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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Person \Per"son\ (p[~e]r"s'n; 277), n. [OE. persone, persoun, person, parson, OF. persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a personage, part, a person, fr. personare to sound through; per + sonare to sound. See {Per-}, and cf. {Parson}.] 1. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] No man can long put on a person and act a part. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. --Milton. [1913 Webster] How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend! --South. [1913 Webster] 2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. [1913 Webster] A fair persone, and strong, and young of age. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] If it assume my noble father's person. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. [1913 Webster] Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present. [1913 Webster] 5. A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 6. (Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. "Three persons and one God." --Bk. of Com. Prayer. [1913 Webster] 7. (Gram.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject. [1913 Webster] Note: A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is said to be in the first person; when representing what is spoken to, in the second person; when representing what is spoken of, in the third person. [1913 Webster] 8. (Biol.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. --Haeckel. [1913 Webster] True corms, composed of united person[ae] . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons. --Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster] {Artificial person}, or {Fictitious person} (Law), a corporation or body politic; -- this term is used in contrast with {natural person}, a real human being. See also {legal person}. --Blackstone. {Legal person} (Law), an individual or group that is allowed by law to take legal action, as plaintiff or defendent. It may include natural persons as well as fictitious persons (such as corporations). {Natural person} (Law), a man, woman, or child, in distinction from a corporation. {In person}, by one's self; with bodily presence, rather than by remote communication; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth." --Shak. {In the person of}, in the place of; acting for. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Person \Per"son\, v. t. To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: person n 1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: {person}, {individual}, {someone}, {somebody}, {mortal}, {soul}] 2: a human body (usually including the clothing); "a weapon was hidden on his person" 3: a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party; "stop talking about yourself in the third person" From Swedish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-swe-eng]: person person From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Person /pɛrzoːn/ valentine From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Person /pɛrzoːn/ character; person From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]: person person