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Perceiver (?), n. One who perceives (in any of the senses of the verb). Milton.
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Percely (?), n. Parsley. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Percentage (?), n. [Per cent + -age, as in average. See , and .] (Com.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
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Percept (?), n. [From L. percipere, perceptum.] That which is perceived. Sir W. Hamilton.
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The modern discussion between percept and concept, the one sensuous, the other intellectual. Max Müller.
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Perceptibility (?), n. [Cf. F. perceptibilité.] 1. The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color.
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2. Perception. [R.] Dr. H. More.
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Perceptible (?), a. [L. perceptibilis: cf. F. perceptible. See .] Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable.
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With a perceptible blast of the air. Bacon.
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-- Perceptibleness, n. -- Perceptibly, adv.
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Perception (?), n. [L. perceptio: cf. F. perception. See .] 1. The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.
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2. (Metaph.) The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception. Sir W. Hamilton.
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Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence. Bentley.
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3. The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility. [Obs.]
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This experiment discovereth perception in plants. Bacon.
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4. An idea; a notion. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.
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☞ “The word perception is, in the language of philosophers previous to Reid, used in a very extensive signification. By Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, Leibnitz, and others, it is employed in a sense almost as unexclusive as consciousness, in its widest signification. By Reid this word was limited to our faculty acquisitive of knowledge, and to that branch of this faculty whereby, through the senses, we obtain a knowledge of the external world. But his limitation did not stop here. In the act of external perception he distinguished two elements, to which he gave the names of perception and sensation. He ought perhaps to have called these perception proper and sensation proper, when employed in his special meaning.” Sir W. Hamilton.
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Perceptive (?), a. [Cf. F. perceptif.] Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception. “His perceptive and reflective faculties.” Motley.
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Perceptivity (?), n. The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception. Locke.
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Percesoces (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. perca a perch + esox, -ocis, a pike.] (Zoöl.) An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.
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Perch (pẽrch), n. [Written also pearch.] [OE. perche, F. perche, L. perca, fr. Gr. perkh; cf. perknos dark-colored, Skr. pṛçni spotted, speckled, and E. freckle.] (Zoöl.) 1. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidæ, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens syn. Perca Americana), and the European perch (Perca fluviatilis).
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2. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidæ, Serranidæ, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.
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Coloq. Black perch . (a) The black bass. (b) The flasher. (c) The sea bass. -- Coloq. Blue perch , the cunner. -- Coloq. Gray perch , the fresh-water drum. -- Coloq. Red perch , the rosefish. -- Coloq. Red-bellied perch , the long-eared pondfish. -- Coloq. Perch pest , a small crustacean, parasitic in the mouth of the perch. -- Coloq. Silver perch , the yellowtail. -- Coloq. Stone perch , or Coloq. Striped perch , the pope. -- Coloq. White perch , the Roccus Americanus, or Morone Americanus, a small silvery serranoid market fish of the Atlantic coast.
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Perch (?), n. [F. perche, L. pertica.] 1. A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.
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As chauntecleer among his wives all
Sat on his perche, that was in his hall. Chaucer.
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Not making his high place the lawless perch
Of winged ambitions. Tennyson.
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2. (a) A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole. (b) In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre. (c) In solid measure: A mass 161/2 feet long, 1 foot in height, and 11/2 feet in breadth, or 243/4 cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.
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3. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
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Perch, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Perched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Perching.] [F. percher. See a pole.] To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.
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Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Shak.
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Perch, v. t. 1. To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
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2. To occupy as a perch. Milton.
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Perchance (?), adv. [F. par by (L. per) + chance. See , and .] By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
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Perchant (?), n. [F.] A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.
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Percher (?), n. [From , v. i.] 1. One who, or that which, perches. J. Burroughs.
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2. One of the Insessores.
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3. [From a pole.] A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Percheron (?), n. [F.] One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.
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Perchlorate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of perchloric acid.
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Perchloric (?), a. [Pref. per- + chloric.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.
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Perchloride (?), n. (Chem.) A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.
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Perchromic (?), a. [Pref. per- + chromic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.
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Perciform (?), a. [NL., & L. perca a perch + -form.] (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Perciformes.
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Perciformes (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (Percidæ); the pondfishes (Centrarchidæ); the sciænoids (Sciænidæ); the sparoids (Sparidæ); the serranoids (Serranidæ), and some other related families.
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{ Percipience (?), Percipiency (?), } n. The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception. Mrs. Browning.
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Percipient (?), a. [L. percipiens, -entis, p. pr. of percipere. See .] Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being. Bentley. -- n. One who, or that which, is percipient. Glanvill.
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Perclose (?), n. [OF. parclose an inclosed place; L. per through + claudere, clausum, to shut.] 1. (Eccl. Arch.) Same as .
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2. Conclusion; end. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
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Percoid (?), a. [L. perca a perch + -oid: cf. F. percoïde.] (Zoöl.) Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percidæ. -- n. Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidæ.
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Percoidea (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Percolate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Percolated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Percolating.] [L. percolatus, p. p. of percolare to percolate; per through + colare to strain.] To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
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Percolate, v. i. To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
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Percolation (?), n. [L. percolatio.] The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.
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Percolator (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, filters. “[Tissues] act as percolators.” Henfrey.
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2. A type of coffee pot in which the heated water is driven by its boiling action up above a porous canister of coffee held above the level of the water in the pot, and then filters (percolates) back through the coffee thus extracting its essence.
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3. (Pharmacy) An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
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Percomorphi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. perca perch + Gr. morfh form.] (Zoöl.) A division of fishes including the perches and related kinds.
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Perculaced (?), a. [Prob. corrupt. fr. portcullised.] (Her.) Latticed. See , n., 2.
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Percurrent (?), a. [L. percurrens, p. pr. of percurrere to run through; per through + currere to run.] Running through the entire length.
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Percursory (?), a. [L. percursor one who runs through, fr. percurrere. See .] Running over slightly or in haste; cursory. [R.]
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Percuss (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Percussed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Percussing.] [L. percussus, p. p. of percutere; per + quatere to shake, strike. See .] To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.
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Flame percussed by air giveth a noise. Bacon.
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Percuss, v. i. (Med.) To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See , 3. Quain.
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Percussion (?), n. [L. percussio: cf. F. percussion. See .] 1. The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report. Sir I. Newton.
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2. Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
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The thunderlike percussion of thy sounds. Shak.
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3. (Med.) The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate.
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Coloq. Center of percussion . See under . -- Coloq. Percussion bullet , a bullet containing a substance which is exploded by percussion; an explosive bullet. -- Coloq. Percussion cap , a small copper cap or cup, containing fulminating powder, and used with a percussion lock to explode gunpowder. -- Coloq. Percussion fuze . See under . -- Coloq. Percussion lock , the lock of a gun that is fired by percussion upon fulminating powder. -- Coloq. Percussion match , a match which ignites by percussion. -- Coloq. Percussion powder , powder so composed as to ignite by slight percussion; fulminating powder. -- Coloq. Percussion sieve , Coloq. Percussion table , a machine for sorting ores by agitation in running water.
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Percussive (?), a. Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.
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Percutient (?), a. [L. percutiens, p. pr. of percutere. See .] Striking; having the power of striking. -- n. That which strikes, or has power to strike. Bacon.
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Perdicine (?), a. [See .] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidæ, or partridges.
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Perdie (?), adv. See . Spenser.
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Per diem (?). [L.] By the day; substantively (chiefly U. S.), an allowance or amount of so much by the day. Also used adjectivally; as, a per diem allowance.
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Perdifoil (?), n. [L. perdere to lose + folium leaf.] (Bot.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen. J. Barton.
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Perdition (?), n. [F., fr. L. perditio, fr. perdere, perditum, to ruin, to lose; per (cf. Skr. parā away) + -dere (only in comp.) to put; akin to Gr. �, E. do. See .] 1. Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.
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The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. Shak.
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If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. J. M. Mason.
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2. Loss of diminution. [Obs.] Shak.
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Perditionable (?), a. Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition. [R.] Pollok.
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Perdix (pẽrdĭks), n. [L., a partridge, Gr. perdix.] (Zoöl.) A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera.
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Perdu (pẽrdū or pẽrd�), n. [See , a.] 1. One placed on watch, or in ambush.
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2. A soldier sent on a forlorn hope. Shak.
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{ Perdu, Perdue } (pẽrdū or pẽrd�), a. [F. perdu, f. perdue, lost, p. p. of perdre to lose, L. perdere. See .] 1. Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close.
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He should lie perdue who is to walk the round. Fuller.
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2. Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless. “A perdue captain.” Beau. & Fl.
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Perduellion (?), n. [L. perduellio; per + duellum, bellum, war.] (Civil Law) Treason.
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Perdulous (?), a. [See , a.] Lost; thrown away. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.
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Perdurability (?), n. Durability; lastingness. [Archaic] Chaucer.
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Perdurable (pẽrdūrȧb'l; 277), n. [Cf. F. perdurable, OE. pardurable. See .] Very durable; lasting; continuing long. [Archaic] Chaucer. Shak.
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-- Perdurably, adv. [Archaic]
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{ Perdurance (pẽrdūr�ns), Perduration (pẽrd�rāshŭn), } n. Long continuance. [Archaic]
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Perdure (pẽrdūr), v. i. [L. perdurare; per through + durare to last.] To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting. [Archaic]
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The mind perdures while its energizing may construct a thousand lines. Hickok.
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Perdy (?), adv. Truly. See . [Obs.]
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Ah, dame! perdy ye have not done me right. Spenser.
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Pere (?), n. A peer. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Père (pâr), n. [F., fr. L. pater. See .] Father; -- often used after French proper names to distinguish a father from his son; as, Dumas père.
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Peregal (?), a. [OF. par very (L. per) + egal equal, L. aequalis.] Fully equal. [Obs.] Chaucer. “Peregal to the best.” Spenser.
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Peregrinate (?), v. i. [L. peregrinatus, p. p. of peregrinari to travel. See .] To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
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Peregrinate (?), a. [L. peregrinatus, p. p.] Having traveled; foreign. [Obs.] Shak.
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Peregrination (?), n. [L. peregrinatio: cf. F. pérégrination.] A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. “His peregrination abroad.” Bacon.
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Peregrinator (?), n. [L.] One who peregrinates; one who travels about.
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Peregrine (?), a. [L. peregrinus. See .] Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic. [Spelt also pelegrine.] “Peregrine and preternatural heat.” Bacon.
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Coloq. Peregrine falcon (Zoöl.), a courageous and swift falcon (Falco peregrinus), remarkable for its wide distribution over all the continents. The adult plumage is dark bluish ash on the back, nearly black on the head and cheeks, white beneath, barred with black below the throat. Called also peregrine hawk, duck hawk, game hawk, and great-footed hawk.
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Peregrine (?), n. The peregrine falcon.
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Peregrinity (?), n. [L. peregrinitas: cf. F. pérégrinité.] 1. Foreignness; strangeness. [Obs.] “Somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect.” Johnson.
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2. Travel; wandering. [R.] Carlyle.
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