, or Periscians, those inhabitants of the earth, whose shadows do, in one and the same day, turn quite round to all the points of the compass, without disappearing.
Such are the inhabitants of the two frozen zones, or who live within the compass of the arctic and antarctic circles; for, as the sun never sets to them, after he is once up, but moves quite round about, so do their shadows also.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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