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[NL., per i adventitial (per-i-ad-ven-tish'al), a. [ Situated on the outside of the adventitia or outer coat of a blood-ve el. periagua (per-i-ä'gwa), n. [Formerly also peri augua, * periauga, per i auger, perriauger, perri augur, and more corruptly pettiaugua, petty aug a, petty - auger, prop. piragua, This at length put me upon thinking whether it was not po ible for me to make myself a canoe, or periagua, such Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, p. 104. (Nares.) 2. A ve el made by sawing a large canoe in two in the middle, and inserting a plank to as natives of those climates make. widen it. These were much used on the coast of the Carol in as in the eighteenth century, and even made voy. ages by open sea to Norfolk, carrying 40 to 80 barrels of pitch or tar. One 30 feet long and 5 feet 7 inches wide is called "a small pettiaugua" in the Charleston (S. C.) "Ga zette," 1744. Such a boat was also used on the Mi i ippi and its tributaries, where it is called pirogue and periogue. See pirogue. 3. A large flat-bottomed boat, without keel but with lee-board, decked in at each end but open in the middle, propelled by oars, or by sails on two masts which could be struck. This was much used formerly in navigating shoal waters along the whole American coast, and sometimes also on the Mi i ippi and its affluents. These Periaguas are long flat-bottom'd Boats, carrying from 20 to 35 tons. They have a kind of Forecastle and a cabin, but the rest open, and no Deck. They have two masts which they can strike, and Sails like Schooners. They row generally with two oars only. Francis Moore , A Voyage to Georgia begun in 1735, p. 49. periaktos (per-i-ak'tos), n.; pl. periaktoi (-toi). [ scenes. It consisted of three painted scenes on the faces of a revolving frame in the form of a triangular prism. The scene was changed by turning one periaktos or both, so as to exhibit a new face to the audience.