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- Pry - n. - A lever; also, leverage.
- Pry - v. t. - To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.
- Pry - v. i. - To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.
- Pry - n. - Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
- Pryan - n. - See Prian.
- Prying - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Pry
- Prying - a. - Inspecting closely or impertinently.
- Pryingly - adv. - In a prying manner.
- Prytanes - pl. - of Prytanis
- Prytaneum - n. - A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.
- Prytanis - n. - A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
- Prytany - n. - The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
- Prythee - interj. - See Prithee.
- Nose - v. i. - To pry officiously into what does not concern one.
- Owl - v. i. - To pry about; to prowl.
- Gag - v. t. - To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- Maundril - n. - A pick with two prongs, to pry with.
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