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Too elegant. Johnson.

To inform, fill, or animate, excessively. [R.] Johnson.

To overcome by importunity. Johnson.

Setted by a pact, or agreement. [R.] Johnson.

Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic. [R.] Johnson.

One who palters. Johnson.

All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders. [R.] John Worthington.

A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.

A plasterer. Johnson.

A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.

part his throne, and share his heaven with thee. Pope. They parted my raiment among them. John xix. 24.

he son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name. M. A. Lower.

Full of pebbles; pebbled. "A hard, pebbly bottom." Johnson.

To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. [R.] Dr. John Smith.

A female writer; an authoress. Johnson.

Foreignness; strangeness. [Obs.] "Somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect." Johnson.

is requisite to its nature and kind. God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us. 1 John iv. 12. Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species. Locke. Perfecting press (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is comple…

lved his rounded periods." Tennyson. Periods are beautiful when they are not too long. B. Johnson.

Guilty of perjury; containing perjury. [Obs.] Quarles. B. Johnson.

To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy. Johnson.