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(Lat.=(1) a ham, (2) a mollusk, a pinna, from Gr. pern a =a ham.] Zool. & Palæont .: A genus of Aviculide. Shell more or le nearly equivalve, compre ed, sub quadrate, right valve with a by al sinus. Known species eighteen recent, all from the tropics of the two hemispheres; fo il thirty, from the Trias onward. Perna mullet i characterizes the At her field Clay in the Upper Neocomian. per odic tic us Per-năm-bu-cō, s. [See def.] Geog.: A province of Brazil. Pernambuco-wood, s . Bot.: Cæsalpinia echinata. (BRAZIL (1).) pērn-an-çỹ, s. [O. Fr. prenance , from prenre, penre; Fr. prendre; Lat. prendo =to take.] [PERN, verb.] Law: The act of taking or receiving. "The actual pernancy of the profits (that is, the taking, perception, or receipt, of the rents and other advantages arising therefrom)." -Black stone : Comment., bk. ii., ch. 11. *per-năv-i-gate, v . t . [Lat. pernavigo .] [NAVIGATE.] To sail over or acro . *per'-něl, s . [PIMPERNEL.] 1. The pimpernel. 2. A soft, effeminate fellow. "These tender pernels must have one gown for the day, another for the night."-Pilkington: Works , p. 56. *per-ni-cion (cas sh), subst . [Lat. pernicies.] [PERNICIOUS.] Destruction. "Ralpho Looking about, beheld pernicion Approaching knight."- Butler : Hudibras , i. 2. per-ni-cio us (1), a . [Fr. pernicieux , from Lat. perniciosus destructive, from pernicies destruction: per = thoroughly, and nex (gen it. nec is) = death; Sp., Port. & Ital. pernicioso .] 1. Destructive; having the power of destroying, killing, or injuring; very injurious or mischievous; noxious, hurtful. "The pernicious effects of the injustice which evil ad visers were now urging him to commit."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xii. IMG:content-0909.png:[blocks in formation]