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The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.

The quality of being perplexing; tendency to perplex. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Perplexedly. [Obs.] Milton.

The act of drinking excessively; a drinking bout. [Obs.]

officer for a specific service. The pillage of a place taken by storm was regarded as the perquisite of the soldiers. Prescott. The best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gaves a man of doing good. Addison.

Supplied with perquisites. [Obs.] "Perquisited varlets frequent stand." Savage.

A thorough inquiry of search. [R.] Berkeley.

Situated around the radii, or radial tubes, of a radiate.

Precious stones; jewels. [Obs.] [Written also perre, perrye, etc.] Chaucer.

A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot. Hakluyt.

An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to a terrace or to an upper story; -- usually applied to mediævel or later structures of some architectural pretensions.

See Paroquet, Parakeet.

See Peruke.

A marker of perukes or wigs.

A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider. Mortimer.

Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different shades at different periods. -- n.

given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides. [Obsoles.]

Piercing. [Obs.] Spenser.

A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny. Carlyle

See Persicot.