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A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit.

Properly, printed calico, whether Oriental or of fanciful design with flowers, etc., in Western work. Hence, as extended in English, material of a similar character.

Window blinds having movable slats, similar to Venetian blinds.

Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. Hannah More.

One who indulges in persiflage; a banterer; a quiz. Carlyle.

nt until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious. Japanese persimmon, Diospyros Kaki and its red or yellow edible fruit, which outwardly resembles a tomato, but contains a few large seeds.

A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens.

A Persian idiom.

fastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy. If they persist in pointing their batteries against particular persons, no laws of war forbid the making reprisals. Addison. Some positive, pe…

The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.

Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

In a persistent manner.

Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.

See Persistent. Shak.

To pay wholly, or fully. [Obs.] E. Hall.

sentation; an assumed character. [Archaic] His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler. Bacon. No man can long put on a person and act a part. Jer. Taylor. To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. Milton. How different is the same man from himself…

Same as Person, n., 8.

Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. Hall.

Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. "In personage stately." Hayward. The damsel well did view his personage. Spenser.

Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. Every man so termed by way of personal difference. Hooker.