perceptible, adj., collectible; perceptible, perceivable.
perceptiblement, adv., perceptibly.
perception, n.f., the faculty of perceiving, perception; gathering, collecting; receipt; collectorship; collector’s office.
percer, v.a., to bore, to drill, to pierce, to tap, to broach, to open; to penetrate, to see through; to thrill; to lance; (engineering) to tunnel; to wet through (of rain). — avec un foret; to drill, to pierce. — d’outre en outre; to run through and through. — un ais; to bore a plank. — un tonneau; to tap a cask. — un escadron; to cut a passage through a squadron. — avec le bec; to peck through. — d’un coup d’épée; to run through the body. — l’avenir; to dive into the future. Les os lui percent la peau; his bones are coming through his skin. — un abcès; to lance, to open an abscess. — une forêt; to open up, or to make a road through, a forest. — une porte dans un mur; to open a door in a wall.
se percer, v.r., to bore, to be bored; to pierce one’s self, to be pierced.
percer, v.n., to pierce, to pierce through, to break, to break through, to come out, to come through, to open; to appear, to peep out, to peep forth, to transpire; to show one’s self, to discover one’s self, to manifest one’s self; to rise, to make one’s way, to get on; to make one’s way through a crowd. Les dents vont bientôt — à cet enfant; that child’s teeth will soon come through, that child will soon cut his teeth. Cette tumeur percera d’elle-même; that tumor will break, burst, of itself. — par son mérite; to rise, or to make one’s way, by one’s merit. Si compacte que soit la foule, perçons toujours; however dense the crowd may be, let us break through all the same.
perces, n.f.pl., holes of wind instruments.
perce-roche, n.f., (zoöl.) terebella.
perceur, n.m., borer.
percevoir, v.a., to receive, to gather, to levy, to collect (taxes); (philos.) to perceive.