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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.
One who, or that which, perturbs, or cause perturbation.
Pierced at the apex.
Punched; pierced with, or having, holes.
The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument; as, pertusion of a vein.
The whooping cough.
To dress with a peruke.
One of the scales of a leaf bud.
Same as Perula.
The act of carefully viewing or examining.
To observe; to examine with care.
One who peruses.
Of or pertaining to Peru, in South America. A native or an inhabitant of Peru.
To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.
Being spread throughout.
The concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; the solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off.
The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.
Tending to pervade, or having power to spread throughout; of a pervading quality.
The quality of filling or spreading throughout; as, the pervasiveness of the odor of cabbage in tenement hallways.
Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
Turned aside.
Perversely.
In a perverse manner.
The quality or state of being perverse.
The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use.
The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.
Tending to pervert.
One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.
One who perverts (a person or thing).
Capable of being perverted.
To investigate thoroughly.
Thorough investigation.
Pervious.
Obstinate; willful; refractory.
Obstinacy; pervicaciousness.
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