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The quality of being perfidious; perfidy. Clarendon.

ation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; teachery. The ambition and perfidy of tyrants. Macaulay. His perfidy to this sacred engagement. DeQuincey.

Perfect. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To fix surely; to appoint. [Obs.]

Capable of being blown through. [Obs.]

To blow through. [Obs.] Harvey.

The act of perflating. [Obs.] Woodward.

Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.

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.

Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.

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

Having power to perforate or pierce.

One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome.

By force; of necessary; at any rate. Shak.

o 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.

Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.

The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley.

One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.

To rub over. Bailey.