| • | A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. |
| • | The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. |
| • | A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. |
| • | A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present. |
| • | A parson; the parish priest. |
| • | Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. |
| • | One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject. |
| • | A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. |
| • | To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. |
