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Having power to enter or pierce; penetrating; sharp; subtile; as, penetrant cold. "Penetrant and powerful arguments." Boyle.

Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor.

Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration. Walpole.

Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. [R.] Harvey.

Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless. "Perfunctory in his devotions." Sharp.

of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities. Sharp personalities were exchanged. Macaulay.

n distant objects. Aërial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of color, etc. Ruskin.

Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.

The act of looking sharply. [Obs.] Bailey.

Disturbance; perturbation. [R.] "Perturbance of the mind." Sharp.

on baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles, Peter boat, a fishing boat, sharp at both ends, originally of the Baltic Sea, but now common in certain English rivers. -- Peter Funk, the auctioneer in a mock auction. [Cant, U.S.] -- Peter pence, or Peter's pence. (a) An annual tax or tribute, formerly pa…

The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect. Sharp.

One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.

To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

Pointed; sharp. "Picked and polished." Chapman. Let the stake be made picked at the top. Mortimer.

The state of being sharpened; pointedness.

A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More.

oodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.

An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. [Slang] Blue pigeon (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird (Graucalus melanops); -- called also black-faced crow. -- Green pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to the family Treronidæ. -- Imperial pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of the large Asia…