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▪ I. † perry1, pery, pirie Obs.
Forms: α. 1 piriᵹe, pirᵹe, pyriᵹe, 1–5 pirie, pyrie, 5 pire, piry(e, pyry(e, pirry, purye, 7 pyrrie. β. 4–5 perie, -y(e, 5 pere, pereye, 6 perrie, perrey (pearie).
[OE. pirᵹe, piriᵹe, pirie, pyrie, wk. fem., of obscure formation, taken by Pogatscher to represent a late L. type *pirea, *pērea (sc. arbor tree), from a late L. adj. *pire-us, *pēre-us, f. pirum, Rom. pēra pear. (But no trace of such adj. has been found in L. or Rom.)
The historical series piriᵹe, pirie, perie, perrie, *perry, is exactly parallel to that of miriᵹe, mirie, merie, merrie, merry, the i in both becoming e before r, which again was doubled after the short vowel.]
A pear-tree; sometimes distinctively the wild pear-tree. Also attrib.
937in Birch Cart. Sax. II. 429 Þanon..up on stream..midde weardne up on þa pyrian. 972Ibid. III. 586 And⁓lang dic on þa pyriᵹan of þære pyriᵹan on þone longan apuldre. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 137/37 Pirus, piriᵹe. ― Gram. vii. (Z.) 20 Hæc pirus þeos pyriᵹe, hoc pirum seo peru. 13..Seuyn Sag. (W.) 555 A fair gardin,..Ful of appel tres, and als of pirie; Foules songe therinne murie. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 16 Piries and Plomtres weore passchet to þe grounde. c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 937 Thus I lete hym sitte vp on the pyrie [v. rr. purye, pyrye, Pyry, pirry, pire, pirie]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. ii. (Tollem. MS.), As whan a pery is graffid on an appeltre. a1425Cursor M. 37 (Trin.) Of good pire com gode perus. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 603/11 Piretum, anglice Pereye. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 87 b, You may graffe the Apple upon the Perrey, the Hawthorne, Plome tree, Servisse tree,..Poplar, Willowe and Peare. 1578Lyte Dodoens vi. xxxi. 697 High as a Perrie, or wilde Peare tree. 1601Holland Pliny I. 474 There be some Pyrries and Apple trees that bring forth fruit twice a yeare.
attrib.14..Songs & Carols xxxi. (Warton Cl.), To gryffyn here a gryf of myn pery tre. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §137 A pere or a wardeyn wold be graffed in a pyrre stock. 1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 76 Now Melibœe ingraft pearie stocks, sette vines in an order. 1603Stow Surv. 48 That he should buy certaine perie plants.
▪ II. perry2|ˈpɛrɪ|
Forms: 4 pereye, ? piri, 5 peirrie, pirre, 5–6 perre, pirrey, 6 perie, pirrie, 6–7 pery(e, perrie, 7 perrey, pyrrey, -ie, piry, 6– perry.
[ME. pereye, a. OF. peré (13–16th c.), perey (14th c. in Godef.):—late L. type *pērātum, f. late L. pēra = L. pirum pear.]
A beverage resembling cider, made from the juice of pears expressed and fermented.
c1315Shoreham Poems i. 205 Ine wine me ne may, Inne siþere, ne inne pereye [rime reneye]. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 134 Peni Ale and piriwhit heo pourede to-gedere. c1440Promp. Parv. 394/1 Perre, drynke, piretum. c1480Henryson Test. Cres. 441 Tak mowlit breid, peirrie, and ceder sour. 1483Cath. Angl. 281/2 Pirrey (Pirre), piretum. 1577Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 161 A kind of drinke made..of peares is named pirrie. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1197/1 Botes laden with wine, cider, perrie. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Ded. xxxiv, Syd'r in Kent,..Pyrrie in Wostersheere. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 117 The great Pear plantations, planted for the making of Perry in those places where Vines cannot prosper. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. viii. 319 Excise..at first laid upon..the makers and venders of beer, ale, cyder, and perry. 1840Cottager's Man. 5 in Libr. U. Kn., Husb. III, Cider, perry, wines..might easily be obtained by an additional half acre.
b. attrib. and Comb. as perry farmer, perry pear.
1836Penny Cycl. V. 250 The cider and perry farmer will feel the benefit of this. 1896Jrnl. R. Horticult. Soc. Nov. 208 One of our oldest perry pears, the Longland, equals the well-known Catillac for stewing.
▪ III. perry3
variant of perrie Obs., jewellery.
▪ IV. perry4
variant of pirrie, gust of wind. |