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rough any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception. Mrs. Browning.

A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture. "Slender perforations." Sir T. Browne.

Continuance. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Passing through; permeating. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Careful consideration; pondering. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

on through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance. Sir T. Browne.

eeds be always so. Pope. That face persists. It floats up; it turns over in my mind. Mrs. Browning.

glass through which objects are viewed. [Obs.] "Not a perspective, but a mirror." Sir T. Browne.

of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being perspired. Sir T. Browne.

Persuasive. Sir T. Browne.

To disorder; to confuse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar. Sir T. Browne.

By way of begging the question; by an assumption. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

r characterized by, petrifaction. The . . . petrifactive mutations of hard bodies. Sir T. Browne.

Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may…

A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order (Phæosporeæ) of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.

e Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher.