Pers
1 Americanabbreviation
abbreviation
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person.
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personal.
abbreviation
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Persia.
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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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