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Pers

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. Persian.


pers. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. person.

  2. personal.


Pers. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Persia.

  2. Persian.


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In south-east Switzerland, the Pers Glacier once fed the larger Morteratsch Glacier, which flows down towards the valley.

From BBC Oct. 4, 2025

A parallel glacier Pers flowed into it until 2017 but has now receded so much that an expanding strip of grit lies between them.

From Reuters Jul. 26, 2022

While the discount on the shares was “on the low side,” the dividend is attractive, Danske Bank analysts Poul Ernst Jessen and Erik Strandin Pers wrote in a report today.

From BusinessWeek Feb. 21, 2012

P. even, glabrous; g. almost free. caperata, Pers.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. convex, dimidiate, sooty, with black squamules; g. decur. distinct, white; s. with black squamules up to sooty ring. dryinus, Pers.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Does, duz, 3d pers. sing. pres. indic. of Do.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The second pers. singular of the pret. indicative always has the same stem-vowel as the pret. subjunctive.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright

Hast, hast, 2d pers. sing. pres. ind. of have.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

The other persons are distinguished by these Terminations; 1st pers. sing. am, 3d pers. sing. adh, 1st pers. plur. amaid, 2d pers. plur. ibh, 3d pers. plur. adh.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart

Saith, seth, v.t. and v.i. 3d pers. sing. pres. indic. of say.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Bßn· in Pers. = a princess, a lady, and is still much used, e.g.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

T. botrytis Pers., l. c., gives us first secure foothold.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

"Kundur," Pers. and Arab. manna, mastich, frankincense, the latter being here meant.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

The Fuligo vaporaria Pers., of the green-houses and gardens I have never seen; the Mucor septicus Linn., was thought to be the plasmodium of this.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

Pers.: this was before he had written the Pharsalia.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell

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