perpeyn

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A form of perpend — To ponder, consider.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of perpend (“a stone which passes through a wall from side to side, having two smooth vertical faces”).

    The altar set on a foot pace about three feet from the east wall, with a low stone perpeyn wall at its back.

    1860, G. E. Street, Archæol. Cant., volume III, page 126

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Chicago

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