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PERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("perry" is a kind of...):
alcohol; alcoholic beverage; alcoholic drink; inebriant; intoxicant (a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819)
Synonyms:
Commodore Perry; Oliver Hazard Perry; Perry
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
commodore (a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States admiral who led a naval expedition to Japan and signed a treaty in 1854 opening up trade relations between United States and Japan; brother of Oliver Hazard Perry (1794-1858)
Synonyms:
Matthew Calbraith Perry; Perry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
naval officer (an officer in the navy)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States philosopher (1876-1957)
Synonyms:
Perry; Ralph Barton Perry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)
Context examples:
Perry says that colds have been very general, but not so heavy as he has very often known them in November.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
There was a strange rumour in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston's wedding-cake in their hands: but Mr. Woodhouse would never believe it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Perry was a week at Cromer once, and he holds it to be the best of all the sea-bathing places.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
There was not a dissentient voice on the subject, either when Mrs. Perry drank tea with Mrs. and Miss Bates, or when Mrs. and Miss Bates returned the visit.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He had been at the pains of consulting Mr. Perry, the apothecary, on the subject.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
My dear Isabella, I have not heard you make one inquiry about Mr. Perry yet; and he never forgets you.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He paused—and growing cooler in a moment, added, with only sarcastic dryness, If Mr. Perry can tell me how to convey a wife and five children a distance of an hundred and thirty miles with no greater expense or inconvenience than a distance of forty, I should be as willing to prefer Cromer to South End as he could himself.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Woodhouse was rather agitated by such harsh reflections on his friend Perry, to whom he had, in fact, though unconsciously, been attributing many of his own feelings and expressions;—but the soothing attentions of his daughters gradually removed the present evil, and the immediate alertness of one brother, and better recollections of the other, prevented any renewal of it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She was very feverish and had a bad sore throat: Mrs. Goddard was full of care and affection, Mr. Perry was talked of, and Harriet herself was too ill and low to resist the authority which excluded her from this delightful engagement, though she could not speak of her loss without many tears.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He began with great earnestness to entreat her to refrain from visiting the sick-chamber again, for the present—to entreat her to promise him not to venture into such hazard till he had seen Mr. Perry and learnt his opinion; and though she tried to laugh it off and bring the subject back into its proper course, there was no putting an end to his extreme solicitude about her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
