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The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination. For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion. Otway.

Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence. "Persuasive words." Milton.

Persuasive. Sir T. Browne.

A sulphate of the peroxide of any base. [R.]

taining more sulphur than some other compound of the same elements; as, iron pyrites is a persulphide; -- formerly called persulphuret.

A salt of persulphocyanic acid. [R.]

Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline substance (called also perthiocyanic acid), analogous to sulphocyanic acid, but containing more sulphur.

An orange-yellow substance, produced by the action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of potassium; -- called also pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, and formerly sulphocyanogen.

A persulphide. [Obs.]

A word used to describe the character Halliwell.

arges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.

One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. Jer. Taylor.

Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. -- As*pers"ive*ly, adv.

An aspergill.

The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches.

anic's square, having a graduated bar and adjustable jaw or jaws. Knight. -- Vernier calipers. See Vernier.

See Calipers.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] The conspersion washing the doorposts. Jer. Taylor.