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The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Swift.

Inflammation of the perichondrium.

Inflammation of the cellular tissue around the kidney. -- Per`i*ne*phrit"ic, a.

A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck.

Skilled. [Obs.]

An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification. Henslow.

Cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis.

Same as Peritoneum.

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

agm, and, turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac. [Written also peritonæum.]

Inflammation of the peritoneum.

Surrounding the tracheæ.

That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.

A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.

The wheel which, together with the axle, forms the axis in peritrochio, which see under Axis.

Rotatory; circuitous. [R.]

Peritropal.

Inflammation of the connective tissue about the cæcum.

The quality or state of being perpendicular.

Evident; visible. Phanerite series (Geol.), the uppermost part of the earth's crust, consisting of deposits produced by causes in obvious operation.