2. To exchange; to barter; to traffic. [Obs.]
Bought, trucked, permuted, or given.
Hakluyt. Permuter
(Per*mut"er) n. One who permutes.
Pern
(Pern) v. t. [See Pernancy.] To take profit of; to make profitable. [Obs.] Sylvester.
Pern
(Pern), n. (Zoöl.) The honey buzzard.
Pernancy
(Per"nan*cy) n. [OF. prenance, fr. prendre, prenre, penre, to take, L. prendere, prehendere.]
(Law) A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits. Blackstone.
Pernel
(Per"nel) n. See Pimpernel. [Obs.]
Pernicion
(Per*ni"cion) n. [See 2d Pernicious.] Destruction; perdition. [Obs.] hudibras.
Pernicious
(Per*ni"cious) a. [L. pernix, -icis.] Quick; swift [R.] Milton.
Pernicious
(Per*ni"cious), a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay
outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.] Having the quality
of 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. Syn. — Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous.
— Per*ni"cious*ly, adv., — Per*ni"cious*ness, n.
Pernicity
(Per*nic"i*ty) n. [L. pernicitas. See 1st Pernicious.] Swiftness; celerity. [R.] Ray.
Pernio
(||Per"ni*o) n. [L.] (Med.) A chilblain.
Pernoctalian
(Per`noc*ta"li*an) n. One who watches or keeps awake all night.
Pernoctation
(Per`noc*ta"tion) n. [L. pernoctatio, fr. pernoctare to stay all night; per + nox, noctis,
night.] The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. "Pernoctation in prayer." Jer.
Taylor.
Pernor
(Per"nor) n. [See Pern, v.] (Law) One who receives the profits, as of an estate.
Pernot furnace
(Per"not fur"nace) [So called from Charles Pernot, its inventor.] A reverberatory furnace
with a circular revolving hearth, — used in making steel.
Pernyi moth
(Per"ny*i moth") (Zoöl.) A silk- producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak.
It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.
Perofskite
(Per*of"skite) n. [From von Perovski, of St.Petersburg.] (Min.) A titanate of lime occurring
in octahedral or cubic crystals. [Written also Perovskite.]
Perogue
(Pe*rogue) n. See Pirogue.
Peronate
(Per"o*nate) a. [L. peronatus roughbooted, fr. pero, -onis, a kind of rough boot.] (Bot.) A
term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at
length becomes powdery. Henslow.
