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Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision.

Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Perception; insight; acuteness. [Obs.] Methinks a man Of your sagacity and clear nostril should Have made another choice. B. Jonson.

Attention; respectful treatment; civility. To take notice of, to perceive especially; to observe or treat with particular attention.

To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated. W. Black.

To be on the watch respecting; to pay attention to; to notice with care; to see; to perceive; to discover; as, to observe an eclipse; to observe the color or fashion of a dress; to observe the movements of an army.

Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton.

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark. Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. Pope.

Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof. Shak. Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death. South.

e impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.

Perception of everything.

Perceiving everything. Dr. H. More.

The state or quality of being distanguishable from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and possessing marerial quality; externality; objectivity. The outness of the objects of sense. Sir W. Hamiltom.

To perceive by the taste. [Obs.] Shak.

The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch. Arbuthnot.

Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form. Shak. Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness. Milton.

The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.

The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception. Mrs. Browning.

Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being. Bentley. -- n.