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Badger :: Badger (v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently..

Nagging :: Nagging (a.) Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache..

Persistency :: Persistency (n.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc..

Induviae :: Induviae (n. pl.) Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time..

Continue :: Continue (v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.

Superfete :: Superfetation (n.) The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation..

Pertinacious :: Pertinacious (a.) Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar..

Insist :: Insist (v. i.) To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money..

Persisting :: Persisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Persis.

Renitent :: Renitent (a.) Persistently opposed.

Persisting :: Persisting (a.) Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent.

Obstinate :: Obstinate (a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness..

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain..

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) Insisting; persistent; persevering.

Consistency :: Consistency (n.) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.

Chromatrope :: Chromatrope (n.) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

Tetanus :: Tetanus (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm..

Persistently :: Persistently (adv.) In a persistent manner.

Indefatigably :: Indefatigably (adv.) Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently.

Persistent :: Persistent (a.) Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

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