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- English Word Persimmon Definition An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious.
- English Word Persis Definition A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens.
- English Word Persism Definition A Persian idiom.
- English Word Persist Definition To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.
- English Word Persisted Definition of Persist
- English Word Persistence Definition Alt. of Persistency
- English Word Persistency Definition The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.
- English Word Persistency Definition The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed
- English Word Persistency Definition The persistence of motion.
- English Word Persistency Definition Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc.
- English Word Persistent Definition Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
- English Word Persistent Definition Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.
- English Word Persistently Definition In a persistent manner.
- English Word Persisting Definition of Persist
- English Word Persisting Definition Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent.
- English Word Persistive Definition See Persistent.
- English Word Persolve Definition To pay wholly, or fully.
- English Word Person Definition A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
- English Word Person Definition The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
- English Word Person Definition A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
- English Word Person Definition A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
- English Word Person Definition A parson; the parish priest.
- English Word Person Definition Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
- English Word Person Definition One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
- English Word Person Definition A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
- English Word Person Definition To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
- English Word Persona Definition Same as Person, n., 8.
- English Word Personable Definition Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.
- English Word Personable Definition Enabled to maintain pleas in court.
- English Word Personable Definition Having capacity to take anything granted.