PERILOUS
PER'ILOUS, adjective Dangerous; hazardous; full of risk; as a perilous undertaking; a perilous situation.1. Vulgarly used for very, like mighty; as perilous shrewd.2. Smart; wit...
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PERILOUSLY
PER'ILOUSLY, adverb Dangerously; with hazard.
PERILOUSNESS
PER'ILOUSNESS, noun Dangerousness; danger; hazard.
PERIMETER
PERIM'ETER, noun [Gr. about, and measure.] In geometry, the bounds and limits of a body or figure. The perimeters of surfaces or figures are lines; those of bodies are surfaces....
PERIOCTAHEDRAL
PERIOCTAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. octahedral.] Designating a crystal whose primitive form is a four sided prism, and in its secondary form is converted into a prism of eight sides.
PERIOD
PE'RIOD, noun [Latin periodus; Gr. about, and way.]1. Properly, a circuit; hence, the time which is taken up by a planet in making its revolution round the sun, or the duration ...
PERIODIC
PERIOD'ICPERIOD'ICAL, adjective1. Performed in a circuit, or in a regular revolution in a certain time, or in a series of successive circuits; as the periodical motion of the pl...
PERIODICAL
PERIOD'ICAL, a.1. Performed in a circuit, or in a regular revolution in a certain time, or in a series of successive circuits; as the periodical motion of the planets round the ...
PERIODICALLY
PERIOD'ICALLY, adverb At stated periods; as a festival celebrated periodically
PERIOSTEUM
PERIOS'TEUM, noun [Gr. about, and bone.] A nervous vascular membrane endued with quick sensibility, immediately investing the bones of animals.The periosteum has very little sen...
PERIPATETIC
PERIPATET'IC, adjective [Gr. to walk about.] Pertaining to Aristotle's system of philosophy, or to the sect of his followers.PERIPATET'IC, noun A follower of Aristotle, so calle...
PERIPATETICISM
PERIPATET'ICISM, noun The notions or philosophical system of Aristotle and his followers.
PERIPHERAL
PERIPH'ERAL, adjective Peripheric.
PERIPHERIC
PERIPHER'ICPERIPHER'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery.
PERIPHERICAL
PERIPHER'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery.
PERIPHERY
PERIPH'ERY, noun [Gr. around, and to bear.] The circumference of a circle, ellipsis, or other regular curvilinear figure.
PERIPHRASE
PER'IPHRASE, noun s as z. [Gr. about, and to speak.] Circumlocution; a circuit of words; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a figure of rhetoric emplo...
PERIPHRASIS
PERIPHRASIS. [See Periphrase.]
PERIPHRASTIC
PERIPHRAS'TICPERIPHRAS'TICAL, adjective Circumlocutory; expressing or expressed in more words than are necessary; expressing the sense of one word in many.
PERIPHRASTICAL
PERIPHRAS'TICAL, a. Circumlocutory; expressing or expressed in more words than are necessary; expressing the sense of one word in many.
PERIPHRASTICALLY
PERIPHRAS'TICALLY, adverb With circumlocution.
PERIPLUS
PER'IPLUS, noun [Gr. about, and to sail.] Circumnavigation; a voyage round a certain sea or sea coast.
PERIPNEUMONIC
PERIPNEUMON'IC, adjective Pertaining to peripneumony; consisting in an inflammation of the lungs.
PERIPNEUMONY
PERIPNEU'MONY, noun [Gr. about, and the lungs.] An inflammation of the lungs, or of some part of the thorax, attended with acute fever and difficult respiration.
PERIPOLYGONAL
PERIPOLYG'ONAL, adjective [Gr. polygon.] In crystalography, having a great number of sides.
PERISCIAN
PERIS'CIAN, noun [Gr. around, and shadow.] An inhabitant of a frigid zone or within a polar circle, whose shadow moves round, and in the course of the day falls in every point o...
PERISH
PER'ISH, verb intransitive [Latin pereo, supposed to be compounded of per and eo, to go; literally, to depart wholly.]1. To die; to lose life in any manner; applied to animals. ...