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.

One who proposes problems.

To propose problems.

Having a proboscis; proboscidial.

Proboscidian.

Proboscidate.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea. One of the Proboscidea.

Having the form or uses of a proboscis; as, a proboscidiform mouth.

A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.

Pert; petulant; forward; saucy.

Forwardness; pertness; petulance.

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.

Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial.

The kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause.

A writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there. In English practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment. A writ by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended.

The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.

See Proceeds.

One who proceeds.

The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.

That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.

A foot consisting of four short syllables.

One of a family of oceanic birds (Procellarid/) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.

Stormy.

Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.

Preoccupation.

Of high stature; tall.

The prosencephalon.

An order of large birds; the Ratit/; -- called also Proceri.

The segment next to the flagellum of the antenn/ of Crustacea.

Height of stature; tallness.

To honor with a procession.

Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.

One who goes or marches in a procession.

Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service.

A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession.

Proceeding; advancing.

Next; nearest.

Situated in front of the notochord; -- applied especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the skull.

The dating of an event before the time it happened; an antedating; -- opposed to metachronism.

To antedate.

A falling down; a prolapsus.

Falling from its proper place.

A state of complete readiness for action.

One who proclaims.

Leaning forward; -- said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.

Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous.

A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain.

A division of Crocodilia, including the true crocodiles and alligators, in which the dorsal vertebr/ are concave in front.

A reptile having proc/lian vertebr/; one of the Proc/lia.

Same as Proc/lian.

An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.

The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.

Proconsulate.

To delay; to be dilatory.

The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.

One who procrastinates, or defers the performance of anything.

Of or pertaining to procrastination; dilatory.

To procrastinate.

One who, or that which, procreates.

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

The act of begetting; generation and production of young.

Having the power to beget; generative.

The power of generating.

One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.