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A kind of pear. [Obs.] Chaucer.

te an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself. Want will perjure The ne'er-touched vestal. Shak.

Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn. Shak. "Perjured persons." 1 Tim. i. 10. "Their perjured oath." Spenser.

One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or forswears, in any sense.

Guilty of perjury; containing perjury. [Obs.] Quarles. B. Johnson.

e by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.

e trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head. Cowper. Sherburne.

A kind of weak perry.

a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.

Perk; pert; jaunty; trim. There amid perky larches and pines. Tennyson.

Pearly; resembling pearl.

Any insect of the genus Perla, or family Perlidæ. See Stone fly, under Stone.

Same as Pearlite.

Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite.

Perilous. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of viewing all over. [Archaic] Howell.

Permanent; durable. [Obs.] Lydgate.

The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.

racter; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression. Eternity stands permanent and fixed. Dryden. Permanent gases (Chem. & Physics), hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide; -- also called incondensible or incoercible gases, before their liquefaction in…

In a permanent manner.