A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.

A bodkin.

A poniard.

See Poind, Poinder.

Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally.

A South American armadillo (Dasypus sexcinctus). Called also sixbanded armadillo.

See 5th Pose.

Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.

A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.

Practical.

The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.

That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.

Of or pertaining to practice or action.

The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.

To render practical.

In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.

Same as Practicality.

To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.

Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman.

One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.

One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.

Practice.

A guide.

An agent or confederate in treachery.

See Practice.

A practitioner.

One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.

Doing; active.

A horse.

The superior vena cava.

A writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a reason for neglecting it. A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in the office out of which the writ is to be issued.

A division of birds including those whose young are able to run about when first hatched.

Of or pertaining to the Pr/coces.

This previously known, or which should be known in order to understand something else.

A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.

See Precoracoid.

The front part of the thoracic region; the epigastrium.

Same as Precordial.

The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

See Predial.

Same as Prefloration.

Same as Prefoliation.

See Premaxilla.

See Premolar.

Same as Premorse.

To subject to the penalties of pr/munire.

See Premunitory.

The anterior nares. See Nares.

Same as Prenasal.

The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc.

Of or pertaining to a pr/nomen.

Same as Preoperculum.

Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc.

See Preterist.

See Pretermit.

A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

See Pretor.

A division of butterflies including the satyrs.

See Pretorian.

See Pretorium.

One skilled in affairs.

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

In a pragmatical manner.

The quality or state of being pragmatical.

The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.

One who is pragmatic.

To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize.

The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire.

An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.

Fit to be praised; praise-worthy; laudable; commendable.

In a praisable manner.

Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.

A religious service mainly in song.

Praiseworthy.

Without praise or approbation.

Appraisement.

One who praises.

In a praiseworthy manner.

The quality or state of being praiseworthy.

Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy.

Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

Pertaining to Prakrit.

A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.

A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.

a perambulator{3}; -- British informal shortened form.

See Praam.

To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.

A horse which prances.

Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.

A genus of umbelliferous plants, one species of which (Prangos pabularia), found in Tibet, Cashmere, Afghanistan, etc., has been used as fodder for cattle. It has decompound leaves with very long narrow divisions, and a highly fragrant smell resembling that of new clover hay.

Full of gambols or tricks.

One who dresses showily; a prinker.

Full of pranks; frolicsome.

A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.

An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; -- so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.

A variety of altered iolite of a green color and greasy luster.

Grass-green; clear, lively green, without any mixture.

Resembling prase.

Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

Talkative.

One who prates.

See Pratique.

Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolid/, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.

With idle talk; with loquacity.

Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.

Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.

Prattle.

One who prattles.

Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.

Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antenn/. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Pal/mon, Pal/monetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Pal/mon serratus.

An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.

Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object.

To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.

Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional.

Not using prayer; habitually neglecting prayer to God; without prayer.

a. n. from Pray, v.

With supplication to God.

To isolate{3} (a substance) beforehand.

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