Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different shades at different periods. A cloth of sky-blue color.
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A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides.
Piercing.
A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
See Persicot.
To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.
Same as oppressed.
The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.
One who persecutes, or harasses.
A woman who persecutes.
One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are probably fragments of Swift's comet of 1862 (III).
A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Dana/, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.
To persevere.
The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun.
Persevering.
To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.
Characterized by perseverance; persistent.
A native or inhabitant of Persia.
Of or relating to Persia. The Persian language.
See Lady's thumb.
same as Persicot.
A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit.
Properly, printed calico, whether Oriental or of fanciful design with flowers, etc., in Western work. Hence, as extended in English, material of a similar character.
Window blinds having movable slats, similar to Venetian blinds.
Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.
One who indulges in persiflage; a banterer; a quiz.
An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious.
A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens.
A Persian idiom.
To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.
The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.
Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
In a persistent manner.
Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent.
See Persistent.
Finicky or fussy; demanding excessive attention to petty details or niceties; unduly particular; fastidious; -- of people.
To pay wholly, or fully.
To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
By direct contact between persons.
Same as Person, n., 8.
Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.
The complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive.
Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.
A movable; a chattel.
A computer{2} designed for use by one person at a time; -- contrasted with shared-time computers such as a mainframe, server or minicomputer, which may be accessed by multiple users each operating from a different input device (in the 1990's, usually a terminal or personal computer). A personal computer typically uses a microprocessor for its CPU.
The quality or state of being personal; personality.
That which constitutes distinction of person; the externally evident aspects of the character or behavior of a person; individuality.
To make personal.
Made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual; modified for a particular person; as, personalized luggage; personalized advice.
In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally.
The state of being a person; personality.
Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.
The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another; impersonation.
One who personates.
Personality.
The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
One who personifies.
To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.
To personify.
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from materiel.
A genus of Australian undershrubs to small trees; the geebungs.
A glass through which objects are viewed.
Optically; as through a glass.
An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.
The science or art of delineating objects according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.
Discernible.
Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.
The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.
Perspicacity.
The act of looking sharply.
An optical glass; a telescope.
The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.
Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.
The quality or state of being perspirable.
Capable of being perspired.
The act or process of perspiring.
Performing the act of perspiration; perspiratory.
Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts.
To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores.
Noisy; obstreperous.
To touch; to graze; to glance on.
That may be persuaded.
Persuasion.
Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced.
One who, or that which, persuades or influences.
Capability of being persuaded.
Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.
The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.
That which persuades; an inducement; an incitement; an exhortation.
Persuasive.
A sulphate of the peroxide of any base.
A sulphide containing more sulphur than some other compound of the same elements; as, iron pyrites is a persulphide; -- formerly called persulphuret.
A salt of persulphocyanic acid.
Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline substance (called also perthiocyanic acid), analogous to sulphocyanic acid, but containing more sulphur.
An orange-yellow substance, produced by the action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of potassium; -- called also pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, and formerly sulphocyanogen.
A persulphide.
To behave with pertness.
To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.
The act of boring through.
Same as Persulphocyanogen.
A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors.
Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.
The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency.
Pertinacity.
Pertinacious.
Pertinaciously.
The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness.
Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence.
In a pert manner.
The quality or state of being pert.
Passing through or over.
To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.
The quality or state of being perturbable.
Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.
Disturbance; perturbation.
Perturbed; agitated.
The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.
Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets.
Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing.
A perturber.
Agitated; disturbed; troubled.
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