Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.

The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.

Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile.

Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.

A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

Pertaining to, or designating, a tetrabasic acid of benzene obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- probably so called from the resemblance of the wartlike crystals to the mammill/ on the surface of prehnite.

Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.

Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate.

To render indisposed beforehand.

To instruct previously or beforehand.

Previous intimation; a suggestion beforehand.

To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand.

The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.

Prejudice; prepossession.

Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided; as, a prejudical inquiry or action at law.

Influenced by prejudice; biased.

To prejudge.

With prejudice.

The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment.

Forming a judgment without due examination; prejudging.

To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.

Prior knowledge.

The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates.

Of or pertaining to printing; typographical.

To act as a prelate.

Prelacy.

The office of a prelate.

A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate.

Prelatical.

Of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatical authority.

In a prelatical manner; with reference to prelates.

The setting of one above another; preference.

Prelacy; episcopacy.

One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman.

To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.

Prelaty; prelacy.

The state or dignity of a prelate; prelacy.

Prelacy.

To discourse publicly; to lecture.

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer.

A tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.

In a preliminary manner.

That which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the year before entering college.

To limit previously.

To look forward.

To introduce with a previous performance; to play or perform a prelude to; as, to prelude a concert with a lively air.

One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude.

Of or pertaining to a prelude; of the nature of a prelude; introductory.

Preludial.

Situated immediately in front of the loins; -- applied to the dorsal part of the abdomen.

Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.

In a prelusory way.

Introductory; prelusive.

Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.

The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius.

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/ become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill/; intermaxillary. A premaxilla.

To advocate.

Premeditated; deliberate.

The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.

To merit or deserve beforehand.

Serving to reward; rewarding.

First fruits.

The first minister of state; the prime minister.

First; chief; as, a premi/re danseuse. The leading woman of a group, esp. in a theatrical cast. A first performance, as of a play; a first night.

to perform (a play, ballet, or composition) for the first time.

The office of the premier.

Previous to the millennium.

Rich in gifts.

To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.

Premise.

To premise.

A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc.

Situated in front of the molar teeth. An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar. See Tooth.

To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.

Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.

Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.

One who, or that which, gives premonition.

Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease.

A Premonstratensian.

To show beforehand; to foreshow.

One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St. Norbert at Pr/montr/, in France, in 1119. The members of the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants.

A showing beforehand; foreshowing.

One who, or that which, premonstrates.

Terminated abruptly, or as it bitten off.

Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history.

Previous motion or excitement to action.

See Pr/munire.

To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection.

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.

Of or pertaining to a premunire; as, a premunitory process.

Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.

Being or happening before birth.

The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered.

See Pr/nomen.

Serving as a prefix in a compound name.

To forename; to name beforehand; to tell by name beforehand.

The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first.

A prognostic; an omen.

To note or designate beforehand.

A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge.

The act of seizing with violence.

An apprentice.

Apprenticehood.

Apprenticeship.

The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.

Announcing beforehand; presaging.

The anterior part of the medulla oblongata.

To obtain beforehand.

The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.

The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.

To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.

Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antenn/ of certain insects. One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.

To ominate beforehand; to portend.

Situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the preoperculum. The preoperculum.

The anterior opercular bone in fishes.

Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice.

Right of first choice.

Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth; as, preoral bands.