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To take profit of; to make profitable. [Obs.] Sylvester.

A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits. Blackstone.

See Pimpernel. [Obs.]

Destruction; perdition. [Obs.] hudibras.

injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott.

Swiftness; celerity. [R.] Ray.

Finical or fussy; full of petty details. [Colloq.]

A chilblain.

One who watches or keeps awake all night.

The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. "Pernoctation in prayer." Jer. Taylor.

One who receives the profits, as of an estate.

A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.

A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.

To spurn; to despise. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; -- in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, and Dispnoea.

A name given to earthnuts of several kinds.

A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.

The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, or Lampetra, fluviatilis).

Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.