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.

Propagation by seed.

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 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.

A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.

Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory.

A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.

One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.

An amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic fluid of salmon. It is soluble in water, which an alkaline reaction, and unites with acids and metallic bases.

Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life.

Proterandrous.

A proposition; a maxim.

Of or pertaining to the protasis of an ancient play; introductory.

Of or pertaining to the Proteace/, an order of apetalous evergreen shrubs, mostly natives of the Cape of Good Hope or of Australia.

Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.

In a protean manner.

To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.

By way of protection; in a protective manner.

The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.

The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.

One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.

Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.

The quality or state of being protective.

One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.

Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.

Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.

Same as Protectoral.

Having no protector; unprotected.

The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.

A woman who protects.

One under the care and protection of another, especially one receiving counseling and assistance in career development.

An older, imprecise term replaced by protein.

An order of aquatic amphibians having prominent external gills and four legs. It includes Proteus and Menobranchus (Necturus). Called also Proteoidea, and Proteida.

Changeable in form; resembling a Proteus, or an am/ba.

any polymer of an amino acid joined by peptide (amide) bonds. Most natural proteins have alpha-amino acids as the monomeric constituents. All classical enzymes are composed of protein, and control most of the biochemical transformations carrie dout in living cells. They may be soluble, as casein, albumins, and other globular proteins, or insoluble (e. g. "structural proteins"), as collagen or keratin. "albumin", an older term for protein, is now used primarily to refer to certain specific soluble globular proteins found in eggs or blood serum, e.g. bovine serum albumin, the main soluble protein in teh serum of cattle, used as an enzymatically inert protein in biochemical research.

Of or related to protein; albuminous; proteid.

Proteinaceuos.

A South Africa genus of Carnivora, allied to the hyenas, but smaller and having weaker jaws and teeth. It includes the aard-wolf.

To hold out; to stretch forth.

Extension.

A drawing out; extension.

Drawn out; extended.

The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments.

Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.

One of a class of soluble products formed in the digestion of proteids with gastric and pancreatic juice, and also by the hydrolytic action of boiling dilute acids on proteids. Proteoses are divided into the two groups, the primary and secondary proteoses.

Having the stamens come to maturity before the pistil; -- opposed to proterogynous.

The condition of being proterandrous.

Having flowers appearing before the leaves; -- said of certain plants.

A suborder of serpents including those that have permanently erect grooved poison fangs, with ordinary teeth behind them in the jaws. It includes the cobras, the asps, and the sea snakes. Called also Proteroglyphia.

Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.

An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period. Called also Protosaurus.

Peevishness; petulance.

A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a legislative body; as, the protest of lords in Parliament.

Protestantism.

Making a protest; protesting.

Protestant.