2. A punched hole; a perforation. Bacon.

||Per*tus"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. L. per through, very + tussis cough.]

||(Med.) The whooping cough.

Per"uke (?), n. [F. perruque, It. perrucca, parrucca, fr. L. pilus

hair. Cf. Periwig, Wig, Peel to strip off, Plush, Pile a hair.] A wig;

a periwig.