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A cloth of sky-blue color. [Obs.] "A long surcoat of pers." Chaucer.

A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides. [Obsoles.]

Piercing. [Obs.] Spenser.

A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny. Carlyle

See Persicot.

worship. Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Matt. v. 44.

The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship. Persecution produces no sincere conviction. Paley.

One who persecutes, or harasses. Shak.

A woman who persecutes.

0th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862.

A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danaë, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.

To persevere. [Obs.]

The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun. "The king-becoming graces . . . perseverance, mercy, lowliness." Shak. Whose constant perseverance overcame Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. Milton.

Persevering. [R.] "Perseverant faith." Whitby. -- Per`se*ver"ant*ly, adv. [R.]

To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken. Thrice happy, if they know Their happiness, and persevere upright. Milton.…

Characterized by perseverance; persistent. -- Per`se*ver"ing*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language. Persian berry, the fruit of Rhamnus infectorius, a kind of buckthorn, used for dyeing yellow, and imported chiefly from Trebizond. -- Persian cat. (Zoöl.) Same as Angora cat, under Angora. -- Persian columns (Arch.), columns of which the shaft represe…

Of or relating to Persia. -- n.

See Lady's thumb.

= Persicot.