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.

The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.

Permitting; granting leave or liberty.

In a permissive manner.

The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture.

A large pompano (Trachinotus goodei) of the West Indies, Florida, etc. It becomes about three feet long. The round pompano. (Trachinotus falcatus).

The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave.

One to whom a permission or permit is given.

One who permits.

To mix; to mingle.

See Permission.

A special form of rotary converter with stationary commutator and rotating brushes, in which the exciting field is induced by the alternating current in a short-circuited magnetic core instead of being produced by an external magnet.

Capable of being permuted; exchangeable.

The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.

To interchange; to transfer reciprocally.

One who permutes.

The honey buzzard.

A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.

See Pimpernel.

Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.

Swiftness; celerity.

Finical or fussy; full of petty details.

A chilblain.

One who watches or keeps awake all night.

The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night.

One who receives the profits, as of an estate.

Same as Perovskite.

See Pirogue.

A genus of New World wood mice.

A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery.

Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula.

A genus of destructive downy mildews.

A natural family of parasitic fungi; the downy mildews.

An order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi, including the Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae.

To make a peroration; to harangue.

The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.

A titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic crystals.

Act, process, or result of peroxidizing; oxidation to a peroxide.

An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest oxides. Cf. Per-, 2.

To oxidize to the utmost degree, so as to form a peroxide.

To attend; to be attentive.

A large stone reaching through a wall so as to appear on both sides of it, and acting as a binder; -- called also perbend, perpend stone, and perpent stone.

Something hanging straight down; a plumb line.

A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.

The quality or state of being perpendicular.

In a perpendicular manner; vertically.

Careful consideration; pondering.

Perpension.

Suffering; endurance.

Capable of being perpetrated.

To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed.

The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.

One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime.

Capable of being perpetuated or continued.

Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.

In a perpetual manner; constantly; continually.

The state or condition of being perpetual.

Perpetuity.

Made perpetual; perpetuated.

The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance.

The quality or state of being perpetual; as, the perpetuity of laws.

Intricate; difficult.

Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled; doubtful; anxious.

Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome.

The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.

The quality of being perplexing; tendency to perplex.

Perplexedly.

The act of drinking excessively; a drinking bout.

Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; -- examples are, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service; the use of a company automobile or other company property.

Supplied with perquisites.

A thorough inquiry of search.

Situated around the radii, or radial tubes, of a radiate.

Precious stones; jewels.

The name of a brand of bottled mineral water; a glass or bottle of such water; as, I'll have a Perrier..

An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to a terrace or to an upper story; -- usually applied to medi/vel or later structures of some architectural pretensions.

See Paroquet, Parakeet.

See Peruke.

A maker of perukes or wigs.

A sudden squall. See Pirry.