The type genus of Peripatopsidae, consisting of onychophorans (lowly organized invertebrates related evolutionarily to the arthropods, also called /walking worms/ AND /velvet worms/) found chiefly in Asiatic and African tropical regions, in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and tropical America.

Surrounding, or situated about, the petals.

Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.

See Peripheral.

The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.

To use circumlocution.

See Periphrase.

Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.

With circumlocution.

Same as Periblast.

Of or pertaining to peripneumonia.

Pneumonia.

The region surrounding the anus, particularly of echinoderms.

Inflammation of the tissues about the rectum.

Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See Apteral.

Peripteral.

The region surrounding a moving body, such as the wing of a bird or a gliding a/roplane, within which cyclic or vortical motion of the air occur.

A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana, and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark colored, usually black. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.

The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.

Having the shadow moving all around.

Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.

A general or comprehensive view.

Viewing all around, or on all sides.

To cause perish.

Perishableness.

Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.

The quality or state of being perishable; liability to decay or destruction.

In a perishable degree or manner.

The act of perishing.

Same as Perisome.

The entire covering of an invertebrate animal, as echinoderm or c/lenterate; the integument.

The albumen of a seed, especially that portion which is formed outside of the embryo sac.

Exactly spherical; globular.

A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable.

The outer covering of a spore.

Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Contrasted with artiad.

To perish.

One of the Perissodactyla.

A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.

Redundant or excessive in words.

Superfluity of words.

Peristaltic contraction or action.

Pertaining to a wormlike wave motion of the intestines, and by analogy, of other flexible tubular structures. In the body it is produced by a progressive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards in the direction of the wave; as, peristaltic movement.

A genus of orchidaceous plants. See Dove plant.

The herb vervain (Verbena officinalis).

A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck.

Like or pertaining to the pigeons or Columb/.

Having pigeonlike feet; -- said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods.

Peristaltic action, especially of the intestines.

Same as Peristome.

The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.

Of or pertaining to a peristome.

Same as Peristome.

Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama).

A range of columns with their entablature, etc.; specifically, a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.

The interval between the diastole and systole of the heart. It is perceptible only in the dying.

Skilled.

An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification.

Cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis.

Same as Peritoneum.

The smooth serous membrane which lines the cavity of the abdomen, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and, turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac.

Inflammation of the peritoneum.

Surrounding the trache/.

That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles. The edge of the aperture of a univalve shell.

A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.

The wheel which, together with the axle, forms the axis in peritrochio, which see under Axis.

Rotatory; circuitous.

Peritropal.

Inflammation of the connective tissue about the c/cum.

Surrounding the uterus.

Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics.

Surrounding the vertebr/.

Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity.

Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum.

To dress with a periwig, or with false hair.

Wearing a peruke (a style of wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries).

A trailing herb of the genus Vinca.

A kind of pear.

A perjured person.

Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn.

One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or forswears, in any sense.

Guilty of perjury; containing perjury.

False swearing.

To peer; to look inquisitively.

A perquisite.

A kind of weak perry.

A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.

Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.

Pearly; resembling pearl.

Any insect of the genus Perla, or family Perlid/. See Stone fly, under Stone.

Same as Pearlite.

Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite.

Perilous.

The act of viewing all over.

Permanent; durable.

The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.

Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.

A wave or curl in the hair that lasts for months and is made durable by treating the hair with chemicals when it is curled.

A wave or curl in the hair that lasts for months and is made durable by treating the hair with chemicals when it is curled.

Having a permanent crease, or remaining unwrinkled without pressing; -- used of fabrics that do not require ironing.

In a permanent manner.

A salt of permanganic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, one of the higher acids of manganese, HMnO4, which forms salts called permanganates.

Continuance.

The quality or state of being permeable.

Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light.

In a permeable manner.

Permeation; the reciprocal of reluctance.

Passing through; permeating.

To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.

p. p. of permeate; as, Her poems are permeated with sorrow.

The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.

Spreading throughout.

Treated with chemicals to make it curly; having been given a permanent wave; -- of hair; as, permed hair.

Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era. The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.

A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia.

Capable of being mixed.

A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.

The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.

That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.