perlous

See also: per'lous

English

Adjective

perlous (comparative more perlous, superlative most perlous)

  1. Obsolete form of perilous.
    • Edmund Spenser, Book II, Canto VI, XIX.
      Ne would for price or prayers once affoord
      To ferry that old man over that perlous foord.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for perlous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Middle English

Adjective

perlous

  1. Alternative form of perilous
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