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.

References

• “perlous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Sproule, leprous, pelorus, sporule

Middle English

Adjective

perlous

1. Alternative form of perilous