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To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord. Reid.

erceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception. Sir W. Hamilton. Matter hath no life nor perception, and is no…

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.

he process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.

Running through the entire length.

ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.

Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus.

Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.

A wandering, or rambling, through various places. [R.] Howell.

t.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.

In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly. "Perfectly divine." Milton. As many as touched were made perfectly whole. Matt. xiv. 36.

Making or doing throughly; efficient; effectual. [R.] Blackstone.

Capable of being blown through. [Obs.]

To blow through. [Obs.] Harvey.

rt produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of. Bacon.

The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through. Bacon.

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do. I will cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth all things for me. Ps. lvii. 2. Great force to perform what they did attempt. Sir P. Sidney.

That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character. "Her walking and other actual performances." Shak. "His musical performances." Macaulay.