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.

A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office.

The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.

Making no imprint.

A shop where prints are sold.

any of several types of protein particle lacking nucleic acid, believed to be the cause of certain slow-developing infectious diseases such as scapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Kuru in humans.

a prior conviction; -- said of an accused criminal.

The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.

A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.

To order or rank (a list of tasks) according to priority; to assign a priorities to.

The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.

Previously.

The state or office of prior; priorate.

A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.

See Price, and 1st Prize.

A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.

See 1st Prizer.

A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.

Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage.

In the form or manner of a prism; by means of a prism.

Having a prismlike form.

Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.

Pertaining to a prism.

To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

One who is confined in a prison.

Imprisonment.

Pristine; primitive.

Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

A sharp-pointed instrument; also, an eelspear.

A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.

A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I.

Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.

The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.

A private friend; a confidential friend; a confidant.

In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.

A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.

To cruise in a privateer.

Cruising in a privateer.

An officer or seaman of a privateer.

The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.

Causing privation; depriving.

In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.

The state of being privative.

An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim.

Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.

In a privy manner; privately; secretly.

A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.

Valuable.

Estimation; valuation.

The winner of a prize.

One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger.

The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.

For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with con.

The investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.

Same as antiabortion; -- used by those opposed to voluntary abortion, to emphasize their view of a fetus as already living, and to avoid the negative tone of a word beginning with /anti-/.

One who is opposed to voluntary abortion; one who is pro-life, especially an activist in the campaign to make abortion illegal.

A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.

See Approach.

Provender or food.

A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.

The doctrine of the probabiliorists.

One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.

The doctrine of the probabilists.

In a probable manner; in likelihood.

Proof; trial.

Approved; probable.

Probability.

A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.

To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.

Probationary.

Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.

The state of being a probationer; novitiate.

A state of probation.

Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence.

An examiner; an approver.

Serving for trial; probationary.

An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.

Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.

See Porbeagle.

Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.

Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful; as, his theory is problematic because it fails to explain several facts.