Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PER-JU'RI-OUS, a.

Guilty of perjury; containing perjury. – Coke.

PER'JU-RY, n. [L. perjurium.]

The act or crime of willfully making a false oath, when lawfully administered; or a crime committed when a lawful oath is administered in some judicial proceeding, to a person who swears willfully, absolutely and falsely in a matter material to the issue. – Coke.

PERK, a. [W. perc, compact, trim, perk; as, a noun, something that is close, compact, trim, and a perch.]

Properly, erect; hence, smart; trim.

PERK, v.i. [W. percu, to trim, to make smart.]

To hold up the head with affected smartness. Pope. That Edward's Miss thus perks it in your face. – Pope.

PERK, v.t.

to dress; to make trim or smart; to prank. – Shak.

PERK'IN, n.

Ciderkin; a kind of cider made by steeping the murk in water. – Encyc.

PERLATE-ACID, n. [Perlate acid.]

The acidulous phosphate of soda. Chimistry. – Nicholson.

PERLATED-ACID, n. [or PURETIC; Perlated acid, or puretic.]

Biphosphate of soda.

PER'LOUS, a.

For Perilous, is not used. – Spenser.

PER-LUS-TRA'TION, n. [L. perlustro; per and lustro, to survey.]

The act of viewing all over. – Howell.

PER'MA-GY, n.

A little Turkish boat. – Dict.

PER'MA-NENCE, or PER'MA-NEN-CY, n. [See Permanent.]

1. Continuance in the same state, or without a change that destroys the form or nature of a thing; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of a government or state; the permanence of institutions or of a system of principles.
2. Continuance in the same place or at rest.

PER'MA-NENT, a. [L. permanens, permaneo; per and maneo, to remain. Class Mn.]

Durable; lasting; continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys the form or nature of the thing. The laws, like the character of God, are unalterably permanent. Human laws and institutions may be to a degree permanent, but they are subject to change and overthrow. We speak of a permanent wall or building, a permanent bridge, when they are so constructed as to endure long; in which examples, permanent is equivalent to durable or lasting, but not to undecaying or unalterable. So we say a permanent residence, a permanent intercourse, permanent friendship, when it continues a long time without interruption.

PER'MA-NENT-LY, adv.

With long continuance; durably; in a fixed state or place; as, a government permanently established.

PER-MAN'SION, n. [L. permansio.]

Continuance. [Not used.] – Brown.

PER-ME-A-BIL'I-TY, n. [infra.]

The quality or state of being permeable. – Journ. of Science.

PER'ME-A-BLE, a. [L. permeo; per and meo, to pass or glide.]

That may be passed through without rupture or displacement of its parts, as solid matter; applied particularly to substances that admit the passage of fluids. Thus cloth, leather, wood are permeable to water and oil; glass is permeable to light, but not to water.

PER'ME-A-BLY, adv.

In a permeable manner.

PER'ME-ANT, a. [supra.]

Passing through. – Brown.

PER'ME-ATE, v.t. [L. permeo; per and meo, to glide, flow or pass.]

To pass through the pores or interstices of a body; to penetrate and pass through a substance without rupture or displacement of its parts; applied particularly to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand or a filtering stone; light permeates glass.

PER'ME-A-TED, pp.

Passed through, as by a fluid.

PER'ME-A-TING, ppr.

Passing through the pores or interstices of a substance.

PER-ME-A'TION, n.

The act of passing through the pores or interstices of a body.

PER-MIS'CI-BLE, a. [L. permisceo; per and misceo, to mix.]

That may be mixed. [Little used.]

PER-MIS'SI-BLE, a. [See Permit.]

That may be permitted or allowed.