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A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.

A compound containing a relatively large amount of carbon. [R.]

A percarbide. [Obsoles.]

Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon.

Perhaps; perchance. [Obs.] Bacon.

To pierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Capable of being perceived; perceptible. -- Per*ceiv"a*bly, adv.

Power of perceiving. [Obs.] "The senses and common perceivance." Milton.

istence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord. Reid.

One who perceives (in any of the senses of the verb). Milton.

Parsley. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

That which is perceived. Sir W. Hamilton. The modern discussion between percept and concept, the one sensuous, the other intellectual. Max Müller.

The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color.

Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable. With a perceptible blast of the air. Bacon. -- Per*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. -- Per*cep"ti*bly, adv.

The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.

Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception. "His perceptive and reflective faculties." Motley.

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception. Locke.

racudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.

Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidæ, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, or Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).