INSERT INTO `entries` VALUES ('Planetary','a.','Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.'),('Planetary','a.','Under the dominion or influence of a planet.'),('Planetary','a.','Caused by planets.'),('Planetary','a.','Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving;\n   wandering.'),('Planeted','a.','Belonging to planets.'),('Planetic','a.','Alt. of Planetical'),('Planetical','a.','Of or pertaining to planets.'),('Planetoid','n.','A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.'),('Planetoidal','a.','Pertaining to a planetoid.'),('Plane tree','','Same as 1st Plane.'),('Planet-stricken','a.','Alt. of Planet-struck'),('Planet-struck','a.','Affected by the influence of planets; blasted.'),('Planetule','n.','A little planet.'),('Plangency','n.','The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.'),('Plangent','a.','Beating; dashing, as a wave.'),('Plani-','a.','Alt. of Plano-'),('Plano-','a.','Combining forms signifying flat, level, plane; as\n   planifolious, planimetry, plano-concave.'),('Planifolious','a.','Flat-leaved.'),('Planiform','a.','Having a plane surface; as, a planiform, gliding, or\n   arthrodial articulation.'),('Planimeter','n.','An instrument for measuring the area of any plane\n   figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding\n   line; a platometer.'),('Planimetric','a.','Alt. of Planimetrical'),('Planimetrical','a.','Of or pertaining to planimetry.'),('Planimetry','n.','The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished\n   from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.'),('Planing','','a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t.'),('Planipennate','a.','Of or pertaining to Planipennia.'),('Planipennia','n. pl.','A suborder of Neuroptera, including those that\n   have broad, flat wings, as the ant-lion, lacewing, etc. Called also\n   Planipennes.'),('Planipetalous','a.','Having flat petals.'),('Planished','imp. & p. p.','of Planish'),('Planishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Planish'),('Planish','v.','To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to\n   condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.'),('Planisher','n.','One who, or that which, planishes.'),('Planishing','','a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t.'),('Planisphere','n.','The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a\n   plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a\n   plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the\n   position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc.,\n   for any given date or hour.'),('Planispheric','a.','Of or pertaining to a planisphere.'),('Plank','n.','A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only\n   in being thicker. See Board.'),('Plank','n.','Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a\n   swimmer.'),('Plank','n.','One of the separate articles in a declaration of the\n   principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform.'),('Planked','imp. & p. p.','of Plank'),('Planking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plank'),('Plank','v. t.','To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a\n   ship.'),('Plank','v. t.','To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay\n   cash; as, to plank money in a wager.'),('Plank','v. t.','To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.'),('Plank','v. t.','To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for\n   subsequent drawing.'),('Planking','n.','The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a\n   series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a\n   vessel.'),('Planking','n.','The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.'),('Plank-sheer','n.','The course of plank laid horizontally over the\n   timberheads of a vessel\'s frame.'),('Planless','a.','Having no plan.'),('Planner','n.','One who plans; a projector.'),('Plano-','','See Plani-.'),('Planoblast','n.','Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid\n   medusa.'),('Plano-concave','a.','Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other;\n   as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens.'),('Plano-conical','a.','Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other.'),('Plano-convex','a.','Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other;\n   as, a plano-convex lens. See Convex, and Lens.'),('Plano-horizontal','a.','Having a level horizontal surface or position.'),('Planometer','n.','An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface.\n   See Surface gauge, under Surface.'),('Planometry','n.','The art or process of producing or gauging a plane\n   surface.'),('Plano-orbicular','a.','Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the\n   other.'),('Planorbis','n.','Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to\n   Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.'),('Plano-subulate','a.','Smooth and awl-shaped. See Subulate.'),('Plant','n.','A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without\n   feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem,\n   and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy\n   expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.'),('Plant','n.','A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.'),('Plant','n.','The sole of the foot.'),('Plant','n.','The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a\n   trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate,\n   and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying\n   on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished\n   products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.'),('Plant','n.','A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.'),('Plant','n.','An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of\n   natural growth.'),('Plant','n.','A young oyster suitable for transplanting.'),('Planted','imp. & p. p.','of Plant'),('Planting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plant'),('Plant','n.','To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to\n   plant maize.'),('Plant','n.','To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a\n   vegetable with roots.'),('Plant','n.','To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden,\n   an orchard, or a forest.'),('Plant','n.','To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.'),('Plant','n.','To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle;\n   to establish; as, to plant a colony.'),('Plant','n.','To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as,\n   to plant Christianity among the heathen.'),('Plant','n.','To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to\n   plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant\n   one\'s feet on solid ground; to plant one\'s fist in another\'s face.'),('Plant','n.','To set up; to install; to instate.'),('Plant','v. i.','To perform the act of planting.'),('Plantable','a.','Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.'),('Plantage','n.','A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in\n   general, or anything that is planted.'),('Plantain','n.','A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical\n   regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called\n   plantains. See Musa.'),('Plantain','n.','The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat\n   cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered\n   with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple\n   article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.'),('Plantain','n.','Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P.\n   major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender\n   spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near\n   the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.'),('Plantal','a.','Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.'),('Plantar','a.','Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar\n   arteries.'),('Plantation','n.','The act or practice of planting, or setting in the\n   earth for growth.'),('Plantation','n.','The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a\n   piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the\n   United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the\n   production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who\n   live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.'),('Plantation','n.','An original settlement in a new country; a colony.'),('Plant-cane','n.','A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from\n   the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of\n   inferior quality, and is called rattoon.'),('Plant-eating','a.','Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating\n   beetle.'),('Planted','a.','Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a\n   separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.'),('Planter','n.','One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof\n   corn; a machine planter.'),('Planter','n.','One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar\n   planter; a coffee planter.'),('Planter','n.','A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the\n   first planters in Virginia.'),('Plantership','n.','The occupation or position of a planter, or the\n   management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.'),('Planticle','n.','A young plant, or plant in embryo.'),('Plantigrada','n. pl.','A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade\n   feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.'),('Plantigrade','a.','Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the\n   plantigrades.'),('Plantigrade','a.','Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the\n   ground when the leg is upright.'),('Plantigrade','n.','A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on\n   the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.'),('Planting','n.','The act or operation of setting in the ground for\n   propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations,\n   as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.'),('Planting','n.','That which is planted; a plantation.'),('Planting','n.','The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation.'),('Plantless','a.','Without plants; barren of vegetation.'),('Plantlet','n.','A little plant.'),('Plantocracy','n.','Government by planters; planters, collectively.'),('Plantule','n.','The embryo which has begun its development in the act of\n   germination.'),('Planulae','pl. ','of Planula'),('Planula','n.','In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid,\n   formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner\n   as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange\n   themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the\n   morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.'),('Planula','n.','The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates.\n   It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered\n   with cilia.'),('Planxty','n.','An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a\n   mournful character.'),('Plaque','n.','Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like,\n   used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate,\n   dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on\n   the person, as a brooch.'),('Plash','v.','A small pool of standing water; a puddle.'),('Plash','v.','A dash of water; a splash.'),('Plashed','imp. & p. p.','of Plash'),('Plashing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plash'),('Plash','v. i.','To dabble in water; to splash.'),('Plash','v. t.','To splash, as water.'),('Plash','v. t.','To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash\n   a wall in imitation of granite.'),('Plashed','imp. & p. p.','of Plash'),('Plashing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plash'),('Plash','v. t.','To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of;\n   as, to plash a hedge.'),('Plash','n.','The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or\n   intertwined with, other branches.'),('Plashet','n.','A small pond or pool; a puddle.'),('Plashing','n.','The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of\n   small trees, as in hedges.'),('Plashing','n.','The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls\n   of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.'),('Plashoot','n.','A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced,\n   or plashed.'),('Plashy','a.','Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy.'),('Plashy','a.','Specked, as if plashed with color.'),('Plasm','n.','A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a\n   particular shape.'),('Plasm','n.','Same as Plasma.'),('Plasma','n.','A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and\n   leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was\n   much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.'),('Plasma','n.','The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of\n   which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation;\n   protoplasm.'),('Plasma','n.','Unorganized material; elementary matter.'),('Plasma','n.','A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for\n   ointments.'),('Plasmatic','a.','Alt. of Plasmatical'),('Plasmatical','a.','Forming; shaping; molding.'),('Plasmatical','a.','Of or pertaining to plasma; having the character of\n   plasma; containing, or conveying, plasma.'),('Plasmation','n.','The act of forming or molding.'),('Plasmator','n.','A former; a fashioner.'),('Plasmature','n.','Form; mold.'),('Plasmic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or connected with, plasma; plasmatic.'),('Plasmid','n.','A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of\n   the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and\n   replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the\n   chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often\n   carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in\n   genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA\n   into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus\n   altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used; in\n   the case of genetically altered plant cells, the altered cells may grow\n   into complete plants with changed properties, as for example, increased\n   resistance to disease.'),('Plasmin','n.','A proteid body, separated by some physiologists from blood\n   plasma. It is probably identical with fibrinogen.'),('Plasmodial','a.','Of or pertaining to, or like, a plasmodium; as, the\n   plasmodial form of a life cycle.'),('Plasmodia','pl. ','of Plasmodium'),('Plasmodium','n.','A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union\n   of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.'),('Plasmodium','n.','A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union\n   of several amoebalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the\n   life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.'),('Plasmogen','n.','The important living portion of protoplasm, considered a\n   chemical substance of the highest elaboration. Germ plasm and idioplasm\n   are forms of plasmogen.'),('Plasson','n.','The albuminous material composing the body of a cytode.'),('Plaster','n.','An external application of a consistency harder than\n   ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or\n   other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body,\n   and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal\n   effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking\n   plaster.'),('Plaster','n.','A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without\n   hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses.\n   See Mortar.'),('Plaster','n.','Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when\n   ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or\n   calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer.'),('Plastered','imp. & p. p.','of Plaster'),('Plastering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plaster'),('Plaster','v. t.','To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.'),('Plaster','v. t.','To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and\n   walls of a house.'),('Plaster','v. t.','Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects\n   of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.'),('Plasterer','n.','One who applies plaster or mortar.'),('Plasterer','n.','One who makes plaster casts.'),('Plastering','n.','Same as Plaster, n., 2.'),('Plastering','n.','The act or process of overlaying with plaster.'),('Plastering','n.','A covering of plaster; plasterwork.'),('Plasterly','a.','Resembling plaster of Paris.'),('Plasterwork','n.','Plastering used to finish architectural constructions,\n   exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms.\n   Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure\n   plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.'),('Plastery','a.','Of the nature of plaster.'),('-plastic','','A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing;\n   as, heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic.'),('Plastic','a.','Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of\n   matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.'),('Plastic','a.','Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or\n   plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.'),('Plastic','a.','Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of,\n   molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by,\n   molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in\n   distinction from painting and the graphic arts.'),('plastic','n.','a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic\n   high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic\n   are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives\n   origin of word as 1905]'),('Plastical','a.','See Plastic.'),('Plastically','adv.','In a plastic manner.'),('Plasticity','n.','The quality or state of being plastic.'),('Plasticity','n.','Plastic force.'),('Plastid','n.','Alt. of Plastide'),('Plastide','n.','A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a\n   cytode. See the Note under Morphon.'),('Plastide','n.','One of the many minute granules found in the protoplasm\n   of vegetable cells. They are divided by their colors into three\n   classes, chloroplastids, chromoplastids, and leucoplastids.'),('Plastidozoa','n. pl.','Same as Protoza.'),('Plastidule','n.','One of the small particles or organic molecules of\n   protoplasm.'),('Plastin','n.','A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by\n   some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.'),('Plastography','n.','The art of forming figures in any plastic material.'),('Plastography','n.','Imitation of handwriting; forgery.'),('Plastron','n.','A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to\n   protect the breast.'),('Plastron','n.','An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.'),('Plastron','n.','The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See\n   Testudinata.'),('Plastron','n.','A trimming for the front of a woman\'s dress, made of a\n   different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.'),('-plasty','','A combining form denoting the act or process of forming,\n   development, growth; as, autoplasty, perineoplasty.'),('Platted','imp. & p. p.','of Plat'),('Platting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plat'),('Plat','v. t.','To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.'),('Plat','n.','Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.'),('Plat','n.','A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or\n   for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.'),('Plat','v. t.','To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.'),('Plat','n.','Plain; flat; level.'),('Plat','adv.','Plainly; flatly; downright.'),('Plat','adv.','Flatly; smoothly; evenly.'),('Plat','n.','The flat or broad side of a sword.'),('Plat','n.','A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.'),('Platan','n.','The plane tree.'),('Platanist','n.','The soosoo.'),('Platanus','n.','A genus of trees; the plane tree.'),('Platband','n.','A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a\n   parterre; hence, a border.'),('Platband','n.','A flat molding, or group of moldings, the width of which\n   much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave.'),('Platband','n.','A list or fillet between the flutings of a column.'),('Plate','n.','A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of\n   which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet\n   of metal; as, a steel plate.'),('Plate','n.','Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.'),('Plate','n.','Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups,\n   etc., wrought in gold or silver.'),('Plate','n.','Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that\n   which is genuine silver or gold.'),('Plate','n.','A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or\n   wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.'),('Plate','n.','A piece of money, usually silver money.'),('Plate','n.','A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the\n   purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal;\n   as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.'),('Plate','n.','A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing\n   from; as, publisher\'s plates.'),('Plate','n.','That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the\n   mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum,\n   silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.'),('Plate','n.','A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels\n   projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also\n   used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof\n   trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.'),('Plate','n.','A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.'),('Plate','n.','A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating\n   that is sensitive to light.'),('Plate','n.','A prize giving to the winner in a contest.'),('Plated','imp. & p. p.','of Plate'),('Plating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plate'),('Plate','v. t.','To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals,\n   either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process,\n   as electrotyping.'),('Plate','v. t.','To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with\n   metal for defense.'),('Plate','v. t.','To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.'),('Plate','v. t.','To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.'),('Plate','v. t.','To calender; as, to plate paper.'),('Plateaux','pl. ','of Plateau'),('Plateaus','pl. ','of Plateau'),('Plateau','n.','A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area\n   of land; a table-land.'),('Plateau','n.','An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.'),('Platefuls','pl. ','of Plateful'),('Plateful','n.','Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.'),('Plate-gilled','a.','Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve\n   mollusks.'),('Platel','n.','A small dish.'),('Platen','n.','The part of a printing press which presses the paper\n   against the type and by which the impression is made.'),('Platen','n.','Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the\n   paper rests to receive an impression.'),('Platen','n.','The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which\n   the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also\n   called table.'),('Plater','n.','One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a\n   silver plater.'),('Plater','n.','A machine for calendering paper.'),('Plateresque','a.','Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain\n   architectural ornaments.'),('Platetrope','n.','One of a pair of a paired organs.'),('Platform','n.','A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also\n   figuratively.'),('Platform','n.','A place laid out after a model.'),('Platform','n.','Any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is\n   raised above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards\n   horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion\n   of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or\n   workmen; a standing place.'),('Platform','n.','A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a\n   sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as,\n   the Saybrook platform; a political platform.'),('Platform','n.','A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or\n   over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.'),('Platform','v. t.','To place on a platform.'),('Platform','v. t.','To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.'),('Plathelminth','n.','One of the Platyelminthes.'),('Plathelminthes','n. pl.','Same as Platyelminthes.'),('Platin','n.','See Platen.'),('Platina','n.','Platinum.'),('Plating','n.','The art or process of covering anything with a plate or\n   plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal\n   with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means\n   or by electro-magnetic deposition.'),('Plating','n.','A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.'),('Plating','n.','A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel)\n   plates.'),('Platinic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used\n   specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a\n   higher valence, as contrasted with the platinous compounds; as,\n   platinic chloride (PtCl4).'),('Platinichloric','a.','Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid\n   consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as\n   a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or\n   chloroplatinic, acid.'),('Platiniferous','a.','Yielding platinum; as, platiniferous sand.'),('Platiniridium','n.','A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in\n   grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.'),('Platinized','imp. & p. p.','of Platinize'),('Platinizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Platinize'),('Platinize','v. t.','To cover or combine with platinum.'),('Platinochloric','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an\n   acid consisting of platinous chloride and hydrochloric acid, called\n   platinochloric, / chloroplatinous, acid.'),('Platinochloride','n.','A double chloride of platinum and some other metal\n   or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.'),('Platinocyanic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid\n   compound of platinous cyanide and hydrocyanic acid. It is obtained as a\n   cinnaber-red crystalline substance.'),('Platinocyanide','n.','A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal\n   or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.'),('Platinode','n.','A cathode.'),('Platinoid','a.','Resembling platinum.'),('Platinoid','n.','An alloy of German silver containing tungsten; -- used\n   for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.'),('Platinotype','n.','A permanent photographic picture or print in platinum\n   black.'),('Platinotype','n.','The process by which such pictures are produced.'),('Platinous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used\n   specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a\n   lower valence, as contrasted with the platinic compounds; as, platinous\n   chloride (PtCl2).'),('Platinum','n.','A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver\n   and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the\n   platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is\n   ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its\n   resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for\n   stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and\n   wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3.\n   Symbol Pt. Formerly called platina.'),('Platitude','n.','The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid;\n   flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.'),('Platitude','n.','A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak;\n   a truism; a commonplace.'),('Platitudinarian','n.','One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and\n   insipid truisms.'),('Platitudinize','v. i.','To utter platitudes or truisms.'),('Platitudinous','a.','Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of\n   platitudes; uttering platitudes.'),('Platly','a.','Flatly. See Plat, a.'),('Platness','n.','Flatness.'),('Platometer','n.','See Planimeter.'),('Platonic','a.','Alt. of Platonical'),('Platonical','a.','Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school,\n   or opinions.'),('Platonical','a.','Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical.'),('Platonic','n.','A follower of Plato; a Platonist.'),('Platonically','adv.','In a Platonic manner.'),('Platonism','n.','The doctrines or philosophy by Plato or of his\n   followers.'),('Platonism','n.','An elevated rational and ethical conception of the laws\n   and forces of the universe; sometimes, imaginative or fantastic\n   philosophical notions.'),('Platonist','n.','One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower\n   of Plato.'),('Platonized','imp. & p. p.','of Platonize'),('Platonizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Platonize'),('Platonize','v. i.','To adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers.'),('Platonize','v. t.','To explain by, or accomodate to, the Platonic\n   philosophy.'),('Platonizer','n.','One who Platonizes.'),('Platoon','n.','Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small\n   square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.'),('Platoon','n.','Now, in the United States service, half of a company.'),('Platt','n.','See Lodge, n.'),('Plattdeutsch','n.','The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany,\n   taken collectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under German.'),('Platten','a.','To flatten and make into sheets or plates; as, to platten\n   cylinder glass.'),('Platter','n.','One who plats or braids.'),('Platter','n.','A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food\n   is brought to the table.'),('Platter-faced','a.','Having a broad, flat face.'),('Platting','n.','Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for\n   making hats or the like.'),('Platy','a.','Like a plate; consisting of plates.'),('Platy-','','A combining form from Gr. platy`s broad, wide, flat; as,\n   platypus, platycephalous.'),('Platycephalic','a.','Alt. of Platycephalous'),('Platycephalous','a.','Broad-headed.'),('Platycnemic','a.','Of, relating to, or characterized by, platycnemism.'),('Platycnemism','n.','Lateral flattening of the tibia.'),('Platycoelian','a.','Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior\n   end; -- said of the centra of the vertebrae of some extinct dinouaurs.'),('Platyelminthes','n. pl.','A class of helminthes including the cestodes,\n   or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Called also\n   flatworms.'),('Platyhelmia','n. pl.','Same as Platyelminthes.'),('Platymeter','n.','An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers,\n   or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.'),('Platypod','n.','An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.'),('Platypoda','n. pl.','Same as Prosobranchiata.'),('Platyptera','n. pl.','A division of Pseudoneuroptera including the\n   species which have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or\n   white-ants, and the stone flies (Perla).'),('Platypus','n.','The duck mole. See under Duck.'),('Platyrhine','a.','Having the nose broad; -- opposed to leptorhine.'),('Platyrhine','n.','One of the Platyrhini.'),('Platyrhini','n. pl.','A division of monkeys, including the American\n   species, which have a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually\n   a prehensile tail. See Monkey.'),('Plaud','v. t.','To applaud.'),('Plaudit','n.','A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.'),('Plauditory','a.','Applauding; commending.'),('Plausibility','n.','Something worthy of praise.'),('Plausibility','n.','The quality of being plausible; speciousness.'),('Plausibility','n.','Anything plausible or specious.'),('Plausible','a.','Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable;\n   ready.'),('Plausible','a.','Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently\n   right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a\n   plausible delusion.'),('Plausible','a.','Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible\n   speaker.'),('Plausibleize','v. t.','To render plausible.'),('Plausibleness','n.','Quality of being plausible.'),('Plausibly','adv.','In a plausible manner.'),('Plausibly','adv.','Contentedly, readily.'),('Plausive','a.','Applauding; manifesting praise.'),('Plausive','a.','Plausible, specious.'),('Played','imp. & p. p.','of Play'),('Playing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Play'),('Play','n.','To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the\n   sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.'),('Play','n.','To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be\n   careless.'),('Play','n.','To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence,\n   to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.'),('Play','n.','To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.'),('Play','n.','To act; to behave; to practice deception.'),('Play','n.','To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with\n   alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain\n   plays.'),('Play','n.','To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.'),('Play','n.','To act on the stage; to personate a character.'),('Play','v. t.','To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a\n   fortification; to play a trump.'),('Play','v. t.','To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.'),('Play','v. t.','To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to\n   play a waltz on the violin.'),('Play','v. t.','To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in\n   action; to execute; as, to play tricks.'),('Play','v. t.','To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action;\n   as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by\n   acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the\n   woman.'),('Play','v. t.','To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for\n   amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.'),('Play','v. t.','To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.'),('Play','n.','Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.'),('Play','n.','Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or\n   diversion; a game.'),('Play','n.','The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or\n   a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune\n   in play.'),('Play','n.','Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play;\n   sword play; a play of wit.'),('Play','n.','A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in\n   which characters are represented by dialogue and action.'),('Play','n.','The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as,\n   he attends ever play.'),('Play','n.','Performance on an instrument of music.'),('Play','n.','Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a\n   wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.'),('Play','n.','Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display;\n   scope; as, to give full play to mirth.'),('Playa','n.','A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New\n   Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes\n   dry by evaporation.'),('Playbill','n.','A printed programme of a play, with the parts assigned to\n   the actors.'),('Playbook','n.','A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play.'),('Playday','n.','A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.'),('Player','n.','One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims;\n   an idler; a trifler.'),('Player','n.','One who plays any game.'),('Player','n.','A dramatic actor.'),('Player','n.','One who plays on an instrument of music.'),('Player','n.','A gamester; a gambler.'),('Playfellow','n.','A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate.'),('Playfere','n.','A playfellow.'),('Playful','a.','Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive\n   fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer.'),('Playgame','n.','Play of children.'),('Playgoer','n.','One who frequents playhouses, or attends dramatic\n   performances.'),('Playgoing','a.','Frequenting playhouses; as, the playgoing public.'),('Playgoing','n.','The practice of going to plays.'),('Playground','n.','A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the\n   playground of a school.'),('Playhouse','n.','A building used for dramatic exhibitions; a theater.'),('Playhouse','n.','A house for children to play in; a toyhouse.'),('Playing','','a. & vb. n. of Play.'),('Playmaker','n.','A playwright.'),('Playmate','n.','A companion in diversions; a playfellow.'),('Playsome','a.','Playful; wanton; sportive.'),('Playte','n.','See Pleyt.'),('Plaything','n.','A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to\n   amuse.'),('Playtime','n.','Time for play or diversion.'),('Playwright','n.','A maker or adapter of plays.'),('Playwriter','n.','A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright.'),('Plaza','n.','A public square in a city or town.'),('Plea','n.','That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in\n   a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished\n   from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice,\n   the defendant\'s answer to the plaintiff\'s declaration and demand. That\n   which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled\n   or justified by the defendant\'s plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a\n   special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause\n   why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In\n   criminal practice, the plea is the defendant\'s formal answer to the\n   indictment or information presented against him.'),('Plea','n.','A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.\n   See under Common.'),('Plea','n.','That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in\n   justification; an excuse; an apology.'),('Plea','n.','An urgent prayer or entreaty.'),('Pleached','imp. & p. p.','of Pleach'),('Pleaching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pleach'),('Pleach','v. t.','To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to\n   plash; to interlock.'),('Pleaded','imp. & p. p.','of Plead'),('Plead','','of Plead'),('Pled','','of Plead'),('Pleading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plead'),('Plead','v. t.','To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the\n   claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to\n   persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of\n   persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a\n   judge or with a father.'),('Plead','v. t.','To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the\n   declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff\'s declaration and\n   demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the\n   suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause;\n   to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to\n   carry on a suit or plea.'),('Plead','v. t.','To contend; to struggle.'),('Plead','v. t.','To discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments\n   or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having uthority to\n   determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a cause before a court or\n   jury.'),('Plead','v. t.','To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for\n   repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead\n   usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty.'),('Plead','v. t.','To allege or adduce in proof, support, or vendication; to\n   offer in excuse; as, the law of nations may be pleaded in favor of the\n   rights of ambassadors.'),('Pleadable','a.','Capable of being pleaded; capable of being alleged in\n   proof, defense, or vindication; as, a right or privilege pleadable at\n   law.'),('Pleader','n.','One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an\n   advotate.'),('Pleader','n.','One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas\n   or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader.'),('Pleading','n.','The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause\n   by arguments.'),('Pleadingly','adv.','In a pleading manner.'),('Pleadings','n. pl.','The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and\n   defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their\n   claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue\n   is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point.'),('Pleasance','n.','Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.'),('Pleasance','n.','A secluded part of a garden.'),('Pleasant','a.','Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses;\n   agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.'),('Pleasant','a.','Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive;\n   as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow.'),('Pleasant','n.','A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.'),('Pleasantly','adv.','In a pleasant manner.'),('Pleasantness','n.','The state or quality of being pleasant.'),('Pleasantries','pl. ','of Pleasantry'),('Pleasantry','n.','That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor;\n   cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness\n   in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage.'),('Pleasant-tongued','a.','Of pleasing speech.'),('Pleased','imp. & p. p.','of Please'),('Pleasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Please'),('Please','v. t.','To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or\n   emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.'),('Please','v. t.','To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish;\n   to desire; to will.'),('Please','v. t.','To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used\n   impersonally.'),('Please','v. i.','To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable\n   emotions.'),('Please','v. i.','To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of\n   affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.'),('Pleased','a.','Experiencing pleasure.'),('Pleaseman','n.','An officious person who courts favor servilely; a\n   pickthank.'),('Pleaser','n.','One who pleases or gratifies.'),('Pleasing','a.','Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable\n   emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing\n   manners.'),('Pleasing','n.','An object of pleasure.'),('Pleasurable','a.','Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction;\n   gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry.'),('Pleasure','n.','The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable\n   sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced\n   by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or\n   satisfying; -- opposed to pain, sorrow, etc.'),('Pleasure','n.','Amusement; sport; diversion; self-indulgence; frivolous\n   or dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; -- opposed to\n   labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc.'),('Pleasure','n.','What the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or\n   satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose.'),('Pleasure','n.','That which pleases; a favor; a gratification.'),('Pleasured','imp. & p. p.','of Pleasure'),('Pleasuring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pleasure'),('Pleasure','v. t.','To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.'),('Pleasure','v. i.','To take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go\n   pleasuring.'),('Pleasureful','a.','Affording pleasure.'),('Pleasureless','a.','Devoid of pleasure.'),('Pleasurer','n.','A pleasure seeker.'),('Pleasurist','n.','A person devoted to worldly pleasure.'),('Pleat','n. & v. t.','See Plait.'),('Plebe','n.','The common people; the mob.'),('Plebe','n.','A member of the lowest class in the military academy at West\n   Point.'),('Plebeian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.'),('Plebeian','a.','Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common;\n   as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.'),('Plebeian','n.','One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in\n   distinction from patrician.'),('Plebeian','n.','One of the common people, or lower rank of men.'),('Plebeiance','n.','Plebeianism.'),('Plebeiance','n.','Plebeians, collectively.'),('Plebeianism','n.','The quality or state of being plebeian.'),('Plebeianism','n.','The conduct or manners of plebeians; vulgarity.'),('Plebeianized','imp. & p. p.','of Plebeianize'),('Plebeianizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plebeianize'),('Plebeianize','v. t.','To render plebeian, common, or vulgar.'),('Plebicolist','n.','One who flatters, or courts the favor of, the common\n   people; a demagogue.'),('Plebification','n.','A rendering plebeian; the act of vulgarizing.'),('Plebiscitary','a.','Of or pertaining to plebiscite.'),('Plebiscite','n.','A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in\n   France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National\n   Constitution of 1791.'),('Plebiscitum','n.','A law enacted by the common people, under the\n   superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate,\n   without the intervention of the senate.'),('Plectile','a.','Woven; plaited.'),('Plectognath','a.','Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.'),('Plectognath','n.','One of the Plectognathi.'),('Plectognathi','n. pl.','An order of fishes generally having the maxillary\n   bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the\n   dentary.'),('Plectognathic','a.','Alt. of Plec-tognathous'),('Plec-tognathous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.'),('Plectospondyli','n. pl.','An extensive suborder of fresh-water\n   physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebrae united and much\n   modified; the Eventognathi.'),('Plectospondylous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Plectospondyli.'),('Plectra','pl. ','of Plectrum'),('Plectrum','n.','A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used\n   in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.'),('Pled','','imp. & p. p. of Plead'),('Pledge','n.','The transfer of possession of personal property from a\n   debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the\n   contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so\n   delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which\n   is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.'),('Pledge','n.','A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another;\n   a bail; a surety; a hostage.'),('Pledge','n.','A hypothecation without transfer of possession.'),('Pledge','n.','Anything given or considered as a security for the\n   performance of an act; a guarantee; as, mutual interest is the best\n   pledge for the performance of treaties.'),('Pledge','n.','A promise or agreement by which one binds one\'s self to do,\n   or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in\n   writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to\n   sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges.'),('Pledge','n.','A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one\'s\n   health; a toast; a health.'),('Pledged','imp. & p. p.','of Pledge'),('Pledging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pledge'),('Pledge','n.','To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in\n   possession of another as security; as, to pledge one\'s watch.'),('Pledge','n.','To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to\n   plight; as, to pledge one\'s word and honor.'),('Pledge','n.','To secure performance of, as by a pledge.'),('Pledge','n.','To bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage\n   solemnly; as, to pledge one\'s self.'),('Pledge','n.','To invite another to drink, by drinking of the cup first,\n   and then handing it to him, as a pledge of good will; hence, to drink\n   the health of; to toast.'),('Pledgee','n.','The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property\n   pledged is delivered.'),('Pledgeless','a.','Having no pledge.'),('Pledgeor','n.','Alt. of Pledgor'),('Pledgor','n.','One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a\n   pledger; -- opposed to pledgee.'),('Pledger','n.','One who pledges.'),('Pledgery','n.','A pledging; suretyship.'),('Pledget','n.','A small plug.'),('Pledget','n.','A string of oakum used in calking.'),('Pledget','n.','A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound,\n   ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the\n   matter discharged.'),('Plegepoda','n. pl.','Same as Infusoria.'),('Pleiad','n.','One of the Pleiades.'),('Pleiades','n. pl.','The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione,\n   fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.'),('Pleiades','n. pl.','A group of small stars in the neck of the\n   constellation Taurus.'),('Plein','a.','Plan.'),('Plein','v. i. & t.','To complain. See Plain.'),('Plein','a.','Full; complete.'),('Pleiocene','a.','See Pliocene.'),('Pleiophyllous','a.','Having several leaves; -- used especially when\n   several leaves or leaflets appear where normally there should be only\n   one.'),('Pleiosaurus','n.','Same as Pliosaurus.'),('Pleistocene','a.','Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits,\n   following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man.'),('Pleistocene','n.','The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.'),('Plenal','a.','Full; complete; as, a plenal view or act.'),('Plenarily','adv.','In a plenary manner.'),('Plenariness','n.','Quality or state of being plenary.'),('Plenarty','n.','The state of a benefice when occupied.'),('Plenary','a.','Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license;\n   plenary authority.'),('Plenary','n.','Decisive procedure.'),('Plene','ae.','Full; complete; plenary.'),('Plenicorn','n.','A ruminant having solid horns or antlers, as the deer.'),('Plenilunary','a.','Of or pertaining to the full moon.'),('Plenilune','n.','The full moon.'),('Plenipotence','n.','Alt. of Plenipotency'),('Plenipotency','n.','The quality or state of being plenipotent.'),('Plenipotent','a.','Possessing full power.'),('Plenipotentiaries','pl. ','of Plenipotentiary'),('Plenipotentiary','n.','A person invested with full power to transact any\n   business; especially, an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court, with\n   full power to negotiate a treaty, or to transact other business.'),('Plenipotentiary','a.','Containing or conferring full power; invested with\n   full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers.'),('Plenish','v. t.','To replenish.'),('Plenish','v. t.','To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm.'),('Plenishing','n.','Household furniture; stock.'),('Plenist','n.','One who holds that all space is full of matter.'),('Plenitude','n.','The quality or state of being full or complete;\n   fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power.'),('Plenitude','n.','Animal fullness; repletion; plethora.'),('Plenitudinarian','n.','A plenist.'),('Plenitudinary','a.','Having plenitude; full; complete; thorough.'),('Plenteous','a.','Containing plenty; abundant; copious; plentiful;\n   sufficient for every purpose; as, a plenteous supply.'),('Plenteous','a.','Yielding abundance; productive; fruitful.'),('Plenteous','a.','Having plenty; abounding; rich.'),('Plentevous','a.','Plenteous.'),('Plentiful','a.','Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a\n   plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.'),('Plentiful','a.','Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful.'),('Plentiful','a.','Lavish; profuse; prodigal.'),('Plenties','pl. ','of Plenty'),('Plenty','a.','Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency;\n   specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for\n   human wants; abundance; copiousness.'),('Plenty','a.','Plentiful; abundant.'),('Plenum','n.','That state in which every part of space is supposed to be\n   full of matter; -- opposed to vacuum.'),('Pleochroic','a.','Having the property of pleochroism.'),('Pleochroism','n.','The property possessed by some crystals, of showing\n   different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.'),('Pleochromatic','a.','Pleochroic.'),('Pleochromatism','n.','Pleochroism.'),('Pleochroous','a.','Pleochroic.'),('Pleomorphic','a.','Pertaining to pleomorphism; as, the pleomorphic\n   character of bacteria.'),('Pleomorphism','n.','The property of crystallizing under two or more\n   distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism.'),('Pleomorphism','n.','The theory that the various genera of bacteria are\n   phases or variations of growth of a number of Protean species, each of\n   which may exhibit, according to undetermined conditions, all or some of\n   the forms characteristic of the different genera and species.'),('Pleomorphous','a.','Having the property of pleomorphism.'),('Pleonasm','n.','Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of\n   more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my\n   own eyes.'),('Pleonast','n.','One who is addicted to pleonasm.'),('Pleonaste','n.','A black variety of spinel.'),('Pleonastic','a.','Alt. of Pleonastical'),('Pleonastical','a.','Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of\n   pleonasm; redundant.'),('Pleonastically','adv.','In a pleonastic manner.'),('Pleopods','pl. ','of Pleopod'),('Pleopoda','pl. ','of Pleopod'),('Pleopod','n.','One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. See Illust.\n   under Crustacea.'),('Plerome','n.','The central column of parenchyma in a growing stem or\n   root.'),('Plerophory','n.','Fullness; full persuasion.'),('Plesance','n.','Pleasance.'),('Plesh','n.','A pool; a plash.'),('Plesimorphism','n.','The property possessed by some substances of\n   crystallizing in closely similar forms while unlike in chemical\n   composition.'),('Plesiomorphous','a.','Nearly alike in form.'),('Plesiosaur','n.','One of the Plesiosauria.'),('Plesiosauria','n. pl.','An extinct order of Mesozoic marine reptiles\n   including the genera Plesiosaurus, and allied forms; -- called also\n   Sauropterygia.'),('Plesiosaurian','n.','A plesiosaur.'),('Plesiosauri','pl. ','of Plesiosaurus'),('Plesiosaurus','n.','A genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a\n   very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in the\n   Mesozoic age.'),('Plessimeter','n.','See Pleximeter.'),('Plete','v. t. & i.','To plead.'),('Plethora','n.','Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood\n   vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system\n   when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; --\n   opposed to anaemia.'),('Plethora','n.','State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.'),('Plethoretic','a.','Plethoric.'),('Plethoric','a.','Haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora\n   or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also\n   metaphorically.'),('Plethorical','a.','Plethoric.'),('Plethory','n.','Plethora.'),('Plethra','pl. ','of Plethrum'),('Plethron','n.','Alt. of Plethrum'),('Plethrum','n.','A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also,\n   a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet.'),('Plethysmograph','n.','An instrument for determining and registering the\n   variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and\n   hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.'),('Plethysmography','n.','The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the\n   variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.'),('Pleura','n.','pl. of Pleuron.'),('Pleurae','pl. ','of Pleura'),('Pleuras','pl. ','of Pleura'),('Pleura','n. fem.','The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the\n   lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.'),('Pleura','n. fem.','The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about\n   each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body\n   wall.'),('Pleura','n. fem.','Same as Pleuron.'),('Pleural','a.','Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleurae, or to the sides\n   of the thorax.'),('Pleuralgia','n.','Pain in the side or region of the ribs.'),('Pleurapophyses','pl. ','of Pleurapophysis'),('Pleurapophysis','n.','One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the\n   dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding\n   to, a vertebral rib.'),('Pleurenchyma','n.','A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular\n   cells, of which wood is mainly composed.'),('Pleuric','a.','Pleural.'),('Pleurisy','n.','An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with\n   fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into\n   the pleural cavity.'),('Pleurite','n.','Same as Pleuron.'),('Pleuritic','a.','Alt. of Pleuritical'),('Pleuritical','a.','Of or pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms.'),('Pleuritical','a.','Suffering from pleurisy.'),('Pleuritis','n.','Pleurisy.'),('Pleuro-','','A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif.,\n   connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as,\n   pleuroperitoneum.'),('Pleurobrachia','n.','A genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two\n   long plumose tentacles.'),('Pleurobranch','n.','Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached\n   to the side of the thorax.'),('Pleuroeranchiae','pl. ','of Pleurobranchia'),('Pleurobranchia','n.','Same as Pleurobranch.'),('Pleurocarp','n.','Any pleurocarpic moss.'),('Pleurocarpic','a.','Alt. of Pleurocarpous'),('Pleurocarpous','a.','Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which\n   the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to\n   acrocarpous.'),('Pleurocentrum','n.','One of the lateral elements in the centra of the\n   vertebrae in some fossil batrachians.'),('Pluroderes','n. pl.','A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck\n   can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The\n   matamata is an example.'),('Pleurodont','a.','Having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of\n   the jaw, as in some lizards.'),('Pleurodont','n.','Any lizard having pleurodont teeth.'),('Pleurodynia','n.','A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy,\n   usually due to rheumatism.'),('Pleura','pl. ','of Pleuron'),('Pleuron','n.','One of the sides of an animal.'),('Pleuron','n.','One of the lateral pieces of a somite of an insect.'),('Pleuron','n.','One of lateral processes of a somite of a crustacean.'),('Pleuronectoid','a.','Pertaining to the Pleuronectidae, or Flounder\n   family.'),('Pleuropericardial','a.','Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.'),('Pleuroperipneumony','n.','Pleuropneumonia.'),('Pleuroperitoneal','a.','Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal\n   membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.'),('Pleuroperitoneum','n.','The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the\n   membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the\n   inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of\n   those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.'),('Pleuropneumonia','n.','Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a\n   combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and\n   fatal lung plague of cattle.'),('Pleuroptera','n. pl','A group of Isectivora, including the colugo.'),('Pleurosigma','n.','A genus of diatoms of elongated elliptical shape, but\n   having the sides slightly curved in the form of a letter S. Pleurosigma\n   angulatum has very fine striations, and is a favorite object for\n   testing the high powers of microscopes.'),('Pleurostea','pl. ','of Pleurosteon'),('-ons','pl. ','of Pleurosteon'),('Pleurosteon','n.','The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum\n   of birds.'),('Pleurothotonus','n.','A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved\n   laterally.'),('Pleurotomae','pl. ','of Pleurotoma'),('Pleurotomas','pl. ','of Pleurotoma'),('Pleurotoma','n.','Any marine gastropod belonging to Pleurotoma, and ether\n   allied genera of the family Pleurotmidae. The species are very\n   numerous, especially in tropical seas. The outer lip has usually a\n   posterior notch or slit.'),('Plevin','n.','A warrant or assurance.'),('Plexiform','a.','Like network; complicated.'),('Pleximeter','n.','A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or\n   rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination\n   by mediate percussion.'),('Plexure','n.','The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving;\n   that which is woven together.'),('Plexus','pl. ','of Plexus'),('Plexuses','pl. ','of Plexus'),('Plexus','n.','A network of vessels, nerves, or fibers.'),('Plexus','n.','The system of equations required for the complete\n   expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.'),('Pley','v. & n.','See Play.'),('Pley','a.','Full See Plein.'),('Pleyt','n.','An old term for a river boat.'),('Pliability','n.','The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as,\n   pliability of disposition.'),('Pliable','v.','Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent;\n   flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable\n   plant.'),('Pliable','v.','Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence,\n   arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; --\n   sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.'),('Pliancy','n.','The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the\n   pliancy of a rod.'),('Pliant','v.','Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or\n   pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic;\n   as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily\n   influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.'),('Pliant','v.','Favorable to pliancy.'),('Plica','v.','A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes\n   twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is\n   hence called also Polish plait.'),('Plica','v.','A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive\n   development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.'),('Plica','v.','The bend of the wing of a bird.'),('Plicate','a.','Alt. of Plicated'),('Plicated','a.','Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf.'),('Plication','n.','A folding or fold; a plait.'),('Plicature','n.','A fold; a doubling; a plication.'),('Plicidentine','n.','A form of dentine which shows sinuous lines of\n   structure in a transverse section of the tooth.'),('Plied','','imp. & p. p. of Ply.'),('Pliers','n. pl.','A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for\n   bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such\n   as the parts of a watch, etc.'),('Pliform','a.','In the form of a ply, fold, or doubling.'),('Plight','','imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.'),('Plight','','imp. & p. p. of Pluck.'),('Plight','v. t.','To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.'),('Plight','n.','A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.'),('Plight','n.','That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or\n   pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.'),('Plight','n.','Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often\n   being implied; as, a luckless plight.'),('Plighted','imp. & p. p.','of Plight'),('Plighting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plight'),('Plight','n.','To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some\n   act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or\n   goods.'),('Plight','n.','To promise; to engage; to betroth.'),('Plighter','n.','One who, or that which, plights.'),('Plim','v. i.','To swell, as grain or wood with water.'),('Plimsoll\'s mark','','A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all\n   British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of\n   submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose\n   efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.'),('Plinth','n.','In classical architecture, a vertically faced member\n   immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest\n   member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a\n   sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are\n   stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.'),('Pliocene','a.','Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent\n   division of the Tertiary age.'),('Pliocene','n.','The Pliocene period or deposits.'),('Pliohippus','n.','An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits.\n   Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.'),('Pliosaurus','n.','An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to\n   Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.'),('Plitt','n.','An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout,\n   used in Russia.'),('Ploc','n.','A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.'),('Ploce','n.','A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of\n   emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it,\n   but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, \"His wife\'s a wife\n   indeed.\"'),('Plodded','imp. & p. p.','of Plod'),('Plodding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plod'),('Plod','v. i.','To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.'),('Plod','v. i.','To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and\n   patiently.'),('Plod','v. t.','To walk on slowly or heavily.'),('Plodder','n.','One who plods; a drudge.'),('Plodding','a.','Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by\n   laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man\n   of plodding habits.'),('Plonge','v. t.','To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the\n   tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.'),('Plongee','n.','A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a\n   parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course.'),('Plot','n.','A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.'),('Plot','n.','A plantation laid out.'),('Plot','n.','A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a\n   scale.'),('Plotted','imp. & p. p.','of Plot'),('Plotting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plot'),('Plot','v. t.','To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of\n   on a plan; to delineate.'),('Plot','n.','Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a\n   complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose,\n   usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue;\n   as, the Rye-house Plot.'),('Plot','n.','A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any\n   stratagem or conspiracy.'),('Plot','n.','Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or\n   intrigue.'),('Plot','n.','A plan; a purpose.'),('Plot','n.','In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem,\n   comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded,\n   sometimes by unexpected means.'),('Plot','v. i.','To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially\n   against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.'),('Plot','v. i.','To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.'),('Plot','v. t.','To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.'),('Plotful','a.','Abounding with plots.'),('Pletinian','a.','Of pertaining to the Plotinists or their doctrines.'),('Plotinist','n.','A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic\n   philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul\n   emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.'),('Plot-proof','a.','Secure against harm by plots.'),('Plotter','n.','One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a\n   schemer.'),('Plough','n. & v.','See Plow.'),('Plover','n.','Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging\n   to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the\n   subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds.'),('Plover','n.','Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true\n   plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland,\n   plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.'),('Plow','n.','Alt. of Plough'),('Plough','n.','A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or\n   other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops;\n   also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the\n   subsoil plow; the draining plow.'),('Plough','n.','Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.'),('Plough','n.','A carucate of land; a plowland.'),('Plough','n.','A joiner\'s plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.'),('Plough','n.','An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of\n   books.'),('Plough','n.','Same as Charles\'s Wain.'),('Plowed','imp. & p. p.','of Plough'),('Ploughed','','of Plough'),('Plowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plough'),('Ploughing','','of Plough'),('Plow','v. t.','Alt. of Plough'),('Plough','v. t.','To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till\n   with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.'),('Plough','v. t.','To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to\n   run through, as in sailing.'),('Plough','v. t.','To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper,\n   with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.'),('Plough','n.','To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board;\n   especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or\n   tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.'),('Plow','v. i.','Alt. of Plough'),('Plough','v. i.','To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up\n   the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.'),('Plowable','a.','Alt. of Ploughable'),('Ploughable','a.','Capable of being plowed; arable.'),('Plowbote','n.','Alt. of Ploughbote'),('Ploughbote','n.','Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of\n   instruments of husbandry. See Bote.'),('Plowboy','n.','Alt. of Ploughboy'),('Ploughboy','n.','A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young\n   rustic.'),('Plower','n.','Alt. of Plougher'),('Plougher','n.','One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.'),('Plowfoot','n.','Alt. of Ploughfoot'),('Ploughfoot','n.','An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam\n   to determine the depth of the furrow.'),('Plowgang','n.','Alt. of Ploughgang'),('Ploughgang','n.','Same as Plowgate.'),('Plowgate','n.','Alt. of Ploughgate'),('Ploughgate','n.','The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland.'),('Plowhead','n.','Alt. of Ploughhead'),('Ploughhead','n.','The clevis or draught iron of a plow.'),('Plowland','n.','Alt. of Plougland'),('Plougland','n.','Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.'),('Plougland','n.','the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow;\n   a hide.'),('-men','pl. ','of Ploughman'),('Plowman','n.','Alt. of Ploughman'),('Ploughman','n.','One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a\n   husbandman.'),('Ploughman','n.','A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.'),('Plowpoint','n.','Alt. of Ploughpoint'),('Ploughpoint','n.','A detachable share at the extreme front end of the\n   plow body.'),('Plowshare','n.','Alt. of Ploughshare'),('Ploughshare','n.','The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice\n   of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.'),('Plowtail','n.','Alt. of Ploughtail'),('Ploughtail','n.','The hind part or handle of a plow.'),('Plowwright','n.','Alt. of Ploughwright'),('Ploughwright','n.','One who makes or repairs plows.'),('Ploy','n.','Sport; frolic.'),('Ploy','v. i.','To form a column from a line of troops on some designated\n   subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.'),('Ployment','n.','The act or movement of forming a column from a line of\n   troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.'),('Plucked','imp. & p. p.','of Pluck'),('Plucking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pluck'),('Pluck','v. t.','To pull; to draw.'),('Pluck','v. t.','Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to\n   pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to\n   gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or\n   wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.'),('Pluck','v. t.','To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.'),('Pluck','v. t.','To reject at an examination for degrees.'),('Pluck','v. i.','To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with\n   at; as, to pluck at one\'s gown.'),('Pluck','n.','The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.'),('Pluck','n.','The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.'),('Pluck','n.','Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.'),('Pluck','n.','The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at\n   college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.'),('Pluck','v. t.','The lyrie.'),('Plucked','a.','Having courage and spirit.'),('Plucker','n.','One who, or that which, plucks.'),('Plucker','n.','A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.'),('Pluckily','adv.','In a plucky manner.'),('Pluckiness','n.','The quality or state of being plucky.'),('Pluckless','a.','Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted.'),('Plucky','superl.','Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck;\n   displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.'),('Pluff','v. t.','To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.'),('Pluff','n.','A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball;\n   a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder.'),('Pluff','n.','A hairdresser\'s powder puff; also, the act of using it.'),('Plug','n.','Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or\n   fill a hole; a stopple.'),('Plug','n.','A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.'),('Plug','n.','A high, tapering silk hat.'),('Plug','n.','A worthless horse.'),('Plug','n.','A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.'),('Plugged','imp. & p. p.','of Plug'),('Plugging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plug'),('Plug','v. t.','To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.'),('Plugger','n.','One who, or that which, plugs.'),('Plugging','n.','The act of stopping with a plug.'),('Plugging','n.','The material of which a plug or stopple is made.'),('Plum','n.','The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of\n   several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called\n   plum tree.'),('Plum','n.','A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.'),('Plum','n.','A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language,\n   the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.'),('Plumae','pl. ','of Pluma'),('Pluma','n.','A feather.'),('Plumage','n.','The entire clothing of a bird.'),('Plumassary','n.','A plume or collection of ornamental feathers.'),('Plumassier','n.','One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or\n   feathers.'),('Plumb','n.','A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a\n   line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a\n   plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below.'),('Plumb','a.','Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line\n   attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.'),('Plumb','adv.','In a plumb direction; perpendicularly.'),('Plumbed','imp. & p. p.','of Plumb'),('Plumbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plumb'),('Plumb','v. t.','To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular;\n   as, to plumb a building or a wall.'),('Plumb','v. t.','To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water;\n   hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension,\n   etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test.'),('Plumb','v. t.','To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.'),('Plumb','v. t.','To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.'),('Plumbage','n.','Leadwork'),('Plumbagin','n.','A crystalline substance said to be found in the root of\n   a certain plant of the Leadwort (Plumbago) family.'),('Plumbagineous','a.','Pertaining to natural order (Plumbagineae) of\n   gamopetalous herbs, of which Plumbago is the type. The order includes\n   also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera.'),('Plumbaginous','a.','Resembling plumbago; consisting of, or containing,\n   plumbago; as, a plumbaginous slate.'),('Plumbago','n.','Same as Graphite.'),('Plumbago','n.','A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped\n   corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.'),('Plumbean','a.','Alt. of Plumbeous'),('Plumbeous','a.','Consisting of, or resembling, lead.'),('Plumbeous','a.','Dull; heavy; stupid.'),('Plumber','n.','One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and\n   repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the\n   conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.'),('Plumber block','','A pillow block.'),('Plumbery','n.','The business of a plumber.'),('Plumbery','n.','A place where plumbing is carried on; lead works.'),('Plumbic','a.','Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; --\n   used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher\n   valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide.'),('Plumbiferous','a.','Producing or containing lead.'),('Plumbing','n.','The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it\n   to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting,\n   and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc.'),('Plumbing','n.','The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in\n   conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.'),('Plumbism','n.','A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead,\n   common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among\n   painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as\n   lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and\n   Wrist.'),('Plumbous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or containing, lead; -- used\n   specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a lower\n   valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.'),('Plumbum','n.','The technical name of lead. See Lead.'),('Plume','v.','A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long,\n   conspicuous, or handsome feather.'),('Plume','v.','An ornamental tuft of feathers.'),('Plume','v.','A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a\n   waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.'),('Plume','v.','A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides\n   himself; a prize or reward.'),('Plume','v.','A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a\n   feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.'),('Plumed','imp. & p. p.','of Plume'),('Pluming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plume'),('Plume','v. t.','To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or\n   prink.'),('Plume','v. t.','To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage;\n   also, to peel.'),('Plume','v. t.','To adorn with feathers or plumes.'),('Plume','v. t.','To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he\n   plumes himself on his skill.'),('Plumeless','a.','Without plumes.'),('Plumelet','n.','A small plume.'),('Plumery','n.','Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.'),('Plumicorn','n.','An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.'),('Plumigerous','a.','Feathered; having feathers.'),('Plumiliform','a.','Having the of a plume or feather.'),('Plumiped','a.','Having feet covered with feathers.'),('Plumiped','n.','A plumiped bird.'),('Plummet','n.','A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the\n   depth of water.'),('Plummet','n.','A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.'),('Plummet','n.','Hence, any weight.'),('Plummet','n.','A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule\n   paper for writing.'),('Plumming','n.','The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the\n   place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or\n   to find which way the lode inclines.'),('Plummy','a.','Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable;\n   advantageous.'),('Plumose','a.','Alt. of Plumous'),('Plumous','a.','Having feathers or plumes.'),('Plumous','a.','Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like\n   a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.'),('Plumosite','n.','Same as Jamesonite.'),('Plumosity','n.','The quality or state of being plumose.'),('Plump','adv.','Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump\n   baby; plump cheeks.'),('Plump','n.','A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of\n   trees, fowls, or spears.'),('Plump','a.','To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.'),('Plump','a.','To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.'),('Plump','a.','To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.'),('Plumped','imp. & p. p.','of Plump'),('Plumping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plump'),('Plump','v. t.','To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with\n   up.'),('Plump','v. t.','To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily;\n   as, to plump a stone into water.'),('Plump','v. t.','To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.'),('Plump','a. & v.','Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.'),('Plumper','n.','One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something\n   else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.'),('Plumper','n.','A vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are\n   to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. A person\n   who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote.'),('Plumper','n.','A voter who plumps his vote.'),('Plumper','n.','A downright, unqualified lie.'),('Plumply','adv.','Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve.'),('Plumpness','n.','The quality or state of being plump.'),('Plumpy','a.','Plump; fat; sleek.'),('Plumule','pl. ','of Plumula'),('-las','pl. ','of Plumula'),('Plumula','n.','A plumule.'),('Plumula','n.','A down feather.'),('Plumulaceous','a.','Downy; bearing down.'),('Plumular','a.','Relating to a plumule.'),('Plumularlae','pl. ','of Plumularia'),('Plumularias','pl. ','of Plumularia'),('Plumularia','n.','Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of\n   the family Plumularidae. They generally grow in plumelike forms.'),('Plumularian','n.','Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.'),('Plumule','n.','The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or\n   growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of\n   Radicle.'),('Plumule','n.','A down feather.'),('Plumule','n.','The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather.'),('Plumule','n.','One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.'),('Plumulose','a.','Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of\n   a feather.'),('Plumy','a.','Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.'),('Plundered','imp. & p. p.','of Plunder'),('Plundering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plunder'),('Plunder','v. t.','To take the goods of by force, or without right; to\n   pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.'),('Plunder','v. t.','To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the\n   enemy plundered all the goods they found.'),('Plunder','n.','The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of\n   Pillage.'),('Plunder','n.','That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage;\n   spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.'),('Plunder','n.','Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.'),('Plunderage','n.','The embezzlement of goods on shipboard.'),('Plunderer','n.','One who plunders or pillages.'),('Plunged','imp. & p. p.','of Plunge'),('Plunging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plunge'),('Plunge','v. t.','To thrust into water, or into any substance that is\n   penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and\n   forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a\n   dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation\n   into war.'),('Plunge','v. t.','To baptize by immersion.'),('Plunge','v. t.','To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.'),('Plunge','v. i.','To thrust or cast one\'s self into water or other fluid;\n   to submerge one\'s self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the\n   river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.'),('Plunge','v. i.','To pitch or throw one\'s self headlong or violently\n   forward, as a horse does.'),('Plunge','v. i.','To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race,\n   or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous\n   speculations.'),('Plunge','n.','The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap,\n   rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a\n   plunge.'),('Plunge','n.','Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being\n   submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.'),('Plunge','n.','The act of pitching or throwing one\'s self headlong or\n   violently forward, like an unruly horse.'),('Plunge','n.','Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous\n   speculation.'),('Plunger','n.','One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.'),('Plunger','n.','A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or\n   bucket, as a forcer in pumps.'),('Plunger','n.','One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless\n   speculator.'),('Plunger','n.','A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy\n   consistence.'),('Plunger','n.','The firing pin of a breechloader.'),('Plunket','n.','A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth,\n   generally blue.'),('Pluperfect','a.','More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense\n   which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the\n   time of another past action or event.'),('Pluperfect','n.','The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect\n   tense.'),('Plural','a.','Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two\n   or more; as, a plural word.'),('Plural','n.','The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or\n   denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.'),('Pluralism','n.','The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural\n   number.'),('Pluralism','n.','The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one\n   ecclesiastical living at a time.'),('Pluralist','n.','A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one\n   ecclesiastical benefice.'),('pluralities','pl. ','of Plurality'),('Plurality','n.','The state of being plural, or consisting of more than\n   one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a\n   plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.'),('Plurality','n.','The greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of\n   several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one\n   candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate.\n   When there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the\n   plurality of votes may have less than a majority. See Majority.'),('Plurality','n.','See Plurality of benefices, below.'),('Pluralization','n.','The act of pluralizing.'),('Pluralized','imp. & p. p.','of Pluralize'),('Pluralizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pluralize'),('Pluralize','v. t.','To make plural by using the plural termination; to\n   attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.'),('Pluralize','v. t.','To multiply; to make manifold.'),('Pluralize','v. i.','To take a plural; to assume a plural form; as, a noun\n   pluralizes.'),('Pluralize','v. i.','To hold more than one benefice at the same time.'),('Pluralizer','n.','A pluralist.'),('Plurally','adv.','In a plural manner or sense.'),('Pluri-','','A combining form from L. plus, pluris, more, many; as\n   pluriliteral.'),('Pluries','n.','A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs\n   have been disregarded.'),('Plurifarious','a.','Of many kinds or fashions; multifarious.'),('Plurifoliolate','a.','Having several or many leaflets.'),('Pluriliteral','a.','Consisting of more letters than three.'),('Pluriliteral','n.','A pluriliteral word.'),('Plurilocular','a.','Having several cells or loculi'),('Plurilocular','a.','having several divisions containing seeds; as, the\n   lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits.'),('Pluriparous','a.','Producing several young at a birth; as, a pluriparous\n   animal.'),('Pluripartite','a.','Deeply divided into several portions.'),('Pluripresence','n.','Presence in more places than one.'),('Plurisy','n.','Superabundance; excess; plethora.'),('Plus','a.','More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from\n   negative; -- opposed to minus.'),('Plus','a.','Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.'),('Plush','n.','A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and\n   softer than the nap of velvet.'),('Plushy','a.','Like plush; soft and shaggy.'),('Plutarchy','n.','Plutocracy; the rule of wealth.'),('Pluteal','a.','Of or pertaining to a pluteus.'),('Plutei','pl. ','of Pluteus'),('Pluteuses','pl. ','of Pluteus'),('Pluteus','n.','The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans,\n   having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.'),('Pluto','n.','The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune;\n   the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.'),('Plutocracy','n.','A form of government in which the supreme power is\n   lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich;\n   also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.'),('Plutocrat','n.','One whose wealth gives him power or influence; one of\n   the plutocracy.'),('Plutocratic','a.','Of or pertaining to plutocracy; as, plutocratic ideas.'),('Plutology','n.','The science which treats of wealth.'),('Plutonian','a.','Plutonic.'),('Plutonian','n.','A Plutonist.'),('Plutonic','a.','Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining\n   to the interior of the earth; subterranean.'),('Plutonic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the\n   Plutonists; igneous; as, the Plutonic theory.'),('Plutonism','n.','The theory, early advanced in geology, that the\n   successive rocks of the earth\'s crust were formed by igneous fusion; --\n   opposed to the Neptunian theory.'),('Plutonist','n.','One who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion;\n   a Plutonian. See Plutonism.'),('Plutus','n.','The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was\n   represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts\n   were bestowed without discrimination of merit.'),('Pluvial','a.','Of or pertaining to rain; rainy.'),('Pluvial','a.','Produced by the action of rain.'),('Pluvial','n.','A priest\'s cope.'),('Pluviameter','n.','See Pluviometer.'),('Pluviametrical','a.','See Pluviometrical.'),('Pluvian','n.','The crocodile bird.'),('Pluviometer','n.','An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall\n   at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.'),('Pluviometrical','a.','Of or pertaining to a pluviometer; determined by a\n   pluviometer.'),('Pluviose','n.','The fifth month of the French republican calendar adopted\n   in 1793. It began January 20, and ended February 18. See Vendemiaire.'),('Pluvious','a.','Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial.'),('Plied','imp. & p. p.','of Ply'),('Plying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ply'),('Ply','v. t.','To bend.'),('Ply','v. t.','To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or\n   with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply\n   one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink.'),('Ply','v. t.','To employ diligently; to use steadily.'),('Ply','v. t.','To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.'),('Ply','v. i.','To bend; to yield.'),('Ply','v. i.','To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to\n   do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer\n   plies between certain ports.'),('Ply','v. i.','To work to windward; to beat.'),('Ply','v.','A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord.'),('Ply','v.','Bent; turn; direction; bias.'),('Plyer','n.','One who, or that which, plies'),('Plyer','n.','A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a\n   drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew\'s\n   cross.'),('Plyer','n.','See Pliers.'),('Plyght','v. & n.','See Plight.'),('Plymouth Brethren','','The members of a religious sect which first\n   appeared at Plymouth, England, about 1830. They protest against\n   sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. Also called\n   Brethren, Christian Brethren, Plymouthists, etc. The Darbyites are a\n   division of the Brethren.'),('Pneometer','n.','A spirometer.'),('Pneumatic','a.','Alt. of Pneumatical'),('Pneumatical','a.','Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the\n   properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.'),('Pneumatical','a.','Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their\n   properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments.'),('Pneumatical','a.','Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a\n   pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.'),('Pneumatical','a.','Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with\n   air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.'),('Pneumaticity','n.','The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity\n   or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of\n   birds.'),('Pneumatics','n.','That branch of science which treats of the mechanical\n   properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight,\n   pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.'),('Pneumatics','n.','The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings\n   and their relations to God, angels, and men.'),('Pneumato-','','A combining form from Gr. pney^ma, pney`matos, wind, air,\n   breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology.'),('Pneumatocele','n.','A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of\n   the lungs.'),('Pneumatocyst','n.','A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and\n   serving as a float, as in Physalia.'),('Pneumatogarm','n.','A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a\n   pneumatograph or stethograph.'),('Pneumatograph','n.','An instrument for recording the movements of the\n   thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.'),('Pneumatological','a.','Of or pertaining to pneumatology.'),('Pneumatologist','n.','One versed in pneumatology.'),('Pneumatology','n.','The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other\n   elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1.'),('Pneumatology','n.','The science of spiritual being or phenomena of any\n   description.'),('Pneumatometer','n.','An instrument for measuring the amount of force\n   exerted by the lungs in respiration.'),('Pneumatometry','n.','See Spirometry.'),('Pneumatophore','n.','One of the Pneumonophora.'),('Pneumatothorax','n.','See Pneumothorax.'),('Pneumo-','','A combining form from Gr. pney`mwn, pney`monos, a lung; as,\n   pneumogastric, pneumology.'),('Pneumococcus','n.','A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and\n   elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the\n   cause of this disease.'),('Pneumogastric','a.','Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.'),('Pneumogastric','n.','The pneumogastric nerve.'),('Pneumograph','n.','Same as Pneumatograph.'),('Pneumography','n.','A description of the lungs.'),('Pneumology','n.','The science which treats of the lungs.'),('Pneumometer','n.','A spirometer.'),('Pneumometry','n.','Measurement of the capacity of the lungs for air.'),('Pneumonia','n.','Inflammation of the lungs.'),('Pneumonic','a.','Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.'),('Pneumonic','a.','Of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.'),('Pneumonic','n.','A medicine for affections of the lungs.'),('Pneumonitic','a.','Of or pertaining to pneumonitis.'),('Pneumonitis','n.','Inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.'),('Pneumonometer','n.','A spirometer; a pneumometer.'),('Pneumonophora','n. pl.','The division of Siphonophora which includes the\n   Physalia and allied genera; -- called also Pneumatophorae.'),('Pneumony','n.','See Pneumonia.'),('Pneumootoka','n. pl.','Same as Sauropsida.'),('Pneumophora','n. pl.','A division of holothurians having an internal\n   gill, or respiratory tree.'),('Pneumoskeleton','n.','A chitinous structure which supports the gill in\n   some invertebrates.'),('Pneumotherapy','n.','The treatment of disease by inhalations of\n   compressed or rarefied air.'),('Pneumothorax','n.','A condition in which air or other gas is present in\n   the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.'),('Pnigalion','n.','Nightmare.'),('Pnyx','n.','The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were\n   held for making decrees, etc.'),('Poa','n.','A genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as\n   the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and\n   spear grass (which see).'),('Poached','imp. & p. p.','of Poach'),('Poaching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Poach'),('Poach','v. & n.','To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water;\n   also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.'),('Poach','v. & n.','To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth,\n   as game; hence, to plunder.'),('Poach','v. i.','To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately,\n   as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by\n   night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for\n   salmon.'),('Poach','v. t.','To stab; to pierce; to spear, \\as fish.'),('Poach','v. t.','To force, drive, or plunge into anything.'),('Poach','v. t.','To make soft or muddy by trampling'),('Poach','v. t.','To begin and not complete.'),('Poach','v. i.','To become soft or muddy.'),('Poachard','n.','A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also\n   goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, / red-headed, widgeon.'),('Poachard','n.','The American redhead, which is closely allied to the\n   European poachard.'),('Poacher','n.','One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish\n   contrary to law.'),('Poacher','n.','The American widgeon.'),('Poachiness','n.','The state of being poachy; marshiness.'),('Poachy','a.','Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; --\n   said of land'),('Poak','n.','Alt. of Poake'),('Poake','n.','Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of\n   hair, lime, oil, etc.'),('Pocan','n.','The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.'),('Pochard','n.','See Poachard.'),('Pock','n.','A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and\n   vaccine diseases.'),('Pockarred','a.','See Pockmarked.'),('Pock-broken','a.','Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.'),('Pocket','n.','A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a\n   garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence,\n   figuratively, money; wealth.'),('Pocket','n.','One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into\n   which the balls are driven.'),('Pocket','n.','A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as\n   ginger, hops, cowries, etc.'),('Pocket','n.','A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in\n   a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.'),('Pocket','n.','A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other\n   mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.'),('Pocket','n.','A hole containing water.'),('Pocket','n.','A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a\n   light spar can placed in the interspace.'),('Pocket','n.','Same as Pouch.'),('Pocketed','imp. & p. p.','of Pocket'),('Pocketing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pocket'),('Pocket','v. t.','To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the\n   change.'),('Pocket','v. t.','To take clandestinely or fraudulently.'),('Pocketbook','n.','A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc.,\n   in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.'),('Pocketfuls','pl. ','of Pocketful'),('Pocketful','n.','As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket;\n   as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.'),('-knives','pl. ','of Pocketknife'),('Pocketknife','n.','A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the\n   handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.'),('Pock-fretten','a.','See Pockmarked.'),('Pockiness','n.','The state of being pocky.'),('Pockmark','n.','A mark or pit made by smallpox.'),('Pockmarked','a.','Marked by smallpox; pitted.'),('Pock-pitted','a.','Pockmarked; pitted.'),('Pock-pudding','n.','A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule\n   formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.'),('Pockwood','n.','Lignum-vitae.'),('Pocky','superl.','Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive\n   disease.'),('Poco','adv.','A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or\n   movement; as, poco piu allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather\n   slow.'),('Pocock','n.','Peacock.'),('Pococurante','n.','A careless person; a trifler.'),('Pococurantism','n.','Carelessness; apathy; indifference.'),('Pocoson','n.','Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and\n   Virginia.'),('Poculent','a.','Fit for drink.'),('Poculiform','a.','Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.'),('-pod','','A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as,\n   decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having\n   leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.'),('Pod','n.','A bag; a pouch.'),('Pod','n.','A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent\n   fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.'),('Pod','n.','A considerable number of animals closely clustered together;\n   -- said of seals.'),('Podded','imp. & p. p.','of Pod'),('Podding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pod'),('Pod','v. i.','To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.'),('-poda','','A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. /, /,\n   foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See -pod.'),('Podagra','n.','Gout in the joints of the foot; -- applied also to gout in\n   other parts of body.'),('Podagric','a.','Alt. of Podagrical'),('Podagrical','a.','Pertaining to the gout; gouty; caused by gout.'),('Podagrical','a.','Afflicted with gout.'),('Podagrous','a.','Gouty; podagric.'),('Podalgia','n.','pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.'),('Podarthra','pl. ','of Podarthrum'),('Podarthrum','n.','The foot joint; in birds, the joint between the\n   metatarsus and the toes.'),('Podded','a.','Having pods.'),('Podder','n.','One who collects pods or pulse.'),('Podesta','n.','One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in\n   the Middle Ages.'),('Podesta','n.','A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of\n   Italy.'),('Podetia','pl. ','of Podetium'),('Podetiums','pl. ','of Podetium'),('Podetium','n.','A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens,\n   as in the so-called reindeer moss.'),('Podge','n.','A puddle; a plash.'),('Podge','n.','Porridge.'),('Podgy','a.','Fat and short; pudgy.'),('Podical','a.','Anal; -- applied to certain organs of insects.'),('Podiceps','n.','See Grebe.'),('Podia','pl. ','of Podium'),('Podium','n.','A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a\n   terrace wall.'),('Podium','n.','The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater,\n   from the top of which the seats began.'),('Podium','n.','The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a\n   mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.'),('Podium','n.','The foot.'),('Podley','n.','A young coalfish.'),('Podo-','','A combining form or prefix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as,\n   podocarp, podocephalous, podology.'),('Podobranch','n.','One of the branchiae attached to the bases of the legs\n   in Crustacea.'),('Podobranchiae','pl. ','of Podobranchia'),('Podobranchia','n.','Same as Podobranch.'),('Podocarp','n.','A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.'),('Podocephalous','a.','Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or\n   footstalk.'),('Podogynium','n.','Same as Basigynium'),('Podophthalmia','n. pl.','The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of\n   Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the\n   crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda.'),('Podophthalmic','a.','Alt. of Podophthalmous'),('Podophthalmous','a.','Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels.'),('Podophthalmous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Podophthalmia.'),('Podophthalmite','n.','The eyestalk of a crustacean.'),('Podophyllin','n.','A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the\n   May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several\n   substances.'),('Podophyllous','a.','Having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.'),('Podophyllous','a.','Pertaining to, or composing, the layer of tissue,\n   made up of laminae, beneath a horse\'s hoof.'),('Podophyllum','n.','A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large\n   palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two\n   species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan\n   P. Emodi.'),('Podophyllum','n.','The rhizome and rootlet of the May apple (Podophyllum\n   peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug.'),('Podoscaph','n.','A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking\n   on water.'),('Podosperm','n.','The stalk of a seed or ovule.'),('Podostomata','n. pl.','An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the\n   type. See Rhabdopleura.'),('Podothecae','pl. ','of Podotheca'),('Podotheca','n.','The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.'),('Podrida','n.','A miscellaneous dish of meats. See Olla-podrida.'),('Podurae','pl. ','of Podura'),('Poduras','pl. ','of Podura'),('Podura','n.','Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura\n   and related genera; a springtail.'),('Podurid','n.','Any species of Podura or allied genera.'),('Podurid','a.','Pertaining to the poduras.'),('Poe','n.','Same as Poi.'),('Poebird','n.','The parson bird.'),('Poecile','n.','Same as Poicile.'),('Poecilitic','a.','Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; --\n   said of certain rocks.'),('Poecilitic','a.','Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing,\n   Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors.'),('Poecilopod','n.','One of the Poecilopoda. Also used adjectively.'),('Poecilopoda','n. pl.','Originally, an artificial group including many\n   parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea).'),('Poecilopoda','n. pl.','By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.'),('Poem','n.','A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in\n   certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized\n   by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose;\n   as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.'),('Poem','n.','A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly\n   imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.'),('Poematic','a.','Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical.'),('Poenamu','n.','A variety of jade or nephrite, -- used in New Zealand for\n   the manufacture of axes and weapons.'),('Poenology','n.','See Penology.'),('Poephaga','n. pl.','A group of herbivorous marsupials including the\n   kangaroos and their allies.'),('Poesy','n.','The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as,\n   the heavenly gift of poesy.'),('Poesy','n.','Poetry; metrical composition; poems.'),('Poesy','n.','A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing;\n   a posy.'),('Poet','n.','One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius\n   for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker\n   or writer.'),('Poetaster','n.','An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in\n   poetic art.'),('Poetastry','n.','The works of a poetaster.'),('Poetess','n.','A female poet.'),('Poetic','a.','Alt. of Poetical'),('Poetical','a.','Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for\n   writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.'),('Poetical','a.','Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or\n   the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical\n   prose.'),('Poetically','adv.','In a poetic manner.'),('Poetics','n.','The principles and rules of the art of poetry.'),('Poeticule','n.','A poetaster.'),('Poetized','imp. & p. p.','of Poetize'),('Poetizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Poetize'),('Poetize','v. i.','To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.'),('Poetry','n.','The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the\n   faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in\n   expression.'),('Poetry','n.','Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed\n   rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse;\n   rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or\n   Pindaric poetry.'),('Poetship','n.','The state or personality of a poet.'),('Poggy','n.','See Porgy.'),('Poggy','n.','A small whale.'),('Pogy','n.','The menhaden.'),('Poh','interj.','An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !'),('Pohagen','n.','See Pauhaugen.'),('Poi','n.','A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding\n   the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is\n   allowed to ferment.'),('Poicile','n.','Alt. of Poecile'),('Poecile','n.','The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.'),('Poignancy','n.','The quality or state of being poignant; as, the\n   poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief.'),('Poignant','a.','Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent.'),('Poignant','a.','Fig.: Pointed; keen; satirical.'),('Poignantly','adv.','In a poignant manner.'),('Poikilitic','a.','See Poecilitic.'),('Poikilocyte','n.','An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in\n   cases of profound anaemia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle.'),('Poikilothermal','a.','Alt. of Poikilothermic'),('Poikilothermic','a.','Having a varying body temperature. See\n   Homoiothermal.'),('Poikilothermous','a.','Poikilothermal.'),('Poinciana','n.','A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly\n   Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy\n   orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.'),('Poind','v. t.','To impound, as cattle.'),('Poind','v. t.','To distrain.'),('Poinder','n.','The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.'),('Poinder','n.','One who distrains property.'),('Poinsettia','n.','A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large\n   and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.'),('Point','v. t. & i.','To appoint.'),('Point','n.','That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything,\n   esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin.'),('Point','n.','An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle\n   used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed\n   cutting tool, as a stone cutter\'s point; -- called also pointer.'),('Point','n.','Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination.\n   Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending\n   into the water beyond the common shore line.'),('Point','n.','The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as\n   a needle; a prick.'),('Point','n.','An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or\n   supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor\n   magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth,\n   nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that\n   by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced.'),('Point','n.','An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence,\n   the verge.'),('Point','n.','A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the\n   divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or\n   to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon,\n   and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion.'),('Point','n.','Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative\n   position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to\n   another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained;\n   as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five\n   points; he won by tenpoints.'),('Point','n.','That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or\n   character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a\n   particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a\n   horse, a book, a story, etc.'),('Point','n.','Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an\n   argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition\n   to be established; as, the point of an anecdote.'),('Point','n.','A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a\n   punctilio.'),('Point','n.','A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time'),('Point','n.','A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones\n   or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a\n   note; a tune.'),('Point','n.','A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its\n   value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal\n   to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes.'),('Point','n.','A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of\n   reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more\n   great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case\n   according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the\n   solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See\n   Equinoctial Nodal.'),('Point','n.','One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See\n   Escutcheon.'),('Point','n.','One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass,\n   below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to\n   fall off a point.'),('Point','n.','A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef\n   point, under Reef.'),('Point','n.','A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the\n   dress.'),('Point','n.','Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels\n   point. See Point lace, below.'),('Point','n.','A switch.'),('Point','n.','An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.'),('Point','n.','A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or\n   fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.'),('Point','n.','The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game;\n   as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer.'),('Point','n.','A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies,\n   being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of\n   type, under Type.'),('Point','n.','A tyne or snag of an antler.'),('Point','n.','One of the spaces on a backgammon board.'),('Point','n.','A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce\n   point.'),('Pointed','imp. & p. p.','of Point'),('Pointing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Point'),('Point','n.','To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or\n   file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also\n   figuratively; as, to point a moral.'),('Point','n.','To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a\n   wolf, or a cannon at a fort.'),('Point','n.','Hence, to direct the attention or notice of.'),('Point','n.','To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point\n   a composition.'),('Point','n.','To mark (as Hebrew) with vowel points.'),('Point','n.','To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special\n   manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the error was pointed out.'),('Point','n.','To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.'),('Point','n.','To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing\n   additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.'),('Point','n.','To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.'),('Point','v. i.','To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the\n   purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; --\n   with at.'),('Point','v. i.','To indicate the presence of game by fixed and steady\n   look, as certain hunting dogs do.'),('Point','v. i.','To approximate to the surface; to head; -- said of an\n   abscess.'),('Pointal','n.','The pistil of a plant.'),('Pointal','n.','A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the\n   Middle Ages.'),('Pointal','n.','See Poyntel.'),('Point-blank','n.','The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other\n   missile is aimed.'),('Point-blank','n.','With all small arms, the second point in which the\n   natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.'),('Point-blank','n.','With artillery, the point where the projectile first\n   strikes the horizontal plane on which the gun stands, the axis of the\n   piece being horizontal.'),('Point-blank','a.','Directed in a line toward the object aimed at; aimed\n   directly toward the mark.'),('Point-blank','a.','Hence, direct; plain; unqualified; -- said of\n   language; as, a point-blank assertion.'),('Point-blank','adv.','In a point-blank manner.'),('Point d\'appui','','See under Appui.'),('Point-device','a.','Alt. of Point-devise'),('Point-devise','a.','Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.'),('Point-device','adv.','Alt. of Point-devise'),('Point-devise','adv.','Exactly.'),('Pointed','a.','Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.'),('Pointed','a.','Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of\n   expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular\n   person or thing.'),('Pointel','n.','See Pointal.'),('Pointer','n.','One who, or that which, points.'),('Pointer','n.','The hand of a timepiece.'),('Pointer','n.','One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game,\n   and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.'),('Pointer','n.','The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the\n   line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.'),('Pointer','n.','Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.'),('Pointing','n.','The act of sharpening.'),('Pointing','n.','The act of designating, as a position or direction, by\n   means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.'),('Pointing','n.','The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.'),('Pointing','n.','The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry\n   with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used.'),('Pointing','n.','The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the\n   first process of high milling.'),('Pointing','n.','The act or process of measuring, at the various distances\n   from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of\n   statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist\'s\n   model.'),('Pointingstock','n.','An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock.'),('Pointless','a.','Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a\n   pointless sword; a pointless remark.'),('Pointlessly','adv.','Without point.'),('Pointleted','a.','Having a small, distinct point; apiculate.'),('Pointrel','n.','A graving tool.'),('-men','pl. ','of Pointsman'),('Pointsman','n.','A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.'),('Poise','v.','Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend;\n   heaviness.'),('Poise','v.','The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance\n   the substance weighed.'),('Poise','v.','The state of being balanced by equal weight or power;\n   equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.'),('Poise','v.','That which causes a balance; a counterweight.'),('Poised','imp. & p. p.','of Poise'),('Poising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Poise'),('Poise','n.','To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales\n   of a balance.'),('Poise','n.','To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.'),('Poise','n.','To counterpoise; to counterbalance.'),('Poise','n.','To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.'),('Poise','n.','To weigh (down); to oppress.'),('Poise','v. i.','To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended;\n   hence, to be in suspense or doubt.'),('Poiser','n.','The balancer of dipterous insects.'),('Poison','n.','Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism,\n   is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it;\n   as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.'),('Poison','n.','That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as,\n   the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.'),('Poisoned','imp. & p. p.','of Poison'),('Poisoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Poison'),('Poison','n.','To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to\n   poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.'),('Poison','n.','To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.'),('Poison','n.','To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons\n   happiness; slander poisoned his mind.'),('Poison','v. i.','To act as, or convey, a poison.'),('Poisonable','a.','Capable of poisoning; poisonous.'),('Poisonable','a.','Capable of being poisoned.'),('Poisoner','n.','One who poisons.'),('Poisonous','a.','Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous;\n   baneful; corrupting; noxious.'),('Poisonsome','a.','Poisonous.[Obs.] Holland.'),('Poisure','n.','Weight.'),('Poitrel','a.','The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See Peytrel.'),('Poize','n.','See Poise.'),('Pokal','n.','A tall drinking cup.'),('Poke','n.','A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P.\n   decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget,\n   pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and\n   purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are\n   sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said\n   to be used in Europe to color wine.'),('Poke','n.','A bag; a sack; a pocket.'),('Poke','n.','A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.'),('Poked','imp. & p. p.','of Poke'),('Poking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Poke'),('Poke','v. t.','To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed;\n   hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.'),('Poke','v. t.','To thrust with the horns; to gore.'),('Poke','v. t.','To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.'),('Poke','v. i.','To search; to feel one\'s way, as in the dark; to grope;\n   as, to poke about.'),('Poke','n.','The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.'),('Poke','n.','A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting\n   person.'),('Poke','n.','A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking\n   through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed\n   forward.'),('Pokebag','n.','The European long-tailed titmouse; -- called also\n   poke-pudding.'),('Poker','n.','One who pokes.'),('Poker','n.','That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal\n   bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.'),('Poker','n.','A poking-stick.'),('Poker','n.','The poachard.'),('Poker','n.','A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about\n   1835 in the Southwestern United States.'),('Poker','n.','Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to\n   haunt the darkness; a bugbear.'),('Pokerish','a.','Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a\n   pokerish place.'),('Pokerish','a.','Stiff like a poker.'),('Poket','n.','A pocket.'),('Pokeweed','n.','See Poke, the plant.'),('Pokey','a.','See Poky.'),('Poking','a.','Drudging; servile.'),('Poking-stick','n.','A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in\n   adjusting the plaits of ruffs.'),('Poky','a.','Confined; cramped.'),('Poky','a.','Dull; tedious; uninteresting.'),('Polacca','n.','A vessel with two or three masts, used in the\n   Mediterranean. The masts are usually of one piece, and without tops,\n   caps, or crosstrees.'),('Polacca','n.','See Polonaise.'),('Polack','n.','A Polander.'),('Polacre','n.','Same as Polacca, 1.'),('Polander','n.','A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole.'),('Polar','a.','Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a\n   sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar\n   regions; polar seas; polar winds.'),('Polar','a.','Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to\n   which the magnetic needle is directed.'),('Polar','a.','Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating\n   point; as, polar coordinates.'),('Polar','n.','The right line drawn through the two points of contact of\n   the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The\n   given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies\n   within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is\n   still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which\n   possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix\n   are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of\n   higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces\n   of the second degree.'),('Polarchy','n.','See Polyarchy.'),('Polaric','a.','See Polar.'),('Polarily','adv.','In a polary manner; with polarity.'),('Polarimeter','n.','An instrument for determining the amount of\n   polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a\n   partially polarized ray.'),('Polarimetry','n.','The art or process of measuring the polarization of\n   light.'),('Polaris','n.','The polestar. See North star, under North.'),('Polariscope','n.','An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer\n   and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its\n   properties.'),('Polariscopic','a.','Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the\n   use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations.'),('Polariscopy','n.','The art or rocess of making observations with the\n   polariscope.'),('Polaristic','a.','Pertaining to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar\n   arrangement or disposition; arising from, or dependent upon, the\n   possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic\n   antagonism.'),('Polarity','n.','That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it\n   exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or\n   contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a\n   contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as,\n   for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a\n   magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides\n   of a polarized ray of light, etc.'),('Polarity','n.','A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a\n   given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right\n   line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n.'),('Polarizable','a.','Susceptible of polarization.'),('Polarization','n.','The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized,\n   or of having polarity.'),('Polarization','n.','A peculiar affection or condition of the rays of\n   light or heat, in consequence of which they exhibit different\n   properties in different directions.'),('Polarization','n.','An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic\n   battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition\n   upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is\n   chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the\n   resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force,\n   both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or\n   that passing through the cell.'),('Polarized','imp. & p. p.','of Polarize'),('Polarizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Polarize'),('Polarize','v. t.','To communicate polarity to.'),('Polarizer','n.','That which polarizes; especially, the part of a\n   polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a\n   reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a\n   doubly refracting crystal.'),('Polary','a.','Tending to a pole; having a direction toward a pole.'),('Polatouche','n.','A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native of\n   Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.'),('Polder','n.','A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high\n   embankments.'),('Poldway','n.','A kind of coarse bagging, -- used for coal sacks.'),('Pole','n.','A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.'),('Pole','n.','A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of\n   timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as,\n   specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the\n   front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the\n   carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a\n   flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber\'s pole, a\n   pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers.\n   (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.'),('Pole','n.','A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/\n   yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.'),('Poled','imp. & p. p.','of Pole'),('Poling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pole'),('Pole','v. t.','To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or\n   hops.'),('Pole','v. t.','To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.'),('Pole','v. t.','To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.'),('Pole','v. t.','To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.'),('Pole','n.','Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of\n   the extremities of the earth\'s axis; as, the north pole.'),('Pole','n.','A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from\n   every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in\n   which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such\n   circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that\n   circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole\n   of a given meridian.'),('Pole','n.','One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in\n   which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a\n   force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles\n   of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.'),('Pole','n.','The firmament; the sky.'),('Pole','n.','See Polarity, and Polar, n.'),('Poleax','n.','Alt. of Poleaxe'),('Poleaxe','n.','Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later,\n   an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned;\n   -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.'),('Polecat','n.','A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius\n   foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly\n   disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret.'),('Polecat','n.','The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied\n   species.'),('Poledavy','n.','A sort of coarse canvas; poldway.'),('Poleless','a.','Without a pole; as, a poleless chariot.'),('Polemarch','n.','In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief;\n   but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of\n   strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and\n   civil officer.'),('Polemic','a.','Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or\n   involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic\n   discourse or essay; polemic theology.'),('Polemic','a.','Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy;\n   disputations; as, a polemic writer.'),('Polemic','n.','One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or\n   system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a\n   controversialist; a disputant.'),('Polemic','n.','A polemic argument or controversy.'),('Polemical','a.','Polemic; controversial; disputatious.'),('Polemicist','n.','A polemic.'),('Polemics','n.','The art or practice of disputation or controversy,\n   especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science\n   which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.'),('Polemist','n.','A polemic.'),('Polemoniaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants\n   (Polemoniaceae), which includes Polemonium, Phlox, Gilia, and a few\n   other genera.'),('Polemonium','n.','A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the\n   Jacob\'s ladder and the Greek valerian.'),('Polemoscope','n.','An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror\n   arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; --\n   called also diagonal, / side, opera glass.'),('Polemy','n.','Warfare; war; hence, contention; opposition.'),('Polenta','n.','Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of\n   chestnut meal.'),('Poler','n.','One who poles.'),('Poler','n.','An extortioner. See Poller.'),('Polestar','n.','Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North.'),('Polestar','n.','A guide or director.'),('Polewards','adv.','Toward a pole of the earth.'),('Polewig','n.','The European spotted goby (Gobius minutus); -- called also\n   pollybait.'),('Poley','n.','See Poly.'),('Poley','a.','Without horns; polled.'),('Polianite','n.','Manganese dioxide, occurring in tetragonal crystals\n   nearly as hard as quartz.'),('Policate','a.','Same as Pollicate.'),('Police','n.','A judicial and executive system, for the government of a\n   city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order,\n   cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and\n   prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of\n   a city, incorporated town, or borough.'),('Police','n.','That which concerns the order of the community; the\n   internal regulation of a state.'),('Police','n.','The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or\n   district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order,\n   the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.'),('Police','n.','Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve\n   civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.'),('Police','n.','The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp\n   as to cleanliness.'),('Policed','imp. & p. p.','of Police'),('Policing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Police'),('Police','v. t.','To keep in order by police.'),('Police','v. t.','To make clean; as, to police a camp.'),('Policed','a.','Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order,\n   enforced by organized administration.'),('Policemen','pl. ','of Policeman'),('Policeman','n.','A member of a body of police; a constable.'),('Policial','a.','Relating to the police.'),('Policied','a.','Policed.'),('Policies','pl. ','of Policy'),('Policy','n.','Civil polity.'),('Policy','n.','The settled method by which the government and affairs of a\n   nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official\n   administration, as designed to promote the external or internal\n   prosperity of a state.'),('Policy','n.','The method by which any institution is administered; system\n   of management; course.'),('Policy','n.','Management or administration based on temporal or material\n   interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly\n   wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.'),('Policy','n.','Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private\n   affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.'),('Policy','n.','Motive; object; inducement.'),('Policied','imp. & p. p.','of Policy'),('Policying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Policy'),('Policy','v. t.','To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.'),('Policy','n.','A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.'),('Policy','n.','The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance\n   is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and\n   conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss\n   arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or\n   property may be exposed. See Insurance.'),('Policy','n.','A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be\n   drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.'),('Poling','n.','The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole\n   or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.'),('Poling','n.','The operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks with\n   poles.'),('Poling','n.','One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth\n   in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.'),('Polish','a.','Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.'),('Polish','n.','The language of the Poles.'),('Polished','imp. & p. p.','of Polish'),('Polishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Polish'),('Polish','v. t.','To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to\n   burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble,\n   metals, etc.'),('Polish','v. t.','Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness,\n   or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or\n   manners.'),('Polish','v. i.','To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss;\n   to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.'),('Polish','n.','A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a\n   gloss or luster.'),('Polish','n.','Anything used to produce a gloss.'),('Polish','n.','Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.'),('Polishable','a.','Capable of being polished.'),('Polished','a.','Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly\n   finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners;\n   polished verse.'),('Polishedness','n.','The quality of being polished.'),('Polisher','n.','One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is\n   used in polishing.'),('Polishing','','a. & n. from Polish.'),('Polishment','n.','The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.'),('Polite','v.','Smooth; polished.'),('Polite','v.','Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred;\n   courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil.'),('Polite','v.','Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish;\n   as, polite literature.'),('Polite','v. t.','To polish; to refine; to render polite.'),('Politely','adv.','In a polished manner; so as to be smooth or glossy.'),('Politely','adv.','In a polite manner; with politeness.'),('Politeness','n.','High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.'),('Politeness','n.','The quality or state of being polite; refinement of\n   manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging\n   attentions.'),('Politesse','n.','Politeness.'),('Politic','a.','Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government;\n   political; as, the body politic. See under Body.'),('Politic','a.','Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a\n   national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or\n   wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty.'),('Politic','a.','Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and\n   advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather\n   than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious;\n   and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.'),('Politic','n.','A politician.'),('Political','a.','Having, or conforming to, a settled system of\n   administration.'),('Political','a.','Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics;\n   relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer.'),('Political','a.','Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the\n   state; as, his political relations were with the Whigs.'),('Political','a.','Politic; wise; also, artful.'),('Politicalism','n.','Zeal or party spirit in politics.'),('Politically','adv.','In a political manner.'),('Politically','adv.','Politicly; artfully.'),('Politicaster','n.','A petty politician; a pretender in politics.'),('Politician','n.','One versed or experienced in the science of government;\n   one devoted to politics; a statesman.'),('Politician','n.','One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public\n   office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a\n   depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by\n   parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere\n   politician.'),('Politician','a.','Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.'),('Politicist','n.','A political writer.'),('Politicly','adv.','In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully.'),('Politics','n.','The science of government; that part of ethics which has\n   to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the\n   preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its\n   existence and rights against foreign control or conquest, the\n   augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its\n   citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of\n   their morals.'),('Politics','n.','The management of a political party; the conduct and\n   contests of parties with reference to political measures or the\n   administration of public affairs; the advancement of candidates to\n   office; in a bad sense, artful or dishonest management to secure the\n   success of political candidates or parties; political trickery.'),('Politize','v. i.','To play the politician; to dispute as politicians do.'),('Politure','v.','Polish; gloss. [Obs.] Donne.'),('Polities','pl. ','of Polity'),('Polity','n.','The form or constitution of the civil government of a\n   nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various\n   departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.'),('Polity','n.','Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is\n   organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any\n   human institution.'),('Polity','n.','Policy; art; management.'),('Politzerization','n.','The act of inflating the middle ear by blowing air\n   up the nose during the act of swallowing; -- so called from Prof.\n   Politzer of Vienna, who first practiced it.'),('Polive','n.','A pulley.'),('Polka','n.','A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is\n   performed by two persons in common time.'),('Polka','n.','A lively Bohemian or Polish dance tune in 2-4 measure, with\n   the third quaver accented.'),('Poll','n.','A parrot; -- familiarly so called.'),('Poll','n.','One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a\n   degree merely; a passman.'),('Poll','n.','The head; the back part of the head.'),('Poll','n.','A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads\n   or individuals.'),('Poll','n.','Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may\n   vote in an election.'),('Poll','n.','The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors;\n   as, the close of the poll.'),('Poll','n.','The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to\n   the polls.'),('Poll','n.','The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.'),('Poll','n.','The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).'),('Polled','imp. & p. p.','of Poll'),('Polling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Poll'),('Poll','v. t.','To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or\n   end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a\n   tree.'),('Poll','v. t.','To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow\n   or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to\n   poll grass.'),('Poll','v. t.','To extort from; to plunder; to strip.'),('Poll','v. t.','To impose a tax upon.'),('Poll','v. t.','To pay as one\'s personal tax.'),('Poll','v. t.','To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to\n   enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.'),('Poll','v. t.','To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call\n   forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his\n   opponent.'),('Poll','v. t.','To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line\n   without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll.'),('Poll','v. i.','To vote at an election.'),('Pollack','n.','A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens).\n   Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting\n   pollack.'),('Pollack','n.','The American pollock; the coalfish.'),('Pollage','n.','A head or poll tax; hence, extortion.'),('Pollan','n.','A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In\n   appearance it resembles a herring.'),('Pollard','n.','A tree having its top cut off at some height above the\n   ground, that may throw out branches.'),('Pollard','n.','A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.'),('Pollard','n.','A fish, the chub.'),('Pollard','n.','A stag that has cast its antlers.'),('Pollard','n.','A hornless animal (cow or sheep).'),('Pollarded','imp. & p. p.','of Pollard'),('Pollarding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pollard'),('Pollard','v. t.','To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard\n   willows.'),('Pollax','n.','A poleax.'),('Polled','a.','Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll.\n   Specifically: (a) Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut off.\n   (b) Cropped; hence, bald; -- said of a person. \"The polled bachelor.\"\n   Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag. (d) Without\n   horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep.'),('Pollen','n.','Fine bran or flour.'),('Pollen','n.','The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers.\n   See Flower, and Illust. of Filament.'),('Pollenarious','a.','Consisting of meal or pollen.'),('Pollened','a.','Covered with pollen.'),('Polleniferous','a.','Producing pollen; polliniferous.'),('Pollenin','n.','A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.'),('Pollenized','imp. & p. p.','of Pollenize'),('Pollenizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pollenize'),('Pollenize','v. t.','To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.'),('Poller','n.','One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops\n   trees. (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.] (c) One who\n   extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Baex. (d) One who registplws votplws, or\n   one who enters his name as a voter.'),('Pollices','pl. ','of Pollex'),('Pollex','n.','The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb,\n   corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the\n   pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.'),('Pollicate','a.','Having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of\n   a leg joint; -- said of insects.'),('Pollicitation','n.','A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a\n   promise.'),('Pollicitation','n.','A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not\n   been accepted by the person to whom it is made.'),('Pollinate','a.','Pollinose.'),('Pollinate','v. t.','To apply pollen to (a stigma).'),('Pollinctor','n.','One who prepared corpses for the funeral.'),('Polling','n.','The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or\n   hedges.'),('Polling','n.','Plunder, or extortion.'),('Polling','n.','The act of voting, or of registering a vote.'),('Polliniferous','a.','Producing pollen; polleniferous.'),('Pollinia','pl. ','of Pollinium'),('Pollinium','n.','A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most\n   orchids.'),('Pollinose','a.','Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like\n   pollen.'),('Polliwig','n.','Alt. of Polliwog'),('Polliwog','n.','A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle.'),('Pollock','n.','A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both\n   of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like\n   it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley,\n   podling, pollack, etc.'),('Pollucite','n.','A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz,\n   occurring with castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a\n   silicate of alumina and caesia. Called also pollux.'),('Polluted','imp. & p. p.','of Pollute'),('Polluting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pollute'),('Pollute','v. t.','To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint;\n   to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.'),('Pollute','v. t.','To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.'),('Pollute','v. t.','To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit\n   for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse.'),('Pollute','a.','Polluted.'),('Polluted','a.','Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.'),('Polluter','n.','One who pollutes.'),('Polluting','a.','Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or\n   pollution.'),('Pollution','n.','The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in\n   any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.'),('Pollution','n.','The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in\n   sexual intercourse.'),('Pollux','n.','A fixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation\n   Gemini. Cf. 3d Castor.'),('Pollux','n.','Same as Pollucite.'),('Polly','n.','A woman\'s name; also, a popular name for a parrot.'),('Pollywog','n.','A polliwig.'),('Polo','n.','A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the\n   players on horseback.'),('Polo','n.','A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by\n   players wearing skates.'),('Polonaise','a.','Of or pertaining to the Poles, or to Poland.'),('Polonaise','n.','The Polish language.'),('Polonaise','n.','An article of dress for women, consisting of a body and\n   an outer skirt in one piece.'),('Polonaise','n.','A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning\n   always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on\n   the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance\n   adapted to such music; a polacca.'),('Polonese','a. & n.','See Polonaise.'),('Polony','n.','A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked.'),('Polron','n.','See Pauldron.'),('Polt','n.','A blow or thump.'),('Polt','a.','Distorted.'),('Polt-foot','a.','Alt. of Polt-footed'),('Polt-footed','a.','Having a distorted foot, or a clubfoot or clubfeet.'),('Poltroon','n.','An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited\n   wretch.'),('Poltroon','a.','Base; vile; contemptible; cowardly.'),('Poltroonery','n.','Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.'),('Poltroonish','a.','Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.'),('Polverine','n.','Glassmaker\'s ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash,\n   brought from the Levant and Syria, -- used in the manufacture of fine\n   glass.'),('Polwig','n.','A polliwig. Holland.'),('Poly-','a.','A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as,\n   polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many atoms;\n   polychord, polyconic.'),('Poly','n.','A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order\n   Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with\n   sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the\n   same genus.'),('Polyacid','a.','Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several\n   molecules of a monobasic acid; having more than one hydrogen atom\n   capable of being replaced by acid radicals; -- said of certain bases;\n   as, calcium hydrate and glycerin are polyacid bases.'),('Polyacoustic','a.','Multiplying or magnifying sound.'),('Polyacoustic','n.','A polyacoustic instrument.'),('Polyacoustics','n.','The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.'),('Polyacra','pl. ','of Polyacron'),('Polyacrons','pl. ','of Polyacron'),('Polyacron','n.','A solid having many summits or angular points; a\n   polyhedron.'),('Polyactinia','n. pl.','An old name for those Anthozoa which, like the\n   actinias, have numerous simple tentacles.'),('Polyadelphia','n. pl.','A Linnaean class of plants having stamens united\n   in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.'),('Polyadelphian','a.','Alt. of Polyadelphous'),('Polyadelphous','a.','Belonging to the class Polyadelphia; having stamens\n   united in three or more bundles.'),('Polyandria','n. pl.','A Linnaean class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite\n   plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in\n   the receptacle.'),('Polyandrian','a.','Polyandrous.'),('Polyandric','a.','Pertaining to, or characterized by, polyandry; mating\n   with several males.'),('Polyandrous','a.','Belonging to the class Polyandria; having many\n   stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.'),('Polyandry','n.','The possession by a woman of more than one husband at\n   the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.'),('Polyanthuses','pl. ','of Polyanthus'),('Polyanthus','n.','The oxlip. So called because the peduncle bears a\n   many-flowered umbel. See Oxlip. (b) A bulbous flowering plant of the\n   genus Narcissus (N. Tazetta, or N. polyanthus of some authors). See\n   Illust. of Narcissus.'),('Polyarchist','n.','One who advocates polyarchy; -- opposed to monarchist.'),('Polyarchy','n.','A government by many persons, of whatever order or\n   class.'),('Polyatomic','a.','Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting\n   of several atoms.'),('Polyatomic','a.','Having a valence greater than one.'),('Polyautography','n.','The act or practice of multiplying copies of one\'s\n   own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a\n   species of lithography.'),('Polybasic','a.','Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several\n   molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of\n   being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as,\n   sulphuric acid is polybasic.'),('Polybasite','n.','An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver,\n   sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.'),('Polybranchia','n. pl.','A division of Nudibranchiata including those\n   which have numerous branchiae on the back.'),('Polybromide','n.','A bromide containing more than one atom of bromine in\n   the molecule.'),('Polycarpellary','a.','Composed of several or numerous carpels; -- said of\n   such fruits as the orange.'),('Polycarpic','a.','Alt. of Polycarpous'),('Polycarpous','a.','Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year.'),('Polycarpous','a.','Having several pistils in one flower.'),('Polychaeta','n. pl.','One of the two principal groups of Chaetopoda. It\n   includes those that have prominent parapodia and fascicles of setae.\n   See Illust. under Parapodia.'),('Polychloride','n.','A chloride containing more than one atom of chlorine\n   in the molecule.'),('Polychoerany','n.','A government by many chiefs, princes, or rules.'),('Polychord','a.','Having many strings.'),('Polychord','n.','A musical instrument of ten strings.'),('Polychord','n.','An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of\n   being attached to a keyed instrument.'),('Polychrest','n.','A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures\n   many diseases.'),('Polychroism','n.','Same as Pleochroism.'),('Polychroite','n.','The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called\n   because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids; --\n   called also crocin, and safranin.'),('Polychromate','n.','A salt of a polychromic acid.'),('Polychromate','n.','A compound which exhibits, or from which may be\n   prepared, a variety of colors, as certain solutions derived from\n   vegetables, which display colors by fluorescence.'),('Polychromatic','a.','Showing a variety, or a change, of colors.'),('Polychrome','n.','Esculin; -- so called in allusion to its fluorescent\n   solutions.'),('Polychrome','a.','Executed in the manner of polychromy; as, polychrome\n   printing.'),('Polychromic','a.','Polychromatic.'),('Polychromic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several\n   acids (known only in their salts) which contain more than one atom of\n   chromium.'),('Polychromous','a.','Of or pertaining to polychromy; many-colored;\n   polychromatic.'),('Polychromy','n.','The art or practice of combining different colors,\n   especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.'),('Polychronious','a.','Enduring through a long time; chronic.'),('Polyclinic','n.','A clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated;\n   especially, an institution in which clinical instruction is given in\n   all kinds of disease.'),('Polyconic','a.','Pertaining to, or based upon, many cones.'),('Polycotyledon','n.','A plant that has many, or more than two, cotyledons\n   in the seed.'),('Polycotyledonary','a.','Having the villi of the placenta collected into\n   definite patches, or cotyledons.'),('Polycracy','n.','Government by many rulers; polyarchy.'),('Polycrotic','a.','Of or pertaining to polycrotism; manifesting\n   polycrotism; as, a polycrotic pulse; a polycrotic pulse curve.'),('Polycrotism','n.','That state or condition of the pulse in which the\n   pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or\n   elevations; -- contrasted with monocrotism and dicrotism.'),('Polycystid','n.','One of the Polycystidea.'),('Polycystid','n.','One of the Polycystina.'),('Polycystid','a.','Pertaining to the Polycystidea, or the Polycystina.'),('Polycystidea','n. pl.','A division of Gregarinae including those that\n   have two or more internal divisions of the body.'),('Polycystina','n. pl.','A division of Radiolaria including numerous minute\n   marine species. The skeleton is composed of silica, and is often very\n   elegant in form and sculpture. Many have been found in the fossil\n   state.'),('Polycystine','a.','Pertaining to the Polycystina.'),('Polycystine','n.','One of the Polycystina.'),('Polycyttaria','n. pl.','A division of Radiolaria. It includes those\n   having one more central capsules.'),('Polydactylism','n.','The possession of more that the normal number of\n   digits.'),('Polydipsia','n.','Excessive and constant thirst occasioned by disease.'),('Polyedron','n.','See Polyhedron.'),('Polyedrous','a.','See Polyhedral.'),('Polyeidic','a.','Passing through several distinct larval forms; -- having\n   several distinct kinds of young.'),('Polyeidism','n.','The quality or state of being polyeidic.'),('Polyembryonate','a.','Consisting of, or having, several embryos;\n   polyembryonic.'),('Polyembryonic','a.','Polyembryonate.'),('Polyembryony','n.','The production of two or more embryos in one seed,\n   due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one\n   embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic\n   sac.'),('Polyfoil','n.','Same as Multifoil.'),('Polygala','n.','A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens\n   and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering\n   wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.'),('Polygalaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants\n   (Polygalaceae) of which Polygala is the type.'),('Polygalic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, Polygala;\n   specifically, designating an acrid glucoside (called polygalic acid,\n   senegin, etc.), resembling, or possibly identical with, saponin.'),('Polygamia','n. pl.','A Linnaean class of plants, characterized by having\n   both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.'),('Polygamia','n. pl.','A name given by Linnaeus to file orders of plants\n   having syngenesious flowers.'),('Polygamian','a.','Polygamous.'),('Polygamist','a.','One who practices polygamy, or maintains its\n   lawfulness.'),('Polygamize','v. i.','To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.'),('Polygamous','a.','Of or pertaining to polygamy; characterized by, or\n   involving, polygamy; having a plurality of wives; as, polygamous\n   marriages; -- opposed to monogamous.'),('Polygamous','a.','Pairing with more than one female.'),('Polygamous','a.','Belonging to the Polygamia; bearing both hermaphrodite\n   and unisexual flowers on the same plant.'),('Polygamy','n.','The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the\n   same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or\n   the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to\n   monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note\n   under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.'),('Polygamy','n.','The state or habit of having more than one mate.'),('Polygamy','n.','The condition or state of a plant which bears both\n   perfect and unisexual flowers.'),('Polygastrian','n.','One of the Polygastrica.'),('Polygastric','a.','Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which\n   are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.'),('Polygastric','a.','Pertaining to the Polygastrica.'),('Polygastric','n.','One of the Polygastrica.'),('Polygastrica','n. pl.','The Infusoria.'),('Polygenesis','n.','Alt. of Polygeny'),('Polygeny','n.','The theory that living organisms originate in cells or\n   embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; --\n   opposed to monogenesis.'),('Polygenetic','a.','Having many distinct sources; originating at various\n   places or times.'),('Polygenetic','a.','Of or pertaining to polygenesis; polyphyletic.'),('Polygenic','a.','Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.'),('Polygenism','n.','The doctrine that animals of the same species have\n   sprung from more than one original pair.'),('Polygenist','n.','One who maintains that animals of the same species have\n   sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.'),('Polygenous','a.','Consisting of, or containing, many kinds; as, a\n   polygenous mountain.'),('Polyglot','a.','Containing, or made up, of, several languages; as, a\n   polyglot lexicon, Bible.'),('Polyglot','a.','Versed in, or speaking, many languages.'),('Polyglot','n.','One who speaks several languages.'),('Polyglot','n.','A book containing several versions of the same text, or\n   containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the\n   Scriptures in several languages.'),('Polyglottous','a.','Speaking many languages; polyglot.'),('Polygon','n.','A plane figure having many angles, and consequently many\n   sides; esp., one whose perimeter consists of more than four sides; any\n   figure having many angles.'),('Polygonaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous\n   plants (Polygonaceae), of which the knotweeds (species of Polygonum)\n   are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat,\n   rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera.'),('Polygonal','a.','Having many angles.'),('Polygoneutic','a.','Having two or more broods in a season.'),('Polygonometry','n.','The doctrine of polygons; an extension of some of\n   the principles of trigonometry to the case of polygons.'),('Polygonous','a.','Polygonal.'),('Polygonum','n.','A genus of plants embracing a large number of species,\n   including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.'),('Polygony','n.','Any plant of the genus Polygonum.'),('Polygordius','n.','A genus of marine annelids, believed to be an ancient\n   or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and\n   want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or\n   Gymnotoma. See Loeven\'s larva.'),('Polygram','n.','A figure consisting of many lines.'),('Polygraph','n.','An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a\n   manifold writer; a copying machine.'),('Polygraph','n.','In bibliography, a collection of different works, either\n   by one or several authors.'),('Polygraph','n.','An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a\n   subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such\n   as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these\n   parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions\n   designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to\n   deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector'),('Polygraphic','a.','Alt. of Polygraphical'),('Polygraphical','a.','Pertaining to, or employed in, polygraphy; as, a\n   polygraphic instrument.'),('Polygraphical','a.','Done with a polygraph; as, a polygraphic copy.'),('Polygraphy','n.','Much writing; writing of many books.'),('Polygraphy','n.','The art of writing in various ciphers, and of\n   deciphering the same.'),('Polygraphy','n.','The art or practice of using a polygraph.'),('Polygrooved','a.','Having many grooves; as, a polygrooved rifle or gun\n   (referring to the rifling).'),('Polygyn','n.','A plant of the order Polygynia.'),('Polygynia','n. pl.','A Linnaean order of plants having many styles.'),('Polygynian','a.','Alt. of Polygynous'),('Polygynous','a.','Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.'),('Polygynist','n.','One who practices or advocates polygyny.'),('Polygyny','n.','The state or practice of having several wives at the same\n   time; marriage to several wives.'),('Polyhalite','n.','A mineral usually occurring in fibrous masses, of a\n   brick-red color, being tinged with iron, and consisting chiefly of the\n   sulphates of lime, magnesia, and soda.'),('Polyhedral','a.','Alt. of Polyhedrical'),('Polyhedrical','a.','Having many sides, as a solid body.'),('Polyhedrons','pl. ','of Polyhedron'),('Polyhedra','pl. ','of Polyhedron'),('Polyhedron','n.','A body or solid contained by many sides or planes.'),('Polyhedron','n.','A polyscope, or multiplying glass.'),('Polyhedrous','a.','Polyhedral.'),('Polyhistor','n.','One versed in various learning.'),('Polyhymnia','n.','The Muse of lyric poetry.'),('Polyiodide','n.','A iodide having more than one atom of iodine in the\n   molecule.'),('Polylogy','n.','Talkativeness.'),('Polyloquent','a.','Garrulous; loquacious.'),('Polymastism','n.','The condition of having more than two mammae, or\n   breasts.'),('Polymathic','a.','Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches\n   of learning.'),('Polymathist','n.','One versed in many sciences; a person of various\n   learning.'),('Polymathy','n.','The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of\n   learning.'),('Polymeniscous','a.','Having numerous facets; -- said of the compound eyes\n   of insects and crustaceans.'),('Polymer','n.','Any one of two or more substances related to each other by\n   polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance\n   by chemical polymerization.'),('Polymeric','a.','Having the same percentage composition (that is, having\n   the same elements united in the same proportion by weight), but\n   different molecular weights; -- often used with with; thus, cyanic acid\n   (CNOH), fulminic acid (C2N2O2H2), and cyanuric acid (C3N3O3H3), are\n   polymeric with each other.'),('Polymerism','n.','The state, quality, or relation of two or more\n   polymeric substances.'),('Polymerism','n.','The act or process of forming polymers.'),('Polymerization','n.','The act or process of changing to a polymeric form;\n   the condition resulting from such change.'),('Polymerize','v. t.','To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers\n   from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic\n   proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde.'),('Polymerize','v. i.','To change into another substance having the same\n   atomic proportions, but a higher molecular weight; to undergo\n   polymerization; thus, aldehyde polymerizes in forming paraldehyde.'),('Polymerous','a.','Having many parts or members in each set.'),('Polymerous','a.','Polymeric.'),('Polymnia','n.','See Polyhymnia.'),('Polymnite','n.','A stone marked with dendrites and black lines, and so\n   disposed as to represent rivers, marshes, etc.'),('Polymorph','n.','A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct\n   forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph.'),('Polymorphic','a.','Polymorphous.'),('Polymorphism','n.','Same as Pleomorphism.'),('Polymorphism','n.','The capability of assuming different forms; the\n   capability of widely varying in form.'),('Polymorphism','n.','Existence in many forms; the coexistence, in the same\n   locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not\n   connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.'),('Polymorphosis','n.','The assumption of several structural forms without a\n   corresponding difference in function; -- said of sponges, etc.'),('Polymorphous','a.','Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters,\n   or styles; as, a polymorphous author.'),('Polymorphous','a.','Having, or occurring in, several distinct forms; --\n   opposed to monomorphic.'),('Polymorphy','n.','Existence in many forms; polymorphism.'),('Poly-mountain','n.','Same as Poly, n.'),('Poly-mountain','n.','The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly\n   called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe.'),('Poly-mountain','n.','The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of\n   Europe.'),('Polymyodae','n. pl.','Same as Oscines.'),('Polymyodous','a.','Polymyoid.'),('Polymyoid','a.','Having numerous vocal muscles; of or pertaining to the\n   Polymyodae.'),('Polyneme','n.','Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of\n   the family Polynemidae. They have several slender filaments, often very\n   long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good\n   quality. Called also threadfish.'),('Polynemoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the polynemes, or the family\n   Polynemidae.'),('Polynesian','a.','Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the\n   eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.'),('Polynesians','n. pl.','The race of men native in Polynesia.'),('Polynia','n.','The open sea supposed to surround the north pole.'),('Polynomial','n.','An expression composed of two or more terms, connected\n   by the signs plus or minus; as, a2 - 2ab + b2.'),('Polynomial','a.','Containing many names or terms; multinominal; as, the\n   polynomial theorem.'),('Polynomial','a.','Consisting of two or more words; having names\n   consisting of two or more words; as, a polynomial name; polynomial\n   nomenclature.'),('Polynuclear','a.','Containing many nuclei.'),('Polynucleolar','a.','Having more than one nucleolus.'),('Polyommatous','a.','Having many eyes.'),('Polyonomous','a.','Having many names or titles; polyonymous.'),('Polyonomy','n.','The use of a variety of names for the same object.'),('Polyonym','n.','An object which has a variety of names.'),('Polyonym','n.','A polynomial name or term.'),('Polyonymous','a.','Polyonomous.'),('Polyoptron','n.','Alt. of Polyoptrum'),('Polyoptrum','n.','A glass through which objects appear multiplied, but\n   diminished in size.'),('Polyorama','n.','A view of many objects; also, a sort of panorama with\n   dissolving views.'),('Polyp','n.','One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or\n   coral.'),('Polyp','n.','One of the Anthozoa.'),('Polyp','n.','Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.'),('Polyparous','a.','Producing or bearing a great number; bringing forth\n   many.'),('Polyparies','pl. ','of Polypary'),('Polypary','n.','Same as Polypidom.'),('Polype','n.','See Polyp.'),('Polypean','a.','Of or pertaining to a polyp, or polyps.'),('Polyperythrin','n.','A coloring matter found in many simple Anthozoa and\n   some hydroids.'),('Polypetalous','a.','Consisting of, or having, several or many separate\n   petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant.'),('Polyphagous','a.','Eating, or subsisting on, many kinds of food; as,\n   polyphagous animals.'),('Polyphagy','n.','The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of\n   food.'),('Polypharmacy','n.','The act or practice of prescribing too many\n   medicines.'),('Polypharmacy','n.','A prescription made up of many medicines or\n   ingredients.'),('Polyphemus','n.','A very large American moth (Telea polyphemus) belonging\n   to the Silkworm family (Bombycidae). Its larva, which is very large,\n   bright green, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on\n   the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other\n   trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American\n   silkworm.'),('Polyphone','n.','A character or vocal sign representing more than one\n   sound, as read, which is pronounced red.'),('Polyphonic','a.','Having a multiplicity of sounds.'),('Polyphonic','a.','Characterized by polyphony; as, Assyrian polyphonic\n   characters.'),('Polyphonic','a.','Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts,\n   progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint;\n   contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; -- opposed to homophonic,\n   or monodic.'),('Polyphonism','n.','Polyphony.'),('Polyphonist','n.','A proficient in the art of multiplying sounds; a\n   ventriloquist.'),('Polyphonist','n.','A master of polyphony; a contrapuntist.'),('Polyphonous','a.','Same as Polyphonic.'),('Polyphony','n.','Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an\n   echo.'),('Polyphony','n.','Plurality of sounds and articulations expressed by the\n   same vocal sign.'),('Polyphony','n.','Composition in mutually related, equally important parts\n   which share the melody among them; contrapuntal composition; -- opposed\n   to homophony, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others\n   filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint.'),('Polyphore','n.','A receptacle which bears many ovaries.'),('Polyphyletic','a.','Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more\n   than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; --\n   opposed to monophyletic.'),('Polyphyllous','a.','Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.'),('Polypi','n. pl.','The Anthozoa.'),('Polypide','n.','One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa.'),('Polypidom','n.','A coral, or corallum; also, one of the coral-like\n   structure made by bryozoans and hydroids.'),('Polypier','n.','A polypidom.'),('Polypifera','n. pl.','The Anthozoa.'),('Polypiferous','a.','Bearing polyps, or polypites.'),('Polypiparous','a.','Producing polyps.'),('Polypite','n.','One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral,\n   hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.'),('Polypite','n.','Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.'),('Polypite','n.','A fossil coral.'),('Polyplacophora','n. pl.','See Placophora.'),('Polyplastic','a.','Assuming, or having the power of assuming, many forms;\n   as, a polyplastic element which does not preserve its original shape.'),('Polypode','n.','A plant of the genus Polypodium; polypody.'),('Polypode','n.','An animal having many feet; a myriapod.'),('Polypodium','n.','A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The\n   fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori,\n   scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are\n   numerous species.'),('Polypody','n.','Any plant of the genus Polypodium.'),('Polypoid','a.','Like a polyp; having the nature of a polyp, but lacking\n   the tentacles or other parts.'),('Polypoid','a.','Resembling a polypus in appearance; having a character\n   like that of a polypus.'),('Polypomedusae','n. pl.','Same as Hydrozoa.'),('Polyporous','a.','Having many pores.'),('Polypori','pl. ','of Polyporus'),('Polyporus','n.','A genus of fungi having the under surface full of minute\n   pores; also, any fungus of this genus.'),('Polypous','a.','Of the nature of a polypus; having many feet or roots,\n   like the polypus; affected with polypus.'),('Polypragmatic','a.','Alt. of Polypragmatical'),('Polypragmatical','a.','Overbusy; officious.'),('Polypragmaty','n.','The state of being overbusy.'),('Polyprotodonta','n. pl.','A division of marsupials in which there are\n   more fore incisor teeth in each jaw.'),('Polypteroidei','n. pl.','A suborder of existing ganoid fishes having\n   numerous fins along the back. The bichir, or Polypterus, is the type.\n   See Illust. under Crossopterygian.'),('Polypterus','n.','An African genus of ganoid fishes including the bichir.'),('Polyptoton','n.','A figure by which a word is repeated in different\n   forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson\'s line, -- \"My own\n   heart\'s heart, and ownest own, farewell.\"'),('Polypuses','pl. ','of Polypus'),('Polypi','pl. ','of Polypus'),('Polypus','n.','Same as Polyp.'),('Polypus','n.','A tumor, usually with a narrow base, somewhat resembling a\n   pear, -- found in the nose, uterus, etc., and produced by hypertrophy\n   of some portion of the mucous membrane.'),('Polyrhizous','a.','Having numerous roots, or rootlets.'),('Polyschematist','a.','Having, or existing in, many different forms or\n   fashions; multiform.'),('Polyscope','n.','A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a\n   multiplying glass.'),('Polyscope','n.','An apparatus for affording a view of the different\n   cavities of the body.'),('Polysepalous','a.','Having the sepals separate from each other.'),('Polysilicic','a.','Of or pertaining to compounds formed by the\n   condensation of two or more molecules of silicic acid.'),('Polyspast','n.','A machine consisting of many pulleys; specifically, an\n   apparatus formerly used for reducing luxations.'),('Polyspermous','a.','Containing many seeds; as, a polyspermous capsule or\n   berry.'),('Polyspermy','n.','Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than\n   one spermatozoon into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum.'),('Polysporous','a.','Containing many spores.'),('Polystomata','n. pl.','A division of trematode worms having more two\n   suckers. Called also Polystomea and Polystoma.'),('Polystome','a.','Having many mouths.'),('Polystome','n.','An animal having many mouths; -- applied to Protozoa.'),('Polystyle','a.','Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially\n   of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall.'),('Polystyle','n.','A polystyle hall or edifice.'),('Polysulphide','n.','A sulphide having more than one atom of sulphur in\n   the molecule; -- contrasted with monosulphide.'),('Polysulphuret','n.','A polysulphide.'),('Polysyllabic','a.','Alt. of Polysyllabical'),('Polysyllabical','a.','Pertaining to a polysyllable; containing, or\n   characterized by, polysyllables; consisting of more than three\n   syllables.'),('Polysyllabicism','n.','Polysyllabism.'),('Polysyllabicity','n.','Polysyllabism.'),('Polysyllabism','n.','The quality or state of being polysyllabic.'),('Polysyllable','n.','A word of many syllables, or consisting of more\n   syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called\n   monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.'),('Polysyndetic','a.','Characterized by polysyndeton, or the multiplication\n   of conjunctions.'),('Polysyndeton','n.','A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated,\n   as in the sentence, \"We have ships and men and money and stores.\"\n   Opposed to asyndeton.'),('Polysynthesis','n.','The act or process of combining many separate\n   elements into a whole.'),('Polysynthesis','n.','The formation of a word by the combination of\n   several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of America;\n   agglutination.'),('Polysynthetic','a.','Characterized by polysynthesis; agglutinative.'),('Polsyntheticism','n.','Polysynthesis.'),('Polytechnic','a.','Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences;\n   -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and\n   science are taught with especial reference to their practical\n   application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.'),('Polytechnical','a.','Polytechnic.'),('Polytechnics','n.','The science of the mechanic arts.'),('Polythalamia','n. pl.','A division of Foraminifera including those having\n   a manychambered shell.'),('Polythalamous','a.','Many-chambered; -- applied to shells of Foraminifera\n   and cephalopods. See Illust. of Nautilus.'),('Polytheism','n.','The doctrine of, or belief in, a plurality of gods.'),('Polytheist','n.','One who believes in, or maintains the doctrine of, a\n   plurality of gods.'),('Polytheistic','a.','Alt. of Polytheistical'),('Polytheistical','a.','Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by\n   polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic\n   worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.'),('Polytheize','v. i.','To adhere to, advocate, or inculcate, the doctrine\n   of polytheism.'),('Polythelism','n.','The condition of having more than two teats, or\n   nipples.'),('Polytocous','a.','Bearing fruit repeatedly, as most perennial plants;\n   polycarpic.'),('Polytocous','a.','Producing many or young.'),('Polytomous','a.','Subdivided into many distinct subordinate parts, which,\n   however, not being jointed to the petiole, are not true leaflets; --\n   said of leaves.'),('Polytomy','n.','A division into many members.'),('Polytungstate','n.','A salt of polytungstic acid.'),('Polytungstic','a.','Containing several tungsten atoms or radicals; as,\n   polytungstic acid.'),('Polytype','n.','A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter\n   in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief.'),('Polytype','a.','Of or pertaining to polytypes; obtained by polytyping;\n   as, a polytype plate.'),('Polytyped','imp. & p. p.','of Polytype'),('Polytyping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Polytype'),('Polytype','v. t.','To produce a polytype of; as, to polytype an\n   engraving.'),('Poluria','n.','A persistently excessive flow of watery urine, with low\n   specific gravity and without the presence of either albumin or sugar.\n   It is generally accompanied with more or less thirst.'),('Polyvalent','a.','Multivalent.'),('Polyve','n.','A pulley.'),('Polyzoa','n. pl.','Same as Bryozoa. See Illust. under Bryozoa, and\n   Phylactolaemata.'),('Polyzoan','n.','Any species of Polyzoa; one of the Polyzoa.'),('Polyzoan','n.','A polyzoon.'),('Polyzoaria','pl. ','of Polyzoarium'),('Polyzoarium','n.','Same as Polyzoary.'),('Polyzoary','n.','The compound organism of a polyzoan.'),('Polyzonal','a.','Consisting of many zones or rings.'),('Polyzoa','pl. ','of Polyzoon'),('Polyzoon','n.','One of the individual zooids forming the compound\n   organism of a polyzoan.'),('Pomace','n.','The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by\n   grinding.'),('Pomacentroid','a.','Pertaining to the Pomacentridae, a family of\n   bright-colored tropical fishes having spiny opercula; -- often called\n   coral fishes.'),('Pomaceous','a.','Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.'),('Pomaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to a suborder (Pomeae) of rosaceous\n   plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service\n   berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs,\n   etc.'),('Pomaceous','a.','Like pomace.'),('Pomade','n.','Cider.'),('Pomade','n.','Perfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair;\n   pomatum; -- originally made from apples.'),('Pomander','n.','A perfume to be carried with one, often in the form of a\n   ball.'),('Pomander','n.','A box to contain such perfume, formerly carried by\n   ladies, as at the end of a chain; -- more properly pomander box.'),('Pomarine','a.','Having the nostril covered with a scale.'),('Pomatum','n.','A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in\n   dressing the hair; pomade.'),('Pomatum','v. t.','To dress with pomatum.'),('Pome','n.','A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels\n   inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and\n   partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.'),('Pome','n.','A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot\n   water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during\n   the service.'),('Pome','n.','To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.'),('Pomegranate','n.','The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree\n   itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is\n   successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in\n   colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard\n   rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered\n   with crimson, acid pulp.'),('Pomegranate','n.','A carved or embroidered ornament resembling a\n   pomegranate.'),('Pomel','n.','A pommel.'),('Pomelo','n.','A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit.'),('Pomely','a.','Dappled.'),('Pomeranian','a.','Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a province of Prussia on\n   the Baltic Sea.'),('Pomeranian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Pomerania.'),('Pomewater','n.','A kind of sweet, juicy apple.'),('Pomeys','pl. ','of Pomey'),('Pomey','n.','A figure supposed to resemble an apple; a roundel, -- always\n   of a green color.'),('Pomfret','n.','One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the\n   genus Stromateus (S. niger, S. argenteus) native of Southern Europe and\n   Asia.'),('Pomfret','n.','A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).'),('Pomiferous','a.','Bearing pomes, or applelike fruits.'),('Pomiferous','a.','Bearing fruits, or excrescences, more or less\n   resembling an apple.'),('Pommage','n.','See Pomage.'),('Pomme','a.','Having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or\n   single balls; -- said of a cross.'),('Pomme blanche','','The prairie turnip. See under Prairie.'),('Pommel','n.','A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form'),('Pommel','n.','The knob on the hilt of a sword.'),('Pommel','n.','The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.'),('Pommel','n.','The top (of the head).'),('Pommel','n.','A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.'),('Pommeled','imp. & p. p.','of Pommel'),('Pommelled','','of Pommel'),('Pommeling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pommel'),('Pommelling','','of Pommel'),('Pommel','v. t.','To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with\n   something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.'),('Pommelion','n.','The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon.'),('Pommette','a.','Having two balls or protuberances at each end; -- said of\n   a cross.'),('Pomological','a.','Of or pertaining to pomology.'),('Pomologist','n.','One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit\n   trees.'),('Pomology','n.','The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the\n   cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.'),('Pomona','n.','The goddess of fruits and fruit trees.'),('Pomp','n.','A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a\n   pageant.'),('Pomp','n.','Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.'),('Pomp','v. i.','To make a pompons display; to conduct.'),('Pompadour','n.','A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low\n   and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it\n   straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the\n   Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.'),('Pompano','n.','Any one of several species of marine fishes of the genus\n   Trachynotus, of which four species are found on the Atlantic coast of\n   the United States; -- called also palometa.'),('Pompano','n.','A California harvest fish (Stromateus simillimus), highly\n   valued as a food fish.'),('Pompatic','a.','Pompous.'),('Pompelmouses','pl. ','of Pompelmous'),('Pompelmous','n.','A shaddock, esp. one of large size.'),('Pompet','n.','The ball formerly used to ink the type.'),('Pompholyx','n.','Impure zinc oxide.'),('Pompholyx','n.','A skin disease in which there is an eruption of bullae,\n   without inflammation or fever.'),('Pompillion','n.','An ointment or pomatum made of black poplar buds.'),('Pompion','n.','See Pumpion.'),('Pompire','n.','A pearmain.'),('Pompoleon','n.','See Pompelmous.'),('Pompon','n.','Any trifling ornament for a woman\'s dress or bonnet.'),('Pompon','n.','A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by\n   soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather.'),('Pomposities','pl. ','of Pomposity'),('Pomposity','n.','The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.'),('Pomposo','a. & adv.','Grand and dignified; in grand style.'),('Pompous','a.','Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;\n   magnificent; as, a pompous procession.'),('Pompous','a.','Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,\n   pompous manners; a pompous style.'),('Pomptine','a.','See Pontine.'),('Pomwater','n.','Same as Pomewater.'),('Ponchos','pl. ','of Poncho'),('Poncho','n.','A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the\n   form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass\n   through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by\n   the mounted troops in the United States service.'),('Poncho','n.','A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.'),('Pond','n.','A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and\n   usually of less extent than a lake.'),('Pond','v. t.','To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by\n   damming.'),('Pond','v. t.','To ponder.'),('Pondered','imp. & p. p.','of Ponder'),('Pondering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ponder'),('Ponder','v. t.','To weigh.'),('Ponder','v. t.','To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to\n   examine carefully; to consider attentively.'),('Ponder','v. i.','To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by\n   on or over.'),('Ponderability','n.','The quality or state of being ponderable.'),('Ponderable','a.','Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight.'),('Ponderal','a.','Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from\n   numeral; as, a ponderal drachma.'),('Ponderance','n.','Weight; gravity.'),('Ponderary','a.','Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system.'),('Ponderate','v. t.','To consider; to ponder.'),('Ponderate','v. i.','To have weight or influence.'),('Ponderation','n.','The act of weighing.'),('Ponderer','n.','One who ponders.'),('Pondering','a.','Deliberating.'),('Ponderosities','pl. ','of Ponderosity'),('Ponderosity','n.','The quality or state of being ponderous; weight;\n   gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold.'),('Ponderous','a.','Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous\n   load; the ponderous elephant.'),('Ponderous','a.','Important; momentous; forcible.'),('Ponderous','a.','Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a\n   ponderous style; a ponderous joke.'),('Ponderously','adv.','In a ponderous manner.'),('Ponderousness','n.','The quality or state of being ponderous;\n   ponderosity.'),('Pondfish','n.','Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water\n   fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidae; -- called also pond\n   perch, and sunfish.'),('Pondweed','n.','Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many\n   species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers.'),('Pone','n.','A kind of johnnycake.'),('Ponent','a.','Western; occidental.'),('Pongee','n.','A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.'),('Ponghee','n.','A Buddhist priest of the higher orders in Burmah.'),('Pongo','n.','Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the\n   orang-outang.'),('Poniard','n.','A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a\n   triangular or square blade.'),('Poniarded','imp. & p. p.','of Poniard'),('Poniarding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Poniard'),('Poniard','v. t.','To pierce with a poniard; to stab.'),('Ponibility','n.','The capability of being placed or located.'),('Pontes','pl. ','of Pons'),('Pons','n.','A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others,\n   but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue\n   situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at\n   each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See\n   Brain.'),('Pontage','n.','A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.'),('Pontee','n.','An iron rod used by glass makers for manipulating the hot\n   glass; -- called also, puntil, puntel, punty, and ponty. See Fascet.'),('Pontic','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pontus, Euxine, or Black Sea.'),('Pontifices','pl. ','of Pontifex'),('Pontifex','n.','A high priest; a pontiff.'),('Pontiff','n.','A high priest.'),('Pontiff','n.','One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the\n   supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which\n   was the Pontifex Maximus.'),('Pontiff','n.','The chief priest.'),('Pontiff','n.','The pope.'),('Pontific','a.','Relating to, or consisting of, pontiffs or priests.'),('Pontific','a.','Of or pertaining to the pope; papal.'),('Pontifical','a.','Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest; as,\n   pontifical authority; hence, belonging to the pope; papal.'),('Pontifical','a.','Of or pertaining to the building of bridges.'),('Pontifical','n.','A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a\n   pontiff.'),('Pontifical','n.','The dress and ornaments of a pontiff.'),('Pontificality','n.','The state and government of the pope; the papacy.'),('Pontifically','adv.','In a pontifical manner.'),('Pontificate','n.','The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically,\n   the office of the pope.'),('Pontificate','n.','The term of office of a pontiff.'),('Pontificate','v. i.','To perform the duty of a pontiff.'),('Pontifice','n.','Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge.'),('Pontificial','a.','Papal; pontifical.'),('Pontifician','a.','Of or pertaining to the pontiff or pope.'),('Pontifician','n.','One who adheres to the pope or papacy; a papist.'),('Pontil','n.','Same as Pontee.'),('Pontile','a.','Of or pertaining to the pons Varolii. See Pons.'),('Pontine','a.','Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between\n   Rome and Naples.'),('Pontlevis','n.','The action of a horse in rearing repeatedly and\n   dangerously.'),('Ponton','n.','See Pontoon.'),('Pontoon','n.','A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a\n   frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable\n   float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.'),('Pontoon','n.','A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with\n   cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising\n   weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter.'),('Pontooning','n.','The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon\n   bridges.'),('Ponvolant','n.','A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a\n   post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.'),('Ponty','n.','See Pontee.'),('Ponies','pl. ','of Pony'),('Pony','n.','A small horse.'),('Pony','n.','Twenty-five pounds sterling.'),('Pony','n.','A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting\n   lessons; a crib.'),('Pony','n.','A small glass of beer.'),('Pood','n.','A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about\n   thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.'),('Poodle','n.','A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing\n   remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.'),('Pooh','interj.','Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn,\n   dislike, or contempt.'),('Pooh-pooh','v. t.','To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt,\n   as if by saying pooh! pooh!'),('Pookoo','n.','A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water\n   buck.'),('Pool','n.','A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water,\n   as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a\n   reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.'),('Pool','n.','A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.'),('Pool','n.','The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards,\n   etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare;\n   also, the receptacle for the stakes.'),('Pool','n.','A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a\n   certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard\n   rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who\n   engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool\n   table.'),('Pool','n.','In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a\n   certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided\n   among the winners.'),('Pool','n.','Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons\n   join.'),('Pool','n.','A combination of persons contributing money to be used for\n   the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks,\n   grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so\n   contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit;\n   he put $10,000 into the pool.'),('Pool','n.','A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the\n   receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according\n   to agreement.'),('Pool','n.','An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to\n   different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with\n   common liabilities.'),('Pooled','imp. & p. p.','of Pool'),('Pooling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pool'),('Pool','v. t.','To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the\n   basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common\n   interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.'),('Pool','v. i.','To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial,\n   speculative, or gambling transaction.'),('Pooler','n.','A stick for stirring a tan vat.'),('Pooling','n.','The act of uniting, or an agreement to unite, an\n   aggregation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view\n   to common liabilities or profits.'),('Poon','n.','A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the\n   masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C.\n   inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon.'),('Poonac','n.','A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil\n   cake, under Cake.'),('Poonga oil','','A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling\n   with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a\n   leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra).'),('Poop','n.','See 2d Poppy.'),('Pooped','imp. & p. p.','of Poop'),('Pooping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Poop'),('Poop','v. i.','To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.'),('Poop','n.','A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost\n   or after part of a vessel\'s hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck.\n   See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse.'),('Poop','v. t.','To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.'),('Poop','v. t.','To strike in the stern, as by collision.'),('Pooped','p. p. & a.','Having a poop; furnished with a poop.'),('Pooped','p. p. & a.','Struck on the poop.'),('Pooping','n.','The act or shock of striking a vessel\'s stern by a\n   following wave or vessel.'),('Poor','superl.','Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or\n   goods; needy; indigent.'),('Poor','superl.','So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to\n   maintenance from the public.'),('Poor','superl.','Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might\n   naturally be expected'),('Poor','superl.','Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean;\n   emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.'),('Poor','superl.','Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor\n   health; poor spirits.'),('Poor','superl.','Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby;\n   mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.'),('Poor','superl.','Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; --\n   said of land; as, poor soil.'),('Poor','superl.','Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor\n   discourse; a poor picture.'),('Poor','superl.','Without prosperous conditions or good results;\n   unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick\n   man had a poor night.'),('Poor','superl.','Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor\n   excuse.'),('Poor','superl.','Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a\n   term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a\n   word of contempt.'),('Poor','superl.','Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.'),('Poor','n.','A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also\n   power cod.'),('Poorbox','n.','A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.'),('Poorhouse','n.','A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public\n   expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.'),('Poor-john','n.','A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of\n   inferior quality.'),('Poorliness','n.','The quality or state of being poorly; ill health.'),('Poorly','adv.','In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or\n   sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly.'),('Poorly','adv.','With little or no success; indifferently; with little\n   profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business.'),('Poorly','adv.','Meanly; without spirit.'),('Poorly','adv.','Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly.'),('Poorly','a.','Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.'),('Poorness','n.','The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses\n   of the adjective).'),('Poor-spirited','a.','Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base.'),('Poor-will','n.','A bird of the Western United States (Phalaenoptilus\n   Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.'),('Poor-willie','n.','The bar-tailed godwit.'),('Pop','n.','A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off\n   with a pop.'),('Pop','n.','An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop\n   from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc.'),('Pop','n.','The European redwing.'),('Popped','imp. & p. p.','of Pop'),('Popping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pop'),('Pop','v. i.','To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets\n   popped away on all sides.'),('Pop','v. i.','To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to\n   move from place to place suddenly; to dart; -- with in, out, upon, off,\n   etc.'),('Pop','v. i.','To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as, this\n   corn pops well.'),('Pop','v. t.','To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring\n   suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one\'s head in at the\n   door.'),('Pop','v. t.','To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains\n   of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.'),('Pop','adv.','Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly.'),('Pope','n.','Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.'),('Pope','n.','The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church.\n   See Note under Cardinal.'),('Pope','n.','A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.'),('Pope','n.','A fish; the ruff.'),('Popedom','n.','The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity.'),('Popedom','n.','The jurisdiction of the pope.'),('Popeling','n.','A petty or deputy pope.'),('Popeling','n.','An adherent of the pope.'),('Popelote','n.','A word variously explained as \"a little puppet,\" \"a\n   little doll,\" or \"a young butterfly.\" Cf. Popet.'),('Popery','n.','The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending\n   doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.'),('Popet','n.','A puppet.'),('Popgun','n.','A child\'s gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with\n   a popping noise, by compression of air.'),('Popinjay','n.','The green woodpecker.'),('Popinjay','n.','A parrot.'),('Popinjay','n.','A target in the form of a parrot.'),('Popinjay','n.','A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb.'),('Popish','a.','Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the\n   pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often\n   used opprobriously.'),('Poplar','n.','Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is\n   soft, and capable of many uses.'),('Poplar','n.','The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also white poplar.'),('Poplexy','n.','Apoplexy.'),('Poplin','n.','A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and\n   worsted, -- used especially for women\'s dresses.'),('Popliteal','a.','Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham,\n   or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space.'),('Poplitic','a.','Popliteal.'),('Popper','n.','A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a\n   long handle.'),('Popper','n.','A dagger.'),('Poppet','n.','See Puppet.'),('Poppet','n.','One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to\n   support a vessel in launching.'),('Poppet','n.','An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.'),('Poppied','a.','Mingled or interspersed with poppies.'),('Poppied','a.','Affected with poppy juice; hence, figuratively, drugged;\n   drowsy; listless; inactive.'),('Popping','','a. & n. from Pop.'),('Popple','v. i.','To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a\n   cork on rough water; also, to bubble.'),('Popple','n.','The poplar.'),('Popple','n.','Tares.'),('Poppies','pl. ','of Poppy'),('Poppy','n.','Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy\n   polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver\n   somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to\n   some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of Capsule.'),('Poppy','n.','Alt. of Poppyhead'),('Poppyhead','n.','A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final.\n   It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which\n   terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.'),('Populace','n.','The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, --\n   comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education,\n   or profession.'),('Populacy','n.','Populace.'),('Popular','a.','Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole\n   body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the\n   popular voice; popular elections.'),('Popular','a.','Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not\n   abstruse; familiar; plain.'),('Popular','a.','Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or\n   obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as,\n   popular prices; popular amusements.'),('Popular','a.','Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in\n   general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a\n   popular administration.'),('Popular','a.','Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the\n   populace.'),('Popular','a.','Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular\n   disease.'),('Populares','n. pl.','The people or the people\'s party, in ancient Rome,\n   as opposed to the optimates.'),('Popularities','pl. ','of Popularity'),('Popularity','n.','The quality or state of being popular; especially, the\n   state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at\n   large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the\n   popularity of a law, statesman, or a book.'),('Popularity','n.','The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to\n   common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority;\n   vulgarity.'),('Popularity','n.','Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the\n   favor of the vulgar; claptrap.'),('Popularity','n.','The act of courting the favor of the people.'),('Popularity','n.','Public sentiment; general passion.'),('Popularization','n.','The act of making popular, or of introducing among\n   the people.'),('Popularized','imp. & p. p.','of Popularize'),('Popularizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Popularize'),('Popularize','v. t.','To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to\n   the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize\n   philosophy.'),('Popularizer','n.','One who popularizes.'),('Popularly','adv.','In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or\n   accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was\n   popularity reported.'),('Popularness','n.','The quality or state of being popular; popularity.'),('Populate','a.','Populous.'),('Populated','imp. & p. p.','of Populate'),('Populating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Populate'),('Populate','v. t.','To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural\n   increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited;\n   to people.'),('Populate','v. i.','To propagate.'),('Population','n.','The act or process of populating; multiplication of\n   inhabitants.'),('Population','n.','The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a\n   country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.'),('Populator','n.','One who populates.'),('Populicide','n.','Slaughter of the people.'),('Populin','n.','A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of\n   certain species of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet white\n   crystalline substance.'),('Populosity','n.','Populousness.'),('Populous','a.','Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many\n   inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.'),('Populous','a.','Popular; famous.'),('Populous','a.','Common; vulgar.'),('Populous','a.','Numerous; in large number.'),('Poraille','n.','Poor people; the poor.'),('Porbeagle','n.','A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet\n   long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also\n   mackerel shark.'),('Porcate','a.','Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening\n   ridges; furrowed.'),('Porcelain','n.','Purslain.'),('Porcelain','n.','A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of\n   earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and\n   America; -- called also China, or China ware.'),('Porcelainized','a.','Baked like potter\'s lay; -- applied to clay shales\n   that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.'),('Porcelaneous','a.','Alt. of Porcellaneous'),('Porcellaneous','a.','Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain;\n   as, porcelaneous shells.'),('Porcellaneous','a.','Having a smooth, compact shell without pores; --\n   said of certain Foraminifera.'),('Porcelanite','n.','A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling\n   jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper.'),('Porcelanous','a.','Alt. of Porcellanous'),('Porcellanous','a.','Porcelaneous.'),('Porch','n.','A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken\n   from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main\n   wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the\n   porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage\n   porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.'),('Porch','n.','A portico; a covered walk.'),('Porcine','a.','Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog.'),('Porcupine','n.','Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the\n   back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a\n   foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is\n   the best known.'),('Porcupine','n.','Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of\n   America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter\n   spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine\n   (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species.'),('Pore','v.','One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable\n   membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.'),('Pore','v.','A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the\n   constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.'),('Pored','imp. & p. p.','of Pore'),('Poring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pore'),('Pore','v. i.','To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix\n   the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now\n   usually with over.'),('Poreblind','a.','Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind.'),('Porer','n.','One who pores.'),('Porgies','pl. ','of Porgy'),('Porgy','n.','The scup.'),('Porgy','n.','The sailor\'s choice, or pinfish.'),('Porgy','n.','The margate fish.'),('Porgy','n.','The spadefish.'),('Porgy','n.','Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes,\n   of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other\n   fishes, as the bur fish.'),('Porifera','n. pl.','A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the\n   sponges; -- called also Spongiae, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The\n   principal divisions are Calcispongiae, Keratosa or Fibrospongiae, and\n   Silicea.'),('Poriferan','n.','One of the Polifera.'),('Poriferata','n. pl.','The Polifera.'),('Poriform','a.','Resembling a pore, or small puncture.'),('Porime','n.','A theorem or proposition so easy of demonstration as to be\n   almost self-evident.'),('Poriness','n.','Porosity.'),('Porism','n.','A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such\n   conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate\n   or capable of innumerable solutions.'),('Porism','n.','A corollary.'),('Porismatic','a.','Alt. of Porismatical'),('Porismatical','a.','Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.'),('Poristic','a.','Alt. of Poristical'),('Poristical','a.','Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a\n   porism.'),('Porite','n.','Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritidae.'),('Porites','n.','An important genus of reef-building corals having small\n   twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are\n   branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.'),('Pork','n.','The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.'),('Porker','n.','A hog.'),('Porket','n.','A young hog; a pig.'),('Porkling','n.','A pig; a porket.'),('Porkwood','n.','The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree\n   (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon\n   wood, beefwood, and corkwood.'),('Pornerastic','a.','Lascivious; licentious.'),('Pornographic','a.','Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious;\n   licentious; as, pornographic writing.'),('Pornography','n.','Licentious painting or literature; especially, the\n   painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to\n   bacchanalian orgies.'),('Pornography','n.','A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.'),('Porosity','n.','The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to\n   density.'),('Porotic','n.','A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.'),('Porous','n.','Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the\n   substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids;\n   permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.'),('Porously','adv.','In a porous manner.'),('Porousness','n.','The quality of being porous.'),('Porousness','n.','The open parts; the interstices of anything.'),('Porpentine','n.','Porcupine.'),('Porpesse','n.','A porpoise.'),('Porphyraceous','a.','Porphyritic.'),('Porphyre','n.','Porphyry.'),('Porphyrite','n.','A rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite\n   porphyrite.'),('Porphyritic','a.','Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is,\n   characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar,\n   quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic\n   or cryptocrystalline.'),('Porphyrization','n.','The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being\n   porphyrized.'),('Porphyrize','v. t.','To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in\n   composition, like porphyry.'),('Porphyrogenitism','n.','The principle of succession in royal families,\n   especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if\n   born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to\n   an elder son who was not so born.'),('Porphyries','pl. ','of Porphyry'),('Porphyry','n.','A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock\n   consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which\n   crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red,\n   purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles.'),('Porpita','n.','A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in\n   the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and\n   disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side,\n   surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender\n   dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or\n   pneumatocyst.'),('Porpoise','n.','Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P.\n   communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American\n   species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler\n   beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter\n   snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and\n   snuffer.'),('Porpoise','n.','A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by\n   sailors.'),('Porporino','n.','A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming\n   a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediaeval artists, for the sake of\n   economy, instead of gold.'),('Porpus','n.','A porpoise.'),('Porraceous','a.','Resembling the leek in color; greenish.'),('Porrect','a.','Extended horizontally; stretched out.'),('Porrection','n.','The act of stretching forth.'),('Porret','n.','A scallion; a leek or small onion.'),('Porridge','n.','A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous\n   substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or\n   thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.'),('Porringer','n.','A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children\n   eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer.'),('Port','n.','A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It\n   contains a large percentage of alcohol.'),('Port','v.','A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered\n   inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.'),('Port','v.','In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are\n   admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and\n   where they finish their voyages.'),('Port','n.','A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a\n   gate; a door; a portal.'),('Port','n.','An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through\n   which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which\n   close such an opening.'),('Port','n.','A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam,\n   water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder\n   of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.'),('Ported','imp. & p. p.','of Port'),('Porting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Port'),('Port','v. t.','To carry; to bear; to transport.'),('Port','v. t.','To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with\n   the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and\n   the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder;\n   as, to port arms.'),('Port','n.','The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment;\n   carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a\n   proud port.'),('Port','n.','The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern\n   toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard.\n   Also used adjectively.'),('Port','v. t.','To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; --\n   said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as,\n   port your helm.'),('Portae','pl. ','of Porta'),('Porta','n.','The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and\n   nerves enter; the hilus.'),('Porta','n.','The foramen of Monro.'),('Portability','n.','The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be\n   carried.'),('Portable','a.','Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported;\n   conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.'),('Portable','a.','Possible to be endured; supportable.'),('Portableness','n.','The quality or state of being portable; portability.'),('Portace','n.','See Portass.'),('Portage','n.','A sailor\'s wages when in port.'),('Portage','n.','The amount of a sailor\'s wages for a voyage.'),('Portage','n.','A porthole.'),('Portage','n.','The act of carrying or transporting.'),('Portage','n.','The price of carriage; porterage.'),('Portage','n.','Capacity for carrying; tonnage.'),('Portage','n.','A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.'),('Portage','v. t. & i.','To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between\n   navigable waters.'),('Portage group','','A subdivision of the Chemung period in American\n   geology. See Chart of Geology.'),('Portague','n.','A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously\n   estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half\n   pounds sterling.'),('Portal','n.','A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit,\n   especially one that is grand and imposing.'),('Portal','n.','The lesser gate, where there are two of different\n   dimensions.'),('Portal','n.','Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from\n   the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to\n   another apartment.'),('Portal','n.','By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers\n   for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes\n   the doorways and porches of a church.'),('Portal','n.','The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these\n   are terminated by inclined braces.'),('Portal','n.','A prayer book or breviary; a portass.'),('Portal','a.','Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the\n   liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and\n   divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.'),('Portamento','n.','In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual\n   carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note\n   to another; a gliding from tone to tone.'),('Portance','n.','See Port, carriage, demeanor.'),('Portass','n.','A breviary; a prayer book.'),('Portate','a.','Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as,\n   a cross portate.'),('Portative','a.','Portable.'),('Portative','a.','Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative\n   force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity.'),('Portcluse','n.','A portcullis.'),('Portcrayon','n.','A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon.'),('Portcullis','n.','A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung\n   over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance\n   of an enemy.'),('Portcullis','n.','An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for\n   the use of the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the\n   figure of a portcullis on the reverse.'),('Portcullised','imp. & p. p.','of Portcullis'),('Portcullising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Portcullis'),('Portcullis','v. t.','To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut;\n   to bar.'),('Porte','n.','The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire,\n   officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the\n   sultan\'s palace at which justice was administered.'),('Porte-cochere','n.','A large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or\n   through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon\n   the passage of the porte-cochere. Also, a porch over a driveway before\n   an entrance door.'),('Ported','a.','Having gates.'),('Portegue','n.','See Portague.'),('Portemonnaie','n.','A small pocketbook or wallet for carrying money.'),('Portended','imp. & p. p.','of Portend'),('Portending','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Portend'),('Portend','v. t.','To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future;\n   to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious\n   signs.'),('Portend','v. t.','To stretch out before.'),('Portension','n.','The act of foreshowing; foreboding.'),('Portent','n.','That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which\n   portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.'),('Portentive','a.','Presaging; foreshadowing.'),('Portentous','a.','Of the nature of a portent; containing portents;\n   foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.'),('Portentous','a.','Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as,\n   a beast of portentous size.'),('Porter','n.','A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one\n   who waits at the door to receive messages.'),('Porter','n.','A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage,\n   etc.; for hire.'),('Porter','n.','A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is\n   made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is\n   attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in\n   hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.'),('Porter','n.','A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste,\n   possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.'),('Porterage','n.','The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of\n   a doorkeeper.'),('Porterage','n.','Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or\n   parcels by a porter.'),('Porteress','n.','See Portress.'),('Porterhouse','n.','A house where porter is sold.'),('Portesse','n.','See Porteass.'),('Portfire','n.','A case of strong paper filled with a composition of\n   niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the\n   priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.'),('Portfolio','n.','A portable case for holding loose papers, prints,\n   drawings, etc.'),('Portfolio','n.','Hence: The office and functions of a minister of state\n   or member of the cabinet; as, to receive the portfolio of war; to\n   resign the portfolio.'),('Portglave','n.','A sword bearer.'),('Portgreve','','Alt. of Portgrave'),('Portgrave','','In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or\n   maritime town.; a portreeve.'),('Porthole','n.','An embrasure in a ship\'s side. See 3d Port.'),('Porthook','n.','One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are\n   attached.'),('Porthors','n.','See Portass.'),('Porticoes','pl. ','of Portico'),('Porticos','pl. ','of Portico'),('Portico','n.','A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical\n   styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a\n   building.'),('Porticoed','a.','Furnished with a portico.'),('Portiere','n.','A curtain hanging across a doorway.'),('Portigue','n.','See Portague.'),('Portingal','a.','Of or pertaining to Portugal; Portuguese.'),('Portingal','n.','A Portuguese.'),('Portion','n.','That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a\n   whole; a separated part of anything.'),('Portion','n.','A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off\n   or separated from the whole.'),('Portion','n.','A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.'),('Portion','n.','The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or\n   descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of\n   the estate; an inheritance.'),('Portion','n.','A wife\'s fortune; a dowry.'),('Portioned','imp. & p. p.','of Portion'),('Portioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Portion'),('Portion','v. t.','To separate or divide into portions or shares; to\n   parcel; to distribute.'),('Portion','v. t.','To endow with a portion or inheritance.'),('Portioner','n.','One who portions.'),('Portioner','n.','See Portionist, 2.'),('Portionist','n.','A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain\n   academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster.'),('Portionist','n.','One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or\n   more rectors or vicars.'),('Portionless','a.','Having no portion.'),('Portise','n.','See Portass.'),('Portland cement','','A cement having the color of the Portland stone of\n   England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime\n   and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It\n   contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.'),('Portland stone','','A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle\n   of Portland in England, much used in building.'),('Portland vase','','A celebrated cinerary urn or vase found in the tomb of\n   the Emperor Alexander Severus. It is owned by the Duke of Portland, and\n   kept in the British Museum.'),('Portlast','n.','The portoise. See Portoise.'),('Portliness','n.','The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien\n   or of personal appearance; stateliness.'),('Portliness','n.','Bulkiness; corpulence.'),('Portly','a.','Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance;\n   imposing.'),('Portly','a.','Bulky; corpulent.'),('Portmen','pl. ','of Portman'),('Portman','n.','An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the\n   Cinque Ports.'),('Portmanteaus','pl. ','of Portmanteau'),('Portmanteau','n.','A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying\n   wearing apparel, etc., on journeys.'),('Portmantle','n.','A portmanteau.'),('Portmote','n.','In old English law, a court, or mote, held in a port\n   town.'),('Portoir','n.','One who, or that which, bears; hence, one who, or that\n   which, produces.'),('Portoise','n.','The gunwale of a ship.'),('Portos','n.','See Portass.'),('Portpane','n.','A cloth for carrying bread, so as not to touch it with\n   the hands.'),('Portrait','n.','The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;\n   commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.'),('Portrait','n.','Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of\n   a person; as, a portrait in words.'),('Portrait','v. t.','To portray; to draw.'),('Portraitist','n.','A portrait painter.'),('Portraiture','n.','A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence,\n   that which is copied from some example or model.'),('Portraiture','n.','Pictures, collectively; painting.'),('Portraiture','n.','The art or practice of making portraits.'),('Portraiture','v. t.','To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to\n   portray.'),('portrayed','imp. & p. p.','of Portray'),('Portraying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Portray'),('Portray','v. t.','To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king\n   on horseback.'),('Portray','v. t.','Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.'),('Portray','v. t.','To adorn with pictures.'),('Portrayal','n.','The act or process of portraying; description;\n   delineation.'),('Portrayer','n.','One who portrays.'),('Portreeve','n.','A port warden.'),('Portress','n.','A female porter.'),('Port-royalist','n.','One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of\n   Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the\n   Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and\n   other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.'),('Portsale','n.','Public or open sale; auction.'),('Portuary','n.','A breviary.'),('Portuguese','a.','Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants.'),('Portuguese','n. sing. & pl.','A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people\n   of Portugal.'),('Portulaca','n.','A genus of polypetalous plants; also, any plant of the\n   genus.'),('Portulacaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants\n   (Portulacaceae), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes\n   also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.'),('Porwigle','n.','See Polliwig.'),('Pory','a.','Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.'),('Pose','a.','Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of\n   the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.'),('Pose','n.','A cold in the head; catarrh.'),('Pose','v. t.','The attitude or position of a person; the position of the\n   body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally\n   assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of\n   an actor; the pose of an artist\'s model or of a statue.'),('Posed','imp. & p. p.','of Pose'),('Posing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pose'),('Pose','v. t.','To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of\n   effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied\n   manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a\n   portrait.'),('Pose','v. i.','To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied\n   arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize;\n   figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as\n   a prude.'),('Pose','v. t.','To interrogate; to question.'),('Pose','v. t.','To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by\n   questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.'),('Posed','a.','Firm; determined; fixed.'),('Poser','n.','One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable\n   question or fact.'),('Posied','a.','Inscribed with a posy.'),('Posingly','adv.','So as to pose or puzzle.'),('Posited','imp. & p. p.','of Posit'),('Positing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Posit'),('Posit','v. t.','To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose\n   in relation to other objects.'),('Posit','v. t.','To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle.'),('Position','n.','The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in\n   which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined,\n   or an upright position.'),('Position','n.','The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a\n   place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in\n   creation; the fleet changed its position.'),('Position','n.','Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or\n   controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a\n   discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a\n   proposition; a thesis; as, to define one\'s position; to appear in a\n   false position.'),('Position','n.','Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as,\n   a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one\'s position.'),('Position','n.','A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions;\n   -- called also the rule of trial and error.'),('Position','v. t.','To indicate the position of; to place.'),('Positional','a.','Of or pertaining to position.'),('Positive','a.','Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in\n   fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.'),('Positive','a.','Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on\n   changing circumstances or relations; absolute; -- opposed to relative;\n   as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different\n   tastes individuals.'),('Positive','a.','Definitely laid down; explicitly stated; clearly\n   expressed; -- opposed to implied; as, a positive declaration or\n   promise.'),('Positive','a.','Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition,\n   qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or\n   probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience;\n   peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive\n   truth; positive proof.'),('Positive','a.','Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled\n   by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.'),('Positive','a.','Fully assured; confident; certain; sometimes,\n   overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; -- said of persons.'),('Positive','a.','Having the power of direct action or influence; as, a\n   positive voice in legislation.'),('Positive','a.','Corresponding with the original in respect to the\n   position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades\n   reversed; as, a positive picture.'),('Positive','a.','Electro-positive.'),('Positive','a.','Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative,\n   and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.'),('Positive','n.','That which is capable of being affirmed; reality.'),('Positive','n.','That which settles by absolute appointment.'),('Positive','n.','The positive degree or form.'),('Positive','n.','A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in\n   position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a\n   negative.'),('Positive','n.','The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.'),('Positively','adv.','In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly;\n   with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to\n   negatively.'),('Positiveness','n.','The quality or state of being positive; reality;\n   actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See\n   Positive, a.'),('Positivism','n.','A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte,\n   which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything\n   but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together\n   with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as\n   occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which\n   are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This\n   philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to\n   be useless and unprofitable.'),('Positivist','n.','A believer in positivism.'),('Positivist','a.','Relating to positivism.'),('Positivity','n.','Positiveness.'),('Positure','n.','See Posture.'),('Posnet','n.','A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.'),('Posologic','a.','Alt. of Posological'),('Posological','a.','Pertaining to posology.'),('Posology','n.','The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.'),('Pospolite','n.','A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry,\n   which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.'),('Poss','v. t.','To push; to dash; to throw.'),('Posse','n.','See Posse comitatus.'),('Posse comitatus','','The power of the county, or the citizens who may be\n   summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a\n   riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed.'),('Posse comitatus','','A collection of people; a throng; a rabble.'),('Possessed','imp. & p. p.','of Possess'),('Possessing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Possess'),('Possess','v. t.','To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one\'s\n   own keeping; to have and to hold.'),('Possess','v. t.','To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to\n   be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a\n   book.'),('Possess','v. t.','To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish;\n   to gain; to seize.'),('Possess','v. t.','To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to\n   fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.'),('Possess','v. t.','To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of\n   property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed\n   by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used\n   reflexively.'),('Possession','n.','The act or state of possessing, or holding as one\'s\n   own.'),('Possession','n.','The having, holding, or detention of property in one\'s\n   power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether\n   rightful or wrongful.'),('Possession','n.','The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns,\n   or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth;\n   dominion; as, foreign possessions.'),('Possession','n.','The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an\n   evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal\n   possession.'),('Possession','v. t.','To invest with property.'),('Possessionary','a.','Of or pertaining to possession; arising from\n   possession.'),('Possessioner','n.','A possessor; a property holder.'),('Possessioner','n.','An invidious name for a member of any religious\n   community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as\n   contrasted with mendicant friars.'),('Possessival','a.','Of or pertaining to the possessive case; as, a\n   possessival termination.'),('Possessive','a.','Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating\n   possession.'),('Possessive','n.','The possessive case.'),('Possessive','n.','A possessive pronoun, or a word in the possessive case.'),('Possessively','adv.','In a possessive manner.'),('Possessor','n.','One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or\n   controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of\n   that which is desirable; a proprietor.'),('Possessory','a.','Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a\n   right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a\n   possessory lord.'),('Posset','n.','A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong\n   infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly.'),('Posseted','imp. & p. p.','of Posset'),('Posseting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Posset'),('Posset','v. t.','To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset\n   the blood.'),('Posset','v. t.','To treat with possets; to pamper.'),('Possibilities','pl. ','of Possibility'),('Possibility','n.','The quality or state of being possible; the power of\n   happening, being, or existing.'),('Possibility','n.','That which is possible; a contingency; a thing or\n   event that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or\n   personal estate.'),('Possible','a.','Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived\n   or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to\n   the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme\n   improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he\n   is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong.'),('Possibly','adv.','In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by\n   extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of\n   power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.'),('Possum','n.','An opossum.'),('Post-','','A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure,\n   postdot, postscript.'),('Post','a.','Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.'),('Post','n.','A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or\n   to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as\n   a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a\n   fence post; the posts of a house.'),('Post','n.','The doorpost of a victualer\'s shop or inn, on which were\n   chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.'),('Post','n.','The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a\n   station.'),('Post','n.','A station, or one of a series of stations, established for\n   the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized\n   route; as, a stage or railway post.'),('Post','n.','A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of\n   troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.'),('Post','n.','The piece of ground to which a sentinel\'s walk is limited.'),('Post','n.','A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially,\n   one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels\n   regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.'),('Post','n.','An established conveyance for letters from one place or\n   station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country\n   for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the\n   mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported.'),('Post','n.','Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.'),('Post','n.','One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal\n   station.'),('Post','n.','A station, office, or position of service, trust, or\n   emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.'),('Post','n.','A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under\n   Paper.'),('Posted','imp. & p. p.','of Post'),('Posting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Post'),('Post','v. t.','To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of\n   affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post\n   playbills.'),('Post','v. t.','To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise\n   opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for\n   cowardice.'),('Post','v. t.','To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or\n   the like.'),('Post','v. t.','To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a\n   sentinel.'),('Post','v. t.','To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger;\n   as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.'),('Post','v. t.','To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a\n   letter.'),('Post','v. t.','To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted\n   with the details of a subject; -- often with up.'),('Post','v. i.','To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in\n   haste.'),('Post','v. i.','To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the\n   motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.'),('Post','adv.','With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.'),('Post-abdomen','n.','That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax;\n   -- more commonly called abdomen.'),('Postable','a.','Capable of being carried by, or as by, post.'),('Postact','n.','An act done afterward.'),('Postage','n.','The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance\n   of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.'),('Postal','a.','Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal\n   arrangements; postal authorities.'),('Postanal','a.','Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.'),('Postaxial','a.','Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an\n   animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or\n   posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate\n   limb.'),('Postboy','n.','One who rides post horses; a position; a courier.'),('Postboy','n.','A boy who carries letters from the post.'),('Post-captain','n.','A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was\n   \"posted,\" in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished\n   from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used\n   in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was\n   ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.'),('Postcavae','pl. ','of Postcava'),('Postcava','n.','The inferior vena cava.'),('Postclavicle','n.','A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes\n   projecting backward from the clavicle.'),('Postcommissure','n.','A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the\n   roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral\n   commisure.'),('Postcomminion','n.','The concluding portion of the communion service.'),('Postcomminion','n.','A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass,\n   after the ablutions.'),('Postcornua','pl. ','of Postcornu'),('Postcornu','n.','The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the\n   brain.'),('Postdated','imp. & p. p.','of Postdate'),('Postdating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Postdate'),('Postdate','v. t.','To date after the real time; as, to postdate a\n   contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact\n   made.'),('Postdate','v. t.','To affix a date to after the event.'),('Postdate','a.','Made or done after the date assigned.'),('Postdate','n.','A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later\n   than that when it was actually made.'),('Postdiluvial','a.','Alt. of Postdiluvian'),('Postdiluvian','a.','Being or happening after the flood in Noah\'s days.'),('Postdiluvian','n.','One who lived after the flood.'),('Post-disseizin','n.','A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands\n   which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ\n   founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished.'),('Post-disseizor','n.','A person who disseizes another of lands which the\n   disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor.'),('Postea','n.','The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried,\n   after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on\n   the nisi prius record.'),('Postel','n.','Apostle.'),('Postencephalon','n.','The metencephalon.'),('Postentry','n.','A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods\n   which had been omitted by mistake.'),('Postentry','n.','An additional or subsequent entry.'),('Poster','n.','A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public\n   places.'),('Poster','n.','One who posts bills; a billposter.'),('Poster','n.','One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.'),('Poster','n.','A post horse.'),('Posterior','a.','Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding\n   or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.'),('Posterior','a.','Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.'),('Posterior','a.','At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human\n   anatomy often used for dorsal.'),('Posterior','a.','On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of\n   an axillary flower.'),('Posteriority','n.','The state of being later or subsequent; as,\n   posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.'),('Posteriorly','adv.','Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.'),('Posteriors','n. pl.','The hinder parts, as of an animal\'s body.'),('Posterity','n.','The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to\n   the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are\n   descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted\n   with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.'),('Posterity','n.','Succeeding generations; future times.'),('Postern','n.','Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance;\n   hence, any small door or gate.'),('Postern','n.','A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade\n   and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the\n   outworks.'),('Postern','a.','Back; being behind; private.'),('Postero','','- (/). A combining form meaning posterior, back; as,\n   postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated\n   back and at the side.'),('Postexist','v. i.','To exist after; to live subsequently.'),('Postexistence','n.','Subsequent existence.'),('Postexistent','a.','Existing or living after.'),('Postfact','a.','Relating to a fact that occurs after another.'),('Postfact','n.','A fact that occurs after another.'),('Postfactum','n.','Same as Postfact.'),('Post-fine','n.','A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of\n   lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king\'s\n   silver.'),('Postfixes','pl. ','of Postfix'),('Postfix','n.','A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another\n   word; a suffix.'),('Postfix','v. t.','To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a\n   letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to\n   suffix.'),('Postfrontal','a.','Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region\n   of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the\n   frontal in many animals.'),('Postfrontal','n.','A postfrontal bone.'),('Postfurcae','pl. ','of Postfurca'),('Postfurca','n.','One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of\n   an insect.'),('Postgeniture','n.','The condition of being born after another in the same\n   family; -- distinguished from primogeniture.'),('Postglenoid','a.','Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal\n   bone.'),('Posthaste','n.','Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or\n   courier.'),('Posthaste','adv.','With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste;\n   to send posthaste.'),('Posthetomy','n.','Circumcision.'),('Posthouse','n.','A house established for the convenience of the post,\n   where relays of horses can be obtained.'),('Posthouse','n.','A house for distributing the malls; a post office.'),('Posthume','a.','Alt. of Posthumed'),('Posthumed','a.','Posthumous.'),('Posthumous','a.','Born after the death of the father, or taken from the\n   dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.'),('Posthumous','a.','Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous\n   works; a posthumous edition.'),('Posthumous','a.','Being or continuing after one\'s death; as, a posthumous\n   reputation.'),('Posthumously','adv.','In a posthumous manner; after one\'s decease.'),('Postic','a.','Backward.'),('Postticous','a.','Posterior.'),('Postticous','a.','Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an\n   extrorse anther.'),('Postil','n.','Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible,\n   so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a\n   comment.'),('Postil','n.','A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as,\n   the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.'),('Postil','v. t.','To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss.'),('Postiled','imp. & p. p.','of Postil'),('Postilled','','of Postil'),('Postiling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Postil'),('Postilling','','of Postil'),('Postil','v. i.','To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to\n   postillate.'),('Postiler','n.','One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the\n   text of a book by notes in the margin.'),('Postilion','n.','One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a\n   coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one\n   pair only is used.'),('Postillate','v. t.','To explain by marginal notes; to postil.'),('Postillate','v. i.','To write postils; to comment.'),('Postillate','v. i.','To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in\n   regular order.'),('Postillation','n.','The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in\n   preaching.'),('Postillator','n.','One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures\n   verse by verse.'),('Posttiller','n.','See Postiler.'),('Posting','n.','The act of traveling post.'),('Posting','n.','The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to\n   the ledger.'),('Postliminiar','a.','Contrived, done, or existing subsequently.'),('Postliminiary','a.','Pertaining to, or involving, the right of\n   postliminium.'),('Postliminium','n.','Alt. of Postliminy'),('Postliminy','n.','The return to his own country, and his former\n   privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country,\n   or had been banished, or taken by an enemy.'),('Postliminy','n.','The right by virtue of which persons and things taken\n   by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again\n   under the power of the nation to which they belonged.'),('Postlude','n.','A voluntary at the end of a service.'),('Postmen','pl. ','of Postman'),('Postman','n.','A post or courier; a letter carrier.'),('Postman','n.','One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of\n   Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place\n   where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman.'),('Postmark','n.','The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving\n   the place and date of mailing or of arrival.'),('Postmarked','imp. & p. p.','of Postmark'),('Postmarking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Postmark'),('Postmark','v. t.','To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a\n   letter or parcel.'),('Postmaster','n.','One who has charge of a station for the accommodation\n   of travelers; one who supplies post horses.'),('Postmaster','n.','One who has charge of a post office, and the\n   distribution and forwarding of mails.'),('Postmasters-general','pl. ','of Postmaster-general'),('Postmaster-general','n.','The chief officer of the post-office department\n   of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a\n   member of the cabinet.'),('Postmastership','n.','The office of postmaster.'),('Postmeridian','a.','Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being\n   in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)'),('Postmeridian','a.','Fig., belonging to the after portion of life; late.'),('Post-mortem','a.','After death; as, post-mortem rigidity.'),('Postnares','n. pl.','The posterior nares. See Nares.'),('Postnatal','a.','After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal\n   infanticide; postnatal diseases.'),('Postnate','a.','Subsequent.'),('Post note','','A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified\n   time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand.'),('Postnuptial','a.','Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial\n   settlement on a wife.'),('Post-obit','','Alt. of Post-obit bond'),('Post-obit bond','','A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of\n   having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger\n   sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual\n   from whom he has expectations.'),('Postoblongata','n.','The posterior part of the medulla oblongata.'),('Postocular','a. & n.','Same as Postorbital.'),('Post office','n.','See under 4th Post.'),('Postoral','a.','Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.'),('Postorbital','a.','Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales\n   of some fishes and reptiles.'),('Postorbital','n.','A postorbital bone or scale.'),('Postpaid','a.','Having the postage prepaid, as a letter.'),('Postpalatine','a.','Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine\n   bones.'),('Postpliocene','a.','Of or pertaining to the period immediately following\n   the Pliocene; Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary.'),('Postponed','imp. & p. p.','of Postpone'),('Postponing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Postpone'),('Postpone','v. t.','To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also,\n   to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to\n   postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or\n   indefinitely.'),('Postpone','v. t.','To place after, behind, or below something, in respect\n   to precedence, preference, value, or importance.'),('Postponement','n.','The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off,\n   to a future time; a temporary delay.'),('Postponence','n.','The act of postponing, in sense 2.'),('Postponer','n.','One who postpones.'),('Postposed','imp. & p. p.','of Postpose'),('Postposing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Postpose'),('Postpose','v. t.','To postpone.'),('Postposit','v. t.','To postpone.'),('Postposition','n.','The act of placing after, or the state of being\n   placed after.'),('Postposition','n.','A word or particle placed after, or at the end of,\n   another word; -- distinguished from preposition.'),('Postpositional','a.','Of or pertaining to postposition.'),('Postpositive','a.','Placed after another word; as, a postpositive\n   conjunction; a postpositive letter.'),('Postprandial','a.','Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as,\n   postprandial speeches.'),('Postremogeniture','n.','The right of the youngest born.'),('Postremote','a.','More remote in subsequent time or order.'),('Postrider','n.','One who rides over a post road to carry the mails.'),('Postscapula','n.','The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or\n   mesoscapula.'),('Postscapular','a.','Of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.'),('Postscenium','n.','The part of a theater behind the scenes; the back part\n   of the stage of a theater.'),('Postscribe','v. t.','To make a postscript.'),('Postscript','n.','A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and\n   signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after\n   the main body of the work has been finished, containing something\n   omitted, or something new occurring to the writer.'),('Postscripted','a.','Having a postscript; added in a postscript.'),('Postscutellum','n.','The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of\n   an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.'),('Postsphenoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the\n   sphenoid bone.'),('Post-temporal','a.','Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal\n   region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually\n   connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of\n   fishes.'),('Post-temporal','n.','A post-temporal bone.'),('Posttertiary','a.','Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary;\n   Quaternary.'),('Post-tragus','n.','A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of\n   some animals.'),('Post-tympanic','a.','Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull,\n   behind the auditory meatus.'),('Postulant','n.','One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.'),('Postulate','n.','Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position\n   or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as\n   self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged,\n   without argument or evidence.'),('Postulate','n.','The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in\n   distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident\n   theorem.'),('Postulate','a.','Postulated.'),('Postulated','imp. & p. p.','of Postulate'),('Postulating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Postulate'),('Postulate','v. t.','To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate\n   conclusions.'),('Postulate','v. t.','To take without express consent; to assume.'),('Postulate','v. t.','To invite earnestly; to solicit.'),('Postulated','a.','Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference.'),('Postulation','n.','The act of postulating, or that which is postulated;\n   assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.'),('Postulatory','a.','Of the nature of a postulate.'),('Postulata','pl. ','of Postulatum'),('Postulatum','n.','A postulate.'),('Postumous','a.','See Posthumous.'),('Postural','a.','Of or pertaining to posture.'),('Posture','n.','The position of the body; the situation or disposition of\n   the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a\n   particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure\n   with regard to the several principal members by which action is\n   expressed; attitude.'),('Posture','n.','Place; position; situation.'),('Posture','n.','State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or\n   of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of\n   defense; the posture of affairs.'),('Postured','imp. & p. p.','of Posture'),('Posturing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Posture'),('Posture','v. t.','To place in a particular position or attitude; to\n   dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to\n   posture one\'s self; to posture a model.'),('Posture','v. i.','To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort\n   the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist;\n   also, to pose.'),('Posture','v. i.','Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.'),('Posturer','n.','One who postures.'),('Postzygapophyses','pl. ','of Postzygapophysis'),('Postzygapophysis','n.','A posterior zygapophysis.'),('Posies','pl. ','of Posy'),('Posy','n.','A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment,\n   motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.'),('Posy','n.','A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay.'),('Pot','n.','A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great\n   variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding\n   liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.'),('Pot','n.','An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.'),('Pot','n.','The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.'),('Pot','n.','A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a\n   chimney; a chimney pot.'),('Pot','n.','A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.'),('Pot','n.','A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.'),('Pot','n.','A perforated cask for draining sugar.'),('Pot','n.','A size of paper. See Pott.'),('Potted','imp. & p. p.','of Pot'),('Potting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pot'),('Pot','v. t.','To place or inclose in pots'),('Pot','v. t.','To preserve seasoned in pots.'),('Pot','v. t.','To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.'),('Pot','v. t.','To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler,\n   and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through\n   which the molasses drains off.'),('Pot','v. t.','To pocket.'),('Pot','v. i.','To tipple; to drink.'),('Potable','a.','Fit to be drunk; drinkable.'),('Potable','n.','A potable liquid; a beverage.'),('Potableness','n.','The quality of being drinkable.'),('Potage','n.','See Pottage.'),('Potager','n.','A porringer.'),('Potagro','n.','See Potargo.'),('Potale','n.','The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.'),('Potamian','n.','A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites,\n   or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak.\n   See Trionyx.'),('Potamography','n.','An account or description of rivers; potamology.'),('Potamology','n.','A scientific account or discussion of rivers; a\n   treatise on rivers; potamography.'),('Potamospongiae','n. pl.','The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.'),('Potance','n.','The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the\n   verge is made.'),('Potargo','n.','A kind of sauce or pickle.'),('Potash','n.','The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle\n   substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence\n   called also caustic potash.'),('Potash','n.','The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood\n   ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline\n   (pearlash).'),('Potashes','n. pl.','Potash.'),('Potassa','n.','Potassium oxide.'),('Potassa','n.','Potassium hydroxide, commonly called caustic potash.'),('Potassamide','n.','A yellowish brown substance obtained by heating\n   potassium in ammonia.'),('Pottassic','a.','Pertaining to, or containing, potassium.'),('Potassium','n.','An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always\n   combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the\n   minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight\n   39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).'),('Potassoxyl','n.','The radical KO, derived from, and supposed to exist in,\n   potassium hydroxide and other compounds.'),('Potation','n.','The act of drinking.'),('Potation','n.','A draught.'),('Potation','n.','Drink; beverage.'),('Potatoes','pl. ','of Potato'),('Potato','n.','A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and\n   its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties\n   used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species\n   is found native as far north as New Mexico.'),('Potato','n.','The sweet potato (see below).'),('Potator','n.','A drinker.'),('Potatory','a.','Of or pertaining to drinking.'),('Pot-bellied','a.','Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.'),('Pot-belly','n.','A protuberant belly.'),('Potboiler','n.','A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic\n   work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of\n   living.'),('Potboy','n.','A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a\n   public house.'),('Potch','v. i.','To thrust; to push.'),('Potch','v. t.','See Poach, to cook.'),('Potcher','n.','One who, or that which, potches.'),('Potecary','n.','An apothecary.'),('Poteen','n.','Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish\n   peasantry.'),('Potelot','n.','Molybdenum sulphide.'),('Potence','n.','Potency; capacity.'),('Potency','n.','The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral\n   power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose;\n   capability; efficacy; influence.'),('Potent','a.','Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful\'\n   efficacious; as, a potent medicine.'),('Potent','a.','Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant;\n   mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.'),('Potent','a.','Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great\n   influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.'),('Potent','n.','A prince; a potentate.'),('Potent','n.','A staff or crutch.'),('Potent','n.','One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are\n   supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent\n   and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.'),('Potentacy','n.','Sovereignty.'),('Potentate','a.','One who is potent; one who possesses great power or\n   sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.'),('Potential','a.','Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result;\n   efficacious; influential.'),('Potential','a.','Existing in possibility, not in actuality.'),('Potential','n.','Anything that may be possible; a possibility;\n   potentially.'),('Potential','n.','In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting\n   in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the\n   position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with\n   respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at\n   the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force\n   function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is\n   directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the\n   distance from the center.'),('Potential','n.','The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power\n   to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some\n   standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.'),('Potentiality','n.','The quality or state of being potential; possibility,\n   not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually\n   exhibited.'),('Potentially','adv.','With power; potently.'),('Potentially','adv.','In a potential manner; possibly, not positively.'),('Potentiated','imp. & p. p.','of Potentiate'),('Potentiating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Potentiate'),('Potentiate','v. t.','To render active or potent.'),('Potentiometer','n.','An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial\n   potentials or electro-motive forces.'),('Potentized','imp. & p. p.','of Potentize'),('Potentizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Potentize'),('Potentize','v. t.','To render the latent power of (anything) available.'),('Potently','adv.','With great force or energy; powerfully; efficaciously.'),('Potentness','n.','The quality or state of being potent; powerfulness;\n   potency; efficacy.'),('Potestate','n.','A chief ruler; a potentate. [Obs.] Wyclif.'),('Potestative','a.','Authoritative.'),('Potgun','n.','A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.'),('Potgun','n.','A popgun.'),('Pothecary','n.','An apothecary.'),('Potheen','n.','See Poteen.'),('Pother','n.','Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.'),('Pother','v. i.','To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.'),('Pothered','imp. & p. p.','of Pother'),('Pothering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pother'),('Pother','v. t.','To harass and perplex; to worry.'),('Pothole','n.','A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the\n   grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what\n   was at first a natural depression of the rock.'),('Pothook','n.','An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over\n   an open fire.'),('Pothook','n.','A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a\n   scrawled writing.'),('Pothouse','n.','An alehouse.'),('Potichomania','n.','Alt. of Potichomanie'),('Potichomanie','n.','The art or process of coating the inside of glass\n   vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance\n   of painted ware.'),('Potion','n.','A draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid\n   medicine.'),('Potion','v. t.','To drug.'),('Potlid','n.','The lid or cover of a pot.'),('Potluck','n.','Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided\n   for a meal.'),('Potmen','pl. ','of Potman'),('Potman','n.','A pot companion.'),('Potman','n.','A servant in a public house; a potboy.'),('Potoo','n.','A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius grandis).'),('Potoroo','n.','Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia,\n   and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also\n   kangaroo rat.'),('Potpie','n.','A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.'),('Potpourri','n.','A medley or mixture.'),('Potpourri','n.','A ragout composed of different sorts of meats,\n   vegetables, etc., cooked together.'),('Potpourri','n.','A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices,\n   used to scent a room.'),('Potpourri','n.','A piece of music made up of different airs strung\n   together; a medley.'),('Potpourri','n.','A literary production composed of parts brought together\n   without order or bond of connection.'),('Potsdam group','','A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in\n   American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York.\n   See Chart of Geology.'),('Potshard','n.','Alt. of Potshare'),('Potshare','n.','A potsherd.'),('Potsherd','n.','A piece or fragment of a broken pot.'),('Potstone','n.','A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into\n   culinary vessels.'),('Pot-sure','a.','Made confident by drink.'),('Pott','n.','A size of paper. See under Paper.'),('Pottage','n.','A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both\n   together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.'),('Pottain','n.','Old pot metal.'),('Potteen','n.','See Poteen.'),('Potter','n.','One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.'),('Potter','n.','One who hawks crockery or earthenware.'),('Potter','n.','One who pots meats or other eatables.'),('Potter','n.','The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.'),('Pottered','imp. & p. p.','of Potter'),('Pottering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Potter'),('Potter','v. i.','To busy one\'s self with trifles; to labor with little\n   purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother.'),('Potter','v. i.','To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.'),('Potter','v. t.','To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to\n   bother.'),('Pottern','a.','Of or pertaining to potters.'),('Potteries','pl. ','of Pottery'),('Pottery','n.','The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed\n   and baked.'),('Pottery','n.','The place where earthen vessels are made.'),('Potting','n.','Tippling.'),('Potting','n.','The act of placing in a pot; as, the potting of plants;\n   the potting of meats for preservation.'),('Potting','n.','The process of putting sugar in casks for cleansing and\n   draining.'),('Pottle','n.','A liquid measure of four pints.'),('Pottle','n.','A pot or tankard.'),('Pottle','n.','A vessel or small basket for holding fruit.'),('Potto','n.','A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family,\n   found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also\n   aposoro, and bush dog.'),('Potto','n.','The kinkajou.'),('Pott\'s disease','','Caries of the vertebrae, frequently resulting in\n   curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so\n   named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon.'),('Potulent','a.','Fit to drink; potable.'),('Potulent','a.','Nearly drunk; tipsy.'),('Pot-valiant','a.','Having the courage given by drink.'),('Pot-walloper','n.','A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before\n   the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage\n   was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.'),('Pot-walloper','n.','One who cleans pots; a scullion.'),('Pouch','n.','A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money;\n   a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.'),('Pouch','n.','That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch'),('Pouch','n.','A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.'),('Pouch','n.','A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek\n   pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.'),('Pouch','n.','A cyst or sac containing fluid.'),('Pouch','n.','A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd\'s purse.'),('Pouch','n.','A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc.,\n   from shifting.'),('Pouched','imp. & p. p.','of Pouch'),('Pouching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pouch'),('Pouch','v. t.','To put or take into a pouch.'),('Pouch','v. t.','To swallow; -- said of fowls.'),('Pouch','v. t.','To pout.'),('Pouch','v. t.','To pocket; to put up with.'),('Pouched','a.','Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the\n   wombat.'),('Pouched','a.','Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher.'),('Pouched','a.','Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels.'),('Pouchet box','','See Pouncet box.'),('Pouch-mouthed','a.','Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped.'),('Pouchong','n.','A superior kind of souchong tea.'),('Pouch-shell','n.','A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus\n   hypnorum).'),('Poudre','n.','Dust; powder.'),('Poudrette','n.','A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with\n   charcoal, gypsum, etc.'),('Poulaine','n.','A long pointed shoe. See Cracowes.'),('Pouldavis','n.','Same as Poledavy.'),('Poulder','n. & v.','Powder.'),('Pouldron','n.','See Pauldron.'),('Poulp','n.','Alt. of Poulpe'),('Poulpe','n.','Same as Octopus.'),('Poult','n.','A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.'),('Poulter','n.','A poulterer.'),('Poulterer','n.','One who deals in poultry.'),('Poultice','n.','A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous\n   substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a\n   cataplasm.'),('Poulticed','imp. & p. p.','of Poultice'),('Poulticing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Poultice'),('Poultice','v. t.','To apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice.'),('Poultive','n.','A poultice.'),('Poultry','n.','Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or\n   feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.'),('Pounce','n.','A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, --\n   formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.'),('Pounce','n.','Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making\n   patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace\n   makers, etc.'),('Pounded','imp. & p. p.','of Pounce'),('Pouncing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pounce'),('Pounce','v. t.','To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or\n   a pattern.'),('Pounce','v. t.','The claw or talon of a bird of prey.'),('Pounce','v. t.','A punch or stamp.'),('Pounce','v. t.','Cloth worked in eyelet holes.'),('Pounce','v. t.','To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with\n   the talons.'),('Pounce','v. t.','To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on,\n   by way of ornament.'),('Pounce','v. i.','To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or\n   upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.'),('Pounced','a.','Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of\n   the eagle.'),('Pounced','a.','Ornamented with perforations or dots.'),('Pouncet box','','A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or\n   for holding perfumes.'),('Pouncing','n.','The art or practice of transferring a design by means of\n   pounce.'),('Pouncing','n.','Decorative perforation of cloth.'),('Pounded','imp. & p. p.','of Pound'),('Pounding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pound'),('Pound','v. t.','To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.'),('Pound','v. t.','To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break\n   into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to\n   pound spice or salt.'),('Pound','v. i.','To strike heavy blows; to beat.'),('Pound','v. i.','To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine\n   pounds.'),('Pound','n.','An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which\n   cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when\n   going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.'),('Pound','n.','A level stretch in a canal between locks.'),('Pound','n.','A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow\n   entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.'),('Pound','v. t.','To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.'),('Pounds','pl. ','of Pound'),('Pound','pl. ','of Pound'),('Pounds','pl. ','of Pound'),('Pound','n.','A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard\n   consisting of an established number of ounces.'),('Pound','n.','A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to\n   twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is\n   no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same\n   value.'),('Poundage','n.','A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for\n   each pound; a commission.'),('Poundage','n.','A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted\n   to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.'),('Poundage','n.','The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the\n   amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly\n   in the United States, at so much of the pound.'),('Poundage','v. t.','To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by\n   poundage.'),('Poundage','n.','Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public\n   pound.'),('Poundage','n.','A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.'),('Poundal','n.','A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second,\n   being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second,\n   causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per\n   second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825\n   dynes.'),('Pound-breach','n.','The breaking of a public pound for releasing\n   impounded animals.'),('Poundcake','n.','A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the\n   ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.'),('Pounder','n.','One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.'),('Pounder','n.','An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.'),('Pounder','n.','A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain\n   number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon\n   carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.'),('Pounding','n.','The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.'),('Pounding','n.','A pounded or pulverized substance.'),('Pound/keeper','n.','The keeper of a pound.'),('Poundrate','n.','A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for\n   each pound; poundage.'),('Poup','v. i.','See Powp.'),('Poupart\'s ligament','','A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most\n   mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of\n   the pubic bones.'),('Poupeton','n.','A puppet, or little baby.'),('Pour','a.','Poor.'),('Pour','v. i.','To pore.'),('Poured','imp. & p. p.','of Pour'),('Pouring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pour'),('Pour','v. t.','To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything\n   flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour\n   water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the\n   waters; to pour out sand or dust.'),('Pour','v. t.','To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let\n   escape freely or wholly.'),('Pour','v. t.','To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge\n   uninterruptedly.'),('Pour','v. i.','To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to\n   fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured\n   out of the theater.'),('Pour','n.','A stream, or something like a stream; a flood.'),('Poureliche','adv.','Poorly.'),('Pourer','n.','One who pours.'),('Pourlieu','n.','See Purlieu.'),('Pourparler','n.','A consultation preliminary to a treaty.'),('Pourparties','pl. ','of Pourparty'),('Pourparty','n.','A division; a divided share.'),('Pourpoint','n.','A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th\n   and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th\n   centuries worn by civilians.'),('Pourpresture','n.','See Purpresture.'),('Poursuivant','n.','See Pursuivant.'),('Pourtray','v. t.','See Portray.'),('Pourveyance','n.','See Purveyance.'),('Pousse','n.','Pulse; pease.'),('Poussette','n.','A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.'),('Poussette','v. i.','To perform a certain movement in a dance.'),('Pout','n.','The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl.'),('Pout','v. i.','To shoot pouts.'),('Pouted','imp. & p. p.','of Pout'),('Pouting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pout'),('Pout','v. i.','To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure;\n   hence, to look sullen.'),('Pout','v. i.','To protrude.'),('Pout','n.','A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness.'),('Pout','n.','The European whiting pout or bib.'),('Pouter','n.','One who, or that which, pouts.'),('Pouter','n.','A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent\n   to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.'),('Pouting','n.','Childish sullenness.'),('Poutingly','adv.','In a pouting, or a sullen, manner.'),('Povert','n.','Poverty.'),('Poverty','n.','The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or\n   scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.'),('Poverty','n.','Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or\n   desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of\n   the blood; poverty of ideas.'),('Powan','n.','Alt. of Powen'),('Powen','n.','A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C.\n   ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.'),('Powder','n.','The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by\n   pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay;\n   dust.'),('Powder','n.','An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.;\n   gunpowder. See Gunpowder.'),('Powdered','imp. & p. p.','of Powder'),('Powdering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Powder'),('Powder','v. t.','To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub\n   into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.'),('Powder','v. t.','To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be\n   sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.'),('Powder','v. t.','To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.'),('Powder','v. i.','To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some\n   salts powder easily.'),('Powder','v. i.','To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and\n   powders.'),('Powdered','a.','Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.'),('Powdered','a.','Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned.'),('Powdered','a.','Same as Seme.'),('Powderflask','n.','A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a\n   charging tube at the end.'),('Powderhorn','n.','A horn in which gunpowder is carried.'),('Powdering','','a. & n. from Powder, v. t.'),('Powdermill','n.','A mill in which gunpowder is made.'),('Powder-posted','a.','Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See\n   Dry rot, under Dry.'),('Powdery','a.','Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery\n   spar.'),('Powdery','a.','Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery\n   bloom on plums.'),('Powdery','a.','Resembling powder; consisting of powder.'),('Powdike','n.','A dike a marsh or fen.'),('Powdry','a.','See Powdery.'),('Power','n.','Same as Poor, the fish.'),('Power','n.','Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty\n   of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance;\n   capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency;\n   might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction;\n   money gives power.'),('Power','n.','Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force,\n   or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the\n   power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of\n   enthusiasm.'),('Power','n.','Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted\n   upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of\n   endurance.'),('Power','n.','The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the\n   exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command;\n   government.'),('Power','n.','The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual\n   invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises\n   control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman\n   agent; a spirit; a divinity.'),('Power','n.','A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.'),('Power','n.','A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good\n   things.'),('Power','n.','The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical\n   work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working\n   continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.'),('Power','n.','A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy\n   is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.'),('Power','n.','Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the\n   power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.'),('Power','n.','A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to\n   drive other machinery; as, a dog power.'),('Power','n.','The product arising from the multiplication of a number into\n   itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of\n   a number.'),('Power','n.','Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which\n   are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking,\n   reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.'),('Power','n.','The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical\n   instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope,\n   the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter\n   of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it\n   multiplies the apparent surface.'),('Power','n.','An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest\n   vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by\n   appointment.'),('Power','n.','Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the\n   business was referred to a committee with power.'),('Powerable','a.','Capable of being effected or accomplished by the\n   application of power; possible.'),('Powerable','a.','Capable of exerting power; powerful.'),('Powerful','a.','Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any\n   kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or\n   beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a\n   powerful vessel.'),('Powerful','a.','Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.'),('Powerless','a.','Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent;\n   not able to produce any effect.'),('Powldron','n.','Same as Pauldron.'),('Powp','v. i.','See Poop, v. i.'),('Powter','n.','See Pouter.'),('Powpow','n.','A priest, or conjurer, among the North American Indians.'),('Powpow','n.','Conjuration attended with great noise and confusion, and\n   often with feasting, dancing, etc., performed by Indians for the cure\n   of diseases, to procure success in hunting or in war, and for other\n   purposes.'),('Powpow','n.','Hence: Any assembly characterized by noise and confusion; a\n   noisy frolic or gathering.'),('Powwow','v. i.','To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the\n   cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.'),('Powwow','v. i.','Hence: To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting.'),('Pox','n.','Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but\n   chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the\n   smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.'),('Poxed','imp. & p. p.','of Pox'),('Poxing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pox'),('Pox','v. t.','To infect with the pox, or syphilis.'),('Poy','n.','A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.'),('Poy','n.','A ropedancer\'s balancing pole.'),('Poy','n.','A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the\n   stream.'),('Poynado','n.','A poniard.'),('Poynd','n.','Alt. of Poynder'),('Poynder','n.','See Poind, Poinder.'),('Poy nette','n.','A bodkin.'),('Poyntel','n.','Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set\n   diagonally.'),('Poyou','n.','A South American armadillo (Dasypus sexcinctus). Called also\n   sixbanded armadillo.'),('Poze','v. t.','See 5th Pose.'),('Pozzuolana','n.','Alt. of Pozzolana'),('Pozzolana','n.','Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the\n   manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.'),('Praam','n.','A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the\n   Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.'),('Practic','a.','Practical.'),('Practic','a.','Artful; deceitful; skillful.'),('Practicability','n.','The quality or state of being practicable;\n   practicableness; feasibility.'),('Practicable','a.','That may be practiced or performed; capable of being\n   done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a\n   practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.'),('Practicable','a.','Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable\n   weapon; a practicable road.'),('Practical','a.','Of or pertaining to practice or action.'),('Practical','a.','Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in\n   distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.'),('Practical','a.','Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying\n   knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.'),('Practical','a.','Derived from practice; as, practical skill.'),('Practicality','n.','The quality or state of being practical;\n   practicalness.'),('Practically','adv.','In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as,\n   to look at things practically; practically worthless.'),('Practically','adv.','By means of practice or use; by experience or\n   experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted\n   with a subject.'),('Practically','adv.','In practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe;\n   theoretically wrong, but practically right.'),('Practically','adv.','Almost.'),('Practicalness','n.','Same as Practicality.'),('Practicalize','v. t.','To render practical.'),('Practice','n.','Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual\n   performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit;\n   custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making\n   regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.'),('Practice','n.','Customary or constant use; state of being used.'),('Practice','n.','Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.'),('Practice','n.','Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed\n   to theory.'),('Practice','n.','Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as,\n   the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in\n   music.'),('Practice','n.','Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise\n   of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine\n   or law; a large or lucrative practice.'),('Practice','n.','Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance\n   or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a\n   bad sense.'),('Practice','n.','A easy and concise method of applying the rules of\n   arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.'),('Practice','n.','The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on\n   suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the\n   principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.'),('Practiced','imp. & p. p.','of Practice'),('Practicing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Practice'),('Practice','v. t.','To do or perform frequently, customarily, or\n   habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.'),('Practice','v. t.','To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art,\n   etc., as, to practice law or medicine.'),('Practice','v. t.','To exercise one\'s self in, for instruction or\n   improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice\n   gunnery; to practice music.'),('Practice','v. t.','To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to\n   commit; to execute; to do.'),('Practice','v. t.','To make use of; to employ.'),('Practice','v. t.','To teach or accustom by practice; to train.'),('Practice','v. i.','To perform certain acts frequently or customarily,\n   either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the\n   broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.'),('Practice','v. i.','To learn by practice; to form a habit.'),('Practice','v. i.','To try artifices or stratagems.'),('Practice','v. i.','To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way\n   of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp.\n   that of medicine or of law.'),('Practiced','a.','Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman.'),('Practiced','a.','Used habitually; learned by practice.'),('Practicer','n.','One who practices, or puts in practice; one who\n   customarily performs certain acts.'),('Practicer','n.','One who exercises a profession; a practitioner.'),('Practicer','n.','One who uses art or stratagem.'),('Practician','n.','One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by\n   practice; a practitioner.'),('Practick','n.','Practice.'),('Practisant','n.','An agent or confederate in treachery.'),('Practise','v. t. & i.','See Practice.'),('Practisour','n.','A practitioner.'),('Practitioner','n.','One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of\n   any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.'),('Practitioner','n.','One who does anything customarily or habitually.'),('Practitioner','n.','A sly or artful person.'),('Practive','a.','Doing; active.'),('Prad','n.','A horse.'),('Prae-','','A prefix. See Pre-.'),('Praecava','n.','The superior vena cava.'),('Praecipe','n.','A writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a\n   reason for neglecting it.'),('Praecipe','n.','A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in\n   the office out of which the writ is to be issued.'),('Praecoces','n. pl.','A division of birds including those whose young are\n   able to run about when first hatched.'),('Praecocial','a.','Of or pertaining to the Praecoces.'),('Praecognita','n. pl.','This previously known, or which should be known in\n   order to understand something else.'),('Praecommissure','n.','A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the\n   third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.'),('Praecoracoid','n.','See Precoracoid.'),('Praecordia','n.','The front part of the thoracic region; the epigastrium.'),('Praecordial','a.','Same as Precordial.'),('Praecornua','pl. ','of Praecornu'),('Praecornu','n.','The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the\n   brain.'),('Praedial','a.','See Predial.'),('Praefloration','n.','Same as Prefloration.'),('Praefoliation','n.','Same as Prefoliation.'),('Praemaxilla','n.','See Premaxilla.'),('Praemolar','a.','See Premolar.'),('Praemorse','a.','Same as Premorse.'),('Praemunire','n.','The offense of introducing foreign authority into\n   England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress\n   the civil power of the pope in the kingdom.'),('Praemunire','n.','The writ grounded on that offense.'),('Praemunire','n.','The penalty ascribed for the offense of praemunire.'),('Praemnire','v. t.','The subject to the penalties of praemunire.'),('Praemunitory','a.','See Premunitory.'),('Praenares','n. pl.','The anterior nares. See Nares.'),('Praenasal','a.','Same as Prenasal.'),('Praenomina','pl. ','of Praenomen'),('Praenomen','n.','The first name of a person, by which individuals of the\n   same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as\n   Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc.'),('Praenominical','a.','Of or pertaining to a praenomen.'),('Praeoperculum','n.','Same as Preoperculum.'),('Praesternum','n.','Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc.'),('Praeter-','','A prefix. See Preter-.'),('Praeterist','n.','See Preterist.'),('Praetermit','v. t.','See Pretermit.'),('Praetextae','pl. ','of Praetexta'),('Praetextas','pl. ','of Praetexta'),('Praetexta','n.','A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy\n   before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the\n   completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage.\n   It was also worn by magistrates and priests.'),('Praetor','n.','See Pretor.'),('Praetores','n. pl.','A division of butterflies including the satyrs.'),('Praetorian','a.','See Pretorian.'),('Praetorium','n.','See Pretorium.'),('Praezygapophysis','n.','Same as Prezygapophysis.'),('Pragmatic','a.','Alt. of Pragmatical'),('Pragmatical','a.','Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the\n   nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or\n   manner.'),('Pragmatical','a.','Busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way;\n   officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome.'),('Pragmatical','a.','Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and\n   effects, rather than with details and circumstances; -- said of\n   literature.'),('Pragmatic','n.','One skilled in affairs.'),('Pragmatic','n.','A solemn public ordinance or decree.'),('Pragmatically','adv.','In a pragmatical manner.'),('Pragmaticalness','n.','The quality or state of being pragmatical.'),('Pragmatism','n.','The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature,\n   the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.'),('Pragmatist','n.','One who is pragmatic.'),('Pragmatize','v. t.','To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal)\n   as fact; to materialize.'),('Prairial','n.','The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which\n   dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See\n   Vendemiaire.'),('Prairie','n.','An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of\n   trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep,\n   fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between\n   the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.'),('Prairie','n.','A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called\n   natural meadow.'),('Praisable','a.','Fit to be praised; praise-worthy; laudable; commendable.'),('Praisably','adv.','In a praisable manner.'),('Praised','imp. & p. p.','of Praise'),('Praising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Praise'),('Praise','v.','To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud;\n   -- applied to a person or his acts.'),('Praise','v.','To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on\n   account of perfections or excellent works; to do honor to; to display\n   the excellence of; -- applied especially to the Divine Being.'),('Praise','v.','To value; to appraise.'),('Praise','v.','Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered\n   because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.'),('Praise','v.','Especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage\n   rendered to the Divine Being; the act of glorifying or extolling the\n   Creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer\n   and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise.'),('Praise','v.','The object, ground, or reason of praise.'),('Praiseful','a.','Praiseworthy.'),('Praiseful','a.','Praiseworthy.'),('Praiseless','a.','Without praise or approbation.'),('Praise-meeting','n.','A religious service mainly in song.'),('Praisement','n.','Appraisement.'),('Praiseer','n.','One who praises.'),('Praiseer','n.','An appraiser; a valuator.'),('Praiseworthily','adv.','In a praiseworthy manner.'),('Praiseworthiness','n.','The quality or state of being praiseworthy.'),('Praiseworthy','a.','Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as,\n   praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy.'),('Prakrit','n.','Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin\n   to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a\n   literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali\n   is one of the Prakrit dialects.'),('Prakritic','a.','Pertaining to Prakrit.'),('Pram','n.','Alt. of Prame'),('Prame','n.','See Praam.'),('Pranced','imp. & p. p.','of Prance'),('Prancing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prance'),('Prance','v. i.','To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.'),('Prance','v. i.','To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious\n   manner.'),('Prance','v. i.','To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or\n   with warlike parade.'),('Prancer','n.','A horse which prances.'),('Prandial','a.','Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.'),('Prangos','n.','A genus of umbelliferous plants, one species of which (P.\n   pabularia), found in Thibet, Cashmere, Afghanistan, etc., has been used\n   as fodder for cattle. It has decompound leaves with very long narrow\n   divisions, and a highly fragrant smell resembling that of new clover\n   hay.'),('Pranked','imp. & p. p.','of Prank'),('Pranking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prank'),('Prank','v. t.','To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip\n   ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See\n   Prink.'),('Prank','v. i.','To make ostentatious show.'),('Prank','n.','A gay or sportive action; a ludicrous, merry, or mischievous\n   trick; a caper; a frolic.'),('Prank','a.','Full of gambols or tricks.'),('Pranker','n.','One who dresses showily; a prinker.'),('Prankish','a.','Full of pranks; frolicsome.'),('Prase','n.','A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.'),('Praseo-','','A combining form signifying green; as, praseocobalt, a green\n   variety of cobalt.'),('Praseodymium','n.','An elementary substance, one of the constituents of\n   didymium; -- so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps.\n   Atomic weight 143.6.'),('Praseolite','n.','A variety of altered iolite of a green color and greasy\n   luster.'),('Prasinous','a.','Grass-green; clear, lively green, without any mixture.'),('Prasoid','a.','Resembling prase.'),('Prated','imp. & p. p.','of Prate'),('Prating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prate'),('Prate','v. i.','To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to\n   speak foolishly; to babble.'),('Prate','v. t.','To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose;\n   to chatter, or babble.'),('Prate','n.','Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.'),('Prateful','a.','Talkative.'),('Prater','n.','One who prates.'),('Pratic','n.','See Pratique.'),('Pratincole','n.','Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family\n   Glareolidae, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a\n   forked tail.'),('Pratingly','adv.','With idle talk; with loquacity.'),('Pratique','n.','Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a\n   certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations,\n   permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used\n   particularly in the south of Europe.'),('Pratique','n.','Practice; habits.'),('Prattled','imp. & p. p.','of Prattle'),('Prattling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prattle'),('Prattle','v. i.','To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly\n   and artlessly, like a child; to utter child\'s talk.'),('Prattle','v. t.','To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.'),('Prattle','n.','Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on\n   trivial subjects; prate; babble.'),('Prattlement','n.','Prattle.'),('Prattler','n.','One who prattles.'),('Pravity','n.','Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral\n   crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity\n   of human nature.'),('Prawn','n.','Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea\n   having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera\n   Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as\n   food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus.'),('Praxinoscope','n.','An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for\n   presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural\n   motions of real objects.'),('Praxis','n.','Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a\n   specific purpose or object.'),('Praxis','n.','An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such\n   examples, for practice.'),('Pray','n. & v.','See Pry.'),('Prayed','imp. & p. p.','of Pray'),('Praying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pray'),('Pray','v. i.','To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something\n   desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity\n   or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the\n   Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and\n   thanksgiving.'),('Pray','v. t.','To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat;\n   to implore; to beseech.'),('Pray','v. t.','To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication;\n   to entreat for.'),('Pray','v. t.','To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out\n   of purgatory.'),('Prayer','n.','One who prays; a supplicant.'),('Prayer','v. i.','The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest\n   request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court\n   or a legislative body.'),('Prayer','v. i.','The act of addressing supplication to a divinity,\n   especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession,\n   supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer;\n   secret prayer.'),('Prayer','v. i.','The form of words used in praying; a formula of\n   supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication\n   addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat\n   one\'s prayers.'),('Prayerful','a.','Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional.'),('Prayerless','a.','Not using prayer; habitually neglecting prayer to God;\n   without prayer.'),('Praying','','a. & n. from Pray, v.'),('Prayingly','adv.','With supplication to God.'),('Pre-','','A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as,\n   precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place\n   before; preeminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes\n   used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent.'),('Preaccusation','n.','Previous accusation.'),('Preace','v. & n.','Press.'),('Preached','imp. & p. p.','of Preach'),('Preaching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preach'),('Preach','v. i.','To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to\n   proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or\n   from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.'),('Preach','v. i.','To give serious advice on morals or religion; to\n   discourse in the manner of a preacher.'),('Preach','v. t.','To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or\n   a formal religious harangue.'),('Preach','v. t.','To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with\n   earnestness by public teaching.'),('Preach','v. t.','To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.'),('Preach','v. t.','To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by\n   preaching.'),('Preach','v. t.','To advise or recommend earnestly.'),('Preach','v.','A religious discourse.'),('Preacher','n.','One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on\n   religious subjects.'),('Preacher','n.','One who inculcates anything with earnestness.'),('Preachership','n.','The office of a preacher.'),('Preachify','v. i.','To discourse in the manner of a preacher.'),('Preaching','n.','The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of\n   sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious,\n   earnest advice.'),('Preachmen','pl. ','of Preachman'),('Preachman','n.','A preacher; -- so called in contempt.'),('Preachment','n.','A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively.'),('Preacquaint','v. t.','To acquaint previously or beforehand.'),('Preacquaintance','n.','Previous acquaintance or knowledge.'),('Preact','v. t.','To act beforehand; to perform previously.'),('Preaction','n.','Previous action.'),('Preadamic','a.','Prior to Adam.'),('Preadamite','n.','An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.'),('Preadamite','n.','One who holds that men existed before Adam.'),('Preadamitic','a.','Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as,\n   preadamitic periods.'),('Preadjustment','n.','Previous adjustment.'),('Preadministration','n.','Previous administration.'),('Preadmonish','v. t.','To admonish previously.'),('Preadmonition','n.','Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.'),('Preadvertise','v. t.','To advertise beforehand; to preannounce publicly.'),('Preamble','n.','A introductory portion; an introduction or preface, as to\n   a book, document, etc.; specifically, the introductory part of a\n   statute, which states the reasons and intent of the law.'),('Preamble','v. t. & i.','To make a preamble to; to preface; to serve as a\n   preamble.'),('Preambulary','a.','Of or pertaining to a preamble; introductory;\n   contained or provided for in a preamble.'),('Preambulate','v. i.','To walk before.'),('Preambulation','n.','A walking or going before; precedence.'),('Preambulation','n.','A preamble.'),('Preambulatory','a.','Preceding; going before; introductory.'),('Preambulous','n.','See Perambulatory.'),('Preannounce','v. t.','To announce beforehand.'),('Preantenultimate','a.','Being or indicating the fourth syllable from the\n   end of a word, or that before the antepenult.'),('Preaortic','a.','In front, or on the ventral side, of the aorta.'),('Preappoint','v. t.','To appoint previously, or beforehand.'),('Preappointment','n.','Previous appointment.'),('Preapprehension','n.','An apprehension or opinion formed before\n   examination or knowledge.'),('Prearm','v. t.','To forearm.'),('Prearrange','v. t.','To arrange beforehand.'),('Prease','v. t. & i.','To press; to crowd.'),('Prease','n.','A press; a crowd.'),('Preassurance','n.','Previous assurance.'),('Preataxic','a.','Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; --\n   applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.'),('Preaudience','n.','Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers.'),('Preaxial','a.','Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of\n   an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or\n   cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.'),('Prebend','n.','A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance\n   granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate\n   church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.'),('Prebend','n.','A prebendary.'),('Prebendal','a.','Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a\n   prebendal priest or stall.'),('Prebendary','n.','A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral\n   church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at\n   stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3.'),('Prebendary','n.','A prebendaryship.'),('Prebendaryship','n.','The office of a prebendary.'),('Prebendate','v. t.','To invest with the office of prebendary; to present\n   to a prebend.'),('Prebendship','n.','A prebendaryship.'),('Prebronchial','a.','Situated in front of the bronchus; -- applied\n   especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.'),('Precalculate','v. t.','To calculate or determine beforehand; to\n   prearrange.'),('Precant','n.','One who prays.'),('Precarious','a.','Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by\n   courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as,\n   precarious privileges.'),('Precarious','a.','Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes\n   or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for\n   certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health;\n   precarious fortunes.'),('Precation','n.','The act of praying; supplication; entreaty.'),('Preative','a.','Alt. of Preatory'),('Preatory','a.','Suppliant; beseeching.'),('Precaution','n.','Previous caution or care; caution previously employed\n   to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by\n   precaution.'),('Precaution','n.','A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure\n   good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against\n   accident.'),('Precaution','v. t.','To warn or caution beforehand.'),('Precaution','v. t.','To take precaution against.'),('Precautional','a.','Precautionary.'),('Precautionary','a.','Of or pertaining to precaution, or precautions; as,\n   precautionary signals.'),('Precautious','a.','Taking or using precaution; precautionary.'),('Precedaneous','a.','Preceding; antecedent; previous.'),('Preceded','imp. & p. p.','of Precede'),('Preceding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Precede'),('Precede','v. t.','To go before in order of time; to occur first with\n   relation to anything.'),('Precede','v. t.','To go before in place, rank, or importance.'),('Precede','v. t.','To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; --\n   used with by or with before the instrumental object.'),('Precedence','n.','Alt. of Precedency'),('Precedency','n.','The act or state of preceding or going before in order\n   of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.'),('Precedency','n.','The act or state of going or being before in rank or\n   dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place;\n   superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners.'),('Precedent','a.','Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as,\n   precedent services.'),('Precedent','n.','Something done or said that may serve as an example to\n   authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.'),('Precedent','n.','A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent;\n   hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign.'),('Precedent','n.','A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished\n   copy.'),('Precedent','n.','A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future\n   determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be\n   followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in\n   similar cases.'),('Precedented','a.','Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an\n   example of a like kind.'),('Precedential','a.','Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an\n   example for imitation; as, precedential transactions.'),('Precedently','adv.','Beforehand; antecedently.'),('Preceding','a.','Going before; -- opposed to following.'),('Preceding','a.','In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See\n   Following, 2.'),('Precel','v. t. & i.','To surpass; to excel; to exceed.'),('Precellence','n.','Alt. of Precellency'),('Precellency','n.','Excellence; superiority.'),('Precellent','a.','Excellent; surpassing.'),('Precentor','n.','A leader of a choir; a directing singer.'),('Precentor','n.','The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also\n   the chanter or master of the choir.'),('Precentor','n.','The leader of the congregational singing in Scottish and\n   other churches.'),('Precentorship','n.','The office of a precentor.'),('Precent','n.','Any commandment, instruction, or order intended as an\n   authoritative rule of action; esp., a command respecting moral conduct;\n   an injunction; a rule.'),('Precent','n.','A command in writing; a species of writ or process.'),('Precept','v. t.','To teach by precepts.'),('Preceptial','a.','Preceptive.'),('Preception','n.','A precept.'),('Preceptive','a.','Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of\n   precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.'),('Preceptor','n.','One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically,\n   the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.'),('Preceptor','n.','The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars.'),('Preceptorial','a.','Of or pertaining to a preceptor.'),('Preceptory','a.','Preceptive.'),('Preceptories','pl. ','of Preceptory'),('Preceptory','n.','A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate\n   to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See\n   Commandery, n., 2.'),('Preceptress','n.','A woman who is the principal of a school; a female\n   teacher.'),('Precession','n.','The act of going before, or forward.'),('Precessional','a.','Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional\n   movement of the equinoxes.'),('Precessor','n.','A predecessor.'),('Precinct','n.','The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a\n   boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in\n   the plural; as, the precincts of a state.'),('Precinct','n.','A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial\n   or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school\n   precinct.'),('Precinct','n.','A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church,\n   and taxed for its support.'),('Preciosity','n.','Preciousness; something precious.'),('Precious','a.','Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.'),('Precious','a.','Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed;\n   dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.'),('Precious','a.','Particular; fastidious; overnice.'),('Preciously','adv.','In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly.\n   Also used ironically.'),('Preciousness','n.','The quality or state of being precious; costliness;\n   dearness.'),('Precipe','n.','See Praecipe, and Precept.'),('Precipice','n.','A sudden or headlong fall.'),('Precipice','n.','A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or\n   overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.'),('Precipient','a.','Commanding; directing.'),('Precipitability','n.','The quality or state of being precipitable.'),('Precipitable','a.','Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom,\n   as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.)'),('Precipitance','n.','Alt. of Precipitancy'),('Precipitancy','n.','The quality or state of being precipitant, or\n   precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving,\n   forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the\n   precipitancy of youth.'),('Precipitant','a.','Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly,\n   violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately.'),('Precipitant','a.','Unexpectedly or foolishly brought on or hastened;\n   rashly hurried; hasty; sudden; reckless.'),('Precipitant','n.','Any force or reagent which causes the formation of a\n   precipitate.'),('Precipitantly','adv.','With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner.'),('Precipitantness','n.','The quality or state of being precipitant;\n   precipitation.'),('Precipitate','a.','Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in\n   declaring war.'),('Precipitate','a.','Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or\n   done before the time; as, a precipitate measure.'),('Precipitate','a.','Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent;\n   headlong.'),('Precipitate','a.','Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a\n   precipitate case of disease.'),('Precipitate','n.','An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a\n   concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or\n   of some force, such as heat or cold. The precipitate may fall to the\n   bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may\n   float at or near the surface.'),('Precipitated','imp. & p. p.','of Precipitate'),('Precipitating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Precipitate'),('Precipitate','v. t.','To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or\n   height.'),('Precipitate','v. t.','To urge or press on with eager haste or violence;\n   to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as,\n   precipitate a journey, or a conflict.'),('Precipitate','v. t.','To separate from a solution, or other medium, in\n   the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in\n   solution with alcohol.'),('Precipitate','v. i.','To dash or fall headlong.'),('Precipitate','v. i.','To hasten without preparation.'),('Precipitate','v. i.','To separate from a solution as a precipitate. See\n   Precipitate, n.'),('Precipitately','adv.','In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily;\n   rashly.'),('Precipitation','n.','The act of precipitating, or the state of being\n   precipitated, or thrown headlong.'),('Precipitation','n.','A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with\n   violence and rapidity.'),('Precipitation','n.','Great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity.'),('Precipitation','n.','The act or process of precipitating from a solution.'),('Precipitator','n.','One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or\n   rashness.'),('Precipitious','a.','Precipitous.'),('Precipitous','a.','Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or\n   mountain.'),('Precipitous','a.','Headlong; as, precipitous fall.'),('Precipitous','a.','Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as,\n   precipitous attempts.'),('Precis','n.','A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a\n   summary.'),('Precise','a.','Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined\n   or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise\n   rules of morality.'),('Precise','a.','Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or\n   exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.'),('Precisian','n.','One who limits, or restrains.'),('Precisian','n.','An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously\n   exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to\n   the English Puritans.'),('Precisianism','n.','The quality or state of being a precisian; the\n   practice of a precisian.'),('Precisianist','n.','A precisian.'),('Precision','n.','The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation;\n   exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard;\n   definiteness.'),('Precisive','a.','Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all\n   that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure;\n   precisive abstraction.'),('Precluded','imp. & p. p.','of Preclude'),('Precluding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preclude'),('Preclude','v.','To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder;\n   to stop; to impede.'),('Preclude','v.','To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder\n   by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to,\n   employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.'),('Preclusion','n.','The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded;\n   a shutting out.'),('Preclusive','a.','Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude;\n   hindering.'),('Precoce','a.','Precocious.'),('Precoces','n. pl.','Same as Praecoces.'),('Precocious','a.','Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early\n   or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees.'),('Precocious','a.','Developed more than is natural or usual at a given age;\n   exceeding what is to be expected of one\'s years; too forward; -- used\n   especially of mental forwardness; as, a precocious child; precocious\n   talents.'),('Precociously','adv.','In a precocious manner.'),('Precociousness','n.','Alt. of Precocity'),('Precocity','n.','The quality or state of being precocious; untimely\n   ripeness; premature development, especially of the mental powers;\n   forwardness.'),('Precoetanean','n.','One contemporary with, but older than, another.'),('Precogitate','v. t.','To cogitate beforehand.'),('Precogita/tion','n.','Previous cogitation.'),('Precognition','n.','Previous cognition.'),('Precognition','n.','A preliminary examination of a criminal case with\n   reference to a prosecution.'),('Precognizable','a.','Cognizable beforehand.'),('Precognosce','v. t.','To examine beforehand, as witnesses or evidence.'),('Precollection','n.','A collection previously made.'),('Precomposed','imp. & p. p.','of Precompose'),('Precomposing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Precompose'),('Precompose','v. t.','To compose beforehand.'),('Preconceit','n.','An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a\n   preconception.'),('Preconceived','imp. & p. p.','of Preconceive'),('Preconceiving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preconceive'),('Preconceive','v. t.','To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to\n   form a previous notion or idea of.'),('Preconception','n.','The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion\n   previously formed.'),('Preconcerted','imp. & p. p.','of Preconcert'),('Preconcerting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preconcert'),('Preconcert','v. t.','To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by\n   previous agreement.'),('Preconcert','n.','Something concerted or arranged beforehand; a previous\n   agreement.'),('Preconcerted','a.','Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand.'),('Preconcertion','n.','The act of preconcerting; preconcert.'),('Precondemn','v. t.','To condemn beforehand.'),('Precondition','n.','A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary\n   condition.'),('Preconform','v. t. & i.','To conform by way anticipation.'),('Preconformity','n.','Anticipative or antecedent conformity.'),('Preconizate','v. t.','To proclaim; to publish; also, to summon; to call.'),('Preconization','n.','A publishing by proclamation; a public proclamation.'),('Preconization','n.','A formal approbation by the pope of a person\n   nominated to an ecclesiastical dignity.'),('Preconize','v. t.','To approve by preconization.'),('Preconquer','v. t.','To conquer in anticipation.'),('Preconscious','a.','Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.'),('Preconsent','n.','A previous consent.'),('Preconsigned','imp. & p. p.','of Preconsign'),('Preconsigning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preconsign'),('Preconsign','v. t.','To consign beforehand; to make a previous\n   consignment of.'),('Preconsolidated','a.','Consolidated beforehand.'),('Preconstitute','v. t.','To constitute or establish beforehand.'),('Precontracted','imp. & p. p.','of Precontract'),('Precontracting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Precontract'),('Precontract','v. t.','To contract, engage, or stipulate previously.'),('Precontract','v. i.','To make a previous contract or agreement.'),('Precontract','n.','A contract preceding another'),('Precontract','n.','a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient\n   law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it.'),('Precontrive','v. t. & i.','To contrive or plan beforehand.'),('Precoracoid','n.','The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely\n   united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and\n   amphibians.'),('Precordial','a.','Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the\n   praecordia.'),('Precrural','a.','Situated in front of the leg or thigh; as, the precrural\n   glands of the horse.'),('Precurrer','n.','A precursor.'),('Precurse','n.','A forerunning.'),('Precursive','a.','Preceding; introductory; precursory.'),('Precursor','n.','One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates\n   its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.'),('Precursorship','n.','The position or condition of a precursor.'),('Precursory','a.','Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating\n   something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.'),('Precursory','n.','An introduction.'),('Predacean','n.','A carnivorous animal.'),('Predaceous','a.','Living by prey; predatory.'),('Predal','a.','Of or pertaining to prey; plundering; predatory.'),('Predate','v. t.','To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an\n   earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or\n   letter.'),('Predation','n.','The act of pillaging.'),('Predatorily','adv.','In a predatory manner.'),('Predatory','a.','Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine;\n   plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.'),('Predatory','a.','Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.'),('Predatory','a.','Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.'),('Prede','v. i.','To prey; to plunder.'),('Prede','n.','Prey; plunder; booty.'),('Predecay','n.','Premature decay.'),('Predecease','v. t.','To die sooner than.'),('Predecease','n.','The death of one person or thing before another.'),('Predecessive','a.','Going before; preceding.'),('Predecessor','n.','One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any\n   state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after,\n   in any office or position.'),('Predeclare','v. t.','To declare or announce beforehand; to preannounce.'),('Prededication','n.','A dedication made previously or beforehand.'),('Predefine','v. t.','To define beforehand.'),('Predeliberation','n.','Previous deliberation.'),('Predelineation','n.','Previous delineation.'),('Predella','n.','The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a\n   superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several\n   pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border\n   or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.'),('Predesign','v. t.','To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine.'),('Predesignate','a.','A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define\n   propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all,\n   none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of\n   which the quantity is not so indicated.'),('Predestinarian','a.','Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the\n   predestinarian controversy.'),('Predestinarian','n.','One who believes in or supports the doctrine of\n   predestination.'),('Predestinarianism','n.','The system or doctrine of the predestinarians.'),('Predestinary','a.','Predestinarian.'),('Predestinate','a.','Predestinated; foreordained; fated.'),('Predestinated','imp. & p. p.','of Predestinate'),('Predestinating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Predestinate'),('Predestinate','v. t.','To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or\n   ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.'),('Predestination','n.','The act of predestinating.'),('Predestination','n.','The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all\n   events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness\n   or misery. See Calvinism.'),('Predestinative','a.','Determining beforehand; predestinating.'),('Predestinator','n.','One who predestinates, or foreordains.'),('Predestinator','n.','One who holds to the doctrine of predestination; a\n   predestinarian.'),('Predestined','imp. & p. p.','of Predestine'),('Predestining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Predestine'),('Predestine','v. t.','To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to\n   predestinate.'),('Predestiny','n.','Predestination.'),('Predeterminable','a.','Capable of being determined beforehand.'),('Predeterminate','a.','Determined beforehand; as, the predeterminate\n   counsel of God.'),('Predetermination','n.','The act of previous determination; a purpose\n   formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God\'s will.'),('Predetermined','imp. & p. p.','of Predetermine'),('Predermining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Predetermine'),('Predetermine','v. t.','To determine (something) beforehand.'),('Predetermine','v. t.','To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.'),('Predetermine','v. i.','To determine beforehand.'),('Predial','a.','Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate;\n   that is, real estate.'),('Predial','a.','Attached to land or farms; as, predial slaves.'),('Predial','a.','Issuing or derived from land; as, predial tithes.'),('Prediastolic','a.','Preceding the diastole of the heart; as, a\n   prediastolic friction sound.'),('Predicability','n.','The quality or state of being predicable, or\n   affirmable of something, or attributed to something.'),('Predicable','a.','Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something;\n   affirmable; attributable.'),('Predicable','n.','Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general\n   attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many\n   individuals.'),('Predicable','n.','One of the five most general relations of attributes\n   involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference,\n   property, and accident.'),('Predicament','n.','A class or kind described by any definite marks;\n   hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an\n   unfortunate or trying position or condition.'),('Predicament','n.','See Category.'),('Predicamental','a.','Of or pertaining to a predicament.'),('Predicant','a.','Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence;\n   preaching.'),('Predicant','n.','One who predicates, affirms, or proclaims; specifically,\n   a preaching friar; a Dominican.'),('Predicated','imp. & p. p.','of Predicate'),('Predicating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Predicate'),('Predicate','v. t.','To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one\n   thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.'),('Predicate','v. t.','To found; to base.'),('Predicate','v. i.','To affirm something of another thing; to make an\n   affirmation.'),('Predicate','v. t.','That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In\n   these propositions, \"Paper is white,\" \"Ink is not white,\" whiteness is\n   the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.'),('Predicate','v. t.','The word or words in a proposition which express what\n   is affirmed of the subject.'),('Predicate','a.','Predicated.'),('Predication','n.','The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of\n   another; affirmation; assertion.'),('Predication','n.','Preaching.'),('Predicative','a.','Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming;\n   predicating, as, a predicative term.'),('Predicatory','a.','Affirmative; positive.'),('Predicrotic','a.','A term applied to the pulse wave sometimes seen in a\n   pulse curve or sphygmogram, between the apex of the curve and the\n   dicrotic wave.'),('Predicted','imp. & p. p.','of Predict'),('Predicting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Predict'),('Predict','v. t.','To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to\n   prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return\n   of a comet.'),('Predict','n.','A prediction.'),('Predictable','a.','That may be predicted.'),('Prediction','n.','The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold;\n   prophecy.'),('Predictional','a.','Prophetic; prognostic.'),('Predictive','a.','Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding.'),('Predictor','n.','One who predicts; a foreteller.'),('Predictory','a.','Predictive.'),('Predigest','v. t.','To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial\n   digestion.'),('Predigestion','n.','Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.'),('Predigestion','n.','Artificial digestion of food for use in illness or\n   impaired digestion.'),('Predilect','v. t.','To elect or choose beforehand.'),('Predilection','n.','A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor\n   of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.'),('Prediscover','v. t.','To discover beforehand.'),('Prediscovery','n.','A previous discovery.'),('Predisponency','n.','The state of being predisposed; predisposition.'),('Predisponent','a.','Disposing beforehand; predisposing.'),('Predisponent','n.','That which predisposes.'),('Predisposed','imp. & p. p.','of Predispose'),('Predisposing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Predispose'),('Predispose','v. t.','To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a\n   predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship.'),('Predispose','v. t.','To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a\n   tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease.'),('Predisposition','n.','The act of predisposing, or the state of being\n   predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity;\n   predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.'),('Predisposition','n.','Previous fitness or adaptation to any change,\n   impression, or purpose; susceptibility; -- applied to material things;\n   as, the predisposition of the body to disease.'),('Predominance','n.','The quality or state of being predominant;\n   superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination.'),('Predominance','n.','The superior influence of a planet.'),('Predominancy','n.','Predominance.'),('Predominant','a.','Having the ascendency over others; superior in\n   strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color;\n   predominant excellence.'),('Predominantly','adv.','In a predominant manner.'),('Predominated','imp. & p. p.','of Predominate'),('Predominating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Predominate'),('Predominate','v. i.','To be superior in number, strength, influence, or\n   authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule;\n   to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart.'),('Predominate','v. t.','To rule over; to overpower.'),('Predomination','n.','The act or state of predominating; ascendency;\n   predominance.'),('Predoom','v. t.','To foredoom.'),('Predorsal','a.','Situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or\n   on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.'),('Predy','a.','Cleared and ready for engagement, as a ship.'),('Preedy','adv.','With ease.'),('Preef','n.','Proof.'),('Preelect','v. t.','To elect beforehand.'),('Preelection','n.','Election beforehand.'),('Preeminence','n.','The quality or state of being preeminent; superiority\n   in prominence or in excellence; distinction above others in quality,\n   rank, etc.; rarely, in a bad sense, superiority or notoriety in evil;\n   as, preeminence in honor.'),('Preeminent','a.','Eminent above others; prominent among those who are\n   eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of,\n   others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as,\n   preeminent in guilt.'),('Preeminently','adv.','In a preeminent degree.'),('Preemploy','v. t.','To employ beforehand.'),('Preempted','imp. & p. p.','of Preempt'),('Preempting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preempt'),('Preempt','v. t. & i.','To settle upon (public land) with a right of\n   preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by\n   preemption.'),('Preemption','n.','The act or right of purchasing before others.'),('Preemption','n.','The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the\n   king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others.'),('Preemption','n.','The right of an actual settler upon public lands\n   (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion\n   at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants.'),('Preemptioner','n.','One who holds a prior to purchase certain public\n   land.'),('Preemptive','a.','Of or pertaining to preemption; having power to\n   preempt; preempting.'),('Preemtor','n.','One who preempts; esp., one who preempts public land.'),('Preemptory','a.','Pertaining to preemption.'),('Preen','n.','A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.'),('Preened','imp. & p. p.','of Preen'),('Preening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preen'),('Preen','n.','To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with\n   the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds.'),('Preen','n.','To trim up, as trees.'),('Preengaged','imp. & p. p.','of Preengage'),('Preengaging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preengage'),('Preengage','v. t.','To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach\n   previously; to preoccupy.'),('Preengagement','n.','Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by\n   contract, promise, or affection.'),('Preerect','v. t.','To erect beforehand.'),('Prees','n.','Press; throng.'),('Preestablish','v. t.','To establish beforehand.'),('Preestablishment','n.','Settlement beforehand.'),('Preeternity','n.','Infinite previous duration.'),('Preexamination','n.','Previous examination.'),('Preexamined','imp. & p. p.','of Preexamine'),('Preexamining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preexamine'),('Preexamine','v. t.','To examine beforehand.'),('Preexisted','imp. & p. p.','of Preexist'),('Preexisting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preexist'),('Preexist','v. i.','To exist previously; to exist before something else.'),('Preexistence','n.','Existence in a former state, or previous to something\n   else.'),('Preexistence','n.','Existence of the soul before its union with the body;\n   -- a doctrine held by certain philosophers.'),('Preexistency','n.','Preexistence.'),('Preexistent','a.','Existing previously; preceding existence; as, a\n   preexistent state.'),('Preexistentism','n.','The theory of a preexistence of souls before their\n   association with human bodies.'),('Preexistimation','n.','Previous esteem or estimation.'),('Preexpectation','n.','Previous expectation.'),('Preface','n.','Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or\n   written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction,\n   or series of preliminary remarks.'),('Preface','n.','The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.'),('Prefaced','imp. & p. p.','of Preface'),('Prefacing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preface'),('Preface','v. t.','To introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to\n   preface a book discourse.'),('Preface','v. i.','To make a preface.'),('Prefacer','n.','The writer of a preface.'),('Prefatorial','a.','Prefatory.'),('Prefatorily','adv.','In a prefatory manner; by way of preface.'),('Prefatory','a.','Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface;\n   introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks.'),('Prefect','n.','A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a\n   particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the\n   aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of\n   provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops\n   guarding the emperor\'s person.'),('Prefect','n.','A superintendent of a department who has control of its\n   police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal\n   regulation.'),('Prefect','n.','In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of\n   certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.'),('Prefectorial','a.','Of or pertaining to a prefect.'),('Prefectship','n.','The office or jurisdiction of a prefect.'),('Prefecture','n.','The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect;\n   also, his official residence.'),('Prefecundation','n.','A term collectively applied to the changes or\n   conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the\n   ovum undergoes before fecundation.'),('Prefecundatory','a.','Of or pertaining to prefecundation.'),('Preferred','imp. & p. p.','of Prefer'),('Preferring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prefer'),('Prefer','v. t.','To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one;\n   hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to\n   offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a\n   request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc.'),('Prefer','v. t.','To go before, or be before, in estimation; to outrank;\n   to surpass.'),('Prefer','v. t.','To cause to go before; hence, to advance before others,\n   as to an office or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to\n   prefer an officer to the rank of general.'),('Prefer','v. t.','To set above or before something else in estimation,\n   favor, or liking; to regard or honor before another; to hold in greater\n   favor; to choose rather; -- often followed by to, before, or above.'),('Preferability','n.','The quality or state of being preferable;\n   preferableness.'),('Preferable','a.','Worthy to be preferred or chosen before something else;\n   more desirable; as, a preferable scheme.'),('Preferableness','n.','The quality or state of being preferable.'),('Preferably','adv.','In preference; by choice.'),('Preference','n.','The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred;\n   the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation;\n   predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as,\n   to give him his preference.'),('Preference','n.','That which is preferred; the object of choice or\n   superior favor; as, which is your preference?'),('Preferential','a.','Giving, indicating, or having a preference or\n   precedence; as, a preferential claim; preferential shares.'),('Preferment','n.','The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen;\n   preference.'),('Preferment','n.','The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or\n   office; the state of being advanced; promotion.'),('Preferment','n.','A position or office of honor or profit; as, the\n   preferments of the church.'),('Preferrer','n.','One who prefers.'),('Prefidence','n.','The quality or state of being prefident.'),('Prefident','a.','Trusting beforehand; hence, overconfident.'),('Prefigurate','v. t.','To prefigure.'),('Prefiguration','n.','The act of prefiguring, or the state of being\n   prefigured.'),('Prefigurative','a.','Showing by prefiguration.'),('Prefigured','imp. & p. p.','of Prefigure'),('Prefiguring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prefigure'),('Prefigure','v. t.','To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types\n   and similitudes; to foreshadow.'),('Prefigurement','n.','The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that\n   which is prefigured.'),('Prefine','v. t.','To limit beforehand.'),('Prefinite','a.','Prearranged.'),('Prefinition','n.','Previous limitation.'),('Prefixed','imp. & p. p.','of Prefix'),('Prefixing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prefix'),('Prefix','v. t.','To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another\n   thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an\n   agreement.'),('Prefix','v. t.','To set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish\n   antecedently.'),('Prefix','n.','That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or\n   syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its\n   signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure.'),('Prefixion','n.','The act of prefixing.'),('Prefloration','n.','Aestivation.'),('Prefoliation','n.','Vernation.'),('Preform','v. t.','To form beforehand, or for special ends.'),('Preformation','n.','An old theory of the preexistence of germs. Cf.\n   Embo/tement.'),('Preformative','n.','A formative letter at the beginning of a word.'),('Prefrontal','a.','Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal\n   region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule\n   of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.'),('Prefrontal','n.','A prefrontal bone or scale.'),('Prefulgency','n.','Superior brightness or effulgency.'),('Pregage','v. t.','To preengage.'),('Preglacial','a.','Prior to the glacial or drift period.'),('Pregnable','a.','Capable of being entered, taken, or captured;\n   expugnable; as, a pregnable fort.'),('Pregnance','n.','Pregnancy.'),('Pregnancy','n.','The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with\n   young.'),('Pregnancy','n.','Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important\n   contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity;\n   fertility.'),('Pregnant','a.','Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great\n   with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.'),('Pregnant','a.','Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue;\n   full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.'),('Pregnant','a.','Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.;\n   as, a pregnant youth.'),('Pregnant','n.','A pregnant woman.'),('Pregnant','a.','Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open;\n   prompt.'),('Pregnantly','adv.','In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.'),('Pregnantly','adv.','Unresistingly; openly; hence, clearly; evidently.'),('Pregravate','v. t.','To bear down; to depress.'),('Pregravitate','v. i.','To descend by gravity; to sink.'),('Pregustant','a.','Tasting beforehand; having a foretaste.'),('Pregustation','n.','The act of tasting beforehand; foretaste.'),('Prehallux','n.','An extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the\n   preaxial side of the hallux.'),('Prehend','v. t.','To lay hold of; to seize.'),('Prehensi-ble','a.','Capable of being seized.'),('Prehensile','n.','Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the\n   prehensile tail of a monkey.'),('Prehension','n.','The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with\n   the hand or other member.'),('Prehensory','a.','Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile.'),('Prehistoric','a.','Of or pertaining to a period before written history\n   begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.'),('Prehnite','n.','A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates\n   having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct\n   crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.'),('Prehnitic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a tetrabasic acid of\n   benzene obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- probably so\n   called from the resemblance of the wartlike crystals to the mammillae\n   on the surface of prehnite.'),('Preindesignate','a.','Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite.\n   See Predesignate.'),('Preindispose','v. t.','To render indisposed beforehand.'),('Preinstructed','imp. & p. p.','of Preinstruct'),('Preinstructing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preinstruct'),('Preinstruct','v. t.','To instruct previously or beforehand.'),('Preintimation','n.','Previous intimation; a suggestion beforehand.'),('Prejudged','imp. & p. p.','of Prejudge'),('Prejudging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prejudge'),('Prejudge','v. t.','To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient\n   examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn\n   beforehand.'),('Prejudgment','n.','The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient\n   examination.'),('Prejudicacy','n.','Prejudice; prepossession.'),('Prejudical','a.','Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter\n   not previously decided; as, a prejudical inquiry or action at law.'),('Prejudicant','a.','Influenced by prejudice; biased.'),('Prejudicate','a.','Formed before due examination.'),('Prejudicate','a.','Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced.'),('Prejudicated','imp. & p. p.','of Prejudicate'),('Prejudicating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prejudicate'),('Prejudicate','v. t.','To determine beforehand, especially to\n   disadvantage; to prejudge.'),('Prejudicate','v. i.','To prejudge.'),('Prejudicately','adv.','With prejudice.'),('Prejudication','n.','The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due\n   examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment.'),('Prejudication','n.','A preliminary inquiry and determination about\n   something which belongs to a matter in dispute.'),('Prejudication','n.','A previous treatment and decision of a point; a\n   precedent.'),('Prejudicative','a.','Forming a judgment without due examination;\n   prejudging.'),('Prejudice','n.','Foresight.'),('Prejudice','n.','An opinion or judgment formed without due examination;\n   prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other\n   considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection\n   for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning\n   adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient\n   knowledge.'),('Prejudice','n.','A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which\n   interferes with fairness of judgment.'),('Prejudice','n.','Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.'),('Prejudiced','imp. & p. p.','of Prejudice'),('Prejudicing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prejudice'),('Prejudice','n.','To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions\n   formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by\n   hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one\n   side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.'),('Prejudice','n.','To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias\n   of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to\n   impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.'),('Prejudicial','a.','Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to\n   look with a prejudicial eye.'),('Prejudicial','a.','Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious;\n   disadvantageous; detrimental.'),('Preknowledge','n.','Prior knowledge.'),('Prelacies','pl. ','of Prelacy'),('Prelacy','n.','The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by\n   prelates.'),('Prelacy','n.','The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of\n   ecclesiastical dignitaries.'),('Prelal','a.','Of or pertaining to printing; typographical.'),('Prelate','n.','A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a\n   bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the\n   church.'),('Prelate','v. i.','To act as a prelate.'),('Prelateity','n.','Prelacy.'),('Prelateship','n.','The office of a prelate.'),('Prelatess','n.','A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate.'),('Prelatial','a.','Prelatical.'),('Prelatic','a.','Alt. of Prelatical'),('Prelatical','a.','Of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatical\n   authority.'),('Prelatically','adv.','In a prelatical manner; with reference to prelates.'),('Prelation','n.','The setting of one above another; preference.'),('Prelatism','n.','Prelacy; episcopacy.'),('Prelatist','n.','One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government\n   of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman.'),('Prelatized','imp. & p. p.','of Prelatize'),('Prelatizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prelatize'),('Prelatize','v. t.','To bring under the influence of prelacy.'),('Prelatize','v. i.','To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise\n   prelatical functions.'),('Prelatry','n.','Prelaty; prelacy.'),('Prelature','n.','Alt. of Prelatureship'),('Prelatureship','n.','The state or dignity of a prelate; prelacy.'),('Prelaty','n.','Prelacy.'),('Prelected','imp. & p. p.','of Prelect'),('Prelecting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prelect'),('Prelect','v. t.','To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.'),('Prelect','v. i.','To discourse publicly; to lecture.'),('Prelection','n.','A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select\n   company.'),('Prelector','n.','A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer.'),('Prelibation','n.','A tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste;\n   as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.'),('Prelibation','n.','A pouring out, or libation, before tasting.'),('Preliminarily','adv.','In a preliminary manner.'),('Preliminary','a.','Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse\n   or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or\n   book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures;\n   preliminary examinations.'),('Preliminaries','pl. ','of Preliminary'),('Preliminary','n.','That which precedes the main discourse, work, design,\n   or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the\n   preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one\'s preliminaries the\n   year before entering college.'),('Prelimit','v. t.','To limit previously.'),('Prelook','v. i.','To look forward.'),('Prelude','v. t.','An introductory performance, preceding and preparing\n   for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.;\n   especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a\n   movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent\n   composers often synonymous with overture.'),('Preluded','imp. & p. p.','of Prelude'),('Preluding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prelude'),('Prelude','v. i.','To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory\n   performance; to serve as prelude.'),('Prelude','v. t.','To introduce with a previous performance; to play or\n   perform a prelude to; as, to prelude a concert with a lively air.'),('Prelude','v. t.','To serve as prelude to; to precede as introductory.'),('Preluder','n.','One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a\n   prelude.'),('Preludial','a.','Of or pertaining to a prelude; of the nature of a\n   prelude; introductory.'),('Preludious','a.','Preludial.'),('Prelumbar','a.','Situated immediately in front of the loins; -- applied\n   to the dorsal part of the abdomen.'),('Prelusive','a.','Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating\n   that something of a like kind is to follow.'),('Prelusorily','adv.','In a prelusory way.'),('Prelusory','a.','Introductory; prelusive.'),('Premature','a.','Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature\n   fruits of a hotbed.'),('Premature','a.','Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the\n   proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a\n   premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion;\n   premature decay.'),('Premature','a.','Arriving or received without due authentication or\n   evidence; as, a premature report.'),('Prematurity','n.','The quality or state of being premature; early, or\n   untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius.'),('Premaxillae','pl. ','of Premaxilla'),('Premaxilla','n.','A bone on either side of the middle line between the\n   nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper\n   jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxillae become united and\n   form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.'),('Premaxillary','a.','Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining\n   to the premaxillae; intermaxillary.'),('Premaxillary','n.','A premaxilla.'),('Premediate','v. t.','To advocate.'),('Premeditated','imp. & p. p.','of Premeditate'),('Premeditating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Premeditate'),('Premeditate','v. t.','To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand;\n   to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery.'),('Premeditate','v. i.','To think, consider, deliberate, or revolve in the\n   mind, beforehand.'),('Premeditate','a.','Premeditated; deliberate.'),('Premeditately','adv.','With premeditation.'),('Premeditation','n.','The act of meditating or contriving beforehand;\n   previous deliberation; forethought.'),('Premerit','v. t.','To merit or deserve beforehand.'),('Premial','a.','Alt. of Premiant'),('Premiant','a.','Serving to reward; rewarding.'),('Premices','n. pl.','First fruits.'),('Premier','a.','First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier\n   minister.'),('Premier','a.','Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title\n   of his degree.'),('Premier','n.','The first minister of state; the prime minister.'),('Premiership','n.','The office of the premier.'),('Premillennial','a.','Previous to the millennium.'),('Premious','a.','Rich in gifts.'),('Premises','pl. ','of Premise'),('Premise','n.','A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something\n   previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a\n   condition; a supposition.'),('Premise','n.','Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from\n   which the conclusion is drawn.'),('Premise','n.','Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in\n   the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor\n   and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that\n   precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.'),('Premise','n.','A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as,\n   to lease premises; to trespass on another\'s premises.'),('Premised','imp. & p. p.','of Premise'),('Premising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Premise'),('Premise','n.','To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to\n   be before something else; to employ previously.'),('Premise','n.','To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main\n   subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in\n   understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first\n   propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.'),('Premise','v. i.','To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.'),('Premiss','n.','Premise.'),('Premit','v. t.','To premise.'),('Premiums','pl. ','of Premium'),('Premium','n.','A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before\n   another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a\n   bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for\n   discoveries, etc.'),('Premium','n.','Something offered or given for the loan of money; bonus;\n   -- sometimes synonymous with interest, but generally signifying a sum\n   in addition to the capital.'),('Premium','n.','A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for\n   undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.'),('Premium','n.','A sum in advance of, or in addition to, the nominal or par\n   value of anything; as, gold was at a premium; he sold his stock at a\n   premium.'),('Premolar','a.','Situated in front of the molar teeth.'),('Premolar','n.','An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous\n   molar. See Tooth.'),('Premonished','imp. & p. p.','of Premonish'),('Premonishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Premonish'),('Premonish','v. t.','To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.'),('Premonishment','n.','Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.'),('Premonition','n.','Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning;\n   as, a premonition of danger.'),('Premonitor','n.','One who, or that which, gives premonition.'),('Premonitory','a.','Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory\n   symptoms of disease.'),('Premonstrant','n.','A Premonstratensian.'),('Premonstrate','v. t.','To show beforehand; to foreshow.'),('Premonstratensian','n.','One of a religious order of regular canons\n   founded by St. Norbert at Premontre, in France, in 1119. The members of\n   the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants.'),('Premonstration','n.','A showing beforehand; foreshowing.'),('Premonstrator','n.','One who, or that which, premonstrates.'),('Premorse','a.','Terminated abruptly, or as it bitten off.'),('Premosaic','a.','Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic\n   history.'),('Premotion','n.','Previous motion or excitement to action.'),('Premunire','n.','See Praemunire.'),('Premunite','v. t.','To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection.'),('Premunition','n.','The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.'),('Premunitory','a.','Of or pertaining to a premunire; as, a premunitory\n   process.'),('Prenasal','a.','Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal\n   chambers.'),('Prenatal','a.','Being or happening before birth.'),('Prender','n.','The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered.'),('Prenomen','n.','See Praenomen.'),('Prenominal','a.','Serving as a prefix in a compound name.'),('Prenominate','a.','Forenamed; named beforehand.'),('Prenominate','v. t.','To forename; to name beforehand; to tell by name\n   beforehand.'),('Prenomination','n.','The act of prenominating; privilege of being named\n   first.'),('Prenostic','n.','A prognostic; an omen.'),('Prenote','v. t.','To note or designate beforehand.'),('Prenotion','n.','A notice or notion which precedes something else in\n   time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge.'),('Prensation','n.','The act of seizing with violence.'),('Prentice','n.','An apprentice.'),('Prenticehood','n.','Apprenticehood.'),('Prenticeship','n.','Apprenticeship.'),('Prenunciation','n.','The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.'),('Prenuncious','a.','Announcing beforehand; presaging.'),('Preoblongata','n.','The anterior part of the medulla oblongata.'),('Preobtain','v. t.','To obtain beforehand.'),('Preoccupancy','n.','The act or right of taking possession before another;\n   as, the preoccupancy of wild land.'),('Preoccupate','v. t.','To anticipate; to take before.'),('Preoccupate','v. t.','To prepossess; to prejudice.'),('Preoccupation','n.','The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of\n   beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.'),('Preoccupation','n.','Anticipation of objections.'),('Preoccupied','imp. & p. p.','of Preoccupy'),('Preoccupying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preoccupy'),('Preoccupy','v. t.','To take possession of before another; as, to\n   preoccupy a country not before held.'),('Preoccupy','v. t.','To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the\n   attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice.'),('Preocular','a.','Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennae of\n   certain insects.'),('Preocular','n.','One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile\n   or fish.'),('Preominate','v. t.','To ominate beforehand; to portend.'),('Preopercular','a.','Situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the\n   preoperculum.'),('Preopercular','n.','The preoperculum.'),('Preoperculum','n.','The anterior opercular bone in fishes.'),('Preopinion','n.','Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice.'),('Preoption','n.','Right of first choice.'),('Preoral','a.','Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth; as,\n   preoral bands.'),('Preorbital','a.','Situated in front or the orbit.'),('Preordain','v. t.','To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to\n   foreordain.'),('Preorder','v. t.','To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.'),('Preordinance','n.','Antecedent decree or determination.'),('Preordinate','a.','Preordained.'),('Preordination','n.','The act of foreordaining: previous determination.'),('Preparable','a.','Capable of being prepared.'),('Preparation','n.','The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a\n   particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or\n   adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of\n   wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.'),('Preparation','n.','The state of being prepared or made ready;\n   preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for\n   war.'),('Preparation','n.','That which makes ready, prepares the way, or\n   introduces; a preparatory act or measure.'),('Preparation','n.','That which is prepared, made, or compounded by a\n   certain process or for a particular purpose; a combination.\n   Specifically: (a) Any medicinal substance fitted for use. (b) Anything\n   treated for preservation or examination as a specimen. (c) Something\n   prepared for use in cookery.'),('Preparation','n.','An army or fleet.'),('Preparation','n.','The holding over of a note from one chord into the\n   next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the\n   chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the\n   preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See\n   Suspension.'),('Preparation','n.','Accomplishment; qualification.'),('Preparative','a.','Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of\n   preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.'),('Preparative','n.','That which has the power of preparing, or previously\n   fitting for a purpose; that which prepares.'),('Preparative','n.','That which is done in the way of preparation.'),('Preparatively','adv.','By way of preparation.'),('Preparator','n.','One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for\n   dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.'),('Preparatory','a.','Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of\n   adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory;\n   preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.'),('Prepare/','imp. & p. p.','of Prepare'),('Preparing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prepare'),('Prepare','v. t.','To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or\n   condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application;\n   as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.'),('Prepare','v. t.','To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to\n   provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to\n   prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment.'),('Prepare','v. i.','To make all things ready; to put things in order; as,\n   to prepare for a hostile invasion.'),('Prepare','v. i.','To make one\'s self ready; to get ready; to take the\n   necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death.'),('Prepare','n.','Preparation.'),('Prepared','a.','Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food;\n   prepared questions.'),('Preparer','n.','One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready.'),('Prepaid','imp. & p. p.','of Prepay'),('Prepaying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prepay'),('Prepay','v. t.','To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.'),('Prepayment','n.','Payment in advance.'),('Prepenial','a.','Situated in front of, or anterior to, the penis.'),('Prepense','v. t.','To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate.'),('Prepense','v. i.','To deliberate beforehand.'),('Prepense','v. t.','Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand;\n   preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the\n   word it qualifies; as, malice prepense.'),('Prepensely','adv.','In a premeditated manner.'),('Prepollence','n.','Alt. of Prepollency'),('Prepollency','n.','The quality or state of being prepollent; superiority\n   of power; predominance; prevalence.'),('Prepollent','a.','Having superior influence or power; prevailing;\n   predominant.'),('Prepollices','pl. ','of Prepollent'),('Prepollent','n.','An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the\n   preaxial side of the pollex.'),('Preponder','v. t.','To preponderate.'),('Preponderance','n.','Alt. of Preponderancy'),('Preponderancy','n.','The quality or state of being preponderant;\n   superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an\n   outweighing.'),('Preponderancy','n.','The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind\n   the trunnions over that in front of them.'),('Preponderant','a.','Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used\n   literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant\n   importance.'),('Preponderated','imp. & p. p.','of Preponderate'),('Preponderating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preponderate'),('Preponderate','v. t.','To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in\n   weight; to overbalance.'),('Preponderate','v. t.','To overpower by stronger or moral power.'),('Preponderate','v. t.','To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.'),('Preponderate','v. i.','To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend,\n   as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power,\n   etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side\n   preponderated.'),('Preponderatingly','adv.','In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.'),('Preponderation','n.','The act or state of preponderating; preponderance;\n   as, a preponderation of reasons.'),('Prepose','v. t.','To place or set before; to prefix.'),('Preposition','n.','A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an\n   adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used\n   with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to\n   make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually\n   placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron;\n   he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.'),('Preposition','n.','A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.'),('Prepositional','a.','Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of\n   a preposition.'),('Prepositive','a.','Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle.'),('Prepositive','n.','A prepositive word.'),('Prepositor','n.','A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a\n   monitor.'),('Prepositure','n.','The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship.'),('Prepossessed','imp. & p. p.','of Prepossess'),('Prepossessing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prepossess'),('Prepossess','v. t.','To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous\n   possession of.'),('Prepossess','v. t.','To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to\n   preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous\n   inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable\n   opinion beforehand, or at the outset.'),('Prepossessing','a.','Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence,\n   favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.'),('Prepossession','n.','Preoccupation; prior possession.'),('Prepossession','n.','Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or\n   impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression;\n   bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the\n   prepossessions of childhood.'),('Prepossessor','n.','One who possesses, or occupies, previously.'),('Preposterous','a.','Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in\n   order.'),('Preposterous','a.','Contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end;\n   utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted.'),('Prepostor','n.','See Prepositor.'),('Prepotency','n.','The quality or condition of being prepotent;\n   predominance.'),('Prepotency','n.','The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as\n   compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of\n   characteristics to their offspring.'),('Prepotent','a.','Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or\n   authority; predominant.'),('Prepotent','a.','Characterized by prepotency.'),('Preprovide','v. t.','To provide beforehand.'),('Prepubic','a.','Situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis;\n   pertaining to the prepubis.'),('Prepubis','n.','A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the\n   middle line in front of the pubic bones.'),('Prepuce','n.','The foreskin.'),('Preputial','a.','Of or pertaining to the prepuce.'),('Preraphaelism','n.','Alt. of Preraphaelitism'),('Preraphaelitism','n.','The doctrine or practice of a school of modern\n   painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael.\n   Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and\n   minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of\n   the subject.'),('Preraphaelite','a.','Of or pertaining to the style called\n   preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape.'),('Preraphaelite','n.','One who favors or practices art as it was before\n   Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.'),('Preregnant','n.','One who reigns before another; a sovereign predecessor.'),('Preremote','a.','More remote in previous time or prior order.'),('Prerequire','v. t.','To require beforehand.'),('Prerequisite','a.','Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to\n   any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.'),('Prerequisite','n.','Something previously required, or necessary to an end\n   or effect proposed.'),('Preresolved','imp. & p. p.','of Preresolve'),('Preresolving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preresolve'),('Preresolve','v. t. & i.','To resolve beforehand; to predetermine.'),('Prerogative','n.','An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and\n   indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used\n   generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted\n   without question, and for the exercise of which there is no\n   responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its\n   exercise.'),('Prerogative','n.','Precedence; preeminence; first rank.'),('Prerogatived','a.','Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.'),('Prerogatively','adv.','By prerogative.'),('Presage','v. t.','Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a\n   prognostic; an omen; an augury.'),('Presage','v. t.','Power to look the future, or the exercise of that\n   power; foreknowledge; presentiment.'),('Presaged','imp. & p. p.','of Presage'),('Presaging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Presage'),('Presage','v. t.','To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to\n   foreknow.'),('Presage','v. t.','To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.'),('Presage','v. i.','To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with\n   of.'),('Presageful','a.','Full of presages; ominous.'),('Presagement','n.','The act or art of presaging; a foreboding.'),('Presagement','n.','That which is presaged, or foretold.'),('Presager','n.','One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a\n   foreboder.'),('Presagious','a.','Foreboding; ominous.'),('Presbyope','n.','One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.'),('Presbyopia','','A defect of vision consequent upon advancing age. It is\n   due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which produces difficulty of\n   accommodation and recession of the near point of vision, so that\n   objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use\n   of convex glasses. Called also presbytia.'),('Presbyopic','a.','Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia;\n   farsighted.'),('Presbyopy','n.','See Presbyopia.'),('Presbyte','n.','Same as Presbyope.'),('Presbyter','n.','An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation\n   under Bishop, n., 1.'),('Presbyter','n.','One ordained to the second order in the ministry; --\n   called also priest.'),('Presbyter','n.','A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.'),('Presbyter','n.','A Presbyterian.'),('Presbyteral','a.','Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery;\n   presbyterial.'),('Presbyterate','n.','A presbytery; also, presbytership.'),('Presbyteress','n.','A female presbyter.'),('Presbyterial','a.','Presbyterian.'),('Presbyterian','a.','Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical\n   government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church\n   government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and\n   worship of a communion so governed.'),('Presbyterian','n.','One who maintains the validity of ordination and\n   government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.'),('Presbyterianism','n.','That form of church government which invests\n   presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them;\n   also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken\n   collectively.'),('Presbyterium','n.','Same as Presbytery, 4.'),('Presbytership','n.','The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.'),('Presbyteries','pl. ','of Presbytery'),('Presbytery','n.','A body of elders in the early Christian church.'),('Presbytery','n.','A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a\n   certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each\n   parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction\n   with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches\n   under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.'),('Presbytery','n.','The Presbyterian religion of polity.'),('Presbytery','n.','That part of the church reserved for the officiating\n   priest.'),('Presbytery','n.','The residence of a priest or clergyman.'),('Presbytia','n.','Presbyopia.'),('Presbytic','a.','Same as Presbyopic.'),('Presbytism','n.','Presbyopia.'),('Presscapula','n.','The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the\n   spine, or mesoscapula.'),('Prescapular','a.','Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.'),('Prescience','n.','Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.'),('Prescient','a.','Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious\n   beforehand.'),('Presciently','adv.','With prescience or foresight.'),('Prescind','v. t.','To cut off; to abstract.'),('Prescind','v. t.','To consider by a separate act of attention or\n   analysis.'),('Presciendent','a.','Foreknowing; having foreknowledge; as, prescious of\n   ills.'),('Prescribed','imp. & p. p.','of Prescribe'),('Prescribing','p. pr & vb. n.','of Prescribe'),('Prescribe','v. t.','To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or\n   rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to\n   appoint; to direct.'),('Prescribe','v. t.','To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as,\n   the doctor prescribed quinine.'),('Prescribe','v. i.','To give directions; to dictate.'),('Prescribe','v. i.','To influence by long use'),('Prescribe','v. i.','To write or to give medical directions; to indicate\n   remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.'),('Prescribe','v. i.','To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing\n   on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom\n   having the force of law.'),('Prescriber','n.','One who prescribes.'),('Prescript','a.','Directed; prescribed.'),('Prescript','n.','Direction; precept; model prescribed.'),('Prescript','n.','A medical prescription.'),('Prescriptibility','n.','The quality or state of being prescriptible.'),('Prescriptible','a.','Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper\n   to be prescribed.'),('Prescription','n.','The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating;\n   direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.'),('Prescription','n.','A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease,\n   and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed\n   remedy.'),('Prescription','n.','A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a\n   thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title\n   acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by\n   law.'),('Prescriptive','a.','Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or\n   long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title;\n   pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.'),('Prescriptively','adv.','By prescription.'),('Prescuta','pl. ','of Prescutum'),('Prescutum','n.','The first of the four pieces composing the dorsal part,\n   or tergum, of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is usually small and\n   inconspicuous.'),('Preseance','n.','Priority of place in sitting.'),('Preselect','v. t.','To select beforehand.'),('Presence','n.','The state of being present, or of being within sight or\n   call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.'),('Presence','n.','The place in which one is present; the part of space\n   within one\'s ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the\n   intervention of anything that forbids intercourse.'),('Presence','n.','Specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of\n   superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber.'),('Presence','n.','The whole of the personal qualities of an individual;\n   person; personality; especially, the person of a superior, as a\n   sovereign.'),('Presence','n.','An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility;\n   noble company.'),('Presence','n.','Port, mien; air; personal appearence.'),('Presensation','n.','Previous sensation, notion, or idea.'),('Presension','n.','Previous perception.'),('Present','a.','Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain\n   contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.'),('Present','a.','Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in\n   view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future;\n   as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the\n   present instance.'),('Present','a.','Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.'),('Present','a.','Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit.'),('Present','a.','Favorably attentive; propitious.'),('Present','a.','Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at\n   the moment contemplated; as, at this present.'),('Present','a.','Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a\n   lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, \" Know\n   all men by these presents,\" that is, by the writing itself, \" per has\n   literas praesentes; \" -- in this sense, rarely used in the singular.'),('Present','a.','A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the\n   present tense.'),('Presented','imp. & p. p.','of Present'),('Presenting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Present'),('Present','a.','To bring or introduce into the presence of some one,\n   especially of a superior; to introduce formally; to offer for\n   acquaintance; as, to present an envoy to the king; (with the reciprocal\n   pronoun) to come into the presence of a superior.'),('Present','a.','To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one\'s\n   perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.'),('Present','a.','To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in\n   charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.'),('Present','a.','To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a\n   formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.'),('Present','a.','Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with\n   a donation; also, to court by gifts.'),('Present','a.','To present; to personate.'),('Present','a.','To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the\n   bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.'),('Present','a.','To nominate for support at a public school or other\n   institution .'),('Present','a.','To lay before a public body, or an official, for\n   consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a\n   corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance,\n   or indictment.'),('Present','a.','To lay before a court as an object of inquiry; to give\n   notice officially of, as a crime of offence; to find or represent\n   judicially; as, a grand jury present certain offenses or nuisances, or\n   whatever they think to be public injuries.'),('Present','a.','To bring an indictment against .'),('Present','a.','To aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present a\n   pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of another.'),('Present','v. i.','To appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be\n   perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of\n   an infant during labor.'),('Present','n.','Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a\n   Christmas present.'),('Present','n.','The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand\n   at present.'),('Presentable','a.','Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to\n   be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set\n   forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into\n   society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not\n   presentable in such a gown.'),('Presentable','a.','Admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as, a\n   church presentable.'),('Presentaneous','a.','Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous\n   poison.'),('Presentation','n.','The act of presenting, or the state of being\n   presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.'),('Presentation','n.','exhibition; representation; display; appearance;\n   semblance; show.'),('Presentation','n.','That which is presented or given; a present; a gift,\n   as, the picture was a presentation.'),('Presentation','n.','The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or\n   ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a\n   clergyman.'),('Presentation','n.','The particular position of the child during labor\n   relatively to the passage though which it is to be brought forth; --\n   specifically designated by the part which first appears at the mouth of\n   the uterus; as, a breech presentation.'),('Presentative','a.','Having the right of presentation, or offering a\n   clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are\n   presentative, collative, or donative.'),('Presentative','a.','Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a\n   presentative parsonage.'),('Presentative','a.','Capable of being directly known by, or presented to,\n   the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of\n   apprehending, as faculties.'),('Presentee','v. t.','One to whom something is presented; also, one who is\n   presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice.'),('Presenter','n.','One who presents.'),('Presential','a.','Implying actual presence; present, immediate.'),('Presentiality','n.','State of being actually present.'),('Presentiate','v. t.','To make present.'),('Presentient','a.','Feeling or perceiving beforehand.'),('Presentific','a.','Making present.'),('Presentifical','a.','Presentific.'),('Presentiment','n.','Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous\n   apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of\n   something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen;\n   anticipation of evil; foreboding.'),('Presentimental','a.','Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding.'),('Presention','n.','See Presension.'),('Presentive','a.','Bringing a conception or notion directly before the\n   mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; --\n   distinguished from symbolic.'),('Presently','adv.','At present; at this time; now.'),('Presently','adv.','At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less\n   definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and\n   by.'),('Presently','adv.','With actual presence; actually .'),('Presentment','n.','The act of presenting, or the state of being\n   presented; presentation.'),('Presentment','n.','Setting forth to view; delineation; appearance;\n   representation; exhibition.'),('Presentment','n.','The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from\n   their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid\n   before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like;\n   also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an\n   official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an\n   indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment\n   itself.'),('Presentment','n.','The official notice (formerly required to be given in\n   court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.'),('Presentness','n.','The quality or state of being present; presence.'),('Presentoir','n.','An ornamental tray, dish, or the like, used as a\n   salver.'),('Preservable','a.','Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.'),('Preservation','n.','The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe;\n   the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or\n   decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a\n   picture in good preservation.'),('Preservative','a.','Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to\n   preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.'),('Preservative','n.','That which preserves, or has the power of preserving;\n   a presevative agent.'),('Preservatory','a.','Preservative.'),('Preservatories','pl. ','of Preservatory'),('Preservatory','n.','A preservative.'),('Preservatory','n.','A room, or apparatus, in which perishable things, as\n   fruit, vegetables, etc., can be preserved without decay.'),('Preserved','imp. & p. p.','of Preserve'),('Preserving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preserve'),('Preserve','v. t.','To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard\n   or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.'),('Preserve','v. t.','To save from decay by the use of some preservative\n   substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in\n   a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.'),('Preserve','v. t.','To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to\n   preserve appearances; to preserve silence.'),('Preserve','v. i.','To make preserves.'),('Preserve','v. i.','To protect game for purposes of sport.'),('Preserve','n.','That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept\n   by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in\n   the plural.'),('Preserve','n.','A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for\n   purposes of sport, or for food.'),('Preserver','n.','One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends,\n   from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or\n   character of another.'),('Preserver','n.','One who makes preserves of fruit.'),('Preshow','v. t.','To foreshow.'),('Presided','imp. & p. p.','of Preside'),('Presiding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Preside'),('Preside','v. i.','To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to\n   occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to\n   direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a\n   public meeting; to preside over the senate.'),('Preside','v. i.','To exercise superintendence; to watch over.'),('Presidence','n.','See Presidency.'),('Presidencies','pl. ','of Presidency'),('Presidency','n.','The function or condition of one who presides;\n   superintendence; control and care.'),('Presidency','n.','The office of president; as, Washington was elected to\n   the presidency.'),('Presidency','n.','The term during which a president holds his office; as,\n   during the presidency of Madison.'),('Presidency','n.','One of the three great divisions of British India, the\n   Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of\n   which its governor was president.'),('President','n.','Precedent.'),('President','a.','Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the\n   highest authority; presiding.'),('President','n.','One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding\n   officer, as of a legislative body.'),('President','n.','The chief officer of a corporation, company,\n   institution, society, or the like.'),('President','n.','The chief executive officer of the government in certain\n   republics; as, the president of the United States.'),('President','n.','A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius.'),('Presidential','a.','Presiding or watching over.'),('Presidential','a.','Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential\n   chair; a presidential election.'),('Presidentship','n.','The office and dignity of president; presidency.'),('Presider','n.','One who presides.'),('Presidial','a.','Alt. of Presidiary'),('Presidiary','a.','Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.'),('Presidary','n.','A guard.'),('Presiding','','a. & n. from Preside.'),('Presidio','n.','A place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a\n   garrison or guardhouse.'),('Presignification','n.','The act of signifying or showing beforehand.'),('Presignified','imp. & p. p.','of Presignify'),('Presignifying','imp. & p. p.','of Presignify'),('Presignify','v. t.','To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.'),('Presphenoid','a.','Situated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or\n   pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone (i. e., the\n   presphenoid bone).'),('Presphenoid','n.','The presphenoid bone.'),('Presphenoidal','a.','Of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone;\n   presphenoid.'),('Prespinal','a.','Prevertebral.'),('Press','n.','An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is\n   arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and\n   varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.'),('Press','n.','To force into service, particularly into naval service; to\n   impress.'),('Press','n.','A commission to force men into public service, particularly\n   into the navy.'),('Pressed','imp. & p. p.','of Press'),('Pressing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Press'),('Press','v.','To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by\n   pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel\n   by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to\n   compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press\n   the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands,\n   fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.'),('Press','v.','To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to\n   squeeze out, or express, from something.'),('Press','v.','To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in\n   order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales,\n   paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.'),('Press','v.','To embrace closely; to hug.'),('Press','v.','To oppress; to bear hard upon.'),('Press','v.','To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or\n   hunger.'),('Press','v.','To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or\n   over; to constrain; to force; to compel.'),('Press','v.','To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or\n   inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press\n   divine truth on an audience.'),('Press','v.','To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard;\n   as, to press a horse in a race.'),('Press','v. i.','To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or\n   urge with steady force.'),('Press','v. i.','To move on with urging and crowding; to make one\'s way\n   with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng;\n   to encroach.'),('Press','v. i.','To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong\n   or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.'),('Press','n.','An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is\n   pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a\n   body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or\n   presses.'),('Press','n.','Specifically, a printing press.'),('Press','n.','The art or business of printing and publishing; hence,\n   printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or\n   the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a\n   blessing, a licentious press is a curse.'),('Press','n.','An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles;\n   as, a clothes press.'),('Press','n.','The act of pressing or thronging forward.'),('Press','n.','Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press\n   of engagements.'),('Press','n.','A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of\n   single things; a throng.'),('Presser','n.','One who, or that which, presses.'),('Pressgang','n.','See Press gang, under Press.'),('Pressing','a.','Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity.'),('Pression','n.','The act of pressing; pressure.'),('Pression','n.','An endeavor to move.'),('Pressiroster','n.','One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres)\n   including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.'),('Pressirostral','a.','Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.'),('Pressitant','a.','Gravitating; heavy.'),('Pressive','a.','Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive\n   taxation.'),('Pressly','adv.','Closely; concisely.'),('Pressmen','pl. ','of Pressman'),('Pressman','n.','One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing\n   press.'),('Pressman','n.','One who presses clothes; as, a tailor\'s pressman.'),('Pressman','n.','One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the\n   naval service; also, one forced into the service.'),('Pressor','a.','Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of\n   pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the\n   vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries\n   and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed\n   to depressor.'),('Presspack','v. t.','To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.'),('Pressurage','n.','Pressure.'),('Pressurage','n.','The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a\n   fee paid for the use of a wine press.'),('Pressure','n.','The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed;\n   compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.'),('Pressure','n.','A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the\n   pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on\n   the mind; the pressure of civilization.'),('Pressure','n.','Affliction; distress; grievance.'),('Pressure','n.','Urgency; as, the pressure of business.'),('Pressure','n.','Impression; stamp; character impressed.'),('Pressure','n.','The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing\n   force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface,\n   often estimated with reference to the upon a unit\'s area.'),('Presswork','n.','The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or\n   engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done.'),('Prest','','imp. & p. p. of Press.'),('Prest','a.','Ready; prompt; prepared.'),('Prest','a.','Neat; tidy; proper.'),('Prest','n.','Ready money; a loan of money.'),('Prest','n.','A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account\n   in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.'),('Prest','v. t.','To give as a loan; to lend.'),('Prestable','a.','Payable.'),('Prestation','n.','A payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering\n   of a service.'),('Prester','n.','A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from\n   the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.'),('Prester','n.','One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or\n   other excitement.'),('Prester','n.','A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John.'),('Presternum','n.','The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium.'),('Prestidigital','a.','Nimble-fingered; having fingers fit for\n   prestidigitation, or juggling.'),('Prestidigitation','n.','Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling.'),('Prestidigitator','n.','One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a\n   juggler.'),('Prestige','v.','Delusion; illusion; trick.'),('Prestige','v.','Weight or influence derived from past success;\n   expectation of future achievements founded on those already\n   accomplished; force or charm derived from acknowledged character or\n   reputation.'),('Prestigiation','n.','Legerdemain; prestidigitation.'),('Prestigiator','n.','A juggler; prestidigitator.'),('Prestigiatory','a.','Consisting of impostures; juggling.'),('Prestigious','a.','Practicing tricks; juggling.'),('Prestimony','n.','A fund for the support of a priest, without the title\n   of a benefice. The patron in the collator.'),('Prestissimo','adv.','Very quickly; with great rapidity.'),('Presto','a.','Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.'),('Presto','a.','Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively\n   movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time\n   except prestissimo.'),('Presstriction','n.','Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight.'),('Presultor','n.','A leader in the dance.'),('Presumable','a.','Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that\n   seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.'),('Presumably','adv.','In a presumable manner; by, or according to,\n   presumption.'),('Presumed','imp. & p. p.','of Presume'),('Presuming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Presume'),('Presume','v. t.','To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake\n   without leave or authority previously obtained.'),('Presume','v. t.','To take or suppose to be true, or entitled to belief,\n   without examination or proof, or on the strength of probability; to\n   take for granted; to infer; to suppose.'),('Presume','v. i.','To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on\n   grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by\n   anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far.'),('Presume','v. i.','To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or\n   authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the\n   circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take\n   liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence.'),('Presumedly','adv.','By presumption.'),('Presumer','n.','One who presumes; also, an arrogant person.'),('Presumingly','adv.','Confidently; arrogantly.'),('Presumption','n.','The act of presuming, or believing upon probable\n   evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon\n   incomplete proof.'),('Presumption','n.','Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not\n   conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the\n   presumption is that an event has taken place.'),('Presumption','n.','That which is presumed or assumed; that which is\n   supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable\n   but not conclusive.'),('Presumption','n.','The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an\n   overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward,\n   overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness;\n   arrogance; effrontery.'),('Presumptive','a.','Based on presumption or probability; grounded on\n   probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof.'),('Presumptive','a.','Presumptuous; arrogant.'),('Presumptively','adv.','By presumption, or supposition grounded or\n   probability; presumably.'),('Presumptuous','a.','Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or\n   venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant;\n   insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct.'),('Presumptuous','a.','Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea.'),('Presumptuous','a.','Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in\n   violation of known duty; willful.'),('Presumptuously','adv.','In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly.'),('Presumptuousness','n.','The quality or state of being presumptuous.'),('Presupposal','n.','Presupposition.'),('Presupposed','imp. & p. p.','of Presuppose'),('Presupposing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Presuppose'),('Presuppose','v. t.','To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to\n   take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.'),('Presupposition','n.','The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication;\n   presumption.'),('Presupposition','n.','That which is presupposed; a previous supposition\n   or surmise.'),('Presurmise','n.','A surmise previously formed.'),('Presystolic','a.','Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart; as,\n   the presystolic friction sound.'),('Pretemporal','a.','Situated in front of the temporal bone.'),('Pretence','a.','Alt. of Pretenceless'),('Pretenceful','a.','Alt. of Pretenceless'),('Pretenceless','a.','See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless.'),('Pretended','imp. & p. p.','of Pretend'),('Pretending','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pretend'),('Pretend','v. t.','To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.'),('Pretend','v. t.','To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise\n   for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.'),('Pretend','v. t.','To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or\n   offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show\n   hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign;\n   as, to pretend friendship.'),('Pretend','v. t.','To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.'),('Pretend','v. t.','To hold before one; to extend.'),('Pretend','v. i.','To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to\n   allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually\n   with to.'),('Pretend','v. i.','To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or\n   performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to\n   pretend to be asleep.'),('Pretendant','n.','A pretender; a claimant.'),('Pretended','a.','Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended\n   friend.'),('Pretendence','n.','The act of pretending; pretense.'),('Pretender','n.','One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a\n   claimant.'),('Pretender','n.','The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of\n   James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to\n   the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law.'),('Pretender','n.','One who pretends, simulates, or feigns.'),('Pretendership','n.','The character, right, or claim of a pretender.'),('Pretendingly','adv.','As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.'),('Pretense','n.','Alt. of Pretence'),('Pretence','n.','The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption;\n   pretension.'),('Pretence','n.','The act of holding out, or offering, to others something\n   false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical;\n   deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false\n   show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of\n   patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar\'s death.'),('Pretence','n.','That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or\n   hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.'),('Pretence','n.','Intention; design.'),('Pretensed','a.','Pretended; feigned.'),('Pretenseful','a.','Abounding in pretenses.'),('Pretenseless','a.','Not having or making pretenses.'),('Pretension','n.','The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of\n   asserting right or title.'),('Pretension','n.','A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or\n   assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain\n   character; as, pretensions to scholarship.'),('Pretentative','a.','Fitted for trial beforehand; experimental.'),('Pretentious','a.','Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than\n   is one\'s; presuming; assuming.'),('Preter-','','A prefix signifying past, by, beyond, more than; as, preter-\n   mission, a permitting to go by; preternatural, beyond or more than is\n   natural.'),('Preterhuman','a.','More than human.'),('Preterient','a.','Passed through; antecedent; previous; as, preterient\n   states.'),('Preterimperfect','a. & n.','Old name of the tense also called imperfect.'),('Preterist','n.','One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards\n   the past with most pleasure or favor.'),('Preterist','n.','One who believes the prophecies of the Apocalypse to\n   have been already fulfilled.'),('Preterit','a.','Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or\n   state as past.'),('Preterit','a.','Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.'),('Preterit','n.','The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.'),('Preterite','a. & n.','Same as Preterit.'),('Preteriteness','n.','Same as Preteritness.'),('Preterition','n.','The act of passing, or going past; the state of being\n   past.'),('Preterition','n.','A figure by which, in pretending to pass over\n   anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, \"I will not say, he is\n   valiant, he is learned, he is just.\" Called also paraleipsis.'),('Preterition','n.','The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs\n   who is entitled to a portion.'),('Preteritive','a.','Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses,\n   as certain verbs.'),('Preteritness','n.','The quality or state of being past.'),('Preterlapsed','a.','Past; as, preterlapsed ages.'),('Preterlegal','a.','Exceeding the limits of law.'),('Pretermission','n.','The act of passing by or omitting; omission.'),('Pretermission','n.','See Preterition.'),('Pretermitted','imp. & p. p.','of Pretermit'),('Pretermitting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pretermit'),('Pretermit','v. t.','To pass by; to omit; to disregard.'),('Preternatural','a.','Beyond of different from what is natural, or\n   according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural\n   or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon;\n   irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural\n   stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor.'),('Preternaturalism','n.','The state of being preternatural; a preternatural\n   condition.'),('Preternaturality','n.','Preternaturalness.'),('Preternaturally','adv.','In a preternatural manner or degree.'),('Preternaturalness','n.','The quality or state of being preternatural.'),('Preterperfect','a. & n.','Old name of the tense also called preterit.'),('Preterpluperfect','a. & n.','Old name of the tense also called\n   pluperfect.'),('Pretertiary','a.','Earlier than Tertiary.'),('Pretervection','n.','The act of carrying past or beyond.'),('Pretex','v. t.','To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to\n   pretend; to declare falsely.'),('Pretext','n.','Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color\n   or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.'),('Pretexture','n.','A pretext.'),('Pretibial','a.','Situated in front of the tibia.'),('Pretor','n.','A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans.'),('Pretor','n.','Hence, a mayor or magistrate.'),('Pretorial','a.','Pretorian.'),('Pretorian','a.','Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial;\n   exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or\n   authority.'),('Pretorian','n.','A soldier of the pretorian guard.'),('Pretorium','n.','The general\'s tent in a Roman camp; hence, a council of\n   war, because held in the general\'s tent.'),('Pretorium','n.','The official residence of a governor of a province;\n   hence, a place; a splendid country seat.'),('Pretorship','n.','The office or dignity of a pretor.'),('Pretorture','v. t.','To torture beforehand.'),('Prettily','adv.','In a pretty manner.'),('Prettiness','n.','The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes\n   in a disparaging sense.'),('Pretty','superl.','Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not\n   striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color;\n   having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation\n   or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a\n   pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.'),('Pretty','superl.','Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a\n   pretty fortune.'),('Pretty','superl.','Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.'),('Pretty','superl.','Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically;\n   as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.'),('Pretty','superl.','Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.'),('Pretty','adv.','In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost;\n   -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty\n   cold weather.'),('Prettyish','a.','Somewhat pretty.'),('Prettyism','n.','Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc.'),('Pretty-spoken','a.','Spoken or speaking prettily.'),('Pretypified','imp. & p. p.','of Pretypify'),('Pretypifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pretypify'),('Pretypify','v. t.','To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.'),('Pretzel','n.','A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted\n   ring, salted on the outside.'),('Prevailed','imp. & p. p.','of Prevail'),('Prevailing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prevail'),('Prevail','v. i.','To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to\n   gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed;\n   -- sometimes with over or against.'),('Prevail','v. i.','To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to\n   be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the\n   practice prevails this day.'),('Prevail','v. i.','To persuade or induce; -- with on, upon, or with; as, I\n   prevailedon him to wait.'),('Prevailing','a.','Having superior force or influence; efficacious;\n   persuasive.'),('Prevailing','a.','Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the\n   prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.'),('Prevailingly','adv.','So as to prevail.'),('Prevailment','n.','Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy.'),('Prevalence','n.','The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior\n   strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or\n   practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion,\n   or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.'),('Prevalency','n.','See Prevalence.'),('Prevalent','a.','Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force,\n   influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful;\n   victorious.'),('Prevalent','a.','Most generally received or current; most widely adopted\n   or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread;\n   prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.'),('Prevalently','adv.','In a prevalent manner.'),('Prevaricated','imp. & p. p.','of Prevaricate'),('Prevaricating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prevaricate'),('Prevaricate','v. i.','To shift or turn from one side to the other, from\n   the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to\n   shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.'),('Prevaricate','v. i.','To collude, as where an informer colludes with the\n   defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.'),('Prevaricate','v. i.','To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with\n   the purpose of defeating or destroying it.'),('Prevaricate','v. t.','To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.'),('Prevarication','n.','The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling,\n   to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the\n   truth and fair dealing.'),('Prevarication','n.','A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.'),('Prevarication','n.','The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for\n   the purpose of making a sham prosecution.'),('Prevarication','n.','A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing\n   for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.'),('Prevaricator','n.','One who prevaricates.'),('Prevaricator','n.','A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a\n   sham prosecution.'),('Prevaricator','n.','One who betrays or abuses a trust.'),('Preve','v. i. & i.','To prove.'),('Preve','n.','Proof.'),('Prevenance','n.','A going before; anticipation in sequence or order.'),('Prevenancy','n.','The act of anticipating another\'s wishes, desires,\n   etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness.'),('Prevene','v. t. & i.','To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder;\n   to prevent.'),('Prevenience','n.','The act of going before; anticipation.'),('Prevenient','a.','Going before; preceding; hence, preventive.'),('Prevented','imp. & p. p.','of Prevent'),('Preventing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prevent'),('Prevent','v. t.','To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a\n   guide; to direct.'),('Prevent','v. t.','To be beforehand with; to anticipate.'),('Prevent','v. t.','To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to\n   thwart.'),('Prevent','v. i.','To come before the usual time.'),('Preventability','n.','The quality or state of being preventable.'),('Preventable','a.','Capable of being prevented or hindered; as,\n   preventable diseases.'),('Preventative','n.','That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of\n   preventive.'),('Preventer','n.','One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates\n   another.'),('Preventer','n.','One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which\n   hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.'),('Preventer','n.','An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast.'),('Preventingly','adv.','So as to prevent or hinder.'),('Prevention','n.','The act of going, or state of being, before.'),('Prevention','n.','Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes;\n   hence, precaution; forethought.'),('Prevention','n.','The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of\n   action, access, or approach; thwarting.'),('Prevention','n.','Prejudice; prepossession.'),('Preventional','a.','Tending to prevent.'),('Preventive','a.','Going before; preceding.'),('Preventive','a.','Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the\n   access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.'),('Preventive','n.','That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which\n   intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a\n   prophylactic.'),('Preventively','adv.','In a preventive manner.'),('Prevertebral','a.','Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral\n   side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.'),('Previous','a.','Going before in time; being or happening before something\n   else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.'),('Previously','adv.','Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously\n   formed.'),('Previousness','n.','The quality or state of being previous; priority or\n   antecedence in time.'),('Previse','v. t.','To foresee.'),('Previse','v. t.','To inform beforehand; to warn.'),('Prevision','n.','Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.'),('Prevoyant','a.','Foreseeing; prescient.'),('Prewarned','imp. & p. p.','of Prewarn'),('Prewarning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prewarn'),('Prewarn','v. t. & i.','To warn beforehand; to forewarn.'),('Prey','n.','Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything\n   taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.'),('Prey','n.','That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be\n   devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.'),('Prey','n.','The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.'),('Preyed','imp. & p. p.','of Prey'),('Preying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prey'),('Prey','n.','To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by\n   violence.'),('Preyer','n.','One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a\n   devourer.'),('Preyful','a.','Disposed to take prey.'),('Preyful','a.','Rich in prey.'),('Prezygapophyses','pl. ','of Prezygapophysis'),('Prezygapophysis','n.','An anterior zygapophysis.'),('Prial','n.','A corruption of pair royal. See under Pair, n.'),('Prian','n.','A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore\n   contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles.'),('Priapean','n.','A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be\n   divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a\n   trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the\n   third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed\n   as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.'),('Priapism','n.','More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the\n   penis, with or without sexual desire.'),('Priapulacea','n. pl.','A suborder of Gephyraea, having a cylindrical body\n   with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills.'),('Pricasour','n.','A hard rider.'),('Price','n. & v.','The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued,\n   or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which\n   something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money\n   or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in\n   market or in barter; cost.'),('Price','n. & v.','Value; estimation; excellence; worth.'),('Price','n. & v.','Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.'),('Priced','imp. & p. p.','of Price'),('Pricing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Price'),('Price','v. t.','To pay the price of.'),('Price','v. t.','To set a price on; to value. See Prize.'),('Price','v. t.','To ask the price of; as, to price eggs.'),('Priced','a.','Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced\n   labor.'),('Priceite','n.','A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.'),('Priceless','a.','Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable\n   worth; invaluable.'),('Priceless','a.','Of no value; worthless.'),('Prick','v.','That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and\n   slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a\n   skewer.'),('Prick','v.','The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a\n   sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.'),('Prick','v.','A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.'),('Prick','v.','A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.'),('Prick','v.','The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the\n   pin.'),('Prick','v.','A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.'),('Prick','v.','A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English\n   translations of Euclid.'),('Prick','v.','The footprint of a hare.'),('Prick','v.','A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.'),('Pricked','imp. & p. p.','of Prick'),('Pricking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prick'),('Prick','n.','To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or\n   substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a\n   fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a\n   card; to prick holes in paper.'),('Prick','n.','To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to\n   prick a knife into a board.'),('Prick','n.','To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking;\n   to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.'),('Prick','n.','To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by\n   pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for\n   embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.'),('Prick','n.','To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to\n   urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.'),('Prick','n.','To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.'),('Prick','n.','To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something\n   pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or\n   dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to\n   listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged.'),('Prick','n.','To render acid or pungent.'),('Prick','n.','To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.'),('Prick','n.','To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.'),('Prick','n.','To trace on a chart, as a ship\'s course.'),('Prick','n.','To drive a nail into (a horse\'s foot), so as to cause\n   lameness.'),('Prick','n.','To nick.'),('Prick','v. i.','To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by\n   puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.'),('Prick','v. i.','To spur onward; to ride on horseback.'),('Prick','v. i.','To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.'),('Prick','v. i.','To aim at a point or mark.'),('Prick-eared','a.','Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs.'),('Pricker','n.','One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a\n   sharp point; a prickle.'),('Pricker','n.','One who spurs forward; a light horseman.'),('Pricker','n.','A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and\n   gunnery.'),('Pricker','n.','A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, --\n   used in sailmaking.'),('Pricket','n.','A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.'),('Pricking','n.','The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.'),('Pricking','n.','The driving of a nail into a horse\'s foot so as to\n   produce lameness.'),('Pricking','n.','Same as Nicking.'),('Pricking','n.','A sensation of being pricked.'),('Pricking','n.','The mark or trace left by a hare\'s foot; a prick; also,\n   the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.'),('Pricking','n.','Dressing one\'s self for show; prinking.'),('Pricking-up','n.','The first coating of plaster in work of three coats\n   upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the\n   next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.'),('Prickle','n.','A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp\n   process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a\n   plant, etc.; a spine.'),('Prickle','n.','A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some\n   branches of trade.'),('Prickle','n.','A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.'),('Prickle','v. t.','To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp\n   points.'),('Prickleback','n.','Alt. of Pricklefish'),('Pricklefish','n.','The stickleback.'),('Prickliness','n.','The quality of being prickly, or of having many\n   prickles.'),('Prickling','a.','Prickly.'),('Pricklouse','n.','A tailor; -- so called in contempt.'),('Prickly','a.','Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with\n   prickles; as, a prickly shrub.'),('Prickmadam','n.','A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as\n   ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.'),('Prickpunch','n.','A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.'),('Prickshaft','n.','An arrow.'),('Pricksong','v. t.','Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so\n   called from the points or dots with which it is noted down.'),('Prickwood','n.','A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use\n   of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle\n   tree.'),('Pricky','a.','Stiff and sharp; prickly.'),('Pride','n.','A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called\n   also prid, and sandpiper.'),('Pride','n.','The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem;\n   an unreasonable conceit of one\'s own superiority in talents, beauty,\n   wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance,\n   reserve, and often in contempt of others.'),('Pride','n.','A sense of one\'s own worth, and abhorrence of what is\n   beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem;\n   elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good\n   sense.'),('Pride','n.','Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or\n   arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent\n   exultation; disdain.'),('Pride','n.','That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or\n   self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant\n   and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character,\n   children, etc.'),('Pride','n.','Show; ostentation; glory.'),('Pride','n.','Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory;\n   as, to be in the pride of one\'s life.'),('Pride','n.','Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle;\n   wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual\n   appetite in a female beast.'),('Prided','imp. & p. p.','of Pride'),('Priding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pride'),('Pride','v. t.','To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to\n   plume; -- used reflexively.'),('Pride','v. i.','To be proud; to glory.'),('Prideful','a.','Full of pride; haughty.'),('Prideless','a.','Without pride.'),('Pridian','a.','Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday.'),('Pridingly','adv.','Proudly.'),('Prie','n.','The plant privet.'),('Prie','v. i.','To pry.'),('Pried','','imp. & p. p. of Pry.'),('Priedieu','n.','A kneeling desk for prayers.'),('Prief','n.','Proof.'),('Prier','n.','One who pries; one who inquires narrowly and searches, or is\n   inquisitive.'),('Priest','n.','A presbyter elder; a minister'),('Priest','n.','One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say\n   Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.'),('Priest','n.','A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order\n   between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial\n   services except those of ordination and confirmation.'),('Priest','n.','One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of\n   sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or\n   the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.'),('Priest','v. t.','To ordain as priest.'),('Priestcap','n.','A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also\n   swallowtail.'),('Priestcraft','n.','Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in\n   an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by\n   priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives\n   or credulity of others.'),('Priestery','n.','Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in\n   contempt.'),('Priestess','n.','A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.'),('Priesthood','n.','The office or character of a priest; the priestly\n   function.'),('Priesthood','n.','Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart\n   for sacred offices; the order of priests.'),('Priesting','n.','The office of a priest.'),('Priestism','n.','The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests\n   or the priesthood.'),('Priestless','a.','Without a priest.'),('Priestlike','a.','Priestly.'),('Priestliness','n.','The quality or state of being priestly.'),('Priestly','a.','Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood;\n   sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a\n   priestly farewell.'),('Priest-ridden','a.','Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a\n   priest-ridden people.'),('Prieve','v. t.','To prove.'),('Prigged','imp. & p. p.','of Prig'),('Prigging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prig'),('Prig','v. i.','To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.'),('Prig','v. t.','To cheapen.'),('Prig','v. t.','To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.'),('Prig','n.','A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.'),('Prig','n.','A thief; a filcher.'),('Priggery','n.','Priggism.'),('Priggish','a.','Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.'),('Priggism','n.','The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a\n   prig.'),('Priggism','n.','Roguery; thievery.'),('Prighte','','imp. of Prick.'),('Prill','n.','The brill.'),('Prill','v. i.','To flow.'),('Prill','n.','A stream.'),('Prill','n.','A nugget of virgin metal.'),('Prill','n.','Ore selected for excellence.'),('Prill','n.','The button of metal from an assay.'),('Prillion','n.','Tin extracted from the slag.'),('Prim','n.','The privet.'),('Prim','a.','Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim\n   regularity; a prim person.'),('Primmed','imp. & p. p.','of Prim'),('Primming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prim'),('Prim','v. t.','To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected\n   preciseness; to prink.'),('Prim','v. i.','To dress or act smartly.'),('Primacy','a.','The state or condition of being prime or first, as in\n   time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.'),('Primacy','a.','The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief\n   ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or\n   dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.'),('Prima donnas','pl. ','of Prima donna'),('Prime','#','Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna'),('Prima donna','a.','The first or chief female singer in an opera.'),('Prima facie','','At first view; on the first appearance.'),('Primage','n.','A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a\n   gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes\n   called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the\n   vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to\n   the captain.'),('Primal','a.','First; primary; original; chief.'),('Primality','n.','The quality or state of being primal.'),('Primarily','adv.','In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first\n   place; in the first intention; originally.'),('Primariness','n.','The quality or state of being primary, or first in\n   time, in act, or in intention.'),('Primary','a.','First in order of time or development or in intention;\n   primitive; fundamental; original.'),('Primary','a.','First in order, as being preparatory to something higher;\n   as, primary assemblies; primary schools.'),('Primary','a.','First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as,\n   primary planets; a matter of primary importance.'),('Primary','a.','Earliest formed; fundamental.'),('Primary','a.','Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some\n   quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first\n   stage of substitution or replacement.'),('Primaries','pl. ','of Primary'),('Primary','n.','That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a\n   chief matter.'),('Primary','n.','A primary meeting; a caucus.'),('Primary','n.','One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird\'s\n   wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.'),('Primary','n.','A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star.\n   See under Planet.'),('Primate','a.','The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who\n   presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.'),('Primate','a.','One of the Primates.'),('Primates','n. pl.','The highest order of mammals. It includes man,\n   together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.'),('Primateship','n.','The office, dignity, or position of a primate;\n   primacy.'),('Primatial','a.','Primatical.'),('Primatical','a.','Of or pertaining to a primate.'),('Prime','a.','First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive;\n   primary.'),('Prime','a.','First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance;\n   as, prime minister.'),('Prime','a.','First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a\n   prime quality of cloth.'),('Prime','a.','Early; blooming; being in the first stage.'),('Prime','a.','Lecherous; lustful; lewd.'),('Prime','a.','Marked or distinguished by a mark (\') called a prime mark.'),('Prime','n.','The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or\n   opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.'),('Prime','n.','The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or\n   beauty; perfection.'),('Prime','n.','That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion;\n   the best part.'),('Prime','a.','The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical\n   hour, succeeding to lauds.'),('Prime','a.','The first of the chief guards.'),('Prime','a.','Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of\n   any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were\n   respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed\n   standard of hydrogen as 1.'),('Prime','a.','A prime number. See under Prime, a.'),('Prime','a.','An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal\n   system; -- denoted by [\']. See 2d Inch, n., 1.'),('Primed','imp. & p. p.','of Prime'),('Priming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prime'),('Prime','a.','To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a\n   primer to, as a metallic cartridge.'),('Prime','a.','To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a\n   surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.'),('Prime','a.','To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post;\n   to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.'),('Prime','a.','To trim or prune, as trees.'),('Prime','a.','To mark with a prime mark.'),('Prime','v. i.','To be renewed, or as at first.'),('Prime','v. i.','To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.'),('Prime','v. i.','To work so that foaming occurs from too violent\n   ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried\n   along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler.'),('Primely','adv.','At first; primarily.'),('Primely','adv.','In a prime manner; excellently.'),('Primeness','n.','The quality or state of being first.'),('Primeness','n.','The quality or state of being prime, or excellent.'),('Primer','n.','One who, or that which, primes'),('Primer','n.','an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or\n   water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a\n   charge of gunpowder.'),('Primer','a.','First; original; primary.'),('Primer','n.','Originally, a small prayer book for church service,\n   containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of\n   elementary religious instruction.'),('Primer','n.','A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a\n   reading or spelling book for a beginner.'),('Primer','n.','A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called\n   long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see\n   Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.'),('Primero','n.','A game at cards, now unknown.'),('Primerole','n.','See Primrose.'),('Primeval','a.','Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original;\n   primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.'),('Primevally','adv.','In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times;\n   originally.'),('Primevous','a.','Primeval.'),('Primigenial','a.','First born, or first of all; original; primary. See\n   Primogenial.'),('Primigenious','a.','Alt. of Primigenous'),('Primigenous','a.','First formed or generated; original; primigenial.'),('Primine','n.','The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.'),('Priming','n.','The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire\n   to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.'),('Priming','n.','The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on\n   canvas, or on a building, or other surface.'),('Priming','n.','The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the\n   boiler, as into the cylinder.'),('Primipara','n.','A woman who bears a child for the first time.'),('Primiparous','a.','Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the\n   first time.'),('Primipilar','a.','Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a\n   Roman army.'),('Primitiae','pl. ','of Primitia'),('Primitias','pl. ','of Primitia'),('Primitia','n.','The first fruit; the first year\'s whole profit of an\n   ecclesiastical preferment.'),('Primitial','a.','Being of the first production; primitive; original.'),('Primitive','a.','Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early\n   times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence;\n   the primitive church.'),('Primitive','a.','Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned;\n   characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress.'),('Primitive','a.','Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive\n   verb in grammar.'),('Primitive','n.','An original or primary word; a word not derived from\n   another; -- opposed to derivative.'),('Primitively','adv.','Originally; at first.'),('Primitively','adv.','Primarily; not derivatively.'),('Primitively','adv.','According to the original rule or ancient practice;\n   in the ancient style.'),('Primitiveness','n.','The quality or state of being primitive; conformity\n   to primitive style or practice.'),('Primity','n.','Quality of being first; primitiveness.'),('Primly','adv.','In a prim or precise manner.'),('Primness','n.','The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or\n   niceness; preciseness; stiffness.'),('Primo','a.','First; chief.'),('Primogenial','a.','First born, made, or generated; original; primary;\n   elemental; as, primogenial light.'),('Primogenitive','a.','Of or pertaining to primogeniture.'),('Primogenitive','n.','Primogeniture.'),('Primogenitor','n.','The first ancestor; a forefather.'),('Primogeniture','a.','The state of being the firstborn of the same\n   parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family.'),('Primogeniture','a.','The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to\n   the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of\n   the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the\n   eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture.\n   In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by\n   right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue.'),('Primogenitureship','n.','The state or privileges of the firstborn.'),('Primordial','a.','First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin;\n   as, primordial condition.'),('Primordial','a.','Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian\n   age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American\n   geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is\n   separated from the Silurian.'),('Primordial','a.','Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an\n   individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.'),('Primordial','n.','A first principle or element.'),('Primordialism','n.','Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the\n   primordial state.'),('Primordially','adv.','At the beginning; under the first order of things;\n   originally.'),('Primordian','n.','A name given to several kinds of plums; as, red\n   primordian, amber primordian, etc.'),('Primordiate','a.','Primordial.'),('Primp','a.','To be formal or affected in dress or manners; -- often with\n   up.'),('Primrose','a.','An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P.\n   vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties,\n   as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also\n   primerole, primerolles.'),('Primrose','a.','Any plant of the genus Primula.'),('Primrose','a.','Of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a\n   primrose; -- hence, flowery; gay.'),('Primula','n.','The genus of plants including the primrose (Primula vera).'),('Primulaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants\n   (Primulaceae), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel,\n   the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.'),('Primum mobile','','In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the\n   revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of\n   which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their\n   planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline\n   heavens, under Crystalline.'),('Primus','n.','One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who\n   presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but\n   no metropolitan authority.'),('Primy','a.','Being in its prime.'),('Prince','a.','The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and\n   authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex,\n   but now rarely applied to a female.'),('Prince','a.','The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal\n   family; as, princes of the blood.'),('Prince','a.','A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in\n   different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and\n   earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a\n   prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of\n   nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family.'),('Prince','a.','The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or\n   profession; one who is preeminent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of\n   players.'),('Prince','v. i.','To play the prince.'),('Princedom','n.','The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a\n   prince.'),('Princehood','n.','Princeliness.'),('Princekin','n.','A petty prince; a princeling.'),('Princeless','a.','Without a prince.'),('Princelet','n.','A petty prince.'),('Princelike','a.','Princely.'),('Princeliness','n.','The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or\n   dignity of a prince.'),('Princeling','n.','A petty prince; a young prince.'),('Princely','a.','Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank\n   or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc.'),('Princely','a.','Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august;\n   munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.'),('Princely','adv.','In a princely manner.'),('Princess','n.','A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the\n   rank of a prince.'),('Princess','n.','The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal\n   family.'),('Princess','n.','The consort of a prince; as, the princess of Wales.'),('Princesse','a.','A term applied to a lady\'s long, close-fitting dress\n   made with waist and skirt in one.'),('Princesslike','a.','Like a princess.'),('Princewood','n.','The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia\n   ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with\n   lighter color.'),('Princified','a.','Imitative of a prince.'),('Principal','a.','Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or\n   degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal\n   officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal\n   productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.'),('Principal','a.','Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.'),('Principal','n.','A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one\n   who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence;\n   as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; --\n   distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.'),('Principal','n.','The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present\n   at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory.'),('Principal','n.','A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as\n   distinguished from a surety.'),('Principal','n.','One who employs another to act for him, -- as\n   distinguished from an agent.'),('Principal','n.','A thing of chief or prime importance; something\n   fundamental or especially conspicuous.'),('Principal','n.','A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a\n   debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or\n   profit.'),('Principal','n.','The construction which gives shape and strength to a\n   roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with\n   stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece\n   of framing.'),('Principal','n.','In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an\n   octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on\n   the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English\n   open diapason.'),('Principal','n.','A heirloom; a mortuary.'),('Principal','n.','The first two long feathers of a hawk\'s wing.'),('Principal','n.','One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with\n   which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.'),('Principal','n.','A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.'),('Principalities','pl. ','of Principality'),('Principality','n.','Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority;\n   predominance; high, or the highest, station.'),('Principality','n.','A prince; one invested with sovereignty.'),('Principality','n.','The territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the\n   country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of Wales.'),('Principally','adv.','In a principal manner; primarily; above all;\n   chiefly; mainly.'),('Principalness','n.','The quality of being principal.'),('Principate','n.','Principality; supreme rule.'),('Principia','n. pl.','First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements;\n   as. Newton\'s Principia.'),('Principial','a.','Elementary.'),('Principiant','a.','Relating to principles or beginnings.'),('Principiate','v. t.','To begin; to initiate.'),('Principiation','n.','Analysis into primary or elemental parts.'),('Principle','n.','Beginning; commencement.'),('Principle','n.','A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds;\n   fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate\n   element, or cause.'),('Principle','n.','An original faculty or endowment.'),('Principle','n.','A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine,\n   from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a\n   general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a\n   postulate.'),('Principle','n.','A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an\n   opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and\n   behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently\n   directing one\'s actions; as, a person of no principle.'),('Principle','n.','Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a\n   substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually\n   be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant\n   extracts, etc.'),('Principled','imp. & p. p.','of Principle'),('Principling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Principle'),('Principle','v. t.','To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in\n   certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good\n   or ill.'),('Princock','n.','Alt. of Princox'),('Princox','n.','A coxcomb; a pert boy.'),('Prinked','imp. & p. p.','of Prink'),('Prinking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prink'),('Prink','v. t.','To dress or adjust one\'s self for show; to prank.'),('Prink','v. t.','To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically.'),('Prinker','n.','One who prinks.'),('Prinpriddle','n.','The long-tailed titmouse.'),('Printed','imp. & p. p.','of Print'),('Printing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Print'),('Print','v. t.','To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea,\n   etc., into or upon something.'),('Print','v. t.','To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or\n   mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.'),('Print','v. t.','To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type,\n   or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a\n   wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or\n   other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print\n   an edition of a book.'),('Print','v. t.','To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as,\n   to print calico.'),('Print','v. t.','To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a\n   negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light\n   upon a sensitized surface.'),('Print','v. i.','To use or practice the art of typography; to take\n   impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or\n   the like.'),('Print','v. i.','To publish a book or an article.'),('Print','n.','A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or\n   indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the\n   print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or\n   snow.'),('Print','n.','A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental\n   design upon an object; as, a butter print.'),('Print','n.','That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold;\n   as, a print of butter.'),('Print','n.','Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to\n   excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line\n   is in print.'),('Print','n.','That which is produced by printing.'),('Print','n.','An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved\n   plate.'),('Print','n.','A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other\n   periodical.'),('Print','n.','A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially\n   calico or cotton cloth.'),('Print','n.','A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper,\n   as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.'),('Print','n.','A core print. See under Core.'),('Printa-ble','a.','Worthy to be published.'),('Printer','n.','One who prints; especially, one who prints books,\n   newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.'),('Printery','n.','A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a\n   printing office.'),('Printing','n.','The act, art, or practice of impressing letters,\n   characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business\n   of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts;\n   typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.'),('Printless','a.','Making no imprint.'),('Printless','a.','Making no imprint.'),('Printshop','n.','A shop where prints are sold.'),('Prior','a.','Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent;\n   anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used\n   elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time]\n   prior to his marriage.'),('Prior','a.','The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in\n   dignity.'),('Priorate','n.','The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.'),('Prioress','n.','A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity\n   to an abbess.'),('Priority','a.','The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in\n   time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.'),('Priority','a.','Precedence; superior rank.'),('Priorly','adv.','Previously.'),('Priorship','n.','The state or office of prior; priorate.'),('Priories','pl. ','of Priory'),('Priory','n.','A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; --\n   sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also\n   cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.'),('Pris','n.','See Price, and 1st Prize.'),('Prisage','n.','A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two\n   tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one\n   before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was\n   substituted for this.'),('Prisage','n.','The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea\n   which belongs to the king or admiral.'),('Priscillianist','n.','A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in\n   Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism\n   and Manicheism with Christianity.'),('Prise','n.','An enterprise.'),('Prise','n. & v.','See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.'),('Priser','n.','See 1st Prizer.'),('Prism','n.','A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and\n   parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.'),('Prism','n.','A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane\n   faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; --\n   used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.'),('Prism','n.','A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical\n   axis. See Form, n., 13.'),('Prismatic','a.','Alt. of Prismatical'),('Prismatical','a.','Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic\n   form or cleavage.'),('Prismatical','a.','Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a\n   prism; as, prismatic colors.'),('Prismatical','a.','Same as Orthorhombic.'),('Prismatically','adv.','In the form or manner of a prism; by means of a\n   prism.'),('Prismatoidal','a.','Having a prismlike form.'),('Prismoid','n.','A body that approaches to the form of a prism.'),('Prismoidal','a.','Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.'),('Prismy','a.','Pertaining to a prism.'),('Prison','n.','A place where persons are confined, or restrained of\n   personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or\n   safe custody.'),('Prison','n.','Specifically, a building for the safe custody or\n   confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.'),('Prisoned','imp. & p. p.','of Prison'),('Prisoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prison'),('Prison','v. t.','To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to\n   confine; to restrain from liberty.'),('Prison','v. t.','To bind (together); to enchain.'),('Prisoner','n.','One who is confined in a prison.'),('Prisoner','n.','A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison\n   or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a\n   prisoner at the bar of a court.'),('Prisonment','n.','Imprisonment.'),('Pristinate','a.','Pristine; primitive.'),('Pristine','a.','Belonging to the earliest period or state; original;\n   primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine\n   manners of a people; pristine vigor.'),('Pritch','n.','A sharp-pointed instrument; also, an eelspear.'),('Pritch','n.','Pique; offense.'),('Pritchel','n.','A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging\n   the nail holes in a horseshoe.'),('Prithee','interj.','A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally\n   used without I.'),('Prittle-prattle','n.','Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used\n   in contempt or ridicule.'),('Privacies','pl. ','of Privacy'),('Privacy','n.','The state of being in retirement from the company or\n   observation of others; seclusion.'),('Privacy','n.','A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat;\n   solitude; retirement.'),('Privacy','n.','Concealment of what is said or done.'),('Privacy','n.','A private matter; a secret.'),('Privacy','n.','See Privity, 2.'),('Privado','n.','A private friend; a confidential friend; a confidant.'),('Private','a.','Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person,\n   company, or interest; peculiar to one\'s self; unconnected with others;\n   personal; one\'s own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man\'s\n   private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or\n   interests; a private secretary.'),('Private','a.','Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to\n   an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room\n   or apartment; private prayer.'),('Private','a.','Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or\n   employment; as, a private citizen; private life.'),('Private','a.','Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private\n   negotiation; a private understanding.'),('Private','a.','Having secret or private knowledge; privy.'),('Private','n.','A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.'),('Private','n.','Personal interest; particular business.'),('Private','n.','Privacy; retirement.'),('Private','n.','One not invested with a public office.'),('Private','n.','A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a\n   noncommissioned officer.'),('Private','n.','The private parts; the genitals.'),('Privateer','n.','An armed private vessel which bears the commission of\n   the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque,\n   under Marque.'),('Privateer','n.','The commander of a privateer.'),('Privateered','imp. & p. p.','of Privateer'),('Privateering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Privateer'),('Privateer','v. i.','To cruise in a privateer.'),('Privateering','n.','Cruising in a privateer.'),('Privateersmen','pl. ','of Privateersman'),('Privateersman','n.','An officer or seaman of a privateer.'),('Privately','adv.','In a private manner; not openly; without the presence\n   of others.'),('Privately','adv.','In a manner affecting an individual; personally not\n   officially; as, he is not privately benefited.'),('Privateness','n.','Seclusion from company or society; retirement;\n   privacy; secrecy.'),('Privateness','n.','The state of one not invested with public office.'),('Privation','n.','The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the\n   depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.'),('Privation','n.','The state of being deprived or destitute of something,\n   especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to\n   undergo severe privations.'),('Privation','n.','The condition of being absent; absence; negation.'),('Privative','a.','Causing privation; depriving.'),('Privative','a.','Consisting in the absence of something; not positive;\n   negative.'),('Privative','a.','Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force\n   to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such\n   prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less.'),('Privative','n.','That of which the essence is the absence of something.'),('Privative','n.','A term indicating the absence of any quality which might\n   be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.'),('Privative','n.','A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.'),('Privatively','adv.','In a privative manner; by the absence of something;\n   negatively.'),('Privativeness','n.','The state of being privative.'),('Privet','n.','An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used\n   in hedges; -- called also prim.'),('Privilege','n.','A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or\n   immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good,\n   or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage;\n   franchise.'),('Privilege','n.','See Call, Put, Spread, etc.'),('Privileged','imp. & p. p.','of Privilege'),('Privileging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Privilege'),('Privilege','v. t.','To grant some particular right or exemption to; to\n   invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to\n   privilege representatives from arrest.'),('Privilege','v. t.','To bring or put into a condition of privilege or\n   exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.'),('Privileged','a.','Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right,\n   advantage, or immunity.'),('Privily','adv.','In a privy manner; privately; secretly.'),('Privities','pl. ','of Privity'),('Privity','a.','Privacy; secrecy; confidence.'),('Privity','a.','Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a\n   private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.'),('Privity','a.','A private matter or business; a secret.'),('Privity','a.','The genitals; the privates.'),('Privity','a.','A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to\n   some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the\n   same rights of property.'),('Privy','a.','Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to\n   private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.'),('Privy','a.','Secret; clandestine.'),('Privy','a.','Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.'),('Privy','a.','Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly\n   cognizant; privately knowing.'),('Privies','pl. ','of Privy'),('Privy','n.','A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or\n   thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a\n   person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to\n   which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is\n   distinguished from party.'),('Privy','n.','A necessary house or place; a backhouse.'),('Prizable','a.','Valuable.'),('Prize','n.','That which is taken from another; something captured; a\n   thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.'),('Prize','n.','Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war;\n   esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a\n   vessel.'),('Prize','n.','An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest;\n   anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward\n   of, effort.'),('Prize','n.','That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.'),('Prize','n.','Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or\n   in prospect.'),('Prize','n.','A contest for a reward; competition.'),('Prize','n.','A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.'),('Prize','v. t.','To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.'),('Prized','imp. & p. p.','of Prize'),('Prizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prize'),('Prize','v. t.','To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price;\n   to rate.'),('Prize','v. t.','To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to\n   esteem.'),('Prize','n.','Estimation; valuation.'),('Prizemen','pl. ','of Prizeman'),('Prizeman','n.','The winner of a prize.'),('Prizer','n.','One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an\n   appraiser.'),('Prizer','n.','One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a\n   challenger.'),('Prizing','n.','The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a\n   cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.'),('Pro-','','A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of,\n   in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go\n   before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken\n   before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for;\n   pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place\n   of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.'),('Pro','a.','A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.'),('Pro','adv.','For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in\n   contrast with con.'),('Proa','n.','A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago,\n   having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary\n   boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept\n   from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending\n   several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is\n   the swiftest sailing craft known.'),('Proach','v. i.','See Approach.'),('Proatlas','n.','A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some\n   reptiles.'),('Probabiliorism','n.','The doctrine of the probabiliorists.'),('Probabiliorist','n.','One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists,\n   that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.'),('Probabilism','n.','The doctrine of the probabilists.'),('Probabilist','n.','One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and\n   that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.'),('Probabilist','n.','One who maintains that a man may do that which has a\n   probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of\n   authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable.'),('Probabilities','pl. ','of Probability'),('Probability','n.','The quality or state of being probable; appearance of\n   reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood.'),('Probability','n.','That which is or appears probable; anything that has\n   the appearance of reality or truth.'),('Probability','n.','Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the\n   doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to\n   the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance,\n   n., 5.'),('Probable','a.','Capable of being proved.'),('Probable','a.','Having more evidence for than against; supported by\n   evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for\n   doubt; likely.'),('Probable','a.','Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for,\n   belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable\n   presumption.'),('Probably','adv.','In a probable manner; in likelihood.'),('Probacy','n.','Proof; trial.'),('Probal','a.','Approved; probable.'),('Probality','n.','Probability.'),('Probang','n.','A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on\n   the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.'),('Probate','n.','Proof.'),('Probate','n.','Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent\n   officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the\n   last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act;\n   the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate,\n   delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been\n   proved.'),('Probate','n.','The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.'),('Probate','a.','Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a\n   probate record.'),('Probate','v. t.','To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument\n   purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has\n   probated the will.'),('Probation','n.','The act of proving; also, that which proves anything;\n   proof.'),('Probation','n.','Any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine\n   character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a\n   person on probation.'),('Probation','n.','The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to\n   probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule.'),('Probation','n.','The trial of a ministerial candidate\'s qualifications\n   prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor.'),('Probation','n.','Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in\n   which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming\n   qualified for a happier state.'),('Probational','a.','Probationary.'),('Probationary','a.','Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.'),('Probationer','n.','One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial;\n   a novice.'),('Probationer','n.','A student in divinity, who, having received\n   certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is\n   admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself\n   well, is licensed to preach.'),('Probationership','n.','The state of being a probationer; novitiate.'),('Probationship','n.','A state of probation.'),('Probative','a.','Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative\n   judgments; probative evidence.'),('Probator','n.','An examiner; an approver.'),('Probator','n.','One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and\n   accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state\'s\n   evidence.'),('Probatory','a.','Serving for trial; probationary.'),('Probatory','a.','Pertaining to, or serving for, proof.'),('Probed','imp. & p. p.','of Probe'),('Probing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Probe'),('Probe','v. t.','To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the\n   body, with a probe.'),('Probe','v. t.','Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine\n   thoroughly.'),('Probe','n.','An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances\n   of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for\n   exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.'),('Probeagle','n.','See Porbeagle.'),('Probe-pointed','a.','Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said\n   of cutting instruments.'),('Probity','n.','Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence;\n   honesty; rectitude; uprightness.'),('Problem','n.','A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for\n   examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or\n   settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.'),('Problem','n.','Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to\n   bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an\n   unknown quantity.'),('Problematic','a.','Alt. of Problematical'),('Problematical','a.','Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact;\n   questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful.'),('Problematist','n.','One who proposes problems.'),('Problematize','v. t.','To propose problems.'),('Proboscidate','a.','Having a proboscis; proboscidial.'),('Proboscidea','n. pl.','An order of large mammals including the elephants\n   and mastodons.'),('Proboscidean','a.','Proboscidian.'),('Proboscidial','a.','Proboscidate.'),('Proboscidian','a.','Pertaining to the Proboscidea.'),('Proboscidian','n.','One of the Proboscidea.'),('Proboscidifera','n. pl.','An extensive division of pectinibranchiate\n   gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with\n   the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See\n   Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.'),('Proboscidifera','n. pl.','A subdivision of the taenioglossate gastropods,\n   including the fig-shells (Pyrula), the helmet shells (Cassis), the\n   tritons, and allied genera.'),('Proboscidiform','a.','Having the form or uses of a proboscis; as, a\n   proboscidiform mouth.'),('Proboscides','pl. ','of Proboscis'),('Proboscis','n.','A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or\n   connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in\n   taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.'),('Proboscis','n.','By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs\n   of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.'),('Proboscis','n.','The nose.'),('Procacious','a.','Pert; petulant; forward; saucy.'),('Procacity','n.','Forwardness; pertness; petulance.'),('Procambium','n.','The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its\n   component cells have begun to be differentiated.'),('Procatarctic','a.','Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial.'),('Procatarxis','n.','The kindling of a disease into action; also, the\n   procatarctic cause.'),('Procedendo','n.','A writ by which a cause which has been removed on\n   insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by\n   certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be\n   proceeded in there.'),('Procedendo','n.','In English practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in\n   cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment,\n   commanding them to proceed to judgment.'),('Procedendo','n.','A writ by which the commission of the justice of the\n   peace is revived, after having been suspended.'),('Procedure','n.','The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward;\n   progress; process; operation; conduct.'),('Procedure','n.','A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps\n   taken in an action or other legal proceeding.'),('Procedure','n.','That which results; issue; product.'),('Proceeded','imp. & p. p.','of Proceed'),('Proceeding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Proceed'),('Proceed','v. i.','To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to\n   continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.'),('Proceed','v. i.','To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another;\n   as, to proceed with a story or argument.'),('Proceed','v. i.','To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to\n   come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.'),('Proceed','v. i.','To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin\n   and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to\n   prosecute a design.'),('Proceed','v. i.','To be transacted; to take place; to occur.'),('Proceed','v. i.','To have application or effect; to operate.'),('Proceed','v. i.','To begin and carry on a legal process.'),('Proceed','n.','See Proceeds.'),('Proceeder','n.','One who proceeds.'),('Proceeding','n.','The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design\n   or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a\n   measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an\n   illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.'),('Proceeding','n.','The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action\n   at law.'),('Proceeds','n. pl.','That which comes forth or results; effect; yield;\n   issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.'),('Proceleusmatic','a.','Inciting; animating; encouraging.'),('Proceleusmatic','a.','Consisting of four short syllables; composed of\n   feet of four short syllables each.'),('Proceleusmatic','n.','A foot consisting of four short syllables.'),('Procellarian','n.','One of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridae)\n   including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in\n   great abundance in stormy weather.'),('Procellous','a.','Stormy.'),('Procephalic','a.','Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.'),('Proception','n.','Preoccupation.'),('Procere','a.','Of high stature; tall.'),('Procerebrum','n.','The prosencephalon.'),('Proceres','n. pl.','An order of large birds; the Ratitae; -- called also\n   Proceri.'),('Procerite','n.','The segment next to the flagellum of the antennae of\n   Crustacea.'),('Procerity','n.','Height of stature; tallness.'),('Process','n.','The act of proceeding; continued forward movement;\n   procedure; progress; advance.'),('Process','n.','A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive\n   act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or\n   procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or\n   decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.'),('Process','n.','A statement of events; a narrative.'),('Process','n.','Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a\n   bone; anapophysis.'),('Process','n.','The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or\n   personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit;\n   strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to\n   answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called\n   judicial.'),('Procession','n.','The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or\n   issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.'),('Procession','n.','That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or\n   solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious\n   train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor\'s\n   procession.'),('Procession','n.','An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either\n   from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church,\n   within or without.'),('Procession','n.','An old term for litanies which were said in procession\n   and not kneeling.'),('Procession','v. t.','To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines\n   of, as lands.'),('Procession','v. i.','To march in procession.'),('Procession','v. i.','To honor with a procession.'),('Processional','a.','Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a\n   procession.'),('Processional','n.','A service book relating to ecclesiastical\n   processions.'),('Processional','n.','A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church\n   procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.'),('Processionalist','n.','One who goes or marches in a procession.'),('Processionary','a.','Pertaining to a procession; consisting in\n   processions; as, processionary service.'),('Processioner','n.','One who takes part in a procession.'),('Processioner','n.','A manual of processions; a processional.'),('Processioner','n.','An officer appointed to procession lands.'),('Processioning','n.','A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining\n   and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession.'),('Processive','a.','Proceeding; advancing.'),('Proces verbal','','An authentic minute of an official act, or statement\n   of facts.'),('Prochein','a.','Next; nearest.'),('Prochordal','a.','Situated in front of the notochord; -- applied\n   especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the\n   skull.'),('Prochronism','n.','The dating of an event before the time it happened; an\n   antedating; -- opposed to metachronism.'),('Prochronize','v. t.','To antedate.'),('Procidence','n.','Alt. of Procidentia'),('Procidentia','n.','A falling down; a prolapsus.'),('Prociduous','a.','Falling from its proper place.'),('Procinct','n.','A state of complete readiness for action.'),('Proclaimed','imp. & p. p.','of Proclaim'),('Proclaiming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Proclaim'),('Proclaim','v. t.','To make known by public announcement; to give wide\n   publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to\n   proclaim war or peace.'),('Proclaim','v. t.','To outlaw by public proclamation.'),('Proclaimer','n.','One who proclaims.'),('Proclamation','n.','The act of proclaiming; official or general notice;\n   publication.'),('Proclamation','n.','That which is proclaimed, publicly announced, or\n   officially declared; a published ordinance; as, the proclamation of a\n   king; a Thanksgiving proclamation.'),('Proclitic','a.','Leaning forward; -- said of certain monosyllabic words\n   which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a\n   separate accent.'),('Proclive','a.','Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous.'),('Proclivity','n.','Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency.'),('Proclivity','n.','Readiness; facility; aptitude.'),('Proclivous','a.','Inclined; tending by nature.'),('Proclivous','a.','Having the incisor teeth directed forward.'),('Procoele','n.','A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral\n   ventricle of the brain.'),('Procoeliae','pl. ','of Procoelia'),('Procoelia','n.','Same as Procoele.'),('Procoelia','n. pl.','A division of Crocodilia, including the true\n   crocodiles and alligators, in which the dorsal vertebrae are concave in\n   front.'),('Procoelian','a.','Concave in front; as, procoelian vertebrae, which have\n   the anterior end of the centra concave and the posterior convex.'),('Procoelian','n.','A reptile having procoelian vertebrae; one of the\n   Procoelia.'),('Procoelous','a.','Same as Procoelian.'),('Proconsul','n.','An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without\n   being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a\n   province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.'),('Proconsular','a.','Alt. of Proconsulary'),('Proconsulary','a.','Of or pertaining of a proconsul; as, proconsular\n   powers.'),('Proconsulary','a.','Under the government of a proconsul; as, a\n   proconsular province.'),('Proconsulate','n.','The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term\n   of his office.'),('Proconsulship','n.','Proconsulate.'),('Procrastinated','imp. & p. p.','of Procrastinate'),('Procrastinating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Procrastinate'),('Procrastinate','v. t.','To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to\n   defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance.'),('Procrastinate','v. i.','To delay; to be dilatory.'),('Procrastination','n.','The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting\n   off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.'),('Procrastinator','n.','One who procrastinates, or defers the performance\n   of anything.'),('Procrastinatory','a.','Of or pertaining to procrastination; dilatory.'),('Procrastine','v. t.','To procrastinate.'),('Procreant','a.','Generating; producing; productive; fruitful; assisting\n   in procreation.'),('Procreant','n.','One who, or that which, procreates.'),('Procreated','imp. & p. p.','of Procreate'),('Procreating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Procreate'),('Procreate','v. t.','To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.'),('Procreation','n.','The act of begetting; generation and production of\n   young.'),('Procreative','a.','Having the power to beget; generative.'),('Procreativeness','n.','The power of generating.'),('Procreator','n.','One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.'),('Procris','n.','Any species of small moths of the genus Procris. The\n   larvae of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon\n   the leaves.'),('Procrustean','a.','Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture\n   practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the\n   Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.'),('Procrusteanized','imp. & p. p.','of Procrusteanize'),('Procrusteanizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Procrusteanize'),('Procrusteanize','v. t.','To stretch or contract according to some rule or\n   standard.'),('Procrustes','n.','A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied\n   his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either\n   stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence\n   the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes.'),('Procrustesian','a.','See Procrustean.'),('Proctitis','n.','Inflammation of the rectum.'),('Proctocele','n.','Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the\n   rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling;\n   prolapsus ani.'),('Proctodaeum','n.','See Mesenteron.'),('Proctor','n.','One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.'),('Proctor','n.','A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not\n   go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a\n   beggar.'),('Proctor','n.','An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical\n   causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in\n   equity.'),('Proctor','n.','A representative of the clergy in convocation.'),('Proctor','n.','An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to\n   enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.'),('Proctor','v. t.','To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or\n   agent.'),('Proctorage','n.','Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence,\n   control; superintendence; -- in contempt.'),('Proctorial','a.','Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic\n   proctor; magisterial.'),('Proctorical','a.','Proctorial.'),('Proctorship','n.','The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of\n   his office.'),('Proctotomy','n.','An incision into the rectum, as for the division of a\n   stricture.'),('Proctucha','n. pl.','A division of Turbellaria including those that have\n   an intestine terminating posteriorly.'),('Proctucha','n. pl.','The Nemertina.'),('Procumbent','a.','Lying down, or on the face; prone.'),('Procumbent','a.','Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots;\n   trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem.'),('Procurable','a.','Capable of being procured; obtainable.'),('Procuracies','pl. ','of Procuracy'),('Procuracy','n.','The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management\n   for another.'),('Procuracy','n.','Authority to act for another; a proxy.'),('Procuration','n.','The act of procuring; procurement.'),('Procuration','n.','The management of another\'s affairs.'),('Procuration','n.','The instrument by which a person is empowered to\n   transact the affairs of another; a proxy.'),('Procuration','n.','A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or\n   archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent,\n   as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called\n   also proxy.'),('Procurator','n.','One who manages another\'s affairs, either generally or\n   in a special matter; an agent; a proctor.'),('Procurator','n.','A governor of a province under the emperors; also, one\n   who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the\n   procurator of Judea.'),('Procuratorial','a.','Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made\n   by a proctor.'),('Procuratorship','n.','The office or term of a procurator.'),('Procuratory','a.','Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.'),('Procured','imp. & p. p.','of Procure'),('Procuring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Procure'),('Procure','v. t.','To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to\n   come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one\'s self or for\n   another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or\n   loan.'),('Procure','v. t.','To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.'),('Procure','v. t.','To solicit; to entreat.'),('Procure','v. t.','To cause to come; to bring; to attract.'),('Procure','v. t.','To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.'),('Procure','v. i.','To pimp.'),('Procure','v. i.','To manage business for another in court.'),('Procurement','n.','The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment;\n   attainment.'),('Procurement','n.','Efficient contrivance; management; agency.'),('Procurer','n.','One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which,\n   brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means.'),('Procurer','n.','One who procures the gratification of lust for another; a\n   pimp; a pander.'),('Procuress','n.','A female procurer, or pander.'),('Procyon','n.','A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Canis\n   Minor, or the Little Dog.'),('Procyon','n.','A genus of mammals including the raccoon.'),('Prod','n.','A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad,\n   an awl, a skewer, etc.'),('Prod','n.','A prick or stab which a pointed instrument.'),('Prod','n.','A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled\n   prodd.'),('Prodded','imp. & p. p.','of Prod'),('Prodding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prod'),('Prod','v. t.','To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with\n   something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen;\n   hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.'),('Prodd','n.','A crossbow. See Prod, 3.'),('Prodigal','a.','Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or\n   other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse;\n   lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the\n   prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses.'),('Prodigal','n.','One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or\n   without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a\n   waster; a spendthrift.'),('Prodigality','n.','Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money;\n   excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality,\n   economy, and parsimony.'),('Prodigalize','v. i.','To act as a prodigal; to spend liberally.'),('Prodigalize','v. t.','To expend lavishly.'),('Prodigally','adv.','In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense;\n   extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally\n   dissipated.'),('Prodigate','v. t.','To squander.'),('Prodigence','n.','Waste; profusion; prodigality.'),('Prodigious','a.','Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful;\n   portentous.'),('Prodigious','a.','Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree;\n   very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a\n   prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.'),('Prodigiously','adv.','Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as,\n   prodigiously great.'),('Prodigiously','adv.','Very much; extremely; as, he was prodigiously\n   pleased.'),('Prodigiousness','n.','The quality or state of being prodigious; the state\n   of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness;\n   vastness.'),('Prodigies','pl. ','of Prodigy'),('Prodigy','n.','Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of\n   nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors\n   were anciently deemed prodigies.'),('Prodigy','n.','Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or\n   astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.'),('Prodigy','n.','A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal\n   development; a monster.'),('Prodition','n.','Disclosure; treachery; treason.'),('Proitor','n.','A traitor.'),('Proditorious','a.','Treacherous; perfidious; traitorous.'),('Proditorious','a.','Apt to make unexpected revelations.'),('Proditory','a.','Treacherous.'),('Prodromal','a.','Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage\n   of a disease.'),('Prodrome','n.','A forerunner; a precursor.'),('Prodromous','a.','Precursory.'),('Prodromus','n.','A prodrome.'),('Prodromus','n.','A preliminary course or publication; -- used esp. in the\n   titles of elementary works.'),('Produced','imp. & p. p.','of Produce'),('Producing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Produce'),('Produce','v. t.','To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or\n   notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in\n   court.'),('Produce','v. t.','To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or\n   growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield;\n   to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the\n   clouds produce rain.'),('Produce','v. t.','To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect\n   or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces\n   misery.'),('Produce','v. t.','To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as,\n   a manufacturer produces excellent wares.'),('Produce','v. t.','To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest\n   produces an income; capital produces profit.'),('Produce','v. t.','To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to\n   produce a man\'s life to threescore.'),('Produce','v. t.','To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as,\n   to produce a side of a triangle.'),('Produce','v. i.','To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops,\n   effects, consequences, or results.'),('Produce','n.','That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded;\n   product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural\n   labors'),('Produce','n.','agricultural products.'),('Producement','n.','Production.'),('Producent','n.','One who produces, or offers to notice.'),('Producer','n.','One who produces, brings forth, or generates.'),('Producer','n.','One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures\n   crude materials into articles of use.'),('Producer','n.','A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for\n   fuel.'),('Producibility','n.','The quality or state of being producible.'),('Producible','a.','Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought\n   forth, generated, made, or extended.'),('Product','n.','Anything that is produced, whether as the result of\n   generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of\n   involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the\n   products of manufactures; the products of the brain.'),('Product','n.','The number or sum obtained by adding one number or\n   quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number;\n   the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers;\n   as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the\n   result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under\n   Multiplication.'),('Product','v. t.','To produce; to bring forward.'),('Product','v. t.','To lengthen out; to extend.'),('Product','v. t.','To produce; to make.'),('Productibility','n.','The state of being productible; producibility.'),('Productible','a.','Capable of being produced; producible.'),('Productile','a.','Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible;\n   ductile.'),('Production','n.','The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or\n   exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.'),('Production','n.','That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether\n   naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the\n   productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the\n   productions of intellect or genius.'),('Production','n.','The act of lengthening out or prolonging.'),('Productive','a.','Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or\n   furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises;\n   productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of\n   products.'),('Productive','a.','Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing;\n   originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of\n   heroic achievements.'),('Productive','a.','Producing, or able to produce, in large measure;\n   fertile; profitable.'),('Productivity','n.','The quality or state of being productive;\n   productiveness.'),('Productress','n.','A female producer.'),('Productus','n.','An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of\n   the Carboniferous rocks.'),('Proeguminal','a.','Serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal\n   cause of disease.'),('Proem','n.','Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude.'),('Proem','v. t.','To preface.'),('Proembryo','n.','The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering\n   plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.'),('Proembryo','n.','The primary growth from the spore in certain\n   cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.'),('Proemial','a.','Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.'),('Proemptosis','n.','The addition of a day to the lunar calendar.'),('Proface','interj.','Much good may it do you! -- a familiar salutation or\n   welcome.'),('Profanate','v. t.','To profane.'),('Profanation','v. t.','The act of violating sacred things, or of treating\n   them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment\n   or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the\n   Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of\n   God.'),('Profanation','v. t.','The act of treating with abuse or disrespect, or\n   with undue publicity, or lack of delicacy.'),('Profane','a.','Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity;\n   unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular;\n   -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.'),('Profane','a.','Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.'),('Profane','a.','Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect,\n   irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.'),('Profane','a.','Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain;\n   given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or\n   tongue.'),('Profaned','imp. & p. p.','of Profane'),('Profaning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Profane'),('Profane','a.','To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse,\n   irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to\n   profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of\n   God.'),('Profane','a.','To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base\n   employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.'),('Profanely','adv.','In a profane manner.'),('Profaneness','n.','The quality or state of being profane; especially, the\n   use of profane language.'),('Profaner','n.','One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles\n   what is holy; one who uses profane language.'),('Profanity','n.','The quality or state of being profane; profaneness;\n   irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.'),('Profanity','n.','That which is profane; profane language or acts.'),('Profection','n.','A setting out; a going forward; advance; progression.'),('Profectitious','a.','Proceeding from, as from a parent; derived, as from\n   an ancestor.'),('Profert','n.','The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open\n   court, or an allegation that it is in court.'),('Professed','imp. & p. p.','of Profess'),('Professing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Profess'),('Profess','v. t.','To make open declaration of, as of one\'s knowledge,\n   belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to\n   own or admit freely.'),('Profess','v. t.','To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to\n   put on or present an appearance of.'),('Profess','v. t.','To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one\'s self\n   versed in; to make one\'s self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up\n   as an authority respecting; to declare (one\'s self to be such); as, he\n   professes surgery; to profess one\'s self a physician.'),('Profess','v. i.','To take a profession upon one\'s self by a public\n   declaration; to confess.'),('Profess','v. i.','To declare friendship.'),('Provessel','a.','Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a\n   professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian.'),('Professedly','adv.','By profession.'),('Profession','v.','The act of professing or claiming; open declaration;\n   public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a\n   profession of faith.'),('Profession','v.','That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a\n   claim; as, his professions are insincere.'),('Profession','v.','That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation,\n   if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes\n   one\'s self; the business which one professes to understand, and to\n   follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the\n   profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or\n   physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.'),('Profession','v.','The collective body of persons engaged in a calling;\n   as, the profession distrust him.'),('Profession','v.','The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a\n   religious order.'),('Professional','a.','Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling;\n   conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a\n   profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.'),('Professional','a.','Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race;\n   -- opposed to amateur.'),('Professional','n.','A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or\n   for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a\n   professional worker.'),('Professionalism','n.','The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an\n   occupation; -- opposed to amateurism.'),('Professionalist','n.','professional person.'),('Professionally','adv.','In a professional manner or capacity; by\n   profession or calling; in the exercise of one\'s profession; one\n   employed professionally.'),('Professor','n.','One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his\n   sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of\n   his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites\n   himself to the visible church.'),('Professor','n.','One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or\n   branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or\n   other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct\n   students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of\n   theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.'),('Professorial','a.','Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional\n   chair; professional interest.'),('Professorialism','n.','The character, manners, or habits of a professor.'),('Professoriat','n.','See Professoriate.'),('Professoriate','n.','The body of professors, or the professorial staff,\n   in a university or college.'),('Professoriate','n.','A professorship.'),('Professorship','n.','The office or position of a professor, or public\n   teacher.'),('Professory','a.','Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial.'),('Proffered','imp. & p. p.','of Proffer'),('Proffering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Proffer'),('Proffer','v. t.','To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a\n   tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer\n   friendship.'),('Proffer','v. t.','To essay or attempt of one\'s own accord; to undertake,\n   or propose to undertake.'),('Proffer','n.','An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by\n   another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.'),('Proffer','n.','Essay; attempt.'),('Profferer','n.','One who proffers something.'),('Proficience','n.','Alt. of Proficiency'),('Proficiency','n.','The quality of state of being proficient; advance in\n   the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in\n   knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.'),('Proficient','n.','One who has made considerable advances in any business,\n   art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as,\n   proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.'),('Proficient','a.','Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill;\n   possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,'),('Proficiently','adv.','In a proficient manner.'),('Proficuous','a.','Profitable; advantageous; useful.'),('Profile','n.','An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.'),('Profile','n.','A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the\n   side face or half face.'),('Profile','n.','A section of any member, made at right angles with its\n   main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.'),('Profile','n.','A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground\n   along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing\n   elevations, depressions, grades, etc.'),('Profiled','imp. & p. p.','of Profile'),('Profiling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Profile'),('Profile','n.','to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an\n   architectural member.'),('Profile','n.','To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter\n   around it.'),('Profiling','n.','In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at\n   proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the\n   sectional form of the parapets at those points.'),('Profilist','n.','One who takes profiles.'),('Profit','n.','Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received\n   for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in\n   any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of\n   goods.'),('Profit','n.','Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences;\n   benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,'),('Profited','imp. & p. p.','of Profit'),('Profiting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Profit'),('Profit','n.','To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit;\n   to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.'),('Profit','v. i.','To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to\n   gain; to advance.'),('Profit','v. i.','To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.'),('Profitable','a.','Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful;\n   lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable\n   trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.'),('Profiting','n.','Gain; advantage; profit.'),('Profitless','a.','Without profit; unprofitable.'),('Profligacy','a.','The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate\n   or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral\n   principle and in vice; dissoluteness.'),('Profligate','a.','Overthrown; beaten; conquered.'),('Profligate','a.','Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue,\n   or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as,\n   profligate man or wretch.'),('Profligate','n.','An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly\n   vicious; a dissolute person.'),('Profligate','v. t.','To drive away; to overcome.'),('Profligately','adv.','In a profligate manner.'),('Profligateness','n.','The quality of being profligate; an abandoned\n   course of life; profligacy.'),('Profligation','n.','Defeat; rout; overthrow.'),('Profluence','n.','Quality of being profluent; course.'),('Profluent','a.','Flowing forward,'),('Profound','a.','Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to\n   a great depth; deep.'),('Profound','a.','Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching\n   to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a\n   profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound\n   wisdom.'),('Profound','a.','Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading;\n   overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.'),('Profound','a.','Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility;\n   lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.'),('Profound','n.','The deep; the sea; the ocean.'),('Profound','n.','An abyss.'),('Profound','v. t.','To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate\n   far down.'),('Profound','v. i.','To dive deeply; to penetrate.'),('Profoundly','adv.','In a profound manner.'),('Profoundness','n.','The quality or state of being profound; profundity;\n   depth.'),('Profulgent','a.','Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent.'),('-ties','pl. ','of Profundity'),('Profundity','n.','The quality or state of being profound; depth of place,\n   knowledge, feeling, etc.'),('Profuse','a.','Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful;\n   exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government;\n   profuse hospitality.'),('Profuse','a.','Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse\n   expenditure.'),('Profuse','v. t.','To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to\n   squander.'),('Profusely','adv.','In a profuse manner.'),('Profuseness','n.','Extravagance; profusion.'),('Profusion','n.','The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring\n   out without sting.'),('Profusion','n.','Abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a\n   profusion of commodities.'),('Profusive','a.','Profuse; lavish; prodigal.'),('Progged','imp. & p. p.','of Prog'),('Progging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prog'),('Prog','v. i.','To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by\n   low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.'),('Prog','v. i.','To steal; to rob; to filch.'),('Prog','v. i.','To prick; to goad; to progue.'),('Prog','n.','Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind;\n   food; supplies.'),('Prog','n.','A vagrant beggar; a tramp.'),('Prog','n.','A goal; progue.'),('Progenerate','v. t.','To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate;\n   as, to progenerate a race.'),('Progeneration','n.','The act of begetting; propagation.'),('Progenitor','n.','An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.'),('Progenitorship','n.','The state of being a progenitor.'),('Progenitress','n.','A female progenitor.'),('Progeniture','n.','A begetting, or birth.'),('Progeny','n.','Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other\n   animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.'),('Proglottid','n.','Proglottis.'),('Proglottides','pl. ','of Proglottis'),('Proglottis','n.','One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a\n   tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is\n   capable of a brief independent existence.'),('Prognathi','n. pl.','A comprehensive group of mankind, including those\n   that have prognathous jaws.'),('Prognathic','a.','Prognathous.'),('Prognathism','n.','Projection of the jaws.'),('Prognathous','a.','Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of\n   the face; -- opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under\n   Gnathic.'),('Progne','n.','A swallow.'),('Progne','n.','A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See\n   Martin.'),('Progne','n.','An American butterfly (Polygonia, / Vanessa, Progne). It is\n   orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark\n   on the hind wings. Called also gray comma.'),('Prognosis','n.','The act or art of foretelling the course and termination\n   of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as,\n   the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.'),('Prognostic','a.','Indicating something future by signs or symptoms;\n   foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a\n   disease; prognostic signs.'),('Prognostic','a.','That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future\n   event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a\n   foretelling; a prediction.'),('Prognostic','a.','A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination\n   of a disease.'),('Prognostic','v. t.','To prognosticate.'),('Prognosticable','a.','Capable of being prognosticated or foretold.'),('Prognosticated','imp. & p. p.','of Prognosticate'),('Prognosticating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prognosticate'),('Prognosticate','v. t.','To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or\n   symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate\n   evil.'),('Prognostication','n.','The act of foreshowing or foretelling something\n   future by present signs; prediction.'),('Prognostication','n.','That which foreshows; a foretoken.'),('Prognosticator','n.','One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller\n   of a future course or event by present signs.'),('Program','n.','Same as Programme.'),('Programmata','pl. ','of Programma'),('Programma','n.','Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate,\n   was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to its being\n   proposed to the general assembly of the people.'),('Programma','n.','An edict published for public information; an official\n   bulletin; a public proclamation.'),('Programma','n.','See Programme.'),('Programma','n.','A preface.'),('Programme','n.','That which is written or printed as a public notice or\n   advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or\n   explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in\n   any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary\n   sketch.'),('Progress','n.','A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an\n   advance'),('Progress','n.','In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage,\n   etc.'),('Progress','n.','In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.'),('Progress','n.','In business of any kind; as, the progress of a\n   negotiation; the progress of art.'),('Progress','n.','In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child\n   at school.'),('Progress','n.','Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of\n   quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the\n   race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.'),('Progress','n.','A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a\n   sovereign through parts of his own dominions.'),('Progressed','imp. & p. p.','of Progress'),('Progressing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Progress'),('Progress','v. i.','To make progress; to move forward in space; to\n   continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as,\n   railroads are progressing.'),('Progress','v. i.','To make improvement; to advance.'),('Progress','v. t.','To make progress in; to pass through.'),('Progression','n.','The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course;\n   motion onward.'),('Progression','n.','Course; passage; lapse or process of time.'),('Progression','n.','Regular or proportional advance in increase or\n   decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical,\n   or harmonic.'),('Progression','n.','A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement\n   of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from\n   key to key.'),('Progressional','a.','Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or\n   capable of, progress.'),('Progressionist','n.','One who holds to a belief in the progression of\n   society toward perfection.'),('Progressionist','n.','One who maintains the doctrine of progression in\n   organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian.'),('Progressist','n.','One who makes, or holds to, progress; a\n   progressionist.'),('Progressive','a.','Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing\n   progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to\n   retrograde.'),('Progressive','a.','Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.'),('Progue','v. i.','To prog.'),('Progue','n.','A sharp point; a goad.'),('Progue','v. t. ','To prick; to goad.'),('Proheme','n.','Proem.'),('Prohibited','imp. & p. p.','of Prohibit'),('Prohibiting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prohibit'),('Prohibit','v. t.','To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God\n   prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit\n   a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the\n   law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.'),('Prohibit','v. t.','To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.'),('Prohibiter','n.','One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an\n   interdicter.'),('Prohibition','n.','The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction\n   forbidding some action; interdict.'),('Prohibition','n.','Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of\n   alcoholic liquors as beverages.'),('Prohibitionist','n.','One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods\n   in commerce; a protectionist.'),('Prohibitionist','n.','One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of\n   the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.'),('Prohibitive','a.','That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is\n   prohibitive.'),('Prohibitory','a.','Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying\n   prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price.'),('Proin','v. t.','To lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn.'),('Proin','v. i.','To employed in pruning.'),('Project','n.','The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.'),('Project','n.','That which is projected or designed; something intended or\n   devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.'),('Project','n.','An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given\n   to projects.'),('Projected','imp. & p. p.','of Project'),('Projecting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Project'),('Project','v. t.','To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.'),('Project','v. t.','To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to\n   devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.'),('Project','v. t.','To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to\n   delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; --\n   sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point\n   upon a plane. See Projection, 4.'),('Project','v. i.','To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to\n   be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from\n   the tree.'),('Project','v. i.','To form a project; to scheme.'),('Projectile','a.','Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile\n   force.'),('Projectile','a.','Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled\n   forward; as, projectile motion.'),('Projectile','n.','A body projected, or impelled forward, by force;\n   especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.'),('Projectile','n.','A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range,\n   time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an\n   impelling force.'),('Projection','n.','The act of throwing or shooting forward.'),('Projection','n.','A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a\n   building; an extension beyond something else.'),('Projection','n.','The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is\n   planned; contrivance; design; plan.'),('Projection','n.','The representation of something; delineation; plan;\n   especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or\n   such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object\n   thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn\n   through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the\n   projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ\n   according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in\n   each.'),('Projection','n.','Any method of representing the surface of the earth\n   upon a plane.'),('Projectment','n.','Design; contrivance; projection.'),('Projector','n.','One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who\n   forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.'),('Projecture','n.','A jutting out beyond a surface.'),('Projet','n.','A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.'),('Proke','v. i.','To poke; to thrust.'),('Prolapse','n.','The falling down of a part through the orifice with which\n   it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum.'),('Prolapse','v. i.','To fall down or out; to protrude.'),('Prolapsion','n.','Prolapse.'),('Prolapsus','n.','Prolapse.'),('Prolate','a.','Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the\n   direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; --\n   opposed to oblate.'),('Prolate','v. t.','To utter; to pronounce.'),('Prolation','n.','The act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance;\n   pronunciation.'),('Prolation','n.','The act of deferring; delay.'),('Prolation','n.','A mediaeval method of determining of the proportionate\n   duration of semibreves and minims.'),('Prolata','pl. ','of Prolatum'),('Prolatum','n.','A prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under\n   Ellipsoid.'),('Proleg','n.','One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of\n   the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of\n   Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and\n   falseleg.'),('Prolegate','n.','The deputy or substitute for a legate.'),('Prolegomenary','a.','Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary;\n   introductory; prefatory.'),('Prolegomena','pl. ','of Prolegomenon'),('Prolegomenon','n.','A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory\n   discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.'),('Prolepsis','n.','A figure by which objections are anticipated or\n   prevented.'),('Prolepsis','n.','A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed\n   principle.'),('Prolepsis','n.','An error in chronology, consisting in an event being\n   dated before the actual time.'),('Prolepsis','n.','The application of an adjective to a noun in\n   anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as,\n   to strike one dumb.'),