These are the meanings of the letters PERAI when you unscramble them.
- Aper (n.)
One who apes.
- Pair (n.)
A married couple; a man and wife.
- Pair (n.)
A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. \"A pair of beads.\" Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. \"Four pair of stairs.\" Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
- Pair (n.)
A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
- Pair (n.)
In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
- Pair (n.)
Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
- Pair (n.)
Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
- Pair (n.)
Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
- Pair (v. i.)
Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
- Pair (v. i.)
To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
- Pair (v. i.)
To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- Pair (v. t.)
To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- Pair (v. t.)
To impair.
- Pair (v. t.)
To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
- Pare (v. t.)
Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
- Pare (v. t.)
To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
- Pare (v. t.)
To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
- Pear (n.)
The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.
- Peri (n.)
An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished.
- Pier (n.)
A projecting wharf or landing place.
- Pier (n.)
Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
- Pier (n.)
Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
- Rape (n.)
A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
- Rape (n.)
A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
- Rape (n.)
Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
- Rape (n.)
Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
- Rape (n.)
One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
- Rape (n.)
Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
- Rape (n.)
That which is snatched away.
- Rape (n.)
The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
- Rape (n.)
The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
- Rape (v. i.)
To rob; to pillage.
- Rape (v. t.)
To commit rape upon; to ravish.
- Reap (v.)
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
- Reap (v. i.)
To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
- Reap (v. t.)
To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
- Reap (v. t.)
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
- Reap (v. t.)
To deprive of the beard; to shave.
- Reap (v. t.)
To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
- Ripe (n.)
The bank of a river.
- Ripe (superl.)
Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
- Ripe (superl.)
Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
- Ripe (superl.)
Intoxicated.
- Ripe (superl.)
Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
- Ripe (superl.)
Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
- Ripe (superl.)
Ready for action or effect; prepared.
- Ripe (superl.)
Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
- Ripe (v. i.)
To ripen; to grow ripe.
- Ripe (v. t.)
To mature; to ripen.