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.

Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong.

Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved.

The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone.

In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. A prootic bone.

That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.

Of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing beforehand.

The preliminary learning connected with any art or science; preparatory instruction.

The art or practice of propagating tenets or principles; zeal in propagating one's opinions.

A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles.

To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.

Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.

One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.

A runner terminated by a germinating bud.

A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series, occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.

Same as Propinyl.

A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.

Same as Proleg.

To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

To lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or disposed; to incline; to tend.

Propensity.

Inclining forward or toward.

Same as Propylene.

Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness.

The quality or state of being propense; propensity.

The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, C3H5, isomeric with allyl and glyceryl, and regarded as the essential residue of glycerin. Cf. Allyl, and Glyceryl.

See Persinogen.

A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.

Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.

To hasten, or press forward.

The act of hastening; haste.

Properispomenon.

A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.

Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money.

See Profane.

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

A prophet.

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

A female prophet.

Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.

Propheticalness.

In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.

The quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.

To give predictions; to foreshow events; to prophesy.

Enunciative.

An internal dorsal chitinous process between the first two divisions of the thorax of insects.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Defending or preserving from disease; preventive.

The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.

Fit; propitious.

The unsymmetrical hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, CH3.CH2.CH, analogous to ethylidene, and regarded as the type of certain derivatives of propane; -- called also propylidene.

The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another.

Same as Allylene.

A hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of propine and allied compounds.

A salt of propiolic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called also propargylic acid) of the acetylene or tetrolic series, analogous to propionic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A salt of propionic acid.

The ketone of propionic acid, obtained as a colorless fragrant liquid.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic acid which is produced in the distillation of wood, in the fermentation of various organic substances, as glycerin, calcium lactate, etc., and is obtained as a colorless liquid having a sharp, pungent odor. Propionic acid is so called because it is the first or lowest member of the fatty acid series whose salts have a fatty feel.

The hypothetical radical C3H5O, regarded as the essential residue of propionic acid and certain related compounds.

A genus including the long-tailed, or diadem, indris. See Indris.

Capable of being propitiated.

To make propitiation; to atone.

One who propitiates or appeases.

By way of propitiation.

The mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the propitiated Jehovah.

A mold; a matrix.

Forming a mold.

The art of making molds for castings.

Same as Proleg.

Of or pertaining to the propodialia, or the parts of the limbs to which they belong.

The bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the propodialia being the humerus and femur.

The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, the penultimate joint.

The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk. The segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax of a hymenopterous insect.

Same as Bee glue, under Bee.

To propose; to bring forward.

Making proposals; proposing.

To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.

Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate.

Proportionally.

Any number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean proportional.

The state of being in proportion.

In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively; as, all parts of the building are proportionally large.

To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.

In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.

The quality or state of being proportionate.

Without proportion; unsymmetrical.

The act or process of dividing out proportionally.

That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.

Talk; discourse.

One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.

Pertaining to, or in the nature of, a proposition; considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense.

To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.

One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration.