perlous

See also: per'lous

English

Adjective

perlous (comparative more perlous, superlative most perlous)

1. Obsolete form of perilous.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 19:

     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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Sproule, leprous, pelorus, sporule

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Middle English

Adjective

perlous

1. Alternative form of perilous