Per*ni"cion (?), n. [See 2d Pernicious.] Destruction; perdition. [Obs.]
hudibras.
Per*ni"cious (?), a. [L. pernix, -icis.] Quick; swift (to burn). [R.]
Milton.
Per*ni"cious, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from
pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F.
pernicieux. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.] Having the quality of injuring
or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar.
Shak.
Pernicious to his health.
Prescott.
Syn. -- Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful;
deleterious; hurtful; mischievous.
-- Per*ni"cious*ly, adv., -- Per*ni"cious*ness, n.
Per*nic"i*ty (?), n. [L. pernicitas. See 1st Pernicious.] Swiftness;
celerity. [R.] Ray.
||Per"ni*o (?), n. [L.] (Med.) A chilblain.
Per`noc*ta"li*an (?), n. One who watches or keeps awake all night.
Per`noc*ta"tion (?), n. [L. pernoctatio, fr. pernoctare to stay all
night; per + nox, noctis, night.] The act or state of passing the whole
night; a remaining all night. "Pernoctation in prayer." Jer. Taylor.
Per"nor (?), n. [See Pern, v.] (Law) One who receives the profits, as
of an estate.
Per"not fur"nace (?). [So called from Charles Pernot, its inventor.] A
reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in
making steel.
Per"ny*i moth" (?). (Zoˆl.) A silk- producing moth (Attacus Pernyi)
which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and
America from China.
Per*of"skite (?), n. [From von Perovski, of St.Petersburg.] (Min.) A
titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic crystals. [Written
also Perovskite.]
Pe*rogue (?), n. See Pirogue.
Per"o*nate (?), a. [L. peronatus rough&?;booted, fr. pero, -onis, a
kind of rough boot.] (Bot.) A term applied to the stipes or stalks of
certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length
becomes powdery. Henslow.
Per`o*ne"al (?), a. [Gr. &?; the fibula.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to
the fibula; in the region of the fibula.
Per"o*rate (?), v. i. [See Peroration.] To make a peroration; to
harangue. [Colloq.]
Per`o*ra"tion (?), n. [L. peroratio, fr. perorate, peroratum, to speak
from beginning to end; per + orate to speak. See Per-, and Oration.]
(Rhet.) The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing
up and enforcement of an argument. Burke.
Per*ox`i*da"tion (?), n. Act, process, or result of peroxidizing;
oxidation to a peroxide.
Per*ox"ide (?), n. (Chem.) An oxide containing more oxygen than some
other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as
the highest oxides. Cf. Per-, 2.
Per*ox"i*dize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peroxidized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Peroxidizing.] (Chem.) To oxidize to the utmost degree, so as to form a
peroxide.
Per*pend" (?), v. t. [L. perpendere, perpensum; per + pendere to
weight.] To weight carefully in the mind. [R.] "Perpend my words."
Shak.
Per*pend", v. i. To attend; to be attentive. [R.] Shak.
Per*pend"er (?), n. [F. parpaing, pierre parpaigne; of uncertain
origin.] (Masonry) A large stone reaching through a wall so as to
appear on both sides of it, and acting as a binder; -- called also
perbend, perpend stone, and perpent stone.
Per*pen"di*cle (?), n. [L. perpendiculum; per + pendere to hang: cf. F.
perpendicule.] Something hanging straight down; a plumb line. [Obs.]
Per`pen*dic"u*lar (?), a. [L. perpendicularis, perpendicularius: cf. F.
perpendiculaire. See Perpendicle, Pension.] 1. Exactly upright or
vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the
horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of
the earth.
2. (Geom.) At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad
is perpendicular to the line bc.
Perpendicular style (Arch.), a name given to the latest variety of
English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th
century to the early part of the 16th; -- probably so called from the
vertical style of its window mullions.
Per`pen*dic"u*lar (?), n. 1. A line at right angles to the plane of the
horizon; a vertical line or direction.
2. (Geom.) A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or
surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.
Per`pen*dic`u*lar"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. perpendicularitÈ.] The quality
or state of being perpendicular.
Per`pen*dic"u*lar*ly (?), adv. In a perpendicular manner; vertically.
Per"pend stone` (?). See Perpender.
Per*pen"sion (?), n. [See Perpend.] Careful consideration; pondering.
[Obs.] Sir T. Browne.