromatic umbelliferous herb ({Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish.
As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit. -- Shak.
Fool's parsley. See under Fool.
Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley.
Parsley fern (Bot.), A small fern with leaves resembling parsley ({Cryptogramme crispa).
Parsley piert (Bot.), A small herb ({Alchemilla+arvensis"> Parsley piert (Bot.), a small herb ({Alchemilla arvensis) formerly used as a remedy for calculus.
Parsley (n.) Annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves [syn: parsley, Petroselinum crispum].
Parsley (n.) Aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food.
Parsley, () A Pascal extension for construction of parse trees, by Barber of Summit Software. It features Iterators.
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Percent (adv.) (Also per cent) (B1) 百分之…（符號為 %） For or out of every 100, shown by the symbol %.
// You got 20 percent of the answers right - that means one in every five.
// Only 40 percent of people bothered to vote in the election.
Percentage (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
Percept (n.) That which is perceived.
Per (prep.) Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words.
Per annum, By the year; in each successive year; annually.
Per cent, Per centum, percent, By the hundred; in the hundred; a proportion multiplied by one hundred; -- used esp. of proportions of ingredients, rate or amount of interest, and the like; most commonly used in the shortened form per cent; as, 5 is ten per cent of 50. It is commonly symbolized with the per cent sign, "%".
Per diem, By the day. [For other phrases from the Latin, see Quotations, Phrases, etc., from Foreign Languages, in the Supplement.]
Percent (n.) A proportion multiplied by 100; as, he receives a percent of the proceeds; 3 is 75 percent of 4. Often symbolized by the character "%"; as, at 6% interest.
Syn: percentage, per cent, pct.
Percent (n.) A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred) [syn: percentage, percent, per centum, pct].
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Perceptibility (n.) 可感知性，可察覺性；可辨性 [U] The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color.
Perceptibility (n.) Perception. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.
Perceptibility (n.) The property of being perceptible by the mind or the senses [ant: imperceptibility].
Perceptible (a.) 可感知的，可察覺的；可辨的 Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable ; large enough to be perceived; not so small as to be incapable of perception.
With a perceptible blast of the air. -- Bacon. -- Per*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. -- Per*cep"ti*bly, adv.
Perceptible (a.) Capable of being perceived by the mind or senses; "a perceptible limp"; "easily perceptible sounds"; "perceptible changes in behavior" [ant: imperceptible, unperceivable].
Perceptible (a.) Easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind; "a perceptible sense of expectation in the court".
Perceptible (a.) Easily seen or detected; "a detectable note of sarcasm"; "he continued after a perceptible pause" [syn: detectable, perceptible].
Perception (n.) 感知，感覺；察覺 [U]；認識，觀念；看法 [C] [（+of）] The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.
Perception (n.) (Methap.) The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from {conception}. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence. -- Bentley.
Perception (n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility. [Obs.]
This experiment discovereth perception in plants. -- Bacon.
Perception (n.) An idea; a notion. [Obs.] -- Sir M. Hale.
Note: "The word perception is, in the language of philosophers previous to Reid, used in a very extensive signification. By Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, Leibnitz, and others, it is employed in a sense almost as unexclusive as consciousness, in its widest signification. By Reid this word was limited to our faculty acquisitive of knowledge, and to that branch of this faculty whereby, through the senses, we obtain a knowledge of the external world. But his limitation did not stop here. In the act of external perception he distinguished two elements, to which he gave the names of perception and sensation. He ought perhaps to have called these perception proper and sensation proper, when employed in his special meaning." -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Perception (n.) The representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept [syn: {percept}, {perception}, {perceptual experience}].
Perception (n.) A way of conceiving something; "Luther had a new perception of the Bible".
Perception (n.) The process of perceiving.
Perception (n.) Knowledge gained by perceiving; "a man admired for the depth of his perception".
Perception (n.) Becoming aware of something via the senses [syn: {sensing}, {perception}].
Perceptive (a.) 知覺的；感知的；理解的；敏銳的 Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception. "His perceptive and reflective faculties." -- Motley.
Preceptive (a.) Possesing or exhibiting a high degree of understanding, insight, intuition, or analytical skill; as, he gave a perceptive analysis of the situation.
Preceptive (a.) Of or relating to perception; "perceptive faculties".
Preceptive (a.) Having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment; "a perceptive eye"; "a perceptive observation" [ant: unperceiving, unperceptive].
Preceptive (a.) Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.
The lesson given us here is preceptive to us. -- L'Estrange.
Perceptiveness (n.) 感知力；覺察力 A feeling of understanding [syn: insight, perceptiveness, perceptivity].
Perceptiveness (n.) Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste" [syn: taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness].
Perceptiveness (n.) Perception of that which is obscure [syn: discernment, perceptiveness].
Perceptiveness (n.) The quality of insight and sympathetic understanding [ant: unperceptiveness].
Perceptivity (n.) 知覺；覺察力 The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception. -- Locke.
Perceptivity (n.) A feeling of understanding [syn: {insight}, {perceptiveness}, {perceptivity}].
Percesoces (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.
Perch (n.) (Zool.) [C] （鳥類的）棲息處，棲木；（位置較高的）休息處；高處；高位 Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percid[ae], as the common American or yellow perch ({Perca flavescens syn. Perca Americana), and the European perch ({Perca fluviatilis).
Perch (n.) Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.
Black perch. (a) The black bass.
Black perch. (b) The flasher.
Black perch. (c) The sea bass.
Blue perch, The cunner.
Gray perch, The fresh-water drum.
Red perch, The rosefish.
Red-bellied perch, The long-eared pondfish.
Perch pest, A small crustacean, parasitic in the mouth of the perch.
Silver perch, The yellowtail.
Stone perch, or Striped perch, The pope.
White perch, The Roccus Americanus, or Morone Americanus, a small silvery serranoid market fish of the Atlantic coast.
Perch (n.) A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.
As chauntecleer among his wives all Sat on his perche, that was in his hall. -- Chaucer.
Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions. -- Tennyson.
Perch (n.) A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.
Perch (n.) In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre.
Perch (n.) In solid measure: A mass 161/2 feet long, 1 foot in height, and 11/2 feet in breadth, or 243/4 cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.
Perch (n.) A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
Perched (imp. & p. p.) of Perch.
Perching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perch.
Perch (v. i.) [Q] [(+on)]（鳥）飛落，棲息；（在較高處）暫歇；（在較高或較險處）座落 To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.
Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -- Shak.
Perch (v. t.) To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
Perch (v. t.) To occupy as a perch. -- Milton.
Sprat (n.) (Zool.) (a) A small European herring ({Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
Sprat (n.) (Zool.) (b) A California surf-fish ({Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.
Sprat borer (Zool.), The red-throated diver; -- so called from its fondness for sprats. See Diver.
Sprat loon. (Zool.) (a) The young of the great northern diver. [Prov. Eng.]
Sprat loon. (Zool.) (b) The red-throated diver. See Diver.
Sprat mew (Zool.), The kittiwake gull.
Rod (n.) [The same word as rood. See Rood.] A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). Specifically:
Rod (n.) (a) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son. -- Prov. xiii. 24.
Rod (n.) (b) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression. "The rod, and bird of peace." -- Shak.
Rod (n.) (c) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole. -- Gay.
Rod (n.) (d) (Mach. & Structure) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
Rod (n.) (e) An instrument for measuring.
Rod (n.) A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
Black rod. See in the Vocabulary.
Rods and cones (Anat.), The elongated cells or elements of the sensory layer of the retina, some of which are cylindrical, others somewhat conical.
Perch (n.) Support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird).
Perch (n.) A linear measure of 16.5 feet [syn: {perch}, {rod}, {pole}].
Perch (n.) A square rod of land [syn: {perch}, {rod}, {pole}].
Perch (n.) An elevated place serving as a seat.
Perch (n.) Any of numerous fishes of America and Europe.
Perch (n.) Spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes.
Perch (n.) Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes.
Perch (v.) Sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the tree" [syn: {perch}, {roost}, {rest}].
Perch (v.) To come to rest, settle; "Misfortune lighted upon him" [syn: {alight}, {light}, {perch}].
Perch (v.) Cause to perch or sit; "She perched her hat on her head".
Perch, () measure. The length of sixteen feet and a half: a pole or rod of that length. Forty perches in length and four in breadth make an acre of land.
Perchance (adv.) By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
Perchance (adv.) Through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.." [syn: perchance, by chance].
Perchance (adv.) By chance; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time" [syn: possibly, perchance, perhaps, maybe, mayhap, peradventure].
Perchant (n.) [F.] A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.
Percher (n.) One who, or that which, perches. -- J. Burroughs.
Percher (n.) One of the Insessores.
Percher (n.) [From Perch a pole.] A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Percher (n.) A person situated on a perch.
Percher (n.) A bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists [syn: Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird, percher].
Percheron (n.) [F.] One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.
Percheron (n.) One of a breed of grey or black draft horses originally used in France to draw heavy coaches or artillery.
Perchlorate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of perchloric acid.
Perchloric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid ({HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.
Perchloride (n.) (Chem.) A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.
Perchloride (n.) A chloride containing an unusually high proportion of chlorine.
Perchromic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.
Perciform (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to the Perciformes.
Perciformes (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches ({Percidae); the pondfishes ({Centrarchidae}); the sciaenoids ({Sciaenidae); the sparoids ({Sparidae}); the serranoids ({Serranidae), and some other related families. Percipience
Perciformes (n.) One of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna [syn: Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi, order Percomorphi].
Percipience (n.) Alt. of Percipiency.
Percipiency (n.) The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception. -- Mrs. Browning.
Percipient (a.) Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being. -- Bentley.
Percipient (n.) One who, or that which, is percipient. -- Glanvill.
Percipient (a.) Characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving; "clear mind"; "a percipient author" [syn: clear, percipient].
Percipient (n.) A person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses [syn: perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder].
Compare: Parclose
Parclose (n.) (Eccl. Arch.) A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. [Written also paraclose and perclose.] -- Hook.
Perclose (n.) (Eccl. Arch.) Same as Parclose.
Perclose (n.) Conclusion; end. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Percoid (a.) (Zool.) Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percidae.
Percoid (n.) Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae ; a percoidean.
Percoid (n.) Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes [syn: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean].
Percoidea (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) Same as Perciformes.
Percoidea (n.) In some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder [syn: Percoidea, suborder Percoidea].
Percolated (imp. & p. p.) of Percolate.
Percolating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Percolate.
Percolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. -- Sir M. Hale.
Percolate (v. i.) To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
Percolate (n.) The product of percolation.
Percolate (v.) Permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground" [syn: leach, percolate].
Percolate (v.) Spread gradually; "Light percolated into our house in the morning".
Percolate (v.) Prepare in a percolator; "percolate coffee".
Percolate (v.) Cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent.
Percolate (v.) Pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" [syn: percolate, sink in, permeate, filter].
Percolate (v.) Gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap" [syn: perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigor].
Percolation (n.) The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.
Percolator (n.) One who, or that which, filters. "[Tissues] act as percolators." -- Henfrey.
Percolator (n.) A type of coffee pot in which the heated water is driven by its boiling action up above a porous canister of coffee held above the level of the water in the pot, and then filters (percolates) back through the coffee thus extracting its essence.
Percolator (n.) (Pharmacy) An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
Percolator (n.) A coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans.
Percomorphi (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of fishes including the perches and related kinds.
Percomorphi (n.) One of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna [syn: Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi, order Percomorphi].
Perculaced (a.) (Her.) Latticed. See Lattice, n., 2.
Percurrent (a.) Running through the entire length.
Percursory (a.) Running over slightly or in haste; cursory. [R.]
Percussed (imp. & p. p.) of Percuss.
Percussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Percuss.
Percuss (v. t.) To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.
Flame percussed by air giveth a noise. -- Bacon.
Percuss (v. i.) (Med.) To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3. -- Quain.
Percuss (v.) Strike or tap firmly; "the doctor percussed his chest and back".
Percussion (n.) The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report. -- Sir I. Newton.
Percussion (n.) Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
The thunderlike percussion of thy sounds. -- Shak.
Percussion (n.) (Med.) The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate.
Center of percussion. See under Center.
Percussion bullet, A bullet containing a substance which is exploded by percussion; an explosive bullet.
Percussion cap, A small copper cap or cup, containing fulminating powder, and used with a percussion lock to explode gunpowder.
Percussion fuze. See under Fuze.
Percussion lock, The lock of a gun that is fired by percussion upon fulminating powder.
Percussion match, A match which ignites by percussion.
Percussion powder, Powder so composed as to ignite by slight percussion; fulminating powder.
Percussion sieve, Percussion table, a machine for sorting ores by agitation in running water.
Percussion (n.) The act of playing a percussion instrument.
Percussion (n.) The act of exploding a percussion cap.
Percussion (n.) The section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments [syn: percussion section, percussion, rhythm section].
Percussion (n.) Tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes [syn: percussion, pleximetry].
Percussive (a.) Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.
Percutient (a.) Striking; having the power of striking.
Percutient (n.) That which strikes, or has power to strike. -- Bacon.
Perdicine (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidae, or partridges.
Parde, Pardie (adv. or interj.) Certainly; surely; truly; verily; -- originally an oath. [Written also pardee, pardieux, perdie, etc.] [Obs.]
He was, parde, an old fellow of yours. -- Chaucer.
Perdie (adv.) See Parde. -- Spenser.
Perdifoil (n.) (Bot.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen. -- J. Barton.
Perdition (n.) [U] 【宗】死後打入地獄；地獄；【古】毀滅 Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin.
The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. -- Shak.
Perdition (n.) (Religion) Damnation; the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.
If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. -- J. M. Mason.
Perdition (n.) Loss of diminution. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Perdition (n.) Hell; hades; as, on the path to perdition.
Perdition (n.) (Christianity) The abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; "Hell is paved with good intentions" -- Dr. Johnson [syn: Hell, perdition, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, pit] [ant: Heaven].
Perditionable (a.) Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition. [R.] -- Pollok.
Perditionable (a.) (in British English) Deserving perdition or damnation.
Perdix (n.) (Zool.) A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera.
Perdix (n.) A genus of Perdicinae [syn: Perdix, genus Perdix].
Perdu (a.) One placed on watch, or in ambush.
Perdu (a.) A soldier sent on a forlorn hope. -- Shak.