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- English Word Periphrase Definition The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
- English Word Periphrase Definition To express by periphrase or circumlocution.
- English Word Periphrase Definition To use circumlocution.
- English Word Periphrased Definition of Periphrase
- English Word Periphrases Definition of Periphrasis
- English Word Periphrasing Definition of Periphrase
- English Word Periphrasis Definition See Periphrase.
- English Word Periphrastic Definition Alt. of Periphrastical
- English Word Periphrastical Definition Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.
- English Word Periphrastically Definition With circumlocution.
- English Word Periplast Definition Same as Periblast.
- English Word Peripneumonia Definition Alt. of Peripneumony
- English Word Peripneumonic Definition Of or pertaining to peripneumonia.
- English Word Peripneumony Definition Pneumonia.
- English Word Periproct Definition The region surrounding the anus, particularly of echinoderms.
- English Word Periproctitis Definition Inflammation of the tissues about the rectum.
- English Word Peripteral Definition Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See Apteral.
- English Word Peripterous Definition Peripteral.
- English Word Peripterous Definition Feathered all around.
- English Word Peris Definition of Peri
- English Word Perisarc Definition The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.
- English Word Periscian Definition Having the shadow moving all around.
- English Word Periscians Definition Alt. of Periscii
- English Word Periscii Definition Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.
- English Word Periscope Definition A general or comprehensive view.
- English Word Periscope Definition an optical instrument of tubular shape containing an arrangement of lenses and mirrors (or prisms), allowing a person to observe a field of view otherwise obstructed, as beyond an obstructing object or (as in submarines) above the surface of the water.
- English Word Periscopic Definition Viewing all around, or on all sides.
- English Word Periscopic Definition of or relating to a periscope{2}.
- English Word Perish Definition To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
- English Word Perish Definition To cause perish.