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- English Word Perry Definition A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.
- English Word Perry Definition A suddent squall. See Pirry.
- English Word Pers Definition Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different shades at different periods.
- English Word Pers Definition A cloth of sky-blue color.
- English Word Persalt Definition A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides.
- English Word Persant Definition Piercing.
- English Word Perscrutation Definition A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
- English Word Persecot Definition See Persicot.
- English Word Persecute Definition To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.
- English Word Persecute Definition To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
- English Word Persecuted Definition of Persecute
- English Word Persecuting Definition of Persecute
- English Word Persecution Definition The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.
- English Word Persecution Definition The state or condition of being persecuted.
- English Word Persecution Definition A carrying on; prosecution.
- English Word Persecutor Definition One who persecutes, or harasses.
- English Word Persecutrix Definition A woman who persecutes.
- English Word Perseid Definition One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862.
- English Word Perseus Definition A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.
- English Word Perseus Definition A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.