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3301 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERSUASION.1 (Noah Webster)
PERSUASION, n. s as z. [L. persuasio.]
3302 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERTUSION.1 (Noah Webster)
PERTUSION, n. s as z. [L. pertusus, pertundo.]
3303 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERUSAL.1 (Noah Webster)
PERUSAL, n. s as z. [from peruse.] The act of reading.
3304 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERUSE.1 (Noah Webster)
PERUSE, v.t. s as z. [Some of the senses of this word would lead to the inference that it is from the Latin perviso. If not, I know not its origin.]
3305 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERVASION.1 (Noah Webster)
PERVASION, n. s as z. The act of pervading or passing through the whole extent of a thing.
3306 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHRASE.1 (Noah Webster)
PHRASE, n. s as z. [Gr. to speak.]
3307 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHRENSY.1 (Noah Webster)
PHRENSY, n. s as z. [supra.] Madness; delirium, or that partial madness which manifests itself in wild and erratic sallies of the imagination. It is written also frenzy.
3308 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHYSIC.1 (Noah Webster)
PHYSIC, n. s as z. [Gr. from nature; to produce.]
3309 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHYSICS.1 (Noah Webster)
PHYSICS, n. s as z. In its most extensive sense, the science of nature or of natural objects, comprehending the study or knowledge of whatever exists.
3310 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHYSIOGNOMICICAL.1 (Noah Webster)
PHYSIOGNOMICICAL, a. s as z. [See Physiognomy .] Pertaining to physiognomy; expressing the temper, disposition or other qualities of the mind by signs in the countenance; or drawing a knowledge of the state of the mind from the features of the face.
3311 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLAUSIBILITY.1 (Noah Webster)
PLAUSIBILITY, n. s as z. [See Plausible .] Speciousness; superficial appearance of right.
3312 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLAUSIBLE.1 (Noah Webster)
PLAUSIBLE, a. s as z. [L. plausibilis, from plaudo, to clap hands in token of approbation; laus, laudo; Eng. loud.]
3313 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEASE.1 (Noah Webster)
PLEASE, v.t. s as z. [L. placere, placeo.]
3314 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEASE.14 (Noah Webster)
PLEASE, v.i. s as z. To like; to choose; to prefer.
3315 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLYNESIA.1 (Noah Webster)
… , n. s as z. [Gr. many and isle.] A new term in geography, used to designate a great number of isles in the Pacific ocean, as the Pelew isles, the Ladrones, the Carolinas …
3316 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSE.1 (Noah Webster)
POSE, n. s as z. [See the Verb.] In heraldry, a lion, horse or other beast standing still, with all his feet on the ground.
3317 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSE.2 (Noah Webster)
POSE, n. s as z. A stuffing of the head; catarrh.
3318 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSE.3 (Noah Webster)
POSE, v.t. s as z. [L. posui.]
3319 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSY.1 (Noah Webster)
POSY, n. s as z.
3320 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRAISE.1 (Noah Webster)
PRAISE, n. s as z. [L. pretium.]