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.

To prognosticate.

Capable of being prognosticated or foretold.

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.

To make progress in; to pass through.

Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.

One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.

A sharp point; a goad. To prick; to goad.

Proem.

One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.

The period of 1920 to 1932 in the United States, during which sale of alcoholic beverages were forbidden by the consitution.

That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.

Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price.

To employed in pruning.

Design; contrivance; projection.

One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.

A jutting out beyond a surface.

A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.

To poke; to thrust.

To fall down or out; to protrude.

Prolapse.

Prolapse.

To utter; to pronounce.

A prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larv/ of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.

The deputy or substitute for a legate.

Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.

A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.

In a proleptical manner.

The art and science of predicting in medicine.

One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.

Having a numerous offspring.

Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar. A proletary.

The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.

The lower classes; beggars.

A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.

The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.

Prolificness.

Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific.

To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.

The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.

Dilatory; tedious; superfluous.

The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.

In a prolix manner.

Prolixity.

To prowl about; to rob.

Prowler; thief.

The office of a prolocutor.

Prologue.

A declarative higher-level programming language in which instructions are written not as explicit procedural data-manipulation commands, but as logical statements. The language has built-in resolution procedures for logical inference.

To deliver a Prologue.

One who prologizes.

To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.

Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care.

To prolong; to extend in space or in time.

A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.

One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.

Prolongation.

A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.

The act of flowing forth; emanation; efflux.

To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.

One who promenades.

Any one of several species of very brilliant birds belonging to Promerops, Epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related to the paradise birds, and mostly native of New Guinea. They have a long curved beak and a long graduated tail.