2. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision. [R.]
God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
Jer. Taylor. 3. Capable of penetrating or pervading. [Obs.] Prior.
4. (Zoöl.) Open; — used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.
Perviousness
(Per"vi*ous*ness), n. The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass.
Boyle.
Pervis
(Per"vis) n. See Parvis.
Pery
(Per"y) n. A pear tree. See Pirie. [Obs.]
Pes
(||Pes) n.; pl. Pedes . [L., the foot.] (Anat.) The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates,
including the tarsus and foot.
Pesade
(Pe*sade") n. [F.] (Man.) The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his
hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.
Pesage
(Pes"age) n. [F., fr. peser to weigh.] A fee, or toll, paid for the weighing of merchandise.
Pesane
(Pes"ane) n. (Anc. Armor.) See Pusane.
Pesanted
(Pes"ant*ed) a. [F. pesant heavy.] Made heavy or dull; debased. [Obs.] "Pesanted to each
lewd thought's control." Marston.
Peschito
(Pe*schit"o) n. See Peshito.
Pese
(Pese) n. [See Pea.] A pea. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Peseta
(||Pe*se"ta) n. [Sp.] A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen
cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.
Peshito
(Pe*shit"o Pe*shit"to) n. [Syriac peshîtâ simple.] The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament,
translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also peschito.]
Pesky
(Pes"ky) a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive.
[Colloq. & Low, U.S.] Judd.
Peso
(||Pe"so) n. [Sp.] A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to
from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.
Pessary
(Pes"sa*ry) n.; pl. Pessaries [L. pessarium, pessum, pessus, Gr. : cf. F. pessaire.] (Med.)
(a) An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy
a malposition. (b) A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass, designed for introduction into
the vagina; a vaginal suppository.
Pessimism
(Pes"si*mism) n. [L. pessimus worst, superl. of pejor worse: cf. F. pessimisme. Cf. Impair.]
1. (Metaph.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or
that the world is wholly evil; — opposed to optimism.
2. A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.
Pessimist
(Pes"si*mist) n. [L. pessimus worst: cf. F. pessimiste.]
