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.

Same as Programme.

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.

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.

A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.

An apparatus for automatic ignition. A kind of lucifer match.

The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.

In a prominent manner.

Promiscuousness; confusion.

In a promiscuous manner.

The quality or state of being promiscuous.

The person to whom a promise is made.

One who promises.

Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day.

One who engages or undertakes; a promiser.

Making a promise; implying a promise; promising.

In a promissory manner.

Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.

Promontory.

Relating to promorphology; as, a promorphological conception.

One versed in the science of promorphology.

Crystallography of organic forms; -- a division of morphology created by Haeckel. It is essentially stereometric, and relates to a mathematical conception of organic forms. See Tectology.

To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.

One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.

The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.

Tending to advance, promote, or encourage.

To move forward; to advance; to promote.

A promoter.

A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.

The book used by a prompter of a theater.

A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.

The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience.

In a prompt manner.

That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository.

Suggestion; incitement; prompting.

To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.

The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel.

One who promulgates or publishes.