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See Parde. Spenser.

A deciduous plant; -- opposed to Ant: evergreen. J. Barton.

soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death. The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. Shak. If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. J. M. Mason.

Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition. [R.] Pollok.

A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera.

One placed on watch, or in ambush.

Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close. He should lie perdue who is to walk the round. Fuller.

Treason.

Lost; thrown away. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.

Durability; lastingness. [Archaic] Chaucer.

Very durable; lasting; continuing long. [Archaic] Chaucer. Shak. -- Per*dur"a*bly, adv. [Archaic]

Long continuance. [Archaic]

To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting. [Archaic] The mind perdures while its energizing may construct a thousand lines. Hickok.

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

Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc.

A piece or fragment of a broken pot. Job ii. 8.

To reward. [Obs.] Shak.

To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.

A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.

ining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to intellectual superiority. Macaulay.