Perfume, n.
- 1. Fragrance, balminess, aroma, redolence, incense, pleasing scent, grateful odor, sweetness of smell,
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- 2. Sweet-smelling, substance.
Perfume, v.a. Scent, impregnate or imbue with grateful odor.
Perfumery, n. Perfumes.
Perfunctory, a. Indifferent, careless, slovenly, heedless, reckless, negligent, slight, mechanical, unmindful, thoughtless.
Perhaps, ad. Perchance, possibly, haply, by chance, maybe, it may be, as luck may have it, peradventure.
Pericarp, n. (Bot.) Capsule, pod, seed-vessel, ripened ovary.
Peril, n. Danger, hazard, jeopardy, risk.
Peril, v.a. Risk, endanger, imperil, jeopard, hazard, put in danger, expose to danger.