To pierce.

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

Power of perceiving.

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord.

Detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues; as, a perceived threat.

One who perceives (in any of the senses of the verb).

Parsley.

A proportion multiplied by 100; as, he receives a percent of the proceeds; 3 is 75 percent of 4. Often symbolized by the character /%/; as, at 6% interest.

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

That object or phenomenon which is perceived.

The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color.

Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable; large enough to be perceived; not so small as to be incapable of perception.

The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apprehension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apprehension; cognition.

Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.

An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.

Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percid/, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens syn. Perca Americana), and the European perch (Perca fluviatilis).

To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.

By chance; perhaps; peradventure.

A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.

One who, or that which, perches.

One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.

A salt of perchloric acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.

A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.

Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.

Pertaining to the Perciformes.

An extensive order of fishes, including the true perches (Percid/); the pondfishes (Centrarchid/); the sci/noids (Sci/nid/); the sparoids (Sparid/); the serranoids (Serranid/), and some other related families.

The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception.

Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being. One who, or that which, is percipient.

Same as Parclose.

Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percid/. Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percid/; a percoidean.

Same as Perciformes.

Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes.

To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.

The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.

One who, or that which, filters.

A division of fishes including the perches and related kinds.

Latticed. See Lattice, n., 2.

Running through the entire length.

Running over slightly or in haste; cursory.

To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.

The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.

A musical instrument which is played by striking, as a drum, cymbal, or xylophone.

A musician who plays percussion instruments.

Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.

Striking; having the power of striking. That which strikes, or has power to strike.

Of or pertaining to the family Perdicid/, or partridges.

See Parde.

A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.

Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin.

Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition.

A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera.

One placed on watch, or in ambush.

Lost to view; in concealment or ambush.

Treason.

Lost; thrown away.

Durability; lastingness.

Very durable; lasting; continuing long.

The philosophical view considering the fundamental objects of the real world as extended in the direction of time, so that the objects themselves do not change, though temporal parts may have different properties. Contrasted to endurantism, a view considering objects to be wholly present at each instant of time.

Long continuance.

To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.

Truly. See Parde.

Father; -- often used after French proper names to distinguish a father from his son; as, Dumas p/re.

Fully equal.

Having traveled; foreign.

A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries.

One who peregrinates; one who travels about.

The peregrine falcon.

Foreignness; strangeness.

Apparel.

To destroy; to defeat.

A quashing; a defeating.

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

The quality of being peremptory; positiveness.

Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.

To survive from season to season, of plants.

A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.

In a perennial manner.

Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus.

Having branch/, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.

The quality of being perennial.

A wandering, or rambling, through various places.

To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.

The capability of becoming perfect; as, he believes in the ultimate perfectability of man; -- usually spelled perfectibility.

Brought into final form; completely formed; -- of plans, ideas, etc.

One who, or that which, makes perfect.

A perfectionist.

A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2.

The quality or state of being perfectible.

Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.

To perfect.

Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection.

To perfect.

The doctrine of the Perfectionists.

One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.

The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection.

Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; -- usually followed by of.

The perfective case or aspect.

In a perfective manner.

In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; thoroughly; faultlessly.

The quality or state of being perfect; perfection.

Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.

One who performs or perfects a work; especially, one who endows a charity.

Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; treacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend.

In a perfidious manner.

The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.

The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.

Perfect.

To fix surely; to appoint.

Capable of being blown through.

To blow through.

The act of perflating.

Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa. A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.

To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.

Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.

The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.

Having power to perforate or pierce.

One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome.