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OXYSULPHURET n.

An oxysulphide. [Obsolescent]

The art of painting. [Obs.] Chaucer. Dryden.

Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See Musang.

PARAVENTURE adv.

Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Departure. [Obs.] Spenser.

person; esp., a decoration consisting of a set of ornaments to be used together; as, a parure of rubies or of embroideries.

PASSYMEASURE n.

See Paspy. Shak.

PASTURE n. 5 definitions

Food; nourishment. [Obs.] Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. Spenser.

Destitute of pasture. Milton.

One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

PEDICURE n. 2 definitions

One who cares for the feet and nails; a chiropodist. -- Ped"i*cure, v. t. --Ped"i*cur*ism (#), n. --Ped"i*cur*ist (#), n.

A crisp, hard, thin paper, sometimes used for postage stamps.

PERADVENTURE adv. 2 definitions

By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. "If peradventure he speak against me." Shak. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city. Gen. xviii. 24.

A percarbide. [Obsoles.]

PERCARBURETED a.

Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon.

To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting. [Archaic] The mind perdures while its energizing may construct a thousand lines. Hickok.

PERJURE v. 3 definitions

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.

PERSULPHURET n.

A persulphide. [Obs.]