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Emitting perfume; perfuming. [R.] Sir E. Leigh.

To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies. Pope.

One who, oe that which, perfumes.

Perfumes, in general.

In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly. Boyle.

The quality or state of being perfunctory.

Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions. Macaulay.

To perform in a perfunctory manner; to do negligently. [R.]

To suffuse; to fill full or to excess. Harvey.

The act of perfusing.

Of a nature to flow over, or to spread through.

Like parchment.

Lit., an arbor or bower; specif.: (Italian art)

A continuous colonnade or arcade; -- applied to the decorative groups of windows, as in Venetian palazzi.

By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be. And pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. Acts viii. 22.

An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished. Moore.

prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee, point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed; perispherical, quite spherical.

See Pirogue.

The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

The perianth.