peritrochiumt (peritrokium)

[NL.: see per it roch.] A wheel fixed upon an axle so as to turn along with it, constituting one of the mechanical powers called the wheel and axle. See wheel. peritropal (pe-rit'ro-pal), α. [ perwicke, pirwike, in earliest instance perwyke; an altered form (with wi for u ) of peruke, dently took place in E., in simulation of the at F. pron., and could hardly be due to D. peruyk (Sewel), as Skeat explains it. The D. form the time in question was perruycke, perhuycke (Kilian). Similar interchange of wi ( ui ) and u appears in the history of cubeb (ME. quibibe, etc.), cushion (ME. qui hen, etc.), cud and quid (AS. cudu, cwidu ), quick (AS. cwicu, cucu ), etc. From periwig, regarded appar. as A perwyke for Sexton, the King's fool. Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII., Dec., 1529. [( Fairholt.) Sometimes like a periwig I sit upon her brow. Marlowe , Faustus, ii. 2. I warrant you, I warrant you, you shall see mee proove the very perewig to cover the balde pate of brainele e gentil i tie. Marston , Antonio and Mellida, Ind., p. 3. The Janizaries went first; then the two dragomen, or interpreters; after them the consul in the Turkish dre , having on a purple ferijee, or gown of ceremony, but with a perriwig and hat. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 102. The luscious Lobster with the Crabfish raw, The British Oyster, Muscle, Periwig . hair, which being touched, drawing of thing but a small round hole. Periwig lies in the Oase [ooze] like head S. Clarke, Four Chiefest Plantations (1670), pp. 37, 38. periwig (per'i-wig), v . t .; pret. and pp. periwig ged , ppr. periwigging . [Formerly also perri wig , perwig , from the noun. Cf. peruke , v .] Το dre with a periwig; hence, to put a head-dre upon; cover or dre the head of. [Rare.] Having by much dre , and secrecy, and di imulation, as it were, periwigg'd his sin and covered his shame, he looks after no other innocence but concealment. South , Sermons, VIII. i. There [comes] the periwigged and brocaded gentleman of the artist's legend. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, xviii. periwig-pated (per'i-wig-pā"ted), a . Wearing a periwig or peruke. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig pated fellow tear a pa ion to tatters, to very rags. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 2. 10.