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Truly. See Parde. [Obs.] Ah, dame! perdy ye have not done me right. Spenser.

A peer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fully equal. [Obs.] Chaucer. "Peregal to the best." Spenser.

To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.

A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. "His peregrination abroad." Bacon.

One who peregrinates; one who travels about.

Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic. [Spelt also pelegrine.] "Peregrine and preternatural heat." Bacon. Peregrine falcon (Zoöl.), a courageous and swift falcon (Falco peregrinus), remarkable for its wide distribution over all the continents. The adult plumage is dark bluish ash on the back, nearly bl…

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

Apparel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To destroy; to defeat. [R.] Ayliffe.

A quashing; a defeating. [Obs.]

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively. Bacon.

The quality of being peremptory; positiveness.

positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory designs to get thither. Jer. Taylor.

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

In a perennial manner.

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

Belonging to the Perennibranchiata.

The quality of being perennial. [R.] Derham.

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