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- English Word Percipient Definition Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.
- English Word Percipient Definition One who, or that which, is percipient.
- English Word Perclose Definition Same as Parclose.
- English Word Perclose Definition Conclusion; end.
- English Word Percoid Definition Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percidae.
- English Word Percoid Definition Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae.
- English Word Percoidea Definition Same as Perciformes.
- English Word Percolate Definition To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.
- English Word Percolate Definition To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
- English Word Percolated Definition of Percolate
- English Word Percolating Definition of Percolate
- English Word Percolation Definition 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.
- English Word Percolator Definition One who, or that which, filters.
- English Word Percomorphi Definition A division of fishes including the perches and related kinds.
- English Word Perculaced Definition Latticed. See Lattice, n., 2.
- English Word Percurrent Definition Running through the entire length.
- English Word Percursory Definition Running over slightly or in haste; cursory.
- English Word Percuss Definition To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.
- English Word Percuss Definition To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.
- English Word Percussed Definition of Percuss
- English Word Percussing Definition of Percuss
- English Word Percussion Definition The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
- English Word Percussion Definition Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
- English Word Percussion Definition 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.
- English Word Percussive Definition Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.
- English Word Percutient Definition Striking; having the power of striking.
- English Word Percutient Definition That which strikes, or has power to strike.
- English Word Perdicine Definition Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidae, or partridges.
- English Word Perdie Definition See Parde.
- English Word Perdifoil Definition A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.