n. [ From von Perovski, of St.Petersburg. ] (Min.) Same as Perovskite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Pirogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of New World wood mice.
Syn. -- genus Peromyscus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. peronatus rough-booted, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; the fibula. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of destructive downy mildews.
Syn. -- genus Peronospora. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of parasitic fungi; the downy mildews.
Syn. -- family Peronosporaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. An order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi, including the Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae.
Syn. -- order Peronosporales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ See Peroration. ] To make a peroration; to harangue. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. peroratio, fr. perorate, peroratum, to speak from beginning to end; per + orate to speak. See Per-, and Oration. ] (Rhet.) The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]