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To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.

The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance. Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being perpetual; as, the perpetuity of laws. Bacon. A path to perpetuity of fame. Byron. The perpetuity of single emotion is insanity. I. Taylor.

A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.

Having flat petals.

Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. Martyn.

The ball formerly used to ink the type.

A puppet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Puppet.

A puppet, or little baby. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

A pompet. Pumpet ball (Print.), a ball for inking types; a pompet.

rionette; a wooden actor in a play. At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance. Pope.

Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet.

A master of a puppet show.

Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation. Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. Chambers.

curs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last repetend is 283.

iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak.

Of the nature of, or containing, repetition. [R.]

One who repeats. [Obs.]

Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight.