Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 40
Perdu (a.) Alt. of Perdue.
Perdue (a.) Lost to view; in concealment or ambush.
He should lie perdue who is to walk the round. -- Fuller.
Perdue (a.) Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless. "A perdue captain." -- Beau. & Fl.
Perduellion (n.) (Civil Law) Treason.
Perdulous (a.) Lost; thrown away. [Obs.] -- Abp. Bramhall.
Perdurability (n.) Durability; lastingness. [Archaic] -- Chaucer.
Perdurability (n.) The property of being extremely durable.
Perdurable (n.) Very durable; lasting; continuing long. [Archaic] -- Chaucer. -- Shak. -- Per*dur"a*bly, adv. [Archaic] Perdurance
Perdurable (a.) Very long lasting; "less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"; "the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent" [syn: durable, indestructible, perdurable, undestroyable].
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.
Peregrination (n.) [ C ] (Formal) （尤指徒步的）旅行；漫遊；旅程；遊歷 A long journey in which you travel to various different places, especially on foot.
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.) Lasting or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.
Perennial (a.) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
The perennial existence of bodies corporate. -- Burke.
Perennial (a.) (Bot.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.
Syn: Perpetual; unceasing; never failing; enduring; continual; permanent; uninterrupted.
Perennial (n.) (Bot.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.
Perennial (a.) Lasting three seasons or more; "the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant" [ant: annual, biennial, one-year, two-year].
Perennial (a.) Lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; "perennial happiness".
Perennial (a.) Recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements" [syn: perennial, recurrent, repeated].
Perennial (n.) (Botany) A plant lasting for three seasons or more.
Perennially (adv.) 不絕地；永駐地 In a perennial manner.
Perennially (adv.) In a perennial manner; repeatedly; "We want to know what is perennially new about the world".
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.
Perfervid (a.) Ardent; impassioned; marked by exaggerated or overwrought emotion. Perfervid is from Latin per-, "through, thoroughly" + fervidus, "boiling," from fervere, "to boil."
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.
Perfidious (a.) (Literary) 背信棄義的；不忠貞的 Unable to be trusted, or showing no loyalty.
// She described the new criminal bill as a perfidious attack on democracy.
Perfidiously (adv.) In a perfidious manner.
Perfidiousness (n.) The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.
Perfidies (n. pl. ) of Perfidy.
Perfidy (n.) 不誠實；背信棄義 The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.
The ambition and perfidy of tyrants. -- Macaulay.
His perfidy to this sacred engagement. -- DeQuincey.
Perfidy (n.) Betrayal of a trust [syn: perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery].
Perfidy (n.) An act of deliberate betrayal [syn: treachery, betrayal, treason, perfidy].
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.) (Bot.) 【植】莖穿葉而生長的；貫穿性的 Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.
Perfoliate (a.) (Zool.) 【動】（昆蟲）具葉片的 Surrounded by a circle of hairs, or projections of any kind.
Perfoliate (a.) (Of a leaf) Having the base united around (and apparently pierced by) the stem.
Perfoliate (a.) (Botany) Pertaining to the form of a leaf having its base united around the stem.
Perfoliate (a.) (Invertebrate zoology) Pertaining to the form of certain insect antennae having the terminal joints expended and flattened to form plates which encircle the stalk.
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. t.) 穿孔於，打眼於；在……上打齒孔（或孔眼線） 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. -- Bacon.
Perforate (a.) 有孔的；穿孔的 Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
Pervious (a.) [(+to)] 能被通過（或穿過，透過）的；（對建議等）能接受的 Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.
[Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way. -- Pope.
Pervious (a.) Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision. [R.]
God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. -- Jer. Taylor.
Pervious (a.) Capable of penetrating or pervading. [Obs.] -- Prior.
Pervious (a.) (Zool.) Open; -- used synonymously with {perforate}, as applied to the nostrils or birds.
Pervious (a.) Admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a metal pervious to heat" [ant: {imperviable}, {impervious}].
Perforate (a.) Having a hole cut through; "pierced ears"; "a perforated eardrum"; "a punctured balloon" [syn: {pierced}, {perforated}, {perforate}, {punctured}].
Perforate (v.) (v. i.) 穿孔；穿過；貫穿；刺穿 [（+into/ through） Make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation; "perforate the sheets of paper" [syn: {punch}, {perforate}].
Perforate (v.) Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest" [syn: {penetrate}, {perforate}].
Perforate (a.) Alt. of Perforated.
Perforated (a.) Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
Perforation (n.) 穿孔；貫穿；針孔；齒孔 The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through. -- Bacon.
Perforation (n.) A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture. "Slender perforations." -- Sir T. Browne.
Perforation (n.) A line of small holes for tearing at a particular place.
Perforation (n.) A hole made in something; "a perforation of the eardrum."
Perforation (n.) The act of punching a hole (especially a row of holes as for ease of separation).
Perforation (n.) A small hole or series of small holes in paper, cardboard, etc.
Perforation (n.) Medical : A hole in part of the body caused by an accident or disease.
Perforation (n.) The act or process of perforating.
Perforation (n.) A hole or pattern made by or as if by piercing or boring.
Perforation (n.) One of the series of holes (as between rows of postage stamps) in a sheet that serve as an aid in separation.
Perforative (a.) 穿孔的；貫穿的；有穿孔力的 Having power to perforate or pierce.
Perforator (n.) 穿孔氣；剪票鋏；穿孔（或打眼）的人 One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome.
Compare: Cephalotome
Cephalotome (n.) 胎頭刀 Instrument formerly used for cutting into the fetal head to permit its compression in cases of dystocia.
Compare: Dystocia
Dystocia (n.) [Mass noun] [Veterinary Medicine] 【醫】難產 Difficult birth, typically caused by a large or awkwardly positioned fetus, by smallness of the maternal pelvis, or by failure of the uterus and cervix to contract and expand normally.
‘The incidence of dystocia or difficult calvings.’
Compare: Veterinary
Veterinary (a.) 獸醫的 Relating to the diseases, injuries, and treatment of farm and domestic animals.
‘A veterinary nurse.’
Veterinary (a.) Of, relating to, practicing, or being the science and art of prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease and injury in animals and especially domestic animals.
Veterinary (n.) 【美】獸醫 Veterinarian.
Veterinary (a.) Relating to the medical care and treatment of animals.
Veterinary (a.) Of, relating to, specializing in, or being the medical care of animals.
// A veterinary surgeon.
Compare: Domestic animal
Domestic animal (n.) [C] 寵物；家養動物，家畜 An animal that is not wild and is kept as a pet or to produce food.
Perforce (adv.) 必須；一定；必然 By force; of necessary; at any rate. -- Shak.
Perforce (v. t.) To force; to compel. [Obs.]
Perforce (adv.) By necessity; by force of circumstance.
Performed (imp. & p. p.) of Perform.
Performing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perform.
Perform (v. t.) 履行；執行；完成；做；演出，表演，演奏 To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.
I will cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth all things for me. -- Ps. lvii. 2.
Great force to perform what they did attempt. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Perform (v. t.) To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform a duty; to perform a promise or a vow.
To perform your father's will. -- Shak.
Perform (v. t.) To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.
Perform a part thou hast not done before. -- Shak.
Syn: To accomplish; do; act; transact; achieve; execute; discharge; fulfill; effect; complete; consummate. See {Accomplish}.
Perform (v. i.) 演出，表演，演奏 [（+on/ at）]；（機器）運轉；（人）行動，表現 [Q] 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.
Perform (v.) Carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" [syn: {perform}, {execute}, {do}].
Perform (v.) Perform a function; "Who will perform the wedding?"
Perform (v.) Give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera."
Perform (v.) Get (something) done; "I did my job" [syn: {do}, {perform}].
Performable (a.) 可執行的；可完成的 Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.
Performance (n.) 演出；演奏；表演 [C]；履行；實行；完成 [U] [（+of）] 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.
Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. -- Paley.