Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.

Somewhat proud.

A proud or haughty person.

In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully.

The quality of being proud; pride.

A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.

Capable of being proved; demonstrable.

Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior.

To make trial; to essay.

Carried forward; advanced.

A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename.

One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another.

A proveditor; a purveyor.

Proved.

Origin; source; provenience.

A native or inhabitant of Provence in France.

Of or pertaining to Provence in France.

See Provand.

Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.

Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in arch/ology; as, the provenience of a patera.

Forthcoming; issuing.

See Provand.

Proventriculus.

The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.

One who, or that which, proves.

To write or utter proverbs.

Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial.

A proverbial phrase.

One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.

To turn into a proverb; to speak in proverbs.

In a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence, commonly; universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is proverbially busy.

Great advance in age.

To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.

On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding; if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever.

The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.

Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; -- sometimes followed by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of the future.

Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape.

In a provident manner.

The quality or state of being provident; carefulness; prudence; economy.

One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.

One who makes provision; a purveyor.

A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.

A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.

One who lives in a province; a provincial.

The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.

To render provincial.

In a provincial manner.

To convert into a province or provinces.

To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation.

To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.

Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.

By way of provision for the time being; temporarily.

Provisional.

An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.

One who provides; a purveyor.

In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily.

The office or position of a provisor.

Of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or condition; conditional; as, a provisory clause.

The act of provoking, or causing vexation or, anger.

Quality of being provocative.

Provocative.

That may be provoked.

To cause provocation or anger.

The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition.

Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment.

A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.

The office of a provost.

Benefit; profit; good; advantage.

Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness.

The act of prowling.

One that prowls.

Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey.

/The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes./

An officer who had the charge of showing hospitality to those who came from a friendly city or state.

A negotiator; a factor.

The action of a go-between or broker in negotiating immoral bargains between the sexes; procuring.

Toward a proximal part; on the proximal side of; proximally.

Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.

On or toward a proximal part; proximad.

Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.

In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.

Next; immediately preceding or following.

Proximate.

The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance.

To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.

The office or agency of a proxy.

Prussian leather.

A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech.

The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.

Prudence.

Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.

That which relates to or demands the exercise of, discretion or prudence; -- usually in the pl.

One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.

The quality or state of being prudential.

In a prudential manner; prudently.

In a prudent manner.

The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.

A trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman. See Citation under 3d Commune, 1.

Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.

In a prudish manner.

Same as Pruinose.

Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

Frosty; pruinose.

A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.

Angina, or angina pectoris. Thrush.

A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.

A species of dried plum; prunelle.

A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.

One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.

Bearing plums.

The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.

A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.

The quality or state of being prurient.

Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.

Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo.

A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.

Itching.

Of or pertaining to Prussia. A native or inhabitant of Prussia.

A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide.