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.

Anything that is provocative; a stimulant; as, a provocative of appetite.

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.

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.

designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.

Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.

Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.

See Prian.

Inspecting closely or impertinently.

In a prying manner.

A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.

A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.

The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.

See Prithee.

To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises.

A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.

The use of psalms in devotion; psalmody.

Relating to psalmody.

One who sings sacred songs; a psalmist.

To practice psalmody.

The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.

A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.

A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.

The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs.

The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.

Of or pertaining to the psalterium.

The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies. The lyra of the brain.

A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known.

A species of micaceous sandstone.

A silicified stem of tree fern, found in abundance in the Triassic sandstone.

Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.

A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute.

False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.

A false embryo. An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.

Of or pertaining to pseudepigraphy.

Inscribed with a false name.

The ascription of false names of authors to works.

Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids.

An a/rial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.

The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (Smilax Pseudo-china), found in America.

One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.

A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar, and obtained as a colorless liquid.

Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column. A pseudo-dipteral temple.

False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).

Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.

Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.

Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.

Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. A pseudo-peripteral temple.

Falsely romantic.

Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry.

A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.

Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria.