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12 words match “PERDU”

PERDU n. 2 definitions
One placed on watch, or in ambush.
PERDU; PERDUE a. 2 definitions
Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close. He should lie perdue who is to walk the round. Fuller.
PERDUELLION n.
Treason.
PERDULOUS a.
Lost; thrown away. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.
PERDURABILITY n.
Durability; lastingness. [Archaic] Chaucer.
PERDURABLE n.
Very durable; lasting; continuing long. [Archaic] Chaucer. Shak. -- Per*dur"a*bly, adv. [Archaic]
PERDURANCE; PERDURATION n.
Long continuance. [Archaic]
PERDURE v.
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.
HYPERDULIA n.
Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia. Addis & Arnold.
HYPERDULY n.
Hyperdulia. [Obs.]
PIERRE-PERDU n.
Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc.
FORLORN a.
p band; akin to E. heap. See For-, and Heap.] (Mil.), a body of men (called in F. enfants perdus, in G. verloren posten) selected, usually from volunteers, to attempt a breach, scale the wall of a fortress, or perform other extraordinarily perilous service; also, a desperate case or enterprise.