English Dictionary: Prunus laurocerasus | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pia4on \Pi[a4]"on\, n. [Sp. pi[a4]on.] (Bot.) (a) The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as {Pinus Pinea} of Southern Europe, and {P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla}, the nut pines of Western North America. (b) See {Monkey's puzzle}. [Written also {pignon}.] | |
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Pairing \Pair"ing\, n. [See {Pair}, v. i.] 1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples. 2. See {To pair off}, under {Pair}, v. i. {Pairyng time}, the time when birds or other animals pair. | |
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Pair \Pair\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pairing}.] 1. To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding. 2. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart. My heart was made to fit and pair with thine. --Rowe. 3. Same as {To pair off}. See phrase below. {To pair off}, to separate from a company in pairs or couples; specif. (Parliamentary Cant), to agree with one of the opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on specified questions or issues. See {Pair}, n., 6. | |
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Pairing \Pair"ing\, n. [See {Pair}, v. i.] 1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples. 2. See {To pair off}, under {Pair}, v. i. {Pairyng time}, the time when birds or other animals pair. | |
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Paramagnetic \Par`a*mag*net"ic\, a. [Pref. para- + magnetic.] Magnetic, as opposed to {diamagnetic}. -- n. A paramagnetic substance. --Faraday. -- {Par`a*mag*net"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Paramagnetic \Par`a*mag*net"ic\, a. [Pref. para- + magnetic.] Magnetic, as opposed to {diamagnetic}. -- n. A paramagnetic substance. --Faraday. -- {Par`a*mag*net"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Paramagnetism \Par`a*mag"net*ism\, n. Magnetism, as opposed to diamagnetism. --Faraday. | |
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Paramastoid \Par`a*mas"toid\, a. [Pref. para- + mastoid.] (Anat.) Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals. | |
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Paramiographer \Par`a*mi*og"ra*pher\, n. [Gr. [?] proverb + -graph + -er.] A collector or writer of proverbs. [R.] | |
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d8Paramo \[d8]Pa"ra*mo\, n.; pl. {Paramos}. [Sp. p[91]ramo.] A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America. | |
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Paranoiac \Par`a*noi"ac\, a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to paranoia; affected with, or characteristic of, paranoia. | |
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Paranoiac \Par`a*noi"ac\, n. A person affected with paranoia. | |
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Paranucleus \Par`a*nu"cle*us\, n. [Pref. para- + nucleus.] (Biol.) Some as {Nucleolus}. | |
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Parenchyma \Pa*ren"chy*ma\, n. [NL., from Gr. [?], fr. [?] to pour in beside; [?] beside + [?] in + [?] to pour: cf. F. parenchyme.] (Biol.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like. | |
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Parenchymal \Pa*ren"chy*mal\, a. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma. | |
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Parenchymatous \Par`en*chym"a*tous\, Parenchymous \Pa*ren"chy*mous\, a. [Cf. F. parenchymateux.] Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration. | |
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Parenchymatous \Par`en*chym"a*tous\, Parenchymous \Pa*ren"chy*mous\, a. [Cf. F. parenchymateux.] Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration. | |
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Parian \Pa"ri*an\, a. [L. Parius.] Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the [92]gean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble. {Parian chronicle}, a most ancient chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved on marble in the Isle of Paros, now among the Arundelian marbles. | |
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Pare \Pare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Paring}.] [F. parer to pare, as a horse's hoofs, to dress or curry, as, leather, to clear, as anchors or cables, to parry, ward off, fr. L. parare to prepare. Cf. {Empire}, {Parade}, {Pardon}, {Parry}, {Prepare}.] 1. To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof. 2. To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies. 3. Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen. The king began to pare a little the privilege of clergy. --Bacon. | |
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Paring \Par"ing\, n. [From {Pare}, v. t.] 1. The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything. 2. That which is pared off. --Pope. Pare off the surface of the earth, and with the parings raise your hills. --Mortimer. | |
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Parmesan \Par`me*san"\, a. [F. parmesan, It. parmigiano.] Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy. {Parmesan cheese}, a kind of cheese of a rich flavor, though from skimmed milk, made in Parma, Italy. | |
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Parmesan \Par`me*san"\, a. [F. parmesan, It. parmigiano.] Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy. {Parmesan cheese}, a kind of cheese of a rich flavor, though from skimmed milk, made in Parma, Italy. | |
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Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, n. [F. parnassien.] One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made the little use of emotion as poetic material; -- so called from the name (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first poems were collected in 1866. | |
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Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, a. [L. Parnassius.] Of or pertaining to Parnassus. | |
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Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, n. [See {Parnassus}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus {Parnassius}. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America. | |
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Parnassus \Par*nas"sus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] (Anc. Geog. & Gr. Myth.) A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring. {Grass of Parnassus}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}, and {Parnassia}. {To climb Parnassus}, to write poetry. [Colloq.] | |
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Parry \Par"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parrying}.] [F. par[82], p. p. of parer. See {Pare}, v. t.] 1. To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm. --Locke. Vice parries wide The undreaded volley with a sword of straw. --Cowper. 2. To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade. The French government has parried the payment of our claims. --E. Everett. | |
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Peer \Peer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Peered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peering}.] [OF. parir, pareir equiv. to F. para[8c]tre to appear, L. parere. Cf. {Appear}.] 1. To come in sight; to appear. [Poetic] So honor peereth in the meanest habit. --Shak. See how his gorget peers above his gown! --B. Jonson. 2. [Perh. a different word; cf. OE. piren, LG. piren. Cf. {Pry} to peep.] To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. --Milton. Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. --Shak. As if through a dungeon grate he peered. --Coleridge. | |
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Perimysial \Per`i*my"sial\, a. (Anat.) (a) Surrounding a muscle or muscles. (b) Of or pertaining to the perimysium. | |
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Perinuclear \Per`i*nu"cle*ar\, a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm. | |
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Periwinkle \Per"i*win`kle\, n. [From AS. pinewincla a shellfish, in which pine- is fr. L. pina, pinna, a kind of mussel, akin to Gr. [?]. Cf. {Winkle}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species ({Littorina littorea}), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See {Littorina}. Note: In America the name is often applied to several large univalves, as {Fulgur carica}, and {F. canaliculata}. | |
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Periwinkle \Per"i*win`kle\, n. [OE. pervenke, AS. pervince, fr. L. pervinca.] (Bot.) A trailing herb of the genus {Vinca}. Note: The common perwinkle ({Vinca minor}) has opposite evergreen leaves and solitary blue or white flowers in their axils. In America it is often miscalled {myrtle}. See under {Myrtle}. | |
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Permiscible \Per*mis"ci*ble\, a. [L. permiscere to mingle; per + miscere to mix.] Capable of being mixed. | |
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Permiss \Per*miss"\, n. [See {Permit}.] A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Permissibility \Per*mis`si*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness. | |
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Permissible \Per*mis"si*ble\, a. That may be permitted; allowable; admissible. -- {Per*mis"si*ble*ness}, n. -- {Per*mis"si*bly}, adv. | |
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Permissible \Per*mis"si*ble\, a. That may be permitted; allowable; admissible. -- {Per*mis"si*ble*ness}, n. -- {Per*mis"si*bly}, adv. | |
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Permissible \Per*mis"si*ble\, a. That may be permitted; allowable; admissible. -- {Per*mis"si*ble*ness}, n. -- {Per*mis"si*bly}, adv. | |
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Permission \Per*mis"sion\, n. [L. permissio: cf. F. permission. See {Permit}.] The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. High permission of all-ruling Heaven. --Milton. You have given me your permission for this address. --Dryden. Syn: Leave; liberty; license. Usage: {Leave}, {Permission}. Leave implies that the recipient may decide whether to use the license granted or not. Permission is the absence on the part of another of anything preventive, and in general, at least by implication, signifies approval. | |
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Permissive \Per*mis"sive\, a. 1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. [bd]By his permissive will.[b8] --Milton. 2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. --Milton. | |
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Block system \Block system\ (Railroads) A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has left it, as in {absolute blocking}, or that a train may be allowed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in {permissive blocking}. | |
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Permissively \Per*mis"sive*ly\, adv. In a permissive manner. | |
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Permistion \Per*mis"tion\, n. [L. permistio, permixtio, fr. permiscere, permistum, and permixtum. See {Permiscible}.] The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture. [Written also {permixtion}.] | |
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Permix \Per*mix"\, v. t. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] | |
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Permixtion \Per*mix"tion\, n. See {Permission}. | |
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Permistion \Per*mis"tion\, n. [L. permistio, permixtio, fr. permiscere, permistum, and permixtum. See {Permiscible}.] The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture. [Written also {permixtion}.] | |
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Permixtion \Per*mix"tion\, n. See {Permission}. | |
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Permistion \Per*mis"tion\, n. [L. permistio, permixtio, fr. permiscere, permistum, and permixtum. See {Permiscible}.] The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture. [Written also {permixtion}.] | |
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Pernicion \Per*ni"cion\, n. [See 2d {Pernicious}.] Destruction; perdition. [Obs.] --hudibras. | |
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Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. pernix, -icis.] Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] --Milton. | |
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Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. {Nuisance}, {Necromancy}.] Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak. Pernicious to his health. --Prescott. Syn: Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous. -- {Per*ni"cious*ly}, adv., -- {Per*ni"cious*ness}, n. | |
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Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. {Nuisance}, {Necromancy}.] Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak. Pernicious to his health. --Prescott. Syn: Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous. -- {Per*ni"cious*ly}, adv., -- {Per*ni"cious*ness}, n. | |
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Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. {Nuisance}, {Necromancy}.] Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak. Pernicious to his health. --Prescott. Syn: Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous. -- {Per*ni"cious*ly}, adv., -- {Per*ni"cious*ness}, n. | |
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Pernicity \Per*nic"i*ty\, n. [L. pernicitas. See 1st {Pernicious}.] Swiftness; celerity. [R.] --Ray. | |
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Pernickety Pernicketty \Per*nick"et*y Per*nick"et*ty\, a. Finical or fussy; full of petty details. [Colloq.] | |
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Buzzard \Buz"zard\ (b[ucr]z"z[etil]rd), n.[O.E. busard, bosard, F. busard, fr. buse, L. buteo, a kind of falcon or hawk.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus {Buteo} and related genera. Note: The {Buteo vulgaris} is the common buzzard of Europe. The American species (of which the most common are {B. borealis}, {B. Pennsylvanicus}, and {B. lineatus}) are usually called hen hawks. -- The rough-legged buzzard, or bee hawk, of Europe ({Pernis apivorus}) feeds on bees and their larv[91], with other insects, and reptiles. -- The moor buzzard of Europe is {Circus [91]ruginosus}. See {Turkey buzzard}, and {Carrion buzzard}. {Bald buzzard}, the fishhawk or osprey. See {Fishhawk}. 2. A blockhead; a dunce. It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard. --Goldsmith. | |
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Pernoctalian \Per`noc*ta"li*an\, n. One who watches or keeps awake all night. | |
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Pernoctation \Per`noc*ta"tion\, n. [L. pernoctatio, fr. pernoctare to stay all night; per + nox, noctis, night.] The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. [bd]Pernoctation in prayer.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Silkworm \Silk"worm`\, n. [AS. seolcwyrm.] (Zo[94]l.) The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa. Note: The common species ({Bombyx mori}) feeds on the leaves of the white mulberry tree. It is native of China, but has long been introduced into other countries of Asia and Europe, and is reared on a large scale. In America it is reared only to small extent. The Ailanthus silkworm ({Philosamia cynthia}) is a much larger species, of considerable importance, which has been introduced into Europe and America from China. The most useful American species is the Polyphemus. See {Polyphemus}. {Pernyi silkworm}, the larva of the Pernyi moth. See {Pernyi moth}. {Silkworm gut}, a substance prepared from the contents of the silk glands of silkworms and used in making lines for angling. See {Gut}. {Silkworm rot}, a disease of silkworms; muscardine. | |
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Potato \Po*ta"to\, n.; pl. {Potatoes}. [Sp. patata potato, batata sweet potato, from the native American name (probably batata) in Hayti.] (Bot.) (a) A plant ({Solanum tuberosum}) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico. (b) The sweet potato (see below). {Potato beetle}, {Potato bug}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A beetle ({Doryphora decemlineata}) which feeds, both in the larval and adult stages, upon the leaves of the potato, often doing great damage. Called also {Colorado potato beetle}, and {Doryphora}. See {Colorado beetle}. (b) The {Lema trilineata}, a smaller and more slender striped beetle which feeds upon the potato plant, bur does less injury than the preceding species. {Potato fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of blister beetles infesting the potato vine. The black species ({Lytta atrata}), the striped ({L. vittata}), and the gray ({L. cinerea, [or] Fabricii}) are the most common. See {Blister beetle}, under {Blister}. {Potato rot}, a disease of the tubers of the potato, supposed to be caused by a kind of mold ({Peronospora infestans}), which is first seen upon the leaves and stems. {Potato weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil ({Baridius trinotatus}) whose larva lives in and kills the stalks of potato vines, often causing serious damage to the crop. {Potato whisky}, a strong, fiery liquor, having a hot, smoky taste, and rich in amyl alcohol (fusel oil); it is made from potatoes or potato starch. {Potato worm} (Zo[94]l.), the large green larva of a sphinx, or hawk moth ({Macrosila quinquemaculata}); -- called also {tomato worm}. See Illust. under {Tomato}. {Seaside potato} (Bot.), {Ipom[d2]a Pes-Capr[91]}, a kind of morning-glory with rounded and emarginate or bilobed leaves. [West Indies] {Sweet potato} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Ipom[d2]a Balatas}) allied to the morning-glory. Its farinaceous tubers have a sweetish taste, and are used, when cooked, for food. It is probably a native of Brazil, but is cultivated extensively in the warmer parts of every continent, and even as far north as New Jersey. The name potato was applied to this plant before it was to the {Solanum tuberosum}, and this is the [bd]potato[b8] of the Southern United States. {Wild potato}. (Bot.) (a) A vine ({Ipom[d2]a pandurata}) having a pale purplish flower and an enormous root. It is common in sandy places in the United States. (b) A similar tropical American plant ({I. fastigiata}) which it is thought may have been the original stock of the sweet potato. | |
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d8O94gonium \[d8]O`[94]*go"ni*um\, n.; pl. L. {O[94]gonia}, E. {O[94]goniums}. [NL., fr. Gr. w,'o`n an egg + [?] offspring.] (Bot.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing o[94]spheres, as in the rockweeds ({Fucus}), and the orders {Vaucherie[91]} and {Peronospore[91]}. | |
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Pharaonic \Phar`a*on"ic\, a. [Cf. F. pharaonique.] Of or pertaining to the Pharaohs, or kings of ancient Egypt. | |
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Pharmaceutic \Phar`ma*ceu"tic\ (f[aum]r`m[adot]*s[umac]"t[icr]k), Pharmaceutical \Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al\ (-t[icr]*k[ait]l), a. [L. pharmaceuticus, Gr. farmakeytiko`s, fr. farmakey`ein: cf. F. pharmaceutique. See {Pharmacy}.] Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. -- {Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly}, adv. {Pharmaceutical chemistry}, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal substances. | |
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Pharmaceutic \Phar`ma*ceu"tic\ (f[aum]r`m[adot]*s[umac]"t[icr]k), Pharmaceutical \Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al\ (-t[icr]*k[ait]l), a. [L. pharmaceuticus, Gr. farmakeytiko`s, fr. farmakey`ein: cf. F. pharmaceutique. See {Pharmacy}.] Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. -- {Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly}, adv. {Pharmaceutical chemistry}, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal substances. | |
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Pharmaceutic \Phar`ma*ceu"tic\ (f[aum]r`m[adot]*s[umac]"t[icr]k), Pharmaceutical \Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al\ (-t[icr]*k[ait]l), a. [L. pharmaceuticus, Gr. farmakeytiko`s, fr. farmakey`ein: cf. F. pharmaceutique. See {Pharmacy}.] Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. -- {Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly}, adv. {Pharmaceutical chemistry}, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal substances. | |
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Pharmaceutic \Phar`ma*ceu"tic\ (f[aum]r`m[adot]*s[umac]"t[icr]k), Pharmaceutical \Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al\ (-t[icr]*k[ait]l), a. [L. pharmaceuticus, Gr. farmakeytiko`s, fr. farmakey`ein: cf. F. pharmaceutique. See {Pharmacy}.] Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. -- {Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly}, adv. {Pharmaceutical chemistry}, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal substances. | |
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Pharmaceutics \Phar`ma*ceu"tics\, n. The science of preparing medicines. | |
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Pharmaceutist \Phar`ma*ceu"tist\, n. One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note under {Apothecary}. | |
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Pharmacist \Phar"ma*cist\, n. One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist. | |
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Pharmacodymanics \Phar`ma*co*dy*man"ics\, n. [Gr. [?] drug + E. dynamics.] That branch of pharmacology which treats of the action and the effects of medicines. | |
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Pharmacodynamics \Phar`ma*co*dy*nam"ics\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon medicine + E. dynamics.] That branch of pharmacology which considers the mode of action, and the effects, of medicines. --Dunglison. | |
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Pharmacognosis \Phar`ma*cog*no"sis\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon a drug + gnw^sis a knowing.] That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also {pharmacography}, and {pharmacomathy}. | |
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Pharmacognosy \Phar`ma*cog"no*sy\, n. Pharmacognosis. | |
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Pharmacognosis \Phar`ma*cog*no"sis\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon a drug + gnw^sis a knowing.] That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also {pharmacography}, and {pharmacomathy}. | |
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Pharmacography \Phar`ma*cog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon a drug + -graphy.] See {Pharmacognosis}. | |
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Pharmacognosis \Phar`ma*cog*no"sis\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon a drug + gnw^sis a knowing.] That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also {pharmacography}, and {pharmacomathy}. | |
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Pharmacography \Phar`ma*cog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon a drug + -graphy.] See {Pharmacognosis}. | |
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Pharmacolite \Phar*mac"o*lite\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon drug, poisonous drug + -lite: cf. F. pharmacolithe.] (Min.) A hydrous arsenate of lime, usually occurring in silky fibers of a white or grayish color. | |
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Pharmacologist \Phar`ma*col"o*gist\, n. [Cf. F. pharmacologiste.] One skilled in pharmacology. | |
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Pharmacology \Phar`ma*col"o*gy\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon drug + -logy: cf. F. pharmacologie.] 1. Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing medicines. 2. A treatise on the art of preparing medicines. | |
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Pharmacognosis \Phar`ma*cog*no"sis\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon a drug + gnw^sis a knowing.] That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also {pharmacography}, and {pharmacomathy}. | |
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Pharmacomathy \Phar`ma*com"a*thy\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon a drug + manqa`nein to learn.] See {Pharmacognosis}. | |
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Pharmacognosis \Phar`ma*cog*no"sis\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon a drug + gnw^sis a knowing.] That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also {pharmacography}, and {pharmacomathy}. | |
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Pharmacomathy \Phar`ma*com"a*thy\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon a drug + manqa`nein to learn.] See {Pharmacognosis}. | |
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Pharmacon \Phar"ma*con\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. fa`rmakon.] A medicine or drug; also, a poison. --Dunglison. | |
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Pharmacopd2ia \Phar`ma*co*p[d2]"ia\, n. [NL., from Gr. farmakopoii:`a the preparation of medicines; fa`rmakon medicine + poiei^n to make.] 1. A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard. 2. A chemical laboratory. [Obs.] --Dunglison. | |
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Pharmacopolist \Phar`ma*cop"o*list\, n. [L. pharmacopola, Gr. farmakopw`lhs; fa`rmakon medicine + pwlei^n to sell.] One who sells medicines; an apothecary. | |
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Pharmacosiderite \Phar`ma*co*sid"er*ite\, n. [Gr. [?] drug, poison + E. siderite.] (Min.) A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore. | |
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Pharmacy \Phar"ma*cy\, n. [OE. fermacie, OF. farmacie, pharmacie, F. pharmacie, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to administer or use medicines, fr. [?] medicine.] 1. The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist. 2. A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop. | |
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Lady's bedstraw \La"dy's bed"straw`\, (Bot.) The common bedstraw ({Galium verum}); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub ({Pharnaceum Mollugo}), with white flowers in umbels. | |
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Quesal \Que*sal"\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The long-tailed, or resplendent, trogon ({Pharomachus mocinno}, formerly {Trogon resplendens}), native of Southern Mexico and Central America. Called also {quetzal}, and {golden trogon}. Note: The male is remarkable for the brilliant metallic green and gold colors of his plumage, and for his extremely long plumes, which often exceed three feet in length. | |
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Pharyngal \Pha*ryn"gal\, a. Pharyngeal. --H. Sweet. | |
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Pharyngeal \Phar`yn*ge"al\, a. [See {Pharynx}.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region of the pharynx. | |
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Pharyngeal \Phar`yn*ge"al\, n. (Anat.) A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials, which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches. | |
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Pharynx \Phar"ynx\, n.; pl. {pharynges}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], [?]: cf. F. pharynx.] (Anat.) The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias. | |
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Pharyngobranchial \Pha*ryn`go*bran"chi*al\, a. [Pharynx + branchial.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pharynx and the branchi[91]; -- applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes. See {Pharyngeal}. -- n. A pharyngobranchial, or upper pharyngeal, bone or cartilage. | |
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Pharyngolaryngeal \Pha*ryn`go*lar`yn*ge"al\, a. [Pharynx + laryngeal.] Of or pertaining both to pharynx and the larynx. | |
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d8Pharyngopneusta \[d8]Pha*ryn`gop*neus"ta\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] the pharynx + [?] to breathe.] (Zo[94]l.) A group of invertebrates including the Tunicata and Enteropneusta. -- {Pha*ryn`gop*neus"tal}, a. | |
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Pharyngotome \Pha*ryn"go*tome\, n. (Surg.) An instrument for incising or scarifying the tonsils, etc. | |
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Pharyngotomy \Phar`yn*got"o*my\, n. [Pharynx + Gr. [?] to cut: cf. F. pharyngotomie.] (Surg.) (a) The operation of making an incision into the pharynx, to remove a tumor or anything that obstructs the passage. (b) Scarification or incision of the tonsils. | |
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Pharynx \Phar"ynx\, n.; pl. {pharynges}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], [?]: cf. F. pharynx.] (Anat.) The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias. | |
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Phrenic \Phren"ic\, a.[Gr. [?], [?], the midriff, or diaphragm, the heart, the mind: cf. F. phr[82]nique.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the diaphragm; diaphragmatic; as, the phrenic nerve. | |
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Phrenics \Phren"ics\, n. That branch of science which relates to the mind; mental philosophy. [R.] | |
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Phrenism \Phre"nism\, n. [See {Phrenic}.] (Biol.) See {Vital force}, under {Vital}. | |
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Phrenograph \Phre"no*graph\, n. [Gr. [?], [?], the migriff + -graph.] (Physiol.) An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration. | |
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Phrenosin \Phre"no*sin\, n. [See {Phrenic}.] (Physiol. Chem.) A nitrogenous body, related to cerebrin, supposed to exist in the brain. | |
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Phrensied \Phren"sied\, p. p. & a. See {Frenzied}. | |
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Phrensy \Phren"sy\, v. t. To render frantic. | |
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Phrensy \Phren"sy\, n. Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See {Frenzy}. | |
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d8Tapayaxin \[d8]Ta`pa*yax"in\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A Mexican spinous lizard ({Phrynosoma orbiculare}) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also {horned toad}. | |
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Tanager \Tan"a*ger\, n. [NL. tanagra, probably fr. Brazilian tangara.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to {Tanagra}, {Piranga}, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager ({Piranga erythromelas}) and the summer redbird ({Piranga rubra}) are common species of the United States. | |
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Summer \Sum"mer\, n. [OE. sumer, somer, AS. sumor, sumer; akin to OFries. sumur, D. zomer, OS. sumar, G. sommer, OHG. & Icel. sumar, Dan. sommer, Sw. sommar, W. haf, Zend hama, Skr. sam[be] year. [fb]292.] The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year. Note: North of the equator summer is popularly taken to include the months of June, July, and August. Astronomically it may be considered, in the northern hemisphere, to begin with the summer solstice, about June 21st, and to end with the autumnal equinox, about September 22d. {Indian summer}, in North America, a period of warm weather late in autumn, usually characterized by a clear sky, and by a hazy or smoky appearance of the atmosphere, especially near the horizon. The name is derived probably from the custom of the Indians of using this time in preparation for winter by laying in stores of food. {Saint Martin's summer}. See under {Saint}. {Summer bird} (Zo[94]l.), the wryneck. [Prov. Eng.] {Summer colt}, the undulating state of the air near the surface of the ground when heated. [Eng.] {Summer complaint} (Med.), a popular term for any diarrheal disorder occurring in summer, especially when produced by heat and indigestion. {Summer coot} (Zo[94]l.), the American gallinule. [Local, U.S.] {Summer cypress} (Bot.), an annual plant ({Kochia Scoparia}) of the Goosefoot family. It has narrow, ciliate, crowded leaves, and is sometimes seen in gardens. {Summer duck}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The wood duck. (b) The garganey, or summer teal. See Illust. of {Wood duck}, under {Wood}. {Summer fallow}, land uncropped and plowed, etc., during the summer, in order to pulverize the soil and kill the weeds. {Summer rash} (Med.), prickly heat. See under {Prickly}. {Summer sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.] {Summer snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The dunlin. (b) The common European sandpiper. (c) The green sandpiper. {Summer tanager} (Zo[94]l.), a singing bird ({Piranga rubra}) native of the Middle and Southern United States. The male is deep red, the female is yellowish olive above and yellow beneath. Called also {summer redbird}. {Summer teal} (Zo[94]l.), the blue-winged teal. [Local, U.S.] {Summer wheat}, wheat that is sown in the spring, and matures during the summer following. See {Spring wheat}. {Summer yellowbird}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Yellowbird}. | |
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Tanager \Tan"a*ger\, n. [NL. tanagra, probably fr. Brazilian tangara.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to {Tanagra}, {Piranga}, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager ({Piranga erythromelas}) and the summer redbird ({Piranga rubra}) are common species of the United States. | |
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Redbird \Red"bird`\ (-b?rd`), n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The cardinal bird. (b) The summer redbird ({Piranga rubra}). (c) The scarlet tanager. See {Tanager}. | |
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Poorness \Poor"ness\, n. The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective). --Bacon. | |
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Poriness \Por"i*ness\, n. Porosity. --Wiseman. | |
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Pore \Pore\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poring}.] [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf. D. porren to poke, thrust, Gael. purr.] To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.[bd]Painfully to pore upon a book.[b8] --Shak. The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. --Dryden. | |
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Pornographic \Por`no*graph"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing. | |
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Pornography \Por*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. [?] a harlot + -graphy.] 1. Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies. 2. (Med.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution. | |
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Porringer \Por"rin*ger\, n. [OE. pottanger, for pottager; cf. F. potager a soup basin. See {Porridge}.] A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. --Wordsworth. | |
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Pour \Pour\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pouring}.] [OE. pouren, of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwrw to cast, throw, shed, bwrw gwlaw to rain.] 1. To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust. 2. To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly. I . . . have poured out my soul before the Lord. --1 Sam. i. 15. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee. --Ezek. vii. 8. London doth pour out her citizens ! --Shak. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand ? --Milton. 3. To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? --Pope. | |
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Pr91maxilla \Pr[91]`max*il"la\, n. See {Premaxilla}. | |
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Pr91nasal \Pr[91]*na"sal\, a. (Anat.) Same as {Prenasal}. | |
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Prance \Prance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pranced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prancing}.] [OE. prauncen; probably akin to prank, v. t. See Prank.] 1. To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle. Now rule thy prancing steed. --Gay. 2. To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner. The insulting tyrant prancing o'er the field. --Addison. 3. To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade. --Swift. | |
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Prance \Prance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pranced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prancing}.] [OE. prauncen; probably akin to prank, v. t. See Prank.] 1. To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle. Now rule thy prancing steed. --Gay. 2. To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner. The insulting tyrant prancing o'er the field. --Addison. 3. To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade. --Swift. | |
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Prancer \Pran"cer\, n. A horse which prances. Then came the captain . . . upon a brave prancer. --Evelyn. | |
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Prance \Prance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pranced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prancing}.] [OE. prauncen; probably akin to prank, v. t. See Prank.] 1. To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle. Now rule thy prancing steed. --Gay. 2. To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner. The insulting tyrant prancing o'er the field. --Addison. 3. To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade. --Swift. | |
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Prank \Prank\, a. Full of gambols or tricks. [Obs.] | |
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Prank \Prank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pranked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pranking}.] [Cf. E. prink, also G. prangen, prunken, to shine, to make a show, Dan. prange, prunke, Sw. prunka, D. pronken.] To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See {Prink}. In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank. --Spenser. | |
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Prank \Prank\, v. i. To make ostentatious show. White houses prank where once were huts. --M. Arnold. | |
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Prank \Prank\, n. A gay or sportive action; a ludicrous, merry, or mischievous trick; a caper; a frolic. --Spenser. The harpies . . . played their accustomed pranks. --Sir W. Raleigh. His pranks have been too broad to bear with. --Shak. | |
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Prank \Prank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pranked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pranking}.] [Cf. E. prink, also G. prangen, prunken, to shine, to make a show, Dan. prange, prunke, Sw. prunka, D. pronken.] To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See {Prink}. In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank. --Spenser. | |
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Pranker \Prank"er\, n. One who dresses showily; a prinker. [bd]A pranker or a dancer.[b8] --Burton. | |
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Prank \Prank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pranked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pranking}.] [Cf. E. prink, also G. prangen, prunken, to shine, to make a show, Dan. prange, prunke, Sw. prunka, D. pronken.] To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See {Prink}. In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank. --Spenser. | |
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Prankish \Prank"ish\, a. Full of pranks; frolicsome. | |
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Shrimp \Shrimp\, n. [OE. shrimp; -- probably so named from its shriveled appearance. See {Shrimp}, v.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to {Crangon} and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also {prawns}. See Illust. of {Decapoda}. (b) In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe {Caridea}, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form. (c) In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under {Fairy}, and {Brine}. | |
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Pray \Pray\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Praying}.] [OE. preien, OF. preier, F. prier, L. precari, fr. prex, precis, a prayer, a request; akin to Skr. prach to ask, AS. frignan, fr[c6]nan, fricgan, G. fragen, Goth. fra[a1]hnan. Cf. {Deprecate}, {Imprecate}, {Precarious}.] To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving. And to his goddess pitously he preyde. --Chaucer. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. --Matt. vi. 6. {I pray}, [or] (by ellipsis) {Pray}, I beg; I request; I entreat you; -- used in asking a question, making a request, introducing a petition, etc.; as, Pray, allow me to go. I pray, sir. why am I beaten? --Shak. Syn: To entreat; supplicate; beg; implore; invoke; beseech; petition. | |
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Praying \Pray"ing\, a. & n. from {Pray}, v. {Praying insect}, {locust}, [or] mantis (Zo[94]l.), a mantis, especially {Mantis religiosa}. See {Mantis}. {Praying machine}, [or] {Praying wheel}, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream. | |
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Praying \Pray"ing\, a. & n. from {Pray}, v. {Praying insect}, {locust}, [or] mantis (Zo[94]l.), a mantis, especially {Mantis religiosa}. See {Mantis}. {Praying machine}, [or] {Praying wheel}, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream. | |
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Praying \Pray"ing\, a. & n. from {Pray}, v. {Praying insect}, {locust}, [or] mantis (Zo[94]l.), a mantis, especially {Mantis religiosa}. See {Mantis}. {Praying machine}, [or] {Praying wheel}, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream. | |
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Praying \Pray"ing\, a. & n. from {Pray}, v. {Praying insect}, {locust}, [or] mantis (Zo[94]l.), a mantis, especially {Mantis religiosa}. See {Mantis}. {Praying machine}, [or] {Praying wheel}, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream. | |
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Prayingly \Pray"ing*ly\, adv. With supplication to God. | |
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Pre89ngage \Pre`[89]n*gage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pre[89]ngaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pre[89]ngaging}.] To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy. But he was pre[89]ngaged by former ties. --Dryden. | |
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Pre89ngage \Pre`[89]n*gage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pre[89]ngaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pre[89]ngaging}.] To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy. But he was pre[89]ngaged by former ties. --Dryden. | |
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Pre89ngagement \Pre`[89]n*gage"ment\, n. Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My pre[89]ngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. --Boyle. | |
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Pre89ngage \Pre`[89]n*gage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pre[89]ngaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pre[89]ngaging}.] To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy. But he was pre[89]ngaged by former ties. --Dryden. | |
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Prehensi-ble \Pre*hen"si-ble\, a. [Cf. F. pr[82]hensible.] Capable of being seized. | |
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Prehensile \Pre*hen"sile\, a. [L. prehensus, p. p. of prehendere to lay hold of, seize; pre- (equiv. to prae before) + hendere (in comp.), akin to E. get: cf. F. pr[82]hensile. See {Get}, and cf. {Prison}, {Prize}, n.] Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. | |
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Prehension \Pre*hen"sion\, n. [L. prehensio; cf. F. pr[82]hension. See {Prehensile}.] The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member. | |
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Prehensory \Pre*hen"so*ry\, a. Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile. | |
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Preinstruct \Pre`in*struct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Preinstructed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Preinstructing}.] To instruct previously or beforehand. --Dr. H. More. | |
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Preinstruct \Pre`in*struct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Preinstructed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Preinstructing}.] To instruct previously or beforehand. --Dr. H. More. | |
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Preinstruct \Pre`in*struct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Preinstructed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Preinstructing}.] To instruct previously or beforehand. --Dr. H. More. | |
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d8Premaxilla \[d8]Pre"max*il"la\, n.; pl. {Premaxill[91]}. [NL. See {Pre-}, and {Maxilla}.] (Anat.) A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxill[91] become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone. | |
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Premaxillary \Pre*max"il*la*ry\, a. (Anat.) Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill[91]; intermaxillary. -- n. A premaxilla. | |
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Premices \Prem"i*ces\, n. pl. [F. pr[82]mices, L. primitiae. See {Primitia}.] First fruits. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
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Premious \Pre"mi*ous\, a. [L. praemiosus, fr. praemium a premium.] Rich in gifts. [R.] --Clarke. | |
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Premise \Pre*mise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Premised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Premising}.] [From L. praemissus, p. p., or E. premise, n. See {Premise}, n.] 1. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously. [Obs.] The premised flames of the last day. --Shak. If venesection and a cathartic be premised. --E. Darwin. 2. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings. I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task. --Addison. | |
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Premise \Prem"ise\, n.; pl. {Premises}. [Written also, less properly, {premiss}.] [F. pr[82]misse, fr. L. praemissus, p. p. of praemittere to send before; prae before + mittere to send. See {Mission}.] 1. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served. --Shak. 2. (Logic) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn. Note: [bd]All sinners deserve punishment: A B is a sinner.[b8] These propositions, which are the premises, being true or admitted, the conclusion follows, that A B deserves punishment. While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion. --Dr. H. More. 3. pl. (Law) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. 4. pl. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises. | |
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Premise \Pre*mise"\, v. i. To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise. --Swift. | |
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Premise \Pre*mise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Premised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Premising}.] [From L. praemissus, p. p., or E. premise, n. See {Premise}, n.] 1. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously. [Obs.] The premised flames of the last day. --Shak. If venesection and a cathartic be premised. --E. Darwin. 2. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings. I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task. --Addison. | |
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Premise \Prem"ise\, n.; pl. {Premises}. [Written also, less properly, {premiss}.] [F. pr[82]misse, fr. L. praemissus, p. p. of praemittere to send before; prae before + mittere to send. See {Mission}.] 1. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served. --Shak. 2. (Logic) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn. Note: [bd]All sinners deserve punishment: A B is a sinner.[b8] These propositions, which are the premises, being true or admitted, the conclusion follows, that A B deserves punishment. While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion. --Dr. H. More. 3. pl. (Law) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. 4. pl. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises. | |
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Premise \Pre*mise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Premised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Premising}.] [From L. praemissus, p. p., or E. premise, n. See {Premise}, n.] 1. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously. [Obs.] The premised flames of the last day. --Shak. If venesection and a cathartic be premised. --E. Darwin. 2. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings. I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task. --Addison. | |
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Premise \Prem"ise\, n.; pl. {Premises}. [Written also, less properly, {premiss}.] [F. pr[82]misse, fr. L. praemissus, p. p. of praemittere to send before; prae before + mittere to send. See {Mission}.] 1. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served. --Shak. 2. (Logic) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn. Note: [bd]All sinners deserve punishment: A B is a sinner.[b8] These propositions, which are the premises, being true or admitted, the conclusion follows, that A B deserves punishment. While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion. --Dr. H. More. 3. pl. (Law) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. 4. pl. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises. | |
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Premiss \Prem"iss\, n. Premise. --Whately. I. Watts | |
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Premise \Prem"ise\, n.; pl. {Premises}. [Written also, less properly, {premiss}.] [F. pr[82]misse, fr. L. praemissus, p. p. of praemittere to send before; prae before + mittere to send. See {Mission}.] 1. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served. --Shak. 2. (Logic) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn. Note: [bd]All sinners deserve punishment: A B is a sinner.[b8] These propositions, which are the premises, being true or admitted, the conclusion follows, that A B deserves punishment. While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion. --Dr. H. More. 3. pl. (Law) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. 4. pl. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises. | |
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Premiss \Prem"iss\, n. Premise. --Whately. I. Watts | |
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Premosaic \Pre`mo*sa"ic\, a. Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history. | |
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Prenasal \Pre*na"sal\, a. (Anat.) Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers. | |
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Prenostic \Pre*nos"tic\, n. [L. praenoscere to foreknow; prae before + noscere, notum, to know.] A prognostic; an omen. [Obs.] --Gower. | |
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Prensation \Pren*sa"tion\, n. [L. prensatio, from prensare, prehensare, v. freq. from prehendere to seize.] The act of seizing with violence. [Obs.] --Barrow . | |
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Prey \Prey\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Preyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Preying}.] [OF. preier, preer, L. praedari, fr. praeda. See {Prey}, n.] To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence. More pity that the eagle should be mewed, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. --Shak. {To prey on} [or] {upon}. (a) To take prey from; to despoil; to pillage; to rob. --Shak. (b) To seize as prey; to take for food by violence; to seize and devour. --Shak. (c) To wear away gradually; to cause to waste or pine away; as, the trouble preyed upon his mind. --Addison. | |
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Primacy \Pri"ma*cy\, n. [LL. primatia, fr. L. primas, -atis, one of the first or principal, chief, fr. primus first: cf. F. primatie. See {Prime}, a.] 1. The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy. [R.] --De Quincey. 2. The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England. | |
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Primage \Pri"mage\ (?; 48), n. [F.] (Com.) A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called {hat money}), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain. --Homans. | |
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{Prime and ultimate ratio}. (Math.). See {Ultimate}. {Prime conductor}. (Elec.) See under {Conductor}. {Prime factor} (Arith.), a factor which is a prime number. {Prime figure} (Geom.), a figure which can not be divided into any other figure more simple than itself, as a triangle, a pyramid, etc. {Prime meridian} (Astron.), the meridian from which longitude is reckoned, as the meridian of Greenwich or Washington. {Prime minister}, the responsible head of a ministry or executive government; applied particularly to that of England. {Prime mover}. (Mech.) (a) A natural agency applied by man to the production of power. Especially: Muscular force; the weight and motion of fluids, as water and air; heat obtained by chemical combination, and applied to produce changes in the volume and pressure of steam, air, or other fluids; and electricity, obtained by chemical action, and applied to produce alternation of magnetic force. (b) An engine, or machine, the object of which is to receive and modify force and motion as supplied by some natural source, and apply them to drive other machines; as a water wheel, a water-pressure engine, a steam engine, a hot-air engine, etc. (c) Fig.: The original or the most effective force in any undertaking or work; as, Clarkson was the prime mover in English antislavery agitation. {Prime number} (Arith.), a number which is exactly divisible by no number except itself or unity, as 5, 7, 11. {Prime vertical} (Astron.), the vertical circle which passes through the east and west points of the horizon. {Prime-vertical dial}, a dial in which the shadow is projected on the plane of the prime vertical. {Prime-vertical transit instrument}, a transit instrument the telescope of which revolves in the plane of the prime vertical, -- used for observing the transit of stars over this circle. | |
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Conductor \Con*duct"or\ (k[ocr]n*d[ucr]k"t[etil]r), n. [LL., a carrier, transporter, L., a lessee.] 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. --Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car. [U. S.] 3. (Mus.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. 4. (Physics) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod. 5. (Surg.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director. 6. (Arch.) Same as {Leader}. {Prime conductor} (Elec.), the largest conductor of an electrical machine, serving to collect, accumulate, or retain the electricity. | |
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Primigenial \Pri`mi*ge"ni*al\, a. First born, or first of all; original; primary. See {Primogenial}. | |
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Primigenious \Pri`mi*ge"ni*ous\, Primigenous \Pri*mig"e*nous\, a. [L. primigenus, primigenius. See {Primogeniture}.] First formed or generated; original; primigenial. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Primigenious \Pri`mi*ge"ni*ous\, Primigenous \Pri*mig"e*nous\, a. [L. primigenus, primigenius. See {Primogeniture}.] First formed or generated; original; primigenial. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Primness \Prim"ness\, n. The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness. | |
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Primogenial \Pri`mo*ge"ni*al\, a. [See {Primigenial}.] First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. --Glanvill. | |
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Primogenitive \Pri`mo*gen"i*tive\, n. Primogeniture. [Obs.] The primogenitive and due of birth. --Shak. | |
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Primogenitive \Pri`mo*gen"i*tive\, a. [See {Primogeniture}.] Of or pertaining to primogeniture. [R.] | |
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Primogenitor \Pri`mo*gen"i*tor\, n. [LL., fr. L. primus first + genitor a begetter.] The first ancestor; a forefather. | |
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Primogeniture \Pri`mo*gen"i*ture\ (?; 135), n. [LL., fr. L. primus first + genitura a begetting, birth, generation, fr. genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. primog[82]niture, L. primogenitus firstborn. See {Prime}, a., and {Genus}, {Kin}.] 1. The state of being the firstborn of the same parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family. 2. (Eng. Law) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue. --Blackstone. | |
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Primogenitureship \Pri`mo*gen"i*ture*ship\, n. The state or privileges of the firstborn. --Burke. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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Prince \Prince\, v. i. To play the prince. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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{Prince consort}, the husband of a queen regnant. {Queen consort}, the wife of a king, as distinguished from a {queen regnant}, who rules alone, and a {queen dowager}, the window of a king. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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{Prince of darkness}, the Devil; Satan. [bd]In the power of the Prince of darkness.[b8] --Locke. Syn: {Darkness}, {Dimness}, {Obscurity}, {Gloom}. Usage: Darkness arises from a total, and dimness from a partial, want of light. A thing is obscure when so overclouded or covered as not to be easily perceived. As tha shade or obscurity increases, it deepens into gloom. What is dark is hidden from view; what is obscure is difficult to perceive or penetrate; the eye becomes dim with age; an impending storm fills the atmosphere with gloom. When taken figuratively, these words have a like use; as, the darkness of ignorance; dimness of discernment; obscurity of reasoning; gloom of superstition. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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Blood \Blood\, n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl[?]d; akin to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth, bl[?][?], Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E. blow to bloom. See {Blow} to bloom.] 1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under {Arterial}. Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See {Corpuscle}, {Plasma}. 2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. To share the blood of Saxon royalty. --Sir W. Scott. A friend of our own blood. --Waller. {Half blood} (Law), relationship through only one parent. {Whole blood}, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. --Bouvier. --Peters. 3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage. Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. --Shak. I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --Shak. 4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood. 5. The fleshy nature of man. Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --Shak. 6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones. --Hood. 7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.] He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. --Shak. 8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions. When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. --Shak. Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up. 9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty? --Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. --Thackeray. 10. The juice of anything, especially if red. He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. --Gen. xiix. 11. Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won. {Blood baptism} (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism. {Blood blister}, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury. {Blood brother}, brother by blood or birth. {Blood clam} (Zo[94]l.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. {Argina pexata} of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh. {Blood corpuscle}. See {Corpuscle}. {Blood crystal} (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the h[91]moglobin of the red blood corpuscles; h[91]matocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals. {Blood heat}, heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 98[ab] [deg] Fahr. {Blood horse}, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock. {Blood money}. See in the Vocabulary. {Blood orange}, an orange with dark red pulp. {Blood poisoning} (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; tox[91]mia. {Blood pudding}, a pudding made of blood and other materials. {Blood relation}, one connected by blood or descent. {Blood spavin}. See under {Spavin}. {Blood vessel}. See in the Vocabulary. {Blue blood}, the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family. {Flesh and blood}. (a) A blood relation, esp. a child. (b) Human nature. {In blood} (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor. --Shak. {To let blood}. See under {Let}. {Prince of the blood}, the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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Metal \Met"al\ (? [or] ?; 277), n. [F. m[82]tal, L. metallum metal, mine, Gr. [?] mine; cf. Gr. [?] to search after. Cf. {Mettle}, {Medal}.] 1. (Chem.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc. Note: Popularly, the name is applied to certain hard, fusible metals, as gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, zinc, nickel, etc., and also to the mixed metals, or metallic alloys, as brass, bronze, steel, bell metal, etc. 2. Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners. --Raymond. 3. A mine from which ores are taken. [Obs.] Slaves . . . and persons condemned to metals. --Jer. Taylor. 4. The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper. Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. --Shak. 5. Courage; spirit; mettle. See {Mettle}. --Shak. Note: The allusion is to the temper of the metal of a sword blade. --Skeat. 6. The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads. 7. The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war. 8. Glass in a state of fusion. --Knight. 9. pl. The rails of a railroad. [Eng.] {Base metal} (Chem.), any one of the metals, as iron, lead, etc., which are readily tarnished or oxidized, in contrast with the noble metals. In general, a metal of small value, as compared with gold or silver. {Fusible metal} (Metal.), a very fusible alloy, usually consisting of bismuth with lead, tin, or cadmium. {Heavy metals} (Chem.), the metallic elements not included in the groups of the alkalies, alkaline earths, or the earths; specifically, the heavy metals, as gold, mercury, platinum, lead, silver, etc. {Light metals} (Chem.), the metallic elements of the alkali and alkaline earth groups, as sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, etc.; also, sometimes, the metals of the earths, as aluminium. {Muntz metal}, an alloy for sheathing and other purposes, consisting of about sixty per cent of copper, and forty of zinc. Sometimes a little lead is added. It is named from the inventor. {Prince's metal} (Old Chem.), an alloy resembling brass, consisting of three parts of copper to one of zinc; -- also called {Prince Rupert's metal}. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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Princedom \Prince"dom\, n. The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince. Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce. --Milton. | |
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Princehood \Prince"hood\, n. Princeliness. [Obs.] --E. Hall. | |
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Princekin \Prince"kin\, n. A petty prince; a princeling. The princekins of private life. --Thackeray. | |
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Princeless \Prince"less\, a. Without a prince. --Fuller. | |
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Princelet \Prince"let\, n. A petty prince. [R.] | |
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Princelike \Prince"like`\, a. Princely. --Shak. | |
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Princeliness \Prince"li*ness\, n. The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince. | |
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Princeling \Prince"ling\, n. A petty prince; a young prince. | |
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Princely \Prince"ly\, a. 1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune. [bd]Most princely gifts.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Princely \Prince"ly\, adv. In a princely manner. My appetite was not princely got. --Shak. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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Metal \Met"al\ (? [or] ?; 277), n. [F. m[82]tal, L. metallum metal, mine, Gr. [?] mine; cf. Gr. [?] to search after. Cf. {Mettle}, {Medal}.] 1. (Chem.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc. Note: Popularly, the name is applied to certain hard, fusible metals, as gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, zinc, nickel, etc., and also to the mixed metals, or metallic alloys, as brass, bronze, steel, bell metal, etc. 2. Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners. --Raymond. 3. A mine from which ores are taken. [Obs.] Slaves . . . and persons condemned to metals. --Jer. Taylor. 4. The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper. Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. --Shak. 5. Courage; spirit; mettle. See {Mettle}. --Shak. Note: The allusion is to the temper of the metal of a sword blade. --Skeat. 6. The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads. 7. The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war. 8. Glass in a state of fusion. --Knight. 9. pl. The rails of a railroad. [Eng.] {Base metal} (Chem.), any one of the metals, as iron, lead, etc., which are readily tarnished or oxidized, in contrast with the noble metals. In general, a metal of small value, as compared with gold or silver. {Fusible metal} (Metal.), a very fusible alloy, usually consisting of bismuth with lead, tin, or cadmium. {Heavy metals} (Chem.), the metallic elements not included in the groups of the alkalies, alkaline earths, or the earths; specifically, the heavy metals, as gold, mercury, platinum, lead, silver, etc. {Light metals} (Chem.), the metallic elements of the alkali and alkaline earth groups, as sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, etc.; also, sometimes, the metals of the earths, as aluminium. {Muntz metal}, an alloy for sheathing and other purposes, consisting of about sixty per cent of copper, and forty of zinc. Sometimes a little lead is added. It is named from the inventor. {Prince's metal} (Old Chem.), an alloy resembling brass, consisting of three parts of copper to one of zinc; -- also called {Prince Rupert's metal}. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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Pipsissewa \Pip*sis"se*wa\, n. [From American Indian.] (Bot.) A low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila umbellata}), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also {prince's pine}. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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Pipsissewa \Pip*sis"se*wa\, n. [From American Indian.] (Bot.) A low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila umbellata}), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also {prince's pine}. | |
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Prince \Prince\, n. [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See {Prime}, a., and {Capacious}.] 1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. --Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. --Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. --Camden. 2. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. --Shak. 3. A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. 4. The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is pre[89]minent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. [bd]The prince of learning.[b8] --Peacham. {Prince-Albert coat}, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. {Prince of the blood}, {Prince consort}, {Prince of darkness}. See under {Blood}, {Consort}, and {Darkness}. {Prince of Wales}, the oldest son of the English sovereign. {Prince's feather} (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs ({Amarantus caudatus} and {Polygonum orientale}), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes. {Prince's metal}, {Prince Rupert's metal}. See under {Metal}. {Prince's pine}. (Bot.) See {Pipsissewa}. | |
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Princess \Prin"cess\, n. [F. princesse. See {Prince}, and cf. {Princesse}.] 1. A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. --Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. --Swift. 2. The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family. --Shak. 3. The consort of a prince; as, the princess of Wales. {Princess royal}, the eldest daughter of a sovereign. | |
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Princess \Prin"cess\, n. [F. princesse. See {Prince}, and cf. {Princesse}.] 1. A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. --Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. --Swift. 2. The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family. --Shak. 3. The consort of a prince; as, the princess of Wales. {Princess royal}, the eldest daughter of a sovereign. | |
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Princesse \Prin*cesse"\, a. [F., a princess.] A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one. | |
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Princesslike \Prin"cess*like`\, a. Like a princess. | |
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Princewood \Prince"wood`\, n. (Bot.) The wood of two small tropical American trees ({Hamelia ventricosa}, and {Cordia gerascanthoides}). It is brownish, veined with lighter color. | |
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Princified \Prin"ci*fied\, a. [Prince + L. -ficare (in comp.).] Imitative of a prince. [R. & Colloq.] --Thackeray. | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See {Prince}.] 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. {Principal axis}. See {Axis of a curve}, under {Axis}. {Principal axes of a quadric} (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal challenge}. (Law) See under {Challenge}. {Principal plane}. See {Plane of projection} (a), under {Plane}. {Principal of a quadric} (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal point} (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. {Principal ray} (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. {Principal section} (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, n. 1. A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant. 2. Hence: (Law) (a) The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory. (b) A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety. (c) One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent. --Wharton. --Bouvier. --Burrill. 3. A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous. Specifically: (a) (Com.) A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit. (b) (Arch. & Engin.) The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing. (c) (Mus.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason. (d) (O. Eng. Law) A heirloom; a mortuary. --Cowell. (e) pl. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing. --Spenser. --J. H. Walsh. (f) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned. --Oxf. Gloss. (g) A principal or essential point or rule; a principle. [Obs.] | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See {Prince}.] 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. {Principal axis}. See {Axis of a curve}, under {Axis}. {Principal axes of a quadric} (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal challenge}. (Law) See under {Challenge}. {Principal plane}. See {Plane of projection} (a), under {Plane}. {Principal of a quadric} (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal point} (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. {Principal ray} (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. {Principal section} (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See {Prince}.] 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. {Principal axis}. See {Axis of a curve}, under {Axis}. {Principal axes of a quadric} (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal challenge}. (Law) See under {Challenge}. {Principal plane}. See {Plane of projection} (a), under {Plane}. {Principal of a quadric} (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal point} (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. {Principal ray} (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. {Principal section} (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. | |
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Axis \Ax"is\, n.; pl. {Axes}. [L. axis axis, axle. See {Axle}.] A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged. 2. (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center. 3. (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. --Gray. 4. (Anat.) (a) The second vertebra of the neck, or {vertebra dentata}. (b) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon. 5. (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded. 6. (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any design. {Anticlinal axis} (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides. {Synclinal axis}, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. {Axis cylinder} (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also {axis band}, {axial fiber}, and {cylinder axis}. {Axis in peritrochio}, the wheel and axle, one of the mechanical powers. {Axis of a curve} (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a {principal axis}, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of the ellipse are the {major axis} and the {minor axis}, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the {transverse axis} and the {conjugate axis}. {Axis of a lens}, the straight line passing through its center and perpendicular to its surfaces. {Axis of a} {telescope [or] microscope}, the straight line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses which compose it. {Axes of co[94]rdinates in a plane}, two straight lines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. {Axes of co[94]rdinates in space}, the three straight lines in which the co[94]rdinate planes intersect each other. {Axis of a balance}, that line about which it turns. {Axis of oscillation}, of a pendulum, a right line passing through the center about which it vibrates, and perpendicular to the plane of vibration. {Axis of polarization}, the central line around which the prismatic rings or curves are arranged. --Brewster. {Axis of revolution} (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points of the line or plane shall describe circles with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution. {Axis of symmetry} (Geom.), any line in a plane figure which divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other part. {Axis of the} {equator, ecliptic, horizon} (or other circle considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies), the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of the circle. --Hutton. {Axis of the Ionic capital} (Arch.), a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute. {Neutral axis} (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression, exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder. {Optic axis of a crystal}, the direction in which a ray of transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial or biaxial. {Optic axis}, {Visual axis} (Opt.), the straight line passing through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the surface of the eye. {Radical axis of two circles} (Geom.), the straight line perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles shall be equal to each other. {Spiral axis} (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without. {Axis of abscissas} and {Axis of ordinates}. See {Abscissa}. | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See {Prince}.] 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. {Principal axis}. See {Axis of a curve}, under {Axis}. {Principal axes of a quadric} (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal challenge}. (Law) See under {Challenge}. {Principal plane}. See {Plane of projection} (a), under {Plane}. {Principal of a quadric} (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal point} (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. {Principal ray} (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. {Principal section} (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. | |
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Axis \Ax"is\, n.; pl. {Axes}. [L. axis axis, axle. See {Axle}.] A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged. 2. (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center. 3. (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. --Gray. 4. (Anat.) (a) The second vertebra of the neck, or {vertebra dentata}. (b) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon. 5. (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded. 6. (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any design. {Anticlinal axis} (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides. {Synclinal axis}, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. {Axis cylinder} (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also {axis band}, {axial fiber}, and {cylinder axis}. {Axis in peritrochio}, the wheel and axle, one of the mechanical powers. {Axis of a curve} (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a {principal axis}, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of the ellipse are the {major axis} and the {minor axis}, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the {transverse axis} and the {conjugate axis}. {Axis of a lens}, the straight line passing through its center and perpendicular to its surfaces. {Axis of a} {telescope [or] microscope}, the straight line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses which compose it. {Axes of co[94]rdinates in a plane}, two straight lines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. {Axes of co[94]rdinates in space}, the three straight lines in which the co[94]rdinate planes intersect each other. {Axis of a balance}, that line about which it turns. {Axis of oscillation}, of a pendulum, a right line passing through the center about which it vibrates, and perpendicular to the plane of vibration. {Axis of polarization}, the central line around which the prismatic rings or curves are arranged. --Brewster. {Axis of revolution} (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points of the line or plane shall describe circles with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution. {Axis of symmetry} (Geom.), any line in a plane figure which divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other part. {Axis of the} {equator, ecliptic, horizon} (or other circle considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies), the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of the circle. --Hutton. {Axis of the Ionic capital} (Arch.), a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute. {Neutral axis} (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression, exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder. {Optic axis of a crystal}, the direction in which a ray of transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial or biaxial. {Optic axis}, {Visual axis} (Opt.), the straight line passing through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the surface of the eye. {Radical axis of two circles} (Geom.), the straight line perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles shall be equal to each other. {Spiral axis} (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without. {Axis of abscissas} and {Axis of ordinates}. See {Abscissa}. | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See {Prince}.] 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. {Principal axis}. See {Axis of a curve}, under {Axis}. {Principal axes of a quadric} (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal challenge}. (Law) See under {Challenge}. {Principal plane}. See {Plane of projection} (a), under {Plane}. {Principal of a quadric} (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal point} (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. {Principal ray} (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. {Principal section} (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. | |
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Challenge \Chal"lenge\, n. [OE. chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See {Calumny}.] 1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. A challenge to controversy. --Goldsmith. 2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. 3. A claim or demand. [Obs.] There must be no challenge of superiority. --Collier. 4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. 5. (Law) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. --Blackstone 6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U. S.] {Challenge to the array} (Law), an exception to the whole panel. {Challenge to the favor}, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. {Challenge to the polls}, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned. {Peremptory challenge}, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause. {Principal challenge}, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true. | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See {Prince}.] 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. {Principal axis}. See {Axis of a curve}, under {Axis}. {Principal axes of a quadric} (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal challenge}. (Law) See under {Challenge}. {Principal plane}. See {Plane of projection} (a), under {Plane}. {Principal of a quadric} (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal point} (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. {Principal ray} (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. {Principal section} (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. | |
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Focus \Fo"cus\, n.; pl. E. {Focuses}, L. {Foci}. [L. focus hearth, fireplace; perh. akin to E. bake. Cf. {Curfew}, {Fuel}, {Fusil} the firearm.] 1. (Opt.) A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror. 2. (Geom.) A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant. Note: Thus, in the ellipse FGHKLM, A is the focus and CD the directrix, when the ratios FA:FE, GA:GD, MA:MC, etc., are all equal. So in the hyperbola, A is the focus and CD the directrix when the ratio HA:HK is constant for all points of the curve; and in the parabola, A is the focus and CD the directrix when the ratio BA:BC is constant. In the ellipse this ratio is less than unity, in the parabola equal to unity, and in the hyperbola greater than unity. The ellipse and hyperbola have each two foci, and two corresponding directrixes, and the parabola has one focus and one directrix. In the ellipse the sum of the two lines from any point of the curve to the two foci is constant; that is: AG+GB=AH+HB; and in the hyperbola the difference of the corresponding lines is constant. The diameter which passes through the foci of the ellipse is the major axis. The diameter which being produced passes through the foci of the hyperbola is the transverse axis. The middle point of the major or the transverse axis is the center of the curve. Certain other curves, as the lemniscate and the Cartesian ovals, have points called foci, possessing properties similar to those of the foci of conic sections. In an ellipse, rays of light coming from one focus, and reflected from the curve, proceed in lines directed toward the other; in an hyperbola, in lines directed from the other; in a parabola, rays from the focus, after reflection at the curve, proceed in lines parallel to the axis. Thus rays from A in the ellipse are reflected to B; rays from A in the hyperbola are reflected toward L and M away from B. 3. A central point; a point of concentration. {Aplanatic focus}. (Opt.) See under {Aplanatic}. {Conjugate focus} (Opt.), the focus for rays which have a sensible divergence, as from a near object; -- so called because the positions of the object and its image are interchangeable. {Focus tube} (Phys.), a vacuum tube for R[d2]ntgen rays in which the cathode rays are focused upon the anticathode, for intensifying the effect. {Principal, [or] Solar}, {focus} (Opt.), the focus for parallel rays. | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See {Prince}.] 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. {Principal axis}. See {Axis of a curve}, under {Axis}. {Principal axes of a quadric} (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal challenge}. (Law) See under {Challenge}. {Principal plane}. See {Plane of projection} (a), under {Plane}. {Principal of a quadric} (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal point} (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. {Principal ray} (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. {Principal section} (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See {Prince}.] 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. {Principal axis}. See {Axis of a curve}, under {Axis}. {Principal axes of a quadric} (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal challenge}. (Law) See under {Challenge}. {Principal plane}. See {Plane of projection} (a), under {Plane}. {Principal of a quadric} (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal point} (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. {Principal ray} (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. {Principal section} (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See {Prince}.] 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. {Principal axis}. See {Axis of a curve}, under {Axis}. {Principal axes of a quadric} (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal challenge}. (Law) See under {Challenge}. {Principal plane}. See {Plane of projection} (a), under {Plane}. {Principal of a quadric} (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal point} (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. {Principal ray} (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. {Principal section} (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. | |
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Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See {Prince}.] 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. {Principal axis}. See {Axis of a curve}, under {Axis}. {Principal axes of a quadric} (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal challenge}. (Law) See under {Challenge}. {Principal plane}. See {Plane of projection} (a), under {Plane}. {Principal of a quadric} (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. {Principal point} (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. {Principal ray} (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. {Principal section} (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. | |
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Principality \Prin`ci*pal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Principalities}. [L. principalitas pre[89]minence, excellence: cf. F. principalit[82], principaut[82]. See {Principal}.] 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. --Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. --Jer. xiii. 18. The prerogative and principality above everything else. --Jer. Taylor. 2. A prince; one invested with sovereignty. [bd]Next upstood Nisroch, of principalities the prime.[b8] --Milton. 3. The territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of Wales. | |
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Principality \Prin`ci*pal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Principalities}. [L. principalitas pre[89]minence, excellence: cf. F. principalit[82], principaut[82]. See {Principal}.] 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. --Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. --Jer. xiii. 18. The prerogative and principality above everything else. --Jer. Taylor. 2. A prince; one invested with sovereignty. [bd]Next upstood Nisroch, of principalities the prime.[b8] --Milton. 3. The territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of Wales. | |
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Principally \Prin"ci*pal*ly\, adv. In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly. | |
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Principalness \Prin"ci*pal*ness\, n. The quality of being principal. | |
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Principate \Prin"ci*pate\, n. [L. principatus: cf. F. principat.] Principality; supreme rule. [Obs.] --Barrow. | |
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Principial \Prin*cip"i*al\, a. Elementary. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Principiant \Prin*cip"i*ant\, a. [L. principians, p. pr. of principiare to begin, fr. principium. See {Principle}.] Relating to principles or beginnings. [R.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Principiate \Prin*cip"i*ate\, v. t. [See {Principiant}.] To begin; to initiate. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale. | |
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Principiation \Prin*cip`i*a"tion\, n. Analysis into primary or elemental parts. [Archaic] --Bacon. | |
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Principle \Prin"ci*ple\, n. [F. principe, L. principium beginning, foundation, fr. princeps, -cipis. See {Prince}.] 1. Beginning; commencement. [Obs.] Doubting sad end of principle unsound. --Spenser. 2. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause. | |
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Principle \Prin"ci*ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Principled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Principling}.] To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill. Governors should be well principled. --L'Estrange. Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired. --Locke. | |
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Let-alone \Let"-a*lone"\ (l[ecr]t"[adot]*l[omac]n"), a. Letting alone. {The let-alone} {principle, doctrine, [or] policy}. (Polit. Econ.) See {Laissez faire}. | |
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The soul of man is an active principle. --Tillotson. 3. An original faculty or endowment. Nature in your principles hath set [benignity]. --Chaucer. Those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering. --Stewart. 4. A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate. Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection. --Heb. vi. 1. A good principle, not rightly understood, may prove as hurtful as a bad. --Milton. 5. A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle. All kinds of dishonesty destroy our pretenses to an honest principle of mind. --Law. 6. (Chem.) Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc. Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna. --Gregory. {Bitter principle}, {Principle of contradiction}, etc. See under {Bitter}, {Contradiction}, etc. | |
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Contradiction \Con`tra*dic"tion\, n. [L. contradictio answer, objection: cf. F. contradiction.] 1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. --Shak. 2. Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent. can be make deathless death? That were to make Strange contradiction. --Milton. We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it. --Burke. Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true. --Hobbes. Of contradictions infinite the slave. --Wordsworth. {Principle of contradiction} (Logic), the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, or a thing must either be or not be, or the same attribute can not at the same time be affirmed and and denied of the same subject. Note: It develops itself in three specific forms which have been called the [bd]Three Logical Axioms.[b8] First, [bd]A is A.[b8] Second, [bd]A is not Not-A[b8] Third, [bd]Everything is either A or Not-A.[b8] | |
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Virtual \Vir"tu*al\ (?; 135), a. [Cf. F. virtuel. See {Virtue}.] 1. Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing. Heat and cold have a virtual transition, without communication of substance. --Bacon. Every kind that lives, Fomented by his virtual power, and warmed. --Milton. 2. Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute. A thing has a virtual existence when it has all the conditions necessary to its actual existence. --Fleming. To mask by slight differences in the manners a virtual identity in the substance. --De Quincey. {Principle of virtual velocities} (Mech.), the law that when several forces are in equilibrium, the algebraic sum of their virtual moments is equal to zero. {Virtual focus} (Opt.), the point from which rays, having been rendered divergent by reflection of refraction, appear to issue; the point at which converging rays would meet if not reflected or refracted before they reach it. {Virtual image}. (Optics) See under {Image}. {Virtual moment} (of a force) (Mech.), the product of the intensity of the force multiplied by the virtual velocity of its point of application; -- sometimes called {virtual work}. {Virtual velocity} (Mech.), a minute hypothetical displacement, assumed in analysis to facilitate the investigation of statical problems. With respect to any given force of a number of forces holding a material system in equilibrium, it is the projection, upon the direction of the force, of a line joining its point of application with a new position of that point indefinitely near to the first, to which the point is conceived to have been moved, without disturbing the equilibrium of the system, or the connections of its parts with each other. Strictly speaking, it is not a velocity but a length. {Virtual work}. (Mech.) See {Virtual moment}, above. | |
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d8Vis \[d8]Vis\, n. 1. Force; power. 2. (Law) (a) Physical force. (b) Moral power. {Principle of vis viva} (Mech.), the principle that the difference between the aggregate work of the accelerating forces of a system and that of the retarding forces is equal to one half the vis viva accumulated or lost in the system while the work is being done. {Vis impressa} [L.] (Mech.), force exerted, as in moving a body, or changing the direction of its motion; impressed force. {Vis inerti[91]}. [L.] (a) The resistance of matter, as when a body at rest is set in motion, or a body in motion is brought to rest, or has its motion changed, either in direction or in velocity. (b) Inertness; inactivity. Note: Vis interti[91] and inertia are not strictly synonymous. The former implies the resistance itself which is given, while the latter implies merely the property by which it is given. {Vis mortua} [L.] (Mech.), dead force; force doing no active work, but only producing pressure. {Vis vit[91]}, or {Vis vitalis} [L.] (Physiol.), vital force. {Vis viva} [L.] (Mech.), living force; the force of a body moving against resistance, or doing work, in distinction from vis mortua, or dead force; the kinetic energy of a moving body; the capacity of a moving body to do work by reason of its being in motion. See {Kinetic energy}, in the Note under {Energy}. The term vis viva is not usually understood to include that part of the kinetic energy of the body which is due to the vibrations of its molecules. | |
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Principle \Prin"ci*ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Principled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Principling}.] To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill. Governors should be well principled. --L'Estrange. Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired. --Locke. | |
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Principle \Prin"ci*ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Principled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Principling}.] To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill. Governors should be well principled. --L'Estrange. Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired. --Locke. | |
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Princock \Prin"cock\, Princox \Prin"cox\, n. [Prim + cock.] A coxcomb; a pert boy. [Obs.] | |
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Princock \Prin"cock\, Princox \Prin"cox\, n. [Prim + cock.] A coxcomb; a pert boy. [Obs.] | |
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Prink \Prink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prinking}.] [Probably a nasalized form of prick. See {Prick}, v. t., and cf. {Prig}, {Prank}.] To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank. | |
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Prink \Prink\, v. t. To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. [bd]And prink their hair with daisies.[b8] --Cowper. | |
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Prink \Prink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prinking}.] [Probably a nasalized form of prick. See {Prick}, v. t., and cf. {Prig}, {Prank}.] To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank. | |
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Prinker \Prink"er\, n. One who prinks. | |
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Prink \Prink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prinking}.] [Probably a nasalized form of prick. See {Prick}, v. t., and cf. {Prig}, {Prank}.] To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank. | |
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Jewfish \Jew"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) 1. A very large serranoid fish ({Promicrops itaiara}) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also {guasa}, and {warsaw}. 2. A similar gigantic fish ({Stereolepis gigas}) of Southern California, valued as a food fish. 3. The black grouper of Florida and Texas. 4. A large herringlike fish; the tarpum. | |
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Promiscuity \Pro`mis*cu"i*ty\, n. Promiscuousness; confusion. --H. Spencer. | |
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Promiscuous \Pro*mis"cu*ous\, a. [L. promiscuus; pro before, in place of, for + miscere to mix. See {Mix}. ] 1. Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass. A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot. --Pope. 2. Distributed or applied without order or discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate; as, promiscuous love or intercourse. | |
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Promiscuously \Pro*mis"cu*ous*ly\, adv. In a promiscuous manner. | |
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Promiscuousness \Pro*mis"cu*ous*ness\, n. The quality or state of being promiscuous. | |
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Promise \Prom"ise\, a. [F. promesse, L. promissum, fr. promittere, promissum, to put forth, foretell, promise; pro forward, for + mittere to send. See {Mission}. ] 1. In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. --Gal. iii. 18. 2. (Law) An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made. --Chitty. Parsons. Burrill. 3. That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise. --Shak. My native country was full of youthful promise. --W. Irving. 4. Bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised. He . . . commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father. --Acts i. 4. | |
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Promise \Prom"ise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Promised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Promising}.] 1. To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money. [bd]To promise aid.[b8] --Shak. 2. To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain. --Milton. 3. To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward. {Promised land}. See {Land of promise}, under {Land}. {To promise one's self}. (a) To resolve; to determine; to vow. (b) To be assured; to have strong confidence. I dare promise myself you will attest the truth of all I have advanced. --Rambler. | |
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Promise \Prom"ise\, v. i. 1. To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration. 2. To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil. Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion? I fear it, I promise you. --Shak. | |
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Promise \Prom"ise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Promised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Promising}.] 1. To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money. [bd]To promise aid.[b8] --Shak. 2. To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain. --Milton. 3. To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward. {Promised land}. See {Land of promise}, under {Land}. {To promise one's self}. (a) To resolve; to determine; to vow. (b) To be assured; to have strong confidence. I dare promise myself you will attest the truth of all I have advanced. --Rambler. | |
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Promise \Prom"ise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Promised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Promising}.] 1. To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money. [bd]To promise aid.[b8] --Shak. 2. To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain. --Milton. 3. To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward. {Promised land}. See {Land of promise}, under {Land}. {To promise one's self}. (a) To resolve; to determine; to vow. (b) To be assured; to have strong confidence. I dare promise myself you will attest the truth of all I have advanced. --Rambler. | |
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Promisee \Prom`is*ee"\, n. (Law) The person to whom a promise is made. | |
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Promiser \Prom"is*er\, n. One who promises. | |
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Promising \Prom"is*ing\, a. Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day. -- {Prom"is*ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Promise \Prom"ise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Promised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Promising}.] 1. To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money. [bd]To promise aid.[b8] --Shak. 2. To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain. --Milton. 3. To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward. {Promised land}. See {Land of promise}, under {Land}. {To promise one's self}. (a) To resolve; to determine; to vow. (b) To be assured; to have strong confidence. I dare promise myself you will attest the truth of all I have advanced. --Rambler. | |
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Promising \Prom"is*ing\, a. Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day. -- {Prom"is*ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Promisor \Prom"is*or\, n. (Law) One who engages or undertakes; a promiser. --Burrill. | |
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Promissive \Pro*mis"sive\, a. Making a promise; implying a promise; promising. [R.] | |
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Promissorily \Prom"is*so*ri*ly\, adv. In a promissory manner. --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Promissory \Prom"is*so*ry\, a. Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne. {Promissory note} (Law), a written promise to pay to some person named, and at a time specified therein, or on demand, or at sight, a certain sum of money, absolutely and at all events; -- frequently called a {note of hand}. --Kent. Byles. Story. | |
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Promissory \Prom"is*so*ry\, a. Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne. {Promissory note} (Law), a written promise to pay to some person named, and at a time specified therein, or on demand, or at sight, a certain sum of money, absolutely and at all events; -- frequently called a {note of hand}. --Kent. Byles. Story. | |
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Prong \Prong\, n. [Cf. D. prangen to pinch, press, LG. prange a stick, or W. procio to thrust, E. prowl, pang.] 1. A sharp-pointed instrument. Prick it on a prong of iron. --Sandys. 2. The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A sharp projection, as of an antler. (b) The fang of a tooth. | |
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Prongbuck \Prong"buck`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The springbuck. (b) The pronghorn. | |
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Pronghorn \Prong"horn`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An American antelope ({Antilocapra Americana}), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also {cabr[82]e}, {cabut}, {prongbuck}, and {pronghorned antelope}. | |
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Prongbuck \Prong"buck`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The springbuck. (b) The pronghorn. | |
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Pronghorn \Prong"horn`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An American antelope ({Antilocapra Americana}), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also {cabr[82]e}, {cabut}, {prongbuck}, and {pronghorned antelope}. | |
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Pronged \Pronged\, a. Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork. | |
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Prong-hoe \Prong"-hoe`\, n. A hoe with prongs to break the earth. | |
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Pronghorn \Prong"horn`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An American antelope ({Antilocapra Americana}), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also {cabr[82]e}, {cabut}, {prongbuck}, and {pronghorned antelope}. | |
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Pronghorn \Prong"horn`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An American antelope ({Antilocapra Americana}), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also {cabr[82]e}, {cabut}, {prongbuck}, and {pronghorned antelope}. | |
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Pronucleus \Pro*nu"cle*us\, n.; pl. {Pronuclei} (-[imac]). [NL. See {Pro-}, and {Nucleus}.] (Biol.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. Note: In the maturing of the ovum preparatory to impregnation, a part of the germinal vesicle (see {Polar body}, under {Polar}) becomes converted into a number of small vesicles, which aggregate themselves into a single clear nucleus. which travels towards the center of the egg and is called the female pronucleus. In impregnation, the spermatozo[94]n which enters the egg soon loses its tail, while the head forms a nucleus, called the male pronucleus, which gradually travels towards the female pronucleus and eventually fuses with it, forming the first segmentation nucleus. | |
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Pronucleus \Pro*nu"cle*us\, n.; pl. {Pronuclei} (-[imac]). [NL. See {Pro-}, and {Nucleus}.] (Biol.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. Note: In the maturing of the ovum preparatory to impregnation, a part of the germinal vesicle (see {Polar body}, under {Polar}) becomes converted into a number of small vesicles, which aggregate themselves into a single clear nucleus. which travels towards the center of the egg and is called the female pronucleus. In impregnation, the spermatozo[94]n which enters the egg soon loses its tail, while the head forms a nucleus, called the male pronucleus, which gradually travels towards the female pronucleus and eventually fuses with it, forming the first segmentation nucleus. | |
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Pruinose \Pru"i*nose`\, a. [L. pruinosus, fr. pruina hoarfrost.] Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost. | |
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Pruinous \Pru"i*nous\, a. Frosty; pruinose. | |
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{To run wild}, to go unrestrained or untamed; to live or untamed; to live or grow without culture or training. {To sow one's wild oats}. See under {Oat}. {Wild allspice}. (Bot.), spicewood. {Wild balsam apple} (Bot.), an American climbing cucurbitaceous plant ({Echinocystis lobata}). {Wild basil} (Bot.), a fragrant labiate herb ({Calamintha Clinopodium}) common in Europe and America. {Wild bean} (Bot.), a name of several leguminous plants, mostly species of {Phaseolus} and {Apios}. {Wild bee} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of undomesticated social bees, especially the domestic bee when it has escaped from domestication and built its nest in a hollow tree or among rocks. {Wild bergamot}. (Bot.) See under {Bergamot}. {Wild boar} (Zo[94]l.), the European wild hog ({Sus scrofa}), from which the common domesticated swine is descended. {Wild brier} (Bot.), any uncultivated species of brier. See {Brier}. {Wild bugloss} (Bot.), an annual rough-leaved plant ({Lycopsis arvensis}) with small blue flowers. {Wild camomile} (Bot.), one or more plants of the composite genus {Matricaria}, much resembling camomile. {Wild cat}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European carnivore ({Felis catus}) somewhat resembling the domestic cat, but larger stronger, and having a short tail. It is destructive to the smaller domestic animals, such as lambs, kids, poultry, and the like. (b) The common American lynx, or bay lynx. (c) (Naut.) A wheel which can be adjusted so as to revolve either with, or on, the shaft of a capstan. --Luce. {Wild celery}. (Bot.) See {Tape grass}, under {Tape}. {Wild cherry}. (Bot.) (a) Any uncultivated tree which bears cherries. The wild red cherry is {Prunus Pennsylvanica}. The wild black cherry is {P. serotina}, the wood of which is much used for cabinetwork, being of a light red color and a compact texture. (b) The fruit of various species of {Prunus}. {Wild cinnamon}. See the Note under {Canella}. {Wild comfrey} (Bot.), an American plant ({Cynoglossum Virginicum}) of the Borage family. It has large bristly leaves and small blue flowers. {Wild cumin} (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant ({Lag[oe]cia cuminoides}) native in the countries about the Mediterranean. {Wild drake} (Zo[94]l.) the mallard. {Wild elder} (Bot.), an American plant ({Aralia hispida}) of the Ginseng family. {Wild fowl} (Zo[94]l.) any wild bird, especially any of those considered as game birds. {Wild goose} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of undomesticated geese, especially the Canada goose ({Branta Canadensis}), the European bean goose, and the graylag. See {Graylag}, and {Bean goose}, under {Bean}. {Wild goose chase}, the pursuit of something unattainable, or of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose. --Shak. {Wild honey}, honey made by wild bees, and deposited in trees, rocks, the like. {Wild hyacinth}. (Bot.) See {Hyacinth}, 1 (b) . {Wild Irishman} (Bot.), a thorny bush ({Discaria Toumatou}) of the Buckthorn family, found in New Zealand, where the natives use the spines in tattooing. {Wild land}. (a) Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation. (b) Land which is not settled and cultivated. {Wild licorice}. (Bot.) See under {Licorice}. {Wild mammee} (Bot.), the oblong, yellowish, acid fruit of a tropical American tree ({Rheedia lateriflora}); -- so called in the West Indies. {Wild marjoram} (Bot.), a labiate plant ({Origanum vulgare}) much like the sweet marjoram, but less aromatic. {Wild oat}. (Bot.) (a) A tall, oatlike kind of soft grass ({Arrhenatherum avenaceum}). (b) See {Wild oats}, under {Oat}. {Wild pieplant} (Bot.), a species of dock ({Rumex hymenosepalus}) found from Texas to California. Its acid, juicy stems are used as a substitute for the garden rhubarb. {Wild pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The rock dove. (b) The passenger pigeon. {Wild pink} (Bot.), an American plant ({Silene Pennsylvanica}) with pale, pinkish flowers; a kind of catchfly. {Wild plantain} (Bot.), an arborescent endogenous herb ({Heliconia Bihai}), much resembling the banana. Its leaves and leaf sheaths are much used in the West Indies as coverings for packages of merchandise. {Wild plum}. (Bot.) (a) Any kind of plum growing without cultivation. (b) The South African prune. See under {Prune}. {Wild rice}. (Bot.) See {Indian rice}, under {Rice}. {Wild rosemary} (Bot.), the evergreen shrub {Andromeda polifolia}. See {Marsh rosemary}, under {Rosemary}. {Wild sage}. (Bot.) See {Sagebrush}. {Wild sarsaparilla} (Bot.), a species of ginseng ({Aralia nudicaulis}) bearing a single long-stalked leaf. {Wild sensitive plant} (Bot.), either one of two annual leguminous herbs ({Cassia Cham[91]crista}, and {C. nictitans}), in both of which the leaflets close quickly when the plant is disturbed. {Wild service}.(Bot.) See {Sorb}. {Wild Spaniard} (Bot.), any one of several umbelliferous plants of the genus {Aciphylla}, natives of New Zealand. The leaves bear numerous bayonetlike spines, and the plants form an impenetrable thicket. {Wild turkey}. (Zo[94]l.) See 2d {Turkey}. | |
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Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the {Prunus domestica} are described; among them the {greengage}, the {Orleans}, the {purple gage}, or {Reine Claude Violette}, and the {German prune}, are some of the best known. Note: Among the true plums are; {Beach plum}, the {Prunus maritima}, and its crimson or purple globular drupes, {Bullace plum}. See {Bullace}. {Chickasaw plum}, the American {Prunus Chicasa}, and its round red drupes. {Orleans plum}, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets. {Wild plum of America}, {Prunus Americana}, with red or yellow fruit, the original of the {Iowa plum} and several other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other genera than {Prunus}, are; {Australian plum}, {Cargillia arborea} and {C. australis}, of the same family with the persimmon. {Blood plum}, the West African {H[91]matostaphes Barteri}. {Cocoa plum}, the Spanish nectarine. See under {Nectarine}. {Date plum}. See under {Date}. {Gingerbread plum}, the West African {Parinarium macrophyllum}. {Gopher plum}, the Ogeechee lime. {Gray plum}, {Guinea plum}. See under {Guinea}. {Indian plum}, several species of {Flacourtia}. 2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin. 3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of [9c]100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. {Plum bird}, {Plum budder} (Zo[94]l.), the European bullfinch. {Plum gouger} (Zo[94]l.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. {Plum weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also {turk}, and {plum curculio}. See Illust. under {Curculio}. | |
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Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the {Prunus domestica} are described; among them the {greengage}, the {Orleans}, the {purple gage}, or {Reine Claude Violette}, and the {German prune}, are some of the best known. Note: Among the true plums are; {Beach plum}, the {Prunus maritima}, and its crimson or purple globular drupes, {Bullace plum}. See {Bullace}. {Chickasaw plum}, the American {Prunus Chicasa}, and its round red drupes. {Orleans plum}, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets. {Wild plum of America}, {Prunus Americana}, with red or yellow fruit, the original of the {Iowa plum} and several other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other genera than {Prunus}, are; {Australian plum}, {Cargillia arborea} and {C. australis}, of the same family with the persimmon. {Blood plum}, the West African {H[91]matostaphes Barteri}. {Cocoa plum}, the Spanish nectarine. See under {Nectarine}. {Date plum}. See under {Date}. {Gingerbread plum}, the West African {Parinarium macrophyllum}. {Gopher plum}, the Ogeechee lime. {Gray plum}, {Guinea plum}. See under {Guinea}. {Indian plum}, several species of {Flacourtia}. 2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin. 3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of [9c]100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. {Plum bird}, {Plum budder} (Zo[94]l.), the European bullfinch. {Plum gouger} (Zo[94]l.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. {Plum weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also {turk}, and {plum curculio}. See Illust. under {Curculio}. | |
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Apricot \A"pri*cot\, n. [OE. apricock, abricot, F. abricot, fr. Sp. albaricoque or Pg. albricoque, fr. Ar. albirq[umac]q, al-burq[umac]q. Though the E. and F. form abricot is derived from the Arabic through the Spanish, yet the Arabic word itself was formed from the Gr. praiko`kia, pl. (Diosc. c. 100) fr. L. praecoquus, praecox, early ripe. The older E. form apricock was prob. taken direct from Pg. See {Precocious}, {Cook}.] (Bot.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree ({Prunus Armeniaca} of Linn[91]us) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone. | |
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Gean \Gean\, n. [F. guigne the fruit of the gean; cf. OHG. w[c6]hsila, G. weichsel.] (Bot.) A species of cherry tree common in Europe ({Prunus avium}); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color. | |
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Marmottes oil \Mar"mottes oil`\ A fine oil obtained from the kernel of {Prunus brigantiaca}. It is used instead of olive or almond oil. --De Colange. | |
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Capulin \Cap"u*lin\ (-l[icr]n), n. [Sp. capuli.] The Mexican cherry ({Prunus Capollin}). | |
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Cherry \Cher"ry\, n. [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. [?], perh. fr. [?] horn, from the hardness of the wood.] 1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus {Prunus} (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry ({Prunus Cerasus}), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from M[82]doc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, {Prunus serotina} (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; {P. Virginiana} (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; {P. avium} and {P. Padus}, European trees (bird cherry). 2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors. 3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc. 4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. {Barbadoes cherry}. See under {Barbadoes}. {Cherry bird} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. {Cherry bounce}, cherry brandy and sugar. {Cherry brandy}, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. {Cherry laurel} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Prunus Lauro-cerasus}) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. {Cherry pepper} (Bot.), a species of {Capsicum} ({C. cerasiforme}), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. {Cherry pit}. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. --Shak. (b) A cherry stone. {Cherry rum}, rum in which cherries have been steeped. {Cherry sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the European spotted flycatcher ({Musicapa grisola}); -- called also {cherry chopper} {cherry snipe}. {Cherry tree}, a tree that bears cherries. {Ground cherry}, {Winter cherry}, See {Alkekengi}. | |
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Ground \Ground\ (ground), n. [OE. ground, grund, AS. grund; akin to D. grond, OS., G., Sw., & Dan. grund, Icel. grunnr bottom, Goth. grundus (in composition); perh. orig. meaning, dust, gravel, and if so perh. akin to E. grind.] 1. The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it. There was not a man to till the ground. --Gen. ii. 5. The fire ran along upon the ground. --Ex. ix. 23. Hence: A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth. 2. Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground. From . . . old Euphrates, to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground. --Milton. 3. Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept. Thy next design is on thy neighbor's grounds. --Dryden. 4. 4. The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope. 5. (Paint. & Decorative Art) (a) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground. See {Background}, {Foreground}, and {Middle-ground}. (b) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief. (c) In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground. See {Brussels lace}, under {Brussels}. 6. (Etching) A gummy composition spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle. 7. (Arch.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; -- usually in the plural. Note: Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them. 8. (Mus.) (a) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody. (b) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song. --Moore (Encyc.). On that ground I'll build a holy descant. --Shak. 9. (Elec.) A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit. 10. pl. Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds. 11. The pit of a theater. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. {Ground angling}, angling with a weighted line without a float. {Ground annual} (Scots Law), an estate created in land by a vassal who instead of selling his land outright reserves an annual ground rent, which becomes a perpetual charge upon the land. {Ground ash}. (Bot.) See {Groutweed}. {Ground bailiff} (Mining), a superintendent of mines. --Simmonds. {Ground bait}, bits of bread, boiled barley or worms, etc., thrown into the water to collect the fish, --Wallon. {Ground bass} [or] {base} (Mus.), fundamental base; a fundamental base continually repeated to a varied melody. {Ground beetle} (Zo[94]l.), one of numerous species of carnivorous beetles of the family {Carabid[91]}, living mostly in burrows or under stones, etc. {Ground chamber}, a room on the ground floor. {Ground cherry}. (Bot.) (a) A genus ({Physalis}) of herbaceous plants having an inflated calyx for a seed pod: esp., the strawberry tomato ({P. Alkekengi}). See {Alkekengl}. (b) A European shrub ({Prunus Cham[91]cerasus}), with small, very acid fruit. {Ground cuckoo}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Chaparral cock}. {Ground cypress}. (Bot.) See {Lavender cotton}. {Ground dove} (Zo[94]l.), one of several small American pigeons of the genus {Columbigallina}, esp. {C. passerina} of the Southern United States, Mexico, etc. They live chiefly on the ground. {Ground fish} (Zo[94]l.), any fish which constantly lives on the botton of the sea, as the sole, turbot, halibut. {Ground floor}, the floor of a house most nearly on a level with the ground; -- called also in America, but not in England, the {first floor}. {Ground form} (Gram.), the stem or basis of a word, to which the other parts are added in declension or conjugation. It is sometimes, but not always, the same as the root. | |
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Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the {Prunus domestica} are described; among them the {greengage}, the {Orleans}, the {purple gage}, or {Reine Claude Violette}, and the {German prune}, are some of the best known. Note: Among the true plums are; {Beach plum}, the {Prunus maritima}, and its crimson or purple globular drupes, {Bullace plum}. See {Bullace}. {Chickasaw plum}, the American {Prunus Chicasa}, and its round red drupes. {Orleans plum}, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets. {Wild plum of America}, {Prunus Americana}, with red or yellow fruit, the original of the {Iowa plum} and several other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other genera than {Prunus}, are; {Australian plum}, {Cargillia arborea} and {C. australis}, of the same family with the persimmon. {Blood plum}, the West African {H[91]matostaphes Barteri}. {Cocoa plum}, the Spanish nectarine. See under {Nectarine}. {Date plum}. See under {Date}. {Gingerbread plum}, the West African {Parinarium macrophyllum}. {Gopher plum}, the Ogeechee lime. {Gray plum}, {Guinea plum}. See under {Guinea}. {Indian plum}, several species of {Flacourtia}. 2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin. 3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of [9c]100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. {Plum bird}, {Plum budder} (Zo[94]l.), the European bullfinch. {Plum gouger} (Zo[94]l.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. {Plum weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also {turk}, and {plum curculio}. See Illust. under {Curculio}. | |
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Bullace \Bul"lace\, n. [OE. bolas, bolace, OF. beloce; of Celtic origin; cf. Arm. bolos, polos, Gael. bulaistear.] (Bot.) (a) A small European plum ({Prunus communis}, var. {insitita}). See {Plum}. (b) The bully tree. | |
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Plum \Plum\, n. [AS. pl[umac]me, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. [?], [?]. Cf. {Prune} a dried plum.] 1. (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the {Prunus domestica}, and of several other species of {Prunus}; also, the tree itself, usually called {plum tree}. The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. --G. Bentham. | |
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Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the {Prunus domestica} are described; among them the {greengage}, the {Orleans}, the {purple gage}, or {Reine Claude Violette}, and the {German prune}, are some of the best known. Note: Among the true plums are; {Beach plum}, the {Prunus maritima}, and its crimson or purple globular drupes, {Bullace plum}. See {Bullace}. {Chickasaw plum}, the American {Prunus Chicasa}, and its round red drupes. {Orleans plum}, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets. {Wild plum of America}, {Prunus Americana}, with red or yellow fruit, the original of the {Iowa plum} and several other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other genera than {Prunus}, are; {Australian plum}, {Cargillia arborea} and {C. australis}, of the same family with the persimmon. {Blood plum}, the West African {H[91]matostaphes Barteri}. {Cocoa plum}, the Spanish nectarine. See under {Nectarine}. {Date plum}. See under {Date}. {Gingerbread plum}, the West African {Parinarium macrophyllum}. {Gopher plum}, the Ogeechee lime. {Gray plum}, {Guinea plum}. See under {Guinea}. {Indian plum}, several species of {Flacourtia}. 2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin. 3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of [9c]100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. {Plum bird}, {Plum budder} (Zo[94]l.), the European bullfinch. {Plum gouger} (Zo[94]l.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. {Plum weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also {turk}, and {plum curculio}. See Illust. under {Curculio}. | |
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Damson \Dam"son\ (d[acr]m"z'n), n. [OE. damasin the Damascus plum, fr. L. Damascenus. See {Damascene}.] A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the {Prunus domestica}; -- called also {damask plum}. | |
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Cherry \Cher"ry\, n. [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. [?], perh. fr. [?] horn, from the hardness of the wood.] 1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus {Prunus} (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry ({Prunus Cerasus}), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from M[82]doc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, {Prunus serotina} (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; {P. Virginiana} (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; {P. avium} and {P. Padus}, European trees (bird cherry). 2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors. 3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc. 4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. {Barbadoes cherry}. See under {Barbadoes}. {Cherry bird} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. {Cherry bounce}, cherry brandy and sugar. {Cherry brandy}, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. {Cherry laurel} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Prunus Lauro-cerasus}) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. {Cherry pepper} (Bot.), a species of {Capsicum} ({C. cerasiforme}), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. {Cherry pit}. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. --Shak. (b) A cherry stone. {Cherry rum}, rum in which cherries have been steeped. {Cherry sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the European spotted flycatcher ({Musicapa grisola}); -- called also {cherry chopper} {cherry snipe}. {Cherry tree}, a tree that bears cherries. {Ground cherry}, {Winter cherry}, See {Alkekengi}. | |
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Laurel \Lau"rel\, n. [OE. lorel, laurer, lorer, OF. lorier, laurier, F. laurier, (assumed) LL. Laurarius, fr. L. laurus.] 1. (Bot.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus {Laurus} ({L. nobilis}), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also {sweet bay}. Note: The fruit is a purple berry. It is found about the Mediterranean, and was early used by the ancient Greeks to crown the victor in the games of Apollo. At a later period, academic honors were indicated by a crown of laurel, with the fruit. The leaves and tree yield an aromatic oil, used to flavor the bay water of commerce. Note: The name is extended to other plants which in some respect resemble the true laurel. See Phrases, below. 2. A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels. 3. An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel. {Laurel water}, water distilled from the fresh leaves of the cherry laurel, and containing prussic acid and other products carried over in the process. {American laurel}, [or] {Mountain laurel}, {Kalmia latifolia}. See under {Mountain}. {California laurel}, {Umbellularia Californica}. {Cherry laurel} (in England called {laurel}). See under {Cherry}. {Great laurel}, the rosebay ({Rhododendron maximum}). {Ground laurel}, trailing arbutus. {New Zealand laurel}, {Laurelia Nov[91] Zelandi[91]}. {Portugal laurel}, the {Prunus Lusitanica}. {Rose laurel}, the oleander. See {Oleander}. {Sheep laurel}, a poisonous shrub, {Kalmia angustifolia}, smaller than the mountain laurel, and with smaller and redder flowers. {Spurge laurel}, {Daphne Laureola}. {West Indian laurel}, {Prunus occidentalis}. | |
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d8Mahaled \[d8]Ma*ha"led\, n.[Ar. mahled.] (Bot.) A cherry tree ({Prunus Mahaleb}) of Southern Europe. The wood is prized by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared. | |
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Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the {Prunus domestica} are described; among them the {greengage}, the {Orleans}, the {purple gage}, or {Reine Claude Violette}, and the {German prune}, are some of the best known. Note: Among the true plums are; {Beach plum}, the {Prunus maritima}, and its crimson or purple globular drupes, {Bullace plum}. See {Bullace}. {Chickasaw plum}, the American {Prunus Chicasa}, and its round red drupes. {Orleans plum}, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets. {Wild plum of America}, {Prunus Americana}, with red or yellow fruit, the original of the {Iowa plum} and several other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other genera than {Prunus}, are; {Australian plum}, {Cargillia arborea} and {C. australis}, of the same family with the persimmon. {Blood plum}, the West African {H[91]matostaphes Barteri}. {Cocoa plum}, the Spanish nectarine. See under {Nectarine}. {Date plum}. See under {Date}. {Gingerbread plum}, the West African {Parinarium macrophyllum}. {Gopher plum}, the Ogeechee lime. {Gray plum}, {Guinea plum}. See under {Guinea}. {Indian plum}, several species of {Flacourtia}. 2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin. 3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of [9c]100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. {Plum bird}, {Plum budder} (Zo[94]l.), the European bullfinch. {Plum gouger} (Zo[94]l.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. {Plum weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also {turk}, and {plum curculio}. See Illust. under {Curculio}. | |
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Laurel \Lau"rel\, n. [OE. lorel, laurer, lorer, OF. lorier, laurier, F. laurier, (assumed) LL. Laurarius, fr. L. laurus.] 1. (Bot.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus {Laurus} ({L. nobilis}), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also {sweet bay}. Note: The fruit is a purple berry. It is found about the Mediterranean, and was early used by the ancient Greeks to crown the victor in the games of Apollo. At a later period, academic honors were indicated by a crown of laurel, with the fruit. The leaves and tree yield an aromatic oil, used to flavor the bay water of commerce. Note: The name is extended to other plants which in some respect resemble the true laurel. See Phrases, below. 2. A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels. 3. An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel. {Laurel water}, water distilled from the fresh leaves of the cherry laurel, and containing prussic acid and other products carried over in the process. {American laurel}, [or] {Mountain laurel}, {Kalmia latifolia}. See under {Mountain}. {California laurel}, {Umbellularia Californica}. {Cherry laurel} (in England called {laurel}). See under {Cherry}. {Great laurel}, the rosebay ({Rhododendron maximum}). {Ground laurel}, trailing arbutus. {New Zealand laurel}, {Laurelia Nov[91] Zelandi[91]}. {Portugal laurel}, the {Prunus Lusitanica}. {Rose laurel}, the oleander. See {Oleander}. {Sheep laurel}, a poisonous shrub, {Kalmia angustifolia}, smaller than the mountain laurel, and with smaller and redder flowers. {Spurge laurel}, {Daphne Laureola}. {West Indian laurel}, {Prunus occidentalis}. | |
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Prune \Prune\, n. [F. prune, from L. prunum a plum. See {Plum}.] A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes. {German prune} (Bot.), a large dark purple plum, of oval shape, often one-sided. It is much used for preserving, either dried or in sirup. {Prune tree}. (Bot.) (a) A tree of the genus {Prunus} ({P. domestica}), which produces prunes. (b) The West Indian tree, {Prunus occidentalis}. {South African prune} (Bot.), the edible fruit of a sapindaceous tree ({Pappea Capensis}). | |
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Peach \Peach\, n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[88]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. {Persian}, and {Parsee}.] (Bot.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it ({Prunus, [or] Amygdalus Persica}). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. {Guinea}, [or] {Sierra Leone}, {peach}, the large edible berry of the {Sarcocephalus esculentus}, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa. {Palm peach}, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree ({Bactris speciosa}). {Peach color}, the pale red color of the peach blossom. {Peach-tree borer} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a clearwing moth ({[92]geria, [or] Sannina, exitiosa}) of the family {[92]geriid[91]}, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself. See Illust. under {Borer}. | |
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Bird cherry \Bird" cher`ry\ (Bot.) A shrub ({Prunus Padus} ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries. | |
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{To run wild}, to go unrestrained or untamed; to live or untamed; to live or grow without culture or training. {To sow one's wild oats}. See under {Oat}. {Wild allspice}. (Bot.), spicewood. {Wild balsam apple} (Bot.), an American climbing cucurbitaceous plant ({Echinocystis lobata}). {Wild basil} (Bot.), a fragrant labiate herb ({Calamintha Clinopodium}) common in Europe and America. {Wild bean} (Bot.), a name of several leguminous plants, mostly species of {Phaseolus} and {Apios}. {Wild bee} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of undomesticated social bees, especially the domestic bee when it has escaped from domestication and built its nest in a hollow tree or among rocks. {Wild bergamot}. (Bot.) See under {Bergamot}. {Wild boar} (Zo[94]l.), the European wild hog ({Sus scrofa}), from which the common domesticated swine is descended. {Wild brier} (Bot.), any uncultivated species of brier. See {Brier}. {Wild bugloss} (Bot.), an annual rough-leaved plant ({Lycopsis arvensis}) with small blue flowers. {Wild camomile} (Bot.), one or more plants of the composite genus {Matricaria}, much resembling camomile. {Wild cat}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European carnivore ({Felis catus}) somewhat resembling the domestic cat, but larger stronger, and having a short tail. It is destructive to the smaller domestic animals, such as lambs, kids, poultry, and the like. (b) The common American lynx, or bay lynx. (c) (Naut.) A wheel which can be adjusted so as to revolve either with, or on, the shaft of a capstan. --Luce. {Wild celery}. (Bot.) See {Tape grass}, under {Tape}. {Wild cherry}. (Bot.) (a) Any uncultivated tree which bears cherries. The wild red cherry is {Prunus Pennsylvanica}. The wild black cherry is {P. serotina}, the wood of which is much used for cabinetwork, being of a light red color and a compact texture. (b) The fruit of various species of {Prunus}. {Wild cinnamon}. See the Note under {Canella}. {Wild comfrey} (Bot.), an American plant ({Cynoglossum Virginicum}) of the Borage family. It has large bristly leaves and small blue flowers. {Wild cumin} (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant ({Lag[oe]cia cuminoides}) native in the countries about the Mediterranean. {Wild drake} (Zo[94]l.) the mallard. {Wild elder} (Bot.), an American plant ({Aralia hispida}) of the Ginseng family. {Wild fowl} (Zo[94]l.) any wild bird, especially any of those considered as game birds. {Wild goose} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of undomesticated geese, especially the Canada goose ({Branta Canadensis}), the European bean goose, and the graylag. See {Graylag}, and {Bean goose}, under {Bean}. {Wild goose chase}, the pursuit of something unattainable, or of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose. --Shak. {Wild honey}, honey made by wild bees, and deposited in trees, rocks, the like. {Wild hyacinth}. (Bot.) See {Hyacinth}, 1 (b) . {Wild Irishman} (Bot.), a thorny bush ({Discaria Toumatou}) of the Buckthorn family, found in New Zealand, where the natives use the spines in tattooing. {Wild land}. (a) Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation. (b) Land which is not settled and cultivated. {Wild licorice}. (Bot.) See under {Licorice}. {Wild mammee} (Bot.), the oblong, yellowish, acid fruit of a tropical American tree ({Rheedia lateriflora}); -- so called in the West Indies. {Wild marjoram} (Bot.), a labiate plant ({Origanum vulgare}) much like the sweet marjoram, but less aromatic. {Wild oat}. (Bot.) (a) A tall, oatlike kind of soft grass ({Arrhenatherum avenaceum}). (b) See {Wild oats}, under {Oat}. {Wild pieplant} (Bot.), a species of dock ({Rumex hymenosepalus}) found from Texas to California. Its acid, juicy stems are used as a substitute for the garden rhubarb. {Wild pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The rock dove. (b) The passenger pigeon. {Wild pink} (Bot.), an American plant ({Silene Pennsylvanica}) with pale, pinkish flowers; a kind of catchfly. {Wild plantain} (Bot.), an arborescent endogenous herb ({Heliconia Bihai}), much resembling the banana. Its leaves and leaf sheaths are much used in the West Indies as coverings for packages of merchandise. {Wild plum}. (Bot.) (a) Any kind of plum growing without cultivation. (b) The South African prune. See under {Prune}. {Wild rice}. (Bot.) See {Indian rice}, under {Rice}. {Wild rosemary} (Bot.), the evergreen shrub {Andromeda polifolia}. See {Marsh rosemary}, under {Rosemary}. {Wild sage}. (Bot.) See {Sagebrush}. {Wild sarsaparilla} (Bot.), a species of ginseng ({Aralia nudicaulis}) bearing a single long-stalked leaf. {Wild sensitive plant} (Bot.), either one of two annual leguminous herbs ({Cassia Cham[91]crista}, and {C. nictitans}), in both of which the leaflets close quickly when the plant is disturbed. {Wild service}.(Bot.) See {Sorb}. {Wild Spaniard} (Bot.), any one of several umbelliferous plants of the genus {Aciphylla}, natives of New Zealand. The leaves bear numerous bayonetlike spines, and the plants form an impenetrable thicket. {Wild turkey}. (Zo[94]l.) See 2d {Turkey}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cherry \Cher"ry\, n. [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. [?], perh. fr. [?] horn, from the hardness of the wood.] 1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus {Prunus} (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry ({Prunus Cerasus}), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from M[82]doc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, {Prunus serotina} (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; {P. Virginiana} (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; {P. avium} and {P. Padus}, European trees (bird cherry). 2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors. 3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc. 4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. {Barbadoes cherry}. See under {Barbadoes}. {Cherry bird} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. {Cherry bounce}, cherry brandy and sugar. {Cherry brandy}, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. {Cherry laurel} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Prunus Lauro-cerasus}) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. {Cherry pepper} (Bot.), a species of {Capsicum} ({C. cerasiforme}), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. {Cherry pit}. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. --Shak. (b) A cherry stone. {Cherry rum}, rum in which cherries have been steeped. {Cherry sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the European spotted flycatcher ({Musicapa grisola}); -- called also {cherry chopper} {cherry snipe}. {Cherry tree}, a tree that bears cherries. {Ground cherry}, {Winter cherry}, See {Alkekengi}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sloe \Sloe\, n. [OE. slo, AS. sl[be]; akin to D. slee, G. schlehe, OHG. sl$ha, Dan. slaaen, Sw. sl[?]n, perhaps originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge (cf. {Slow}); cf. Lith. sliwa a plum, Russ. sliva.] (Bot.) A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn ({Prunus spinosa}); also, the tree itself. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Blackthorn \Black"thorn`\, n. (Bot.) (a) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree ({Prunus spinosa}), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe. (b) A species of {Crat[91]gus} or hawthorn ({C. tomentosa}). Both are used for hedges. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Chokecherry \Choke"cher`ry\, n. (Bot.) The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry ({Prunus Virginiana}); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pry \Pry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prying}.] To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize. [Local, U. S. & Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Prying \Pry"ing\, a. Inspecting closely or impertinently. Syn: Inquisitive; curious. See {Inquisitive}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pryingly \Pry"ing*ly\, adv. In a prying manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puranic \Pu*ran"ic\, a. Pertaining to the Puranas. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pureness \Pure"ness\, n. The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pur \Pur\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Purred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Purring}.] [Of imitative origin; cf. Prov. G. purren.] To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased. [Written also {purr}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Admiral \Ad"mi*ral\, n. [OE. amiral, admiral, OF. amiral, ultimately fr. Ar. am[c6]r-al-bahr commander of the sea; Ar. am[c6]r is commander, al is the Ar. article, and am[c6]r-al, heard in different titles, was taken as one word. Early forms of the word show confusion with L. admirabilis admirable, fr. admirari to admire. It is said to have been introduced into Europe by the Genoese or Venetians, in the 12th or 13th century. Cf. {Ameer}, {Emir}.] 1. A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets. 2. The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. --E. Everett. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A handsome butterfly ({Pyrameis Atalanta}) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. {Admiral shell} (Zo[94]l.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell ({Conus admiralis}). {Lord High Admiral}, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Britain. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyromagnetic \Pyr`o*mag*net"ic\, a. [Pyro- + magnetic.] (Physics) Acting by the agency of heat and magnetism; as, a pyromagnetic machine for producing electric currents. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyromucate \Pyr`o*mu"cate\, n. (Chem.) A salt of pyromucic acid. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyromucic \Pyr`o*mu"cic\, a. [Pyro- + mucic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of mucic acid, or by the oxidation of furfurol. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyrrhonean \Pyr*rho"ne*an\, Pyrrhonic \Pyr*rhon"ic\, a. [L. Pyrrhon[88]us: cf. F. pyrrhonien.] Of or pertaining to pyrrhonism. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyrrhonism \Pyr"rho*nism\, n. [From Pyrrho, the founder of a school of skeptics in Greece (about 300 b. c.): cf. F. pyrrhonisme.] Skepticism; universal doubt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyrrhonist \Pyr"rho*nist\, n. A follower of Pyrrho; a skeptic. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Paramus, NJ (borough, FIPS 55950) Location: 40.94512 N, 74.07152 W Population (1990): 25067 (7892 housing units) Area: 27.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 07652 | |
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Parma Heights, OH (city, FIPS 61028) Location: 41.38600 N, 81.76360 W Population (1990): 21448 (9544 housing units) Area: 10.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Primghar, IA (city, FIPS 64650) Location: 43.08776 N, 95.62620 W Population (1990): 950 (452 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51245 | |
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Primm Springs, TN Zip code(s): 38476 | |
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Primos Secane, PA Zip code(s): 19018 | |
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Prince Edward County, VA (county, FIPS 147) Location: 37.21831 N, 78.44307 W Population (1990): 17320 (6075 housing units) Area: 913.8 sq km (land), 2.8 sq km (water) | |
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Prince Frederick, MD (CDP, FIPS 63950) Location: 38.54860 N, 76.58907 W Population (1990): 1885 (617 housing units) Area: 17.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 20678 | |
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Prince George, VA Zip code(s): 23875 | |
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Prince George County, VA (county, FIPS 149) Location: 37.18677 N, 77.22121 W Population (1990): 27394 (8640 housing units) Area: 687.9 sq km (land), 41.3 sq km (water) | |
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Prince George's County, MD (county, FIPS 33) Location: 38.83030 N, 76.84913 W Population (1990): 729268 (270090 housing units) Area: 1259.8 sq km (land), 33.7 sq km (water) | |
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Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census, AK (Area, FIPS 201) Location: 55.45404 N, 132.05037 W Population (1990): 6278 (2543 housing units) Area: 18970.4 sq km (land), 13576.6 sq km (water) | |
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Prince William County, VA (county, FIPS 153) Location: 38.70405 N, 77.47778 W Population (1990): 215686 (74759 housing units) Area: 876.5 sq km (land), 27.5 sq km (water) | |
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Princes Lakes, IN (town, FIPS 62028) Location: 39.35072 N, 86.10906 W Population (1990): 1055 (620 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) | |
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Princess Anne, MD (town, FIPS 64000) Location: 38.20432 N, 75.69537 W Population (1990): 1666 (807 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 21853 | |
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Princeton, AL Zip code(s): 35766 Princeton, CA Zip code(s): 95970 Princeton, FL (CDP, FIPS 58975) Location: 25.53973 N, 80.39870 W Population (1990): 7073 (2220 housing units) Area: 19.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 33032 Princeton, IA (city, FIPS 64740) Location: 41.67110 N, 90.35950 W Population (1990): 806 (320 housing units) Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52768 Princeton, ID Zip code(s): 83857 Princeton, IL (city, FIPS 61899) Location: 41.37844 N, 89.46683 W Population (1990): 7197 (3208 housing units) Area: 9.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61356 Princeton, IN (city, FIPS 62046) Location: 38.35568 N, 87.56921 W Population (1990): 8127 (3734 housing units) Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47670 Princeton, KS (city, FIPS 57725) Location: 38.48861 N, 95.27250 W Population (1990): 275 (109 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66078 Princeton, KY (city, FIPS 63138) Location: 37.10702 N, 87.88469 W Population (1990): 6940 (3168 housing units) Area: 22.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 42445 Princeton, LA Zip code(s): 71067 Princeton, MA Zip code(s): 01541 Princeton, ME Zip code(s): 04668 Princeton, MI Zip code(s): 49841 Princeton, MN (city, FIPS 52522) Location: 45.57056 N, 93.59084 W Population (1990): 3719 (1510 housing units) Area: 9.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55371 Princeton, MO (city, FIPS 59942) Location: 40.39714 N, 93.58810 W Population (1990): 1021 (596 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 64673 Princeton, NC (town, FIPS 53820) Location: 35.46551 N, 78.16035 W Population (1990): 1181 (537 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27569 Princeton, NJ (borough, FIPS 60900) Location: 40.35025 N, 74.65945 W Population (1990): 12016 (3514 housing units) Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 08540, 08542 Princeton, TX (city, FIPS 59576) Location: 33.18514 N, 96.50413 W Population (1990): 2321 (1013 housing units) Area: 10.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75407 Princeton, WI (city, FIPS 65600) Location: 43.85225 N, 89.12946 W Population (1990): 1458 (656 housing units) Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54968 Princeton, WV (city, FIPS 65692) Location: 37.36864 N, 81.09623 W Population (1990): 7043 (3630 housing units) Area: 7.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Princeton Juncti, NJ Zip code(s): 08550 | |
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Princeton Junction, NJ (CDP, FIPS 60960) Location: 40.32030 N, 74.62368 W Population (1990): 2362 (833 housing units) Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Princeton North, NJ (CDP, FIPS 60990) Location: 40.36135 N, 74.64812 W Population (1990): 4386 (1804 housing units) Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Princeton Univer, NJ Zip code(s): 08544 | |
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Princeville, HI (CDP, FIPS 65075) Location: 22.22351 N, 159.48539 W Population (1990): 1244 (614 housing units) Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 96722 Princeville, IL (village, FIPS 61925) Location: 40.93154 N, 89.75560 W Population (1990): 1421 (604 housing units) Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61559 Princeville, NC (town, FIPS 53840) Location: 35.88827 N, 77.52595 W Population (1990): 1652 (656 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Pringle, PA (borough, FIPS 62712) Location: 41.27660 N, 75.90309 W Population (1990): 1161 (465 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Pringle, SD (town, FIPS 51940) Location: 43.60915 N, 103.59371 W Population (1990): 96 (51 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Prinsburg, MN (city, FIPS 52558) Location: 44.93559 N, 95.18583 W Population (1990): 502 (194 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56281 | |
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Promise City, IA (city, FIPS 64875) Location: 40.74694 N, 93.15091 W Population (1990): 132 (67 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52583 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PARMACS The "Argonne macros" from {Argonne National Laboratory}. A package of {macro}s written in {m4} for portable {parallel programming}, using {monitor}s on {shared memory} machines, and {message passing} on {distributed memory} machines. [E. Lusk et al, "Portable Programs for Parallel Processors", HRW 1987. p4]. {(ftp://research.att.com/netlib/parmacs)}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
permission write, execute, traverse, etc.) a {file} or {directory}. Depending on the {operating system}, each file may have different permissions for different kinds of access and different users or groups of users. {chmod} ("change mode") is the {UNIX} command to change permissions. (2000-12-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pornography varying states of nudity, posing or performing erotic acts with men, women, animals, machines, or other props. Some say it degrades women, some say it corrupts young boys (who down-load it from the {World-Wide Web} or exchange it on {floppy disks}). Most of it is in the form of {JPEG} images. There are many sites on the {World-Wide Web} offering porn of all sorts, almost always for a subscription. It is said that these are a driving force in the evolution of new technology and techniques for the web. Advertisments for them certainly constitute a significant proportion of all {spam}. There are even pornographic computer games, an early example being {Mac Playmate}. Beware - many institutions, particularly universities, have strict rules against their computers and networks being used to transfer or store such things, and you might get corrupted. (2002-03-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Power Mac {Power Macintosh} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Power Macintosh {PowerPC}, introduced on 1994-03-14. Existing {680x0} code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Macintosh systems without modification via a {Motorola 68LC040} {emulator}. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast {68040}-based {Macintosh}, e.g. a fast {Macintosh Quadra}. The Power Macintosh runs {Macintosh operating system} from {System 7.5} to {Mac OS} 8.5. Latest version, as of 2003-11-26: Power Mac G5. {Power Mac Home (http://www.apple.com/powermac/)}. (2003-11-26) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
power-on self-test run automatically by a device when the power is turned on. In a {personal computer} a typical POST sequence does the following: - checks that the {system board} is working - checks that the {memory} is working - compares the current system configuration with that recorded by the PC's configuration program to see if anything has been added or removed or broken - starts the video operation - checks that the {diskette} drive, {hard disk drive}, {CD-ROM} drive, and any other drives that may be installed are working. When POST is finished, typically it will {beep}, and then let your {operating system} start to {boot}. If POST finds an error, it may beep more than once (or possibly not at all if it is your PC speaker that is broken) and display a POST error message. These messages are often nothing more than a single ominous number. Some common numbers and their meanings are: 161 Dead battery (get a new battery for the system board) 162 Configuration changed (you added some memory or a new card to the PC) 301 Keyboard error (take the book off the corner of the keyboard) Because a successful POST indicates that the system is restored to known state, turning the power off and on is a standard way to reset a system whose software has {hung}. Compare {120 reset}, {Big Red Switch}, {power cycle}. (2001-03-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Prime Computer [Dates? Status? Products? Addresses?] (1996-09-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Princeton University Chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was British North America's fourth college. First located in Elizabeth, then in Newark, the College moved to Princeton in 1756. The College was housed in Nassau Hall, newly built on land donated by Nathaniel and Rebeckah FitzRandolph. Nassau Hall contained the entire College for nearly half a century. The College was officially renamed Princeton University in 1896; five years later in 1900 the Graduate School was established. Fully coeducational since 1969, Princeton now enrolls approximately 6,400 students (4,535 undergraduates and 1,866 graduate students). The ratio of full-time students to faculty members (in full-time equivalents) is eight to one. Today Princeton's main campus in Princeton Borough and Princeton Township consists of more than 5.5 million square feet of space in 160 buildings on 600 acres. The University's James Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro consists of one million square feet of space in four complexes on 340 acres. As Mercer County's largest private employer and one of the largest in the Mercer/Middlesex/Somerset County region, with approximately 4,830 permanent employees - including more than 1,000 faculty members - the University plays a major role in the educational, cultural, and economic life of the region. {(http://www.princeton.edu/index.html)}. (1994-01-19) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
principal type The most general {type} of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the {lambda abstraction} (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some {type variable}. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's {unification} {algorithm}. (1994-12-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
promiscuous mode regardless of their destination address. (1996-03-04) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Parmashta strong-fisted, a son of Haman, slain in Shushan (Esther 9:9). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Prince the title generally applied to the chief men of the state. The "princes of the provinces" (1 Kings 20:14) were the governors or lord-lieutenants of the provinces. So also the "princes" mentioned in Dan. 6:1, 3, 4, 6, 7 were the officers who administered the affairs of the provinces; the "satraps" (as rendered in R.V.). These are also called "lieutenants" (Esther 3:12; 8:9; R.V., "satraps"). The promised Saviour is called by Daniel (9:25) "Messiah the Prince" (Heb. nagid); compare Acts 3:15; 5:31. The angel Micheal is called (Dan. 12:1) a "prince" (Heb. sar, whence "Sarah," the "princes"). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Parmashta, a yearling bull | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Parnach, a bull striking, or struck |