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Destitute of pasture. Milton.

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

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.

To perform in a perfunctory manner; to do negligently. [R.]

To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet. Ye that . . . perturb so my feast with crying. Chaucer.

The quality or state of being perturbable.

Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.

Disturbance; perturbation. [R.] "Perturbance of the mind." Sharp.

To perturb. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.

Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets. "The perturbational theory." Sir J. Herschel.

Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing. Sir J. Herschel.

A perturber. [R.]

Agitated; disturbed; troubled. Shak. -- Per*turb"ed*ly, adv.

One who, or that which, perturbs, or cause perturbation.

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition.

Pattern of coloration.

Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture.

A picture. [Obs.] Spenser.