PERVIOUSNESS
PER'VIOUSNESS, noun The quality of admitting passage or of being penetrated; as the perviousness of glass to light.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PESADE
PESA'DE, noun The motion of a horse when he raises his fore quarters, keeping his hind feet on the ground without advancing.
PESO
PE'SO, noun [supra.] A Spanish coin weighing an ounce; a piaster; a piece of eight.
PESSARY
PES'SARY, noun [Latin pessus.] A solid substance composed of wool, lint or linen, mixed with powder, oil, wax, etc. made round and long like a finger, to be introduced into the ...
PEST
PEST, noun [Latin pestis; Heb. to be fetid.]1. Plague; pestilence; a fatal epidemic disease.Let fierce AchillesThe god propitiate, and the pest assuage.2. Any thing very noxious...
PESTER
PEST'ER, verb transitive To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with little vexations.We are pestered with mice and rats.A multitude of scribblers daily pester the world wi...
PESTERED
PEST'ERED, participle passive Troubled; disturbed; annoyed.
PESTERING
PEST'ERING, participle present tense Troubling; disturbing.
PESTEROUS
PEST'EROUS, adjective Encumbering; burdensome. [Little used.]
PESTHOUSE
PEST'HOUSE, noun A house or hospital for persons infected with any contagious and mortal disease.
PESTIFEROUS
PESTIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin pestis, plague, and fero, to produce.]1. Pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious.2. Noxious to peace, to morals or to s...
PESTILENT
PEST'ILENT, adjective [Latin pestilens, from pestis, plague.]1. Producing the plague, or other malignant, contagious disease; noxious to health and life; as a pestilent air or c...
PESTILENTIAL
PESTILEN'TIAL, adjective Partaking of the nature of the plague or other infectious disease; as a pestilential fever.1. Producing or tending to produce infectious disease; as pes...
PESTILENTLY
PEST'ILENTLY, adverb Mischievously; destructively.
PESTILLATION
PESTILLA'TION, noun [from Latin pistillum; Eng. pestle.]The act of pounding and bruising in a mortar. [Little used.]
PESTLE
PESTLE, noun pes'l. [Latin pistillum, and probably pinso, for piso, to pound or beat.] An instrument for pounding and breaking substances in a mortar.PESTLE of port, a gammon of...
PET
PET, noun [This word may be contracted from petulant, or belong to the root of that word. Peevish, which is evidently a contracted word, may be from the same root.]A slight fit ...
PETAL
PE'TAL, noun [Gr. to expand; Latin pateo.] In botany, a flower leaf. In flowers of one petal the corol and petal are the same. In flowers of several petals, the corol is the who...
PETAL-SHAPED
PET'AL-SHAPED, a Having the shape of a petal.
PETALED
PET'ALEDPET'ALINE, adjective Pertaining to a petal; attached to a petal; as a petaline nectary.
PETALINE
PET'ALINE, a. Pertaining to a petal; attached to a petal; as a petaline nectary.
PETALISM
PET'ALISM, noun [Gr. See Petal.] A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans, by which they proscribed a citizen whose wealth or popularity alarmed their jealousy, or who wa...
PETALITE
PET'ALITE, noun [Gr. a leaf.] A rare mineral occurring in masses, having a foliated structure; its color milk white or shaded with gray, red or green. The new alkali, lithia, wa...
PETALOID
PET'ALOID, adjective [petal and Gr. form.] Having the form of petals.
PETALOUS
PET'ALOUS, adjective Having petals; as a petaled flower; opposed to apetalous. This word is much used in compounds; as one-petaled; three petaled.
PETARD
PET'ARD, noun An engine of war made of metal, nearly in the shape of a hat, to be loaded with powder and fixed on a madrier or plank, and used to break gates, barricades, draw-b...
PETECHIAE
PETE'CHIAE, noun Purple spots which appear on the skin in malignant fevers.