tperineuriam

[Pref. peri-, and Greek neuron a tendon, a sinew.] Anat .: The coarser sheathing of the nerves and nervous chords of a muscle; the neurilemma. pěr-1-nū-cle-ar, a. [Pref. peri-, and English nuclear.] Biol. Of or relating to a nucleus; situated around or containing a nucleus; as, the per i nuclear protoplasm. për-1-od, s . [Fr. période , from Lat. period us ; Gr. periodos=a going round, a well-rounded sentence: pref. peri- , and hodos =a way; Ital., Sp. & Port . periodo .] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A circuit. 2. Specif .: The time taken up by the revolution of a heavenly body; the duration of the course of a heavenly body till it returns to that point of its orbit where it began. 3. A stated number of years; a round of time, at the end of which the things comprised within the calculation shall return to the state in which they were at the beginning, and the same course is to be begun again. "We stile a le er space a cycle, and a greater by the name of period ." - Holder: On Time. years. 4. Any specified portion of time, expre ed in years, months, days, .; as, a period of a hundred 5. A revolution, or series of years by which time is measured; an age, an epoch; as, the Dionysian period, the Julian period . 6. Rhet .: A complete sentence from one full stop to another; a sentence so constructed as to have all its parts mutually dependent. *për-i-od, v . t. & i. [PERIOD.] A. Trans.: To put an end to. "He desires To those have shut him up; which failing to him, Periods his comfort." Shakesp.: Timon, i. 1. B. In trans.: To finish, to conclude. "For you may period upon this, that where there is the most pity from others; that is the greatest misery in the party pitied." -Feltham : Resolves , p. 95.