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.

An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons.

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.

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.

Any species of small moths of the genus Procris. The larv/ of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves.

Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.

To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.

A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes.

See Procrustean.

Inflammation of the rectum.

Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani.

See Mesenteron.

To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.

Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt.

Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.

Proctorial.

The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office.

An incision into the rectum, as for the division of a stricture.

A division of Turbellaria including those that have an intestine terminating posteriorly. The Nemertina.

Capable of being procured; obtainable.

Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor.

The office or term of a procurator.

Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.

A female procurer, or pander.

To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.

A crossbow. See Prod, 3.

One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift.

Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.

To expend lavishly.

In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated.

To squander.

Waste; profusion; prodigality.

The quality or state of being prodigious; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.

Disclosure; treachery; treason.

A traitor.

Treacherous.

Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease.

A forerunner; a precursor.

Precursory.

That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors agricultural products.

Production.

One who produces, or offers to notice.

The quality or state of being producible.

Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.

The state of being productible; producibility.

Capable of being produced; producible.

Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.

The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.

A female producer.

An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.

Serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal cause of disease.

To preface.

The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.

Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.