Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pervious"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Pervious \Per"vi*ous\, a. [L. pervis; per + via a way. See
{Per-}, and {Voyage}.]
1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another
body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.

[Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way.
--Pope.

2. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical
or mental vision. [R.]

God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. --Jer.
Taylor.

3. Capable of penetrating or pervading. [Obs.] --Prior.

4. (Zo["o]l.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as
applied to the nostrils or birds.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

pervious
adj : admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a metal
pervious to heat" [ant: {impervious}]


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