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.

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.

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.

To promulgate; to publish or teach.

One who promulges or publishes what was before unknown.

The proboscis of hemipterous insects. See Illust. under Hemiptera.

The porch or vestibule of a temple.

Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees.

The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward. That motion of the forearm whereby the palm or palmar, surface is turned downward. The position of the limb resulting from the act of pronation. Opposed to supination.

A muscle which produces pronation.

In a prone manner or position.

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

The head kidney. See under Head.

A hoe with prongs to break the earth.

The springbuck. The pronghorn.

Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.

An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabr/e, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.

Proneness; propensity.

To jump straight up or almost straight up; -- used of kangaroos and gazelles.

Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.

To give the effect of a pronoun to; as, to pronominalize the substantives person, people, etc.

In a pronominal manner/ with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.

Strongly marked; decided, as in manners, etc.; pronounced.

See Prothonotary.

The dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.

Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.

Capable of being pronounced.

Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. [A Gallicism]

The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.

One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.

Same as pronunciation; -- a common misspelling (written only).

Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary.

Presiding over marriage.

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

Of or pertaining to pronunciation; pronunciative.

A proclamation or manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration.

See Pronunciamento.

One who pronounces; a pronouncer.

Of or pertaining to pronunciation; that pronounces.

To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself.