3. Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent. "A very pert manner." Addison. The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play. Cowper.
PERT
Pert, v. i.
Defn: To behave with pertness. [Obs.] Gauden.
PERTAIN Per*tain", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pertained; p. pr. & vb. n. Pertaining.] Etym: [OE. partenen, OF. partenir, fr. L. pertinere to stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, and Tenable, and cf. Appertain, Pertinent.]
1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life. Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them. Hayward.
2. To have relation or reference to something. These words pertain unto us at this time as they pertained to them at their time. Latimer.
PERTEREBRATION Per*ter`e*bra"tion, n. Etym: [L. perterebratus, p.p. of perterebrare to bore through.]
Defn: The act of boring through. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
PERTHIOCYANOGEN
Per*thi`o*cy*an"o*gen, n. (Chem.)
Defn: Same as Persulphocyanogen.