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 or character of a priest; the priestly function.

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.

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.

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

A name given to several kinds of plums; as, red primordian, amber primordian, etc.

Primordial.

To be formal or affected in dress or manners; -- often with up.

Of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose; -- hence, flowery; gay.

The genus of plants including the primrose (Primula vera).

Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulace/), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.

One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.

Being in its prime.

To play the prince.

The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince.

Princeliness.

A petty prince; a princeling.

Without a prince.

A petty prince.

Princely.

The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.

A petty prince; a young prince.

In a princely manner.

A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince.

A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.

Like a princess.

The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.

Imitative of a prince.

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.

Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station.

In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.

The quality of being principal.

Principality; supreme rule.

First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.

Elementary.

Relating to principles or beginnings.

To begin; to initiate.

Analysis into primary or elemental parts.

To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.

A coxcomb; a pert boy.

To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically.

One who prinks.

The long-tailed titmouse.

A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.

Worthy to be published.

One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.