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A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body. Quain.

Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography.

scerning; sagacious; as, penetrative wisdom. "The penetrative eye." Wordsworth. Led on by skill of penetrative soul. Grainger.

One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.

A peplos. Hence: An overskirt hanging like an ancient peplos; also, a short fitted skirt attached to a waist or coat.

r complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection.

plishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.

To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies. Pope.

Skilled. [Obs.]

That which is excreted through the skin; sweat.

To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.

rple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc.

etechiæ; spotted. Petechial fever, a malignant fever, accompanied with livid spots on the skin.

d to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note under Apothecary.

One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.

One skilled in pharmacology.

One versed or skilled in phonography.

One who practices, or is skilled in, photography.

The application of light for therapeutic purposes, esp. for treating diseases of the skin. -- Pho`to*the*rap"ic (#), Pho`to*ther`a*peu"tic (#), a.