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n.
A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.
a.
Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms.
v. t.
To look over so as to read; to peruse.
n.
A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.
n.
A Peruvian plant (Piper, / Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.
a.
Not read or perused; as, an unread book.
n.
A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
v. t.
To dress with a peruke.
n.
Same as Perula.
n.
A native or an inhabitant of Peru.
v. t.
To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal.
imp. & p. p.
of Peruse
v. t.
To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
v. t.
To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
v. i.
To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
n.
One who peruses.
n.
The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Peruse
pl.
of Perula
a.
Of or pertaining to Peru, in South America.
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