The act of going, or state of being, before.

Tending to prevent.

That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.

In a preventive manner.

Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.

Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.

Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.

The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

To foresee.

Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

Foreseeing; prescient.

To warn beforehand; to forewarn.

To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer.

Disposed to take prey.

An anterior zygapophysis.

A corruption of pair royal. See under Pair, n.

A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles.

A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.

More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire.

A suborder of Gephyr/a, having a cylindrical body with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills.

A hard rider.

To pay the price of.

Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor.

A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.

Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable.

To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.

Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs.

One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle.

A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.

The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.

The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.

To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.

The stickleback.

The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.

Prickly.

A tailor; -- so called in contempt.

Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.

A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.

A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.

An arrow.

Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down.

A shrub (Euonymus Europ/us); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.

Stiff and sharp; prickly.

To be proud; to glory.

Full of pride; haughty.

Without pride.

Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday.

Proudly.

To pry.

imp. p. p. of Pry.

A kneeling desk for prayers.

Proof.

One who pries; one who inquires narrowly and searches, or is inquisitive.

To ordain as priest.

Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people.

A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.

Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others.

Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt.

A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.

The office of a priest.

The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.

Without a priest.

Priestly.

The quality or state of being priestly.

Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell.

To prove.

A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.

Priggism.

Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.

The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig.

imp. of Prick.

A nugget of virgin metal. Ore selected for excellence.

Tin extracted from the slag.

To dress or act smartly.

The first or chief female singer in an opera.

The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.

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.

First; primary; original; chief.

The quality or state of being primal.

In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.

The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, in act, or in intention.

That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.

The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.

The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.

The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.

Primatical.

Of or pertaining to a primate.

To be renewed, or as at first.

At first; primarily.

The quality or state of being first.

Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.

A game at cards, now unknown.

See Primrose.

Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

Primeval.

First born, or first of all; original; primary. See Primogenial.

First formed or generated; original; primigenial.

The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.

A woman who bears a child for the first time.

Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.

Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a Roman army.

The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.

Being of the first production; primitive; original.

An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.

Originally; at first.

The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.

Quality of being first; primitiveness.

In a prim or precise manner.

The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness.

First; chief.

First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light.

Primogeniture.

The first ancestor; a forefather.

The state of being the firstborn of the same parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family.

The state or privileges of the firstborn.

A first principle or element.

Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state.