periscian

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek around + shadow: compare French périscien.

Adjective

periscian (not comparable)

1. Having the shadow moving all around.

Noun

periscian (plural periscians)

1. One of those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “periscian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• precisian