PEPPER-WORT
PEP'PER-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Lepidium.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PEPPERED
PEP'PERED, participle passive Sprinkled with pepper; pelted; spotted.
PEPPERGRASS
PEP'PERGRASS, noun A plant of the genus Pilularia; also, a plant of the genus Lepidium.
PEPPERING
PEP'PERING, participle present tense Sprinkling with pepper; pelting.1.adjective Hot; pungent; angry.
PEPPERMINT
PEP'PERMINT, noun A plant of the genus Mentha. It is aromatic and pungent. Also, a liquor distilled from the plant.
PEPPERMINT-TREE
PEP'PERMINT-TREE, noun The Eucalyptus piperita, a native of New South Wales.
PEPTIC
PEP'TIC, adjective [Gr. to digest.]Promoting digestion; dietetic, as peptic precepts.
PER
PER, a Latin preposition, denoting through, passing, or over the whole extent, as in perambulo. Hence it is sometimes equivalent to very in English, as in peracutus, very sharp....
PERACUTE
PERACU'TE, adjective [Latin peracutus; per, through, and acutus, sharp.]Very sharp; very violent; as a peracute fever. [Little used.]
PERADVENTURE
PERADVENT'URE, adverb [Latin venio, to come.] By chance; perhaps; it may be.It has been used as a noun for doubt or question, but rather improperly. The word is obsolescent and ...
PERAGRATE
PER'AGRATE, verb intransitive [Latin peragro; per, through, over, and ager, a field.] To travel over or through; to wander; to ramble. [Little used.]
PERAGRATION
PERAGRA'TION, noun The act of passing through any space; as the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution. [Little used.]
PERAMBULATE
PERAM'BULATE, verb transitive [Latin perambulo; per and ambulo, to walk.]To walk through or over; properly and technically, to pass through or over for the purpose of surveying ...
PERAMBULATED
PERAM'BULATED, participle passive Passed over; inspected.
PERAMBULATING
PERAM'BULATING, participle present tense Passing over or through for the purpose of inspection.
PERAMBULATION
PERAMBULA'TION, noun The act of passing or walking through or over.1. A traveling survey or inspection.2. A district within which a person has the right of inspection; jurisdict...
PERAMBULATOR
PERAM'BULATOR, noun An instrument or wheel for measuring distances, to be used in surveying or traveling; called also a pedometer.
PERBISULPHATE
PERBISUL'PHATE, noun A sulphate with two proportions of sulphuric acid, and combined with an oxyd at the maximum of oxydation.
PERCARBURETED
PERC'ARBURETED, adjective The percarbureted hydrogen of the French chimists is said to be the only definite compound of these two elements.
PERCASE
PERCA'SE, adverb [per and case, by case.]Perhaps; perchance. [Not used.]
PERCEANT
PER'CEANT, noun Piercing; penetrating. [Not used.]
PERCEIVABLE
PERCE'IVABLE, adjective [See Perceive.] Perceptible; that may be perceived; that may fall under perception or the cognizance of the senses; that may be felt, seen, heard, smelt ...
PERCEIVABLY
PERCE'IVABLY, adverb In such a manner as to be perceived.
PERCEIVANCE
PERCE'IVANCE, noun Power of perceiving. [Not in use.]
PERCEIVE
PERCE'IVE, verb transitive [Latin percipio; per and capio, to take.]1. To have knowledge or receive impressions of external objects through the medium or instrumentality of the ...
PERCEIVED
PERCE'IVED, participle passive Known by the senses; felt; understood; observed.
PERCEIVER
PERCE'IVER, noun One who perceives, feels or observes.