perlous

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See also: per'lous

English

Adjective

perlous (comparative more perlous, superlative most perlous)

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

Alternative form of perilous

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