United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819)

a technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences

used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time

periodic maintenance on a car or machine

large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras

become less in amount or intensity