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.

The addition of a day to the lunar calendar.

Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.

Much good may it do you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome.

To profane.

The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God.

In a profane manner.

The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.

One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language.

A setting out; a going forward; advance; progression.

Proceeding from, as from a parent; derived, as from an ancestor.

The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.

Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian.

By profession.

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.

The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; -- opposed to amateurism.

professional person.

In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.

One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.

Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.

The character, manners, or habits of a professor.

See Professoriate.

The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.

The office or position of a professor, or public teacher.

Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial.

An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.

One who proffers something.

The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.

Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,

In a proficient manner.

Profitable; advantageous; useful.

to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.

In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

One who takes profiles.

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.

Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.

To make an excessive profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods; to act as a profiteer.

Gain; advantage; profit.

Without profit; unprofitable.

The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.

To drive away; to overcome.

In a profligate manner.

The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

Defeat; rout; overthrow.

Quality of being profluent; course.

Flowing forward,

To dive deeply; to penetrate.

In a profound manner.

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.

Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent.

The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.

To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.

In a profuse manner.

Extravagance; profusion.

Profuse; lavish; prodigal.

Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.

To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race.

The act of begetting; propagation.

An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.

The state of being a progenitor.

A female progenitor.

A begetting, or birth.

Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.

Proglottis.

One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.

A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.

Prognathous.

Projection of the jaws.

Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; -- opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.

A swallow. A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin. An American butterfly (Polygonia Progne syn. Vanessa Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma.

The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.