The state of being proprietor; ownership.

A female proprietor.

Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.

A assistant proctor.

A game of chance, in which four sea shells, each called a prop, are used instead of dice.

The anterior of three principal cartilages in the fins of some fishes.

To contend for; to defend; to vindicate.

A fortress.

Means of defense; defense.

A defender; a vindicator.

The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance.

To repel; to drive off or away.

The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.

Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.

Propulsive.

The hypothetical radical C3H7, regarded as the essential residue of propane and related compounds.

Any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure.

A colorless gaseous hydrocarbon (C3H6) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as, propylic alcohol.

See Propidene.

The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.

Capable of being prorated, or divided proportionately.

To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.

The prow or fore part of a ship.

An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university.

The office of prorector.

Pronephric.

A creeping on.

Situated in front of the nasal chambers.

To prorogue.

The act of counting in duration; prolongation.

To protract; to prolong; to extend.

The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.

Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition.

The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style.

That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner.

A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer.

Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic.

The part where the actors performed; the stage.

An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. See Redia.

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.

One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict.

The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.

Proscriptive.

One who proscribes.

Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.

To write prose.

One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

To follow after.

The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war.

One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.

A female prosecutor.

To convert to some religion, opinion, or system; to bring over.

The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.

To make converts or proselytes.

One who proselytes.

A writer of prose.

A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution.

Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.

The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain. The cerebrum.

A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.

A writer of prose.

The act of leaping forth or forward; projection.

In a prosy manner.

Consisting both of prose and verse.

Same as Lemuroidea.

The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.

Prosily.

A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true siphon.

Lit., may it do (you) good; -- a salutation used in well wishing, esp. among Germans, as in drinking healths; -- also used in the contracted form prost.

Favoring slavery. Advocacy of slavery.

One of the Prosobranchiata.

The highest division, or subclass, of gastropod mollusks, including those that have the gills situated anteriorly, or forward of the heart, and the sexes separate.

The entire cavity of the prosencephalon.

Same as Prosoc/le.

Prosodical.

Prosodically.

Prosodical.

A prosodist.

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

One skilled in prosody.

That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod.

Facial neuralgia.

Same as Scaphopoda.

Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance.

A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.

A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.

To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.

The act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants; foresight.

The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.

In a prospective manner.

Quality of being prospective.

Having no prospect.

One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.

A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work.

To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.

The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.

Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.

A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball.

The act of looking forward.

a contracted form of prosit.

Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra. The prostate gland.

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

Inflammation of the prostate.

Dejection; depression.

The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.

The addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also prothesis.

Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious.

A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.

The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes.

That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.

To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.

The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.

Having columns in front. A prostyle portico or building.