To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
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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.
One who, or that which, filters.
A division of fishes including the perches and related kinds.
Latticed. See Lattice, n., 2.
Running through the entire length.
Running over slightly or in haste; cursory.
To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.
The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
A musical instrument which is played by striking, as a drum, cymbal, or xylophone.
A musician who plays percussion instruments.
Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.
Striking; having the power of striking. That which strikes, or has power to strike.
Of or pertaining to the family Perdicid/, or partridges.
See Parde.
A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.
Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin.
Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition.
A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera.
One placed on watch, or in ambush.
Lost to view; in concealment or ambush.
Treason.
Lost; thrown away.
Durability; lastingness.
Very durable; lasting; continuing long.
The philosophical view considering the fundamental objects of the real world as extended in the direction of time, so that the objects themselves do not change, though temporal parts may have different properties. Contrasted to endurantism, a view considering objects to be wholly present at each instant of time.
A philosopher who considers the fundamental objects of the real world as extended in the direction of time, so that the objects themselves do not change, though temporal parts may have different properties. Contrasted to endurantist, one who considers objects to be wholly present at each instant.
Long continuance.
To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.
Truly. See Parde.
Father; -- often used after French proper names to distinguish a father from his son; as, Dumas p/re.
Fully equal.
Having traveled; foreign.
A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries.
One who peregrinates; one who travels about.
The peregrine falcon.
Foreignness; strangeness.
Apparel.
To destroy; to defeat.
A quashing; a defeating.
In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.
The quality of being peremptory; positiveness.
Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.
To survive from season to season, of plants.
A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.
In a perennial manner.
Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus.
Having branch/, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.
The quality of being perennial.
A wandering, or rambling, through various places.
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.
The capability of becoming perfect; as, he believes in the ultimate perfectability of man; -- usually spelled perfectibility.
Brought into final form; completely formed; -- of plans, ideas, etc.
One who, or that which, makes perfect.
A perfectionist.
A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2.
The quality or state of being perfectible.
Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.
To perfect.
Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection.
To perfect.
The doctrine of the Perfectionists.
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.
The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection.
Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; -- usually followed by of.
The perfective case or aspect.
In a perfective manner.
In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; thoroughly; faultlessly.
The quality or state of being perfect; perfection.
Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.
One who performs or perfects a work; especially, one who endows a charity.
Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; treacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend.
In a perfidious manner.
The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.
The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.
Perfect.
To fix surely; to appoint.
Capable of being blown through.
To blow through.
The act of perflating.
Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.
A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa. A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.
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.
Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.
Having power to perforate or pierce.
One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome.
To force; to compel.
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.
Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.
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.
One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.
To rub over.
Emitting perfume; perfuming.
The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.
Filled or impregnated with perfume; as, perfumed stationery; a perfumed boudoir.
One who, or that which, perfumes.
Perfumes, in general.
In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly.
The quality or state of being perfunctory.
Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions; a perfunctory greeting.
To perform in a perfunctory manner; to do negligently.
To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.
The act of perfusing.
Of a nature to flow over, or to spread through.
Like parchment.
Lit., an arbor or bower; An arbor or trellis treated architecturally, as with stone columns or similar massive structure.
A continuous colonnade or arcade; -- applied to the decorative groups of windows, as in Venetian palazzi.
Posibly; by chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.
An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished.
See Pirogue.
The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished. A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.
The perianth.
A charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet.
Among or around the stars.
That point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter.
See Pirogue.
The protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast, or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation.
Nascent cortex, or immature cellular bark.
In ancient architecture, an inclosed court, esp., one surrounding a temple.
Surrounding the branchi/; as, a peribranchial cavity.
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