Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PER-CIP'I-ENCE, n.

Act of perceiving; perception. Haslam.

PER-CIP'I-ENT, a. [L. percipiens.]

Perceiving; having the faculty of perception. Animals are percipient beings; mere matter is not percipient. Bentley.

PER-CIP'I-ENT, n.

One that perceives or has the faculty of perception. More.

PER-CLOSE, n. [s as z.]

Conclusion. [Not used.] Ralegh.

PER'CO-LATE, v.i.

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

PER'CO-LATE, v.t. [L. percolo; per and colo, to strain; Fr. couler, to flow or run.]

To strain through; to cause to pass through small interstices, as a liquor; to filter. Hale.

PER'CO-LA-TED, pp.

Filtered; passed through small interstices.

PER'CO-LA-TING, ppr.

Filtering.

PER-CO-LA'TION, n.

The act of straining or filtering; filtration; the act of passing through small interstices, or liquor through felt or a porous stone. Percolation is intended for the purification of liquors. Bacon.

PER-CUR'SO-RY, a. [L. percursus.]

Cursory; running over slightly or in haste.

PER-CUSS', v.t.¹ [L. percussus, from percutio, to strike.]

To strike. Bacon.

PER-CUSS', v.t.²

To strike upon in order to ascertain the resulting sound.

PER-CUS'SION, n. [L. percussio.]

1. The set of striking one body against another, with some violence; as, the vibrations excited in the air by percussion. Newton.
2. The impression one body makes on another by falling on it or striking it. Encyc.
3. The impression or effect of sound on the ear. Rymer.

PER-CUS'SION-LOCK, n.

A lock of a son in which gunpowder is exploded by fire obtained from the percussion of fulminating powder. W. H. G.

PER-CU'TIENT, n. [L. percutiens.]

That which strikes, or has power to strike. Bacon.

PER-DIEM, adv. [Per diem; L.]

By the day.

PER'DI-FOIL, n. [L. perdo, to lose, and folium, leaf.]

A plant that annually loses or drops its leaves; opposed to evergreen. The passion flower of America and the jasmine of Malabar, which are evergreens in their native climates, become perdifoils when transplanted into Britain. Barton.

PER-DI'TION, n. [L. perditio, from perdo, to lose, to ruin. Qu. per and do, or Gr. περθω.]

1. Entire loss or ruin; utter destruction; as, the perdition ol the Turkish fleet. Shak. [In this sense, the word is now nearly or wholly obsolete.]
2. The utter loss of the soul or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death. The impenitent sinner is condemned to final perdition. If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. J. M. Mason. Shak.
3. Loss. [Not used.] Shak.

PER-DU', a.

Abandoned; employed on desperate purposes; accustomed to desperate purposes or enterprises. Beaum and Fletcher.

PER-DU, or PER-DUE, adv. [Fr. perdu, lost, from perdre, to lose, L. perdo.]

Close; in concealment. The moderator, out of view, / Beneath the desk had lain perdue. Trumbull's M' Fingall.

PER-DU', n.

One that is placed on the watch or in ambush. Shak.

PER'DU-LOUS, a. [Fr. perdu, from L. perdo.]

Lost; thrown away. [Not used.] Bramhall.

PER-DU'RA-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. perduro; per and duro, to last.]

Very durable; lasting; continuing long. [Not used.] Shak. Drayton.

PER-DU'RA-BLY, adv.

Very durably. [Not used.] Shak

PER-DU-RA'TION, a.

Long continuance. [Not used.] Ainsworth.