Word Meanings - EMPERIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To put in peril. See Imperil. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to EMPERIL)

• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• PERILLA
  A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.
• IMPERIL
  To bring into peril; to endanger.
• PERILYMPHATIC
  Pertaining to, or containing, perilymph. Perilymphangial.
• PERIL
  Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers. 2 Cor. xi. 26. Adventure hard With peril great achieved. Milton. At, or On, one's peril, with risk or danger
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• IMPERILMENT
  The act of imperiling, or the state of being imperiled.
• PERILYMPH
  The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.
• PERILYMPHANGIAL
  Around, or at the side of, a lymphatic vessel.
• SLIPPERILY
  In a slippery manner.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• EMPERIL
  To put in peril. See Imperil. Spenser.
• APPERIL
  Peril. Shak.