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.

Around the bronchi or bronchial tubes; as, the peribronchial lymphatics.

A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in which layer certain new vessels originate.

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.

Pericardiac.

Pericardiac.

Inflammation of the pericardium.

The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.

The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

Of or pertaining to a pericarp.

Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells.

The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.

Of or pertaining to the perich/th.

Same as Perich/th.

Surrounded by set/; -- said of certain earthworms (genus Perich/tus).

Same as Perich/th.

Of or pertaining to the perichondrium; situated around cartilage.

Inflammation of the perichondrium.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.

Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal.

A grayish or dark green mineral, consisting essentially of magnesia (magnesium oxide), occurring in granular forms or in isometric crystals.

The involucre which surrounds the common receptacle in composite flowers.

To endanger.

Trial; experiment.

A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.

Dangerous; full of peril.

Danger; risk.

The outer layer of bark.

The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.

Chrysolite.

An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.

The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.

See Peri/cians.

The primitive perivisceral cavity.

Excessive care or diligence.

Surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic glands of the frog.

Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.

Pertaining to the perigee.

A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.

Of or pertaining to perigenesis.

That point, in the orbit of the moon or other body orbiting the earth, which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of bodies not orbiting the earth, such as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum.

Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a perianth. In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.

Same as Perigone.

A careless or inaccurate delineation of anything.

Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperace/.

Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; -- said of a flower such as that of the cherry or peach.

That point of the orbit of a planet or comet which is nearest to the sun; -- opposed to aphelion.

To be in danger.

A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or Perilla Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.

Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.

The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.

Around, or at the side of, a lymphatic vessel.

Pertaining to, or containing, perilymph. Perilymphangial.

The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.

Of or pertaining to the perimeter, or to perimetry; as, a perimetric chart of the eye.

The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field of vision.

A crystal of one species inclosing one of another species. See Endomorph.

Surrounding a muscle or muscles. Of or pertaining to the perimysium.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.

See Perineum.

Of or pertaining to the perineum.

The act or process of restoring an injured perineum.

The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.

Inflammation of the cellular tissue around the kidney.

The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

Surrounding nerves or nerve fibers; of or pertaining to the perineurium.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.

Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.

To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] /You may period upon this, that,/ etc.

A salt of periodic acid.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO4) of iodine.

A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.

Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.

One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.

In a periodical{4} manner; as, flooding occurs periodically in the valley.

Periodicity.

The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.

An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.

Surrounding the teeth.

A disease that attacks the gum and bone around the teeth.

A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women.

Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Ant/ci.

The external smooth horny layer of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.

Of or pertaining to the periople; connected with the periople.

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.