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Prox

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

Proxene

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

Proxenetism

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

Proximad

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

Proximal

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

Proximate

Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.

Proximately

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

Proxime

Next; immediately preceding or following.

Proximity

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

Proxy

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

Prude

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

Prudence

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

Prudent

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.

Prudential

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

Prudentialist

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

Prudery

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

Prudhomme

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

Prudish

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

Pruinose

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

Prune

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

Prunella

Angina, or angina pectoris. Thrush.

Prunelle

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

Prunello

A species of dried plum; prunelle.

Prunello Prunella

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

Pruner

One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.

Pruning

The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.

Prunus

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

Prurient

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

Pruriginous

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

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.

Prussian

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

Prussic

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

Prutenic

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

Pry

Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.

Prying

Inspecting closely or impertinently.

Prytaneum

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.

Prytanis

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.

Prytany

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

Psalm

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

Psalmist

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

Psalmistry

The use of psalms in devotion; psalmody.

Psalmody

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

Psalmography

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

Psalter

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

Psalterium

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

Psaltery

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

Psammite

A species of micaceous sandstone.

Psarolite

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

Psellism

Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.

Psephism

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

Pseudaesthesia

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.

Pseudembryo

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

Pseudhaemal

Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids.

Pseudo-bulb

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

Pseudo-china

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

Pseudo-cone

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

Pseudo-cumene

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

Pseudo-dipteral

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.

Pseudo-heart

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

Pseudo-hyperthophic

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.

Pseudo-metallic

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

Pseudo-peripteral

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.

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.

Pseudobacteria

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

Pseudoblepsis

False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects.

Pseudocarp

That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig.

Pseudocoelia

The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle.

Pseudodox

Not true in opinion or doctrine; false. A false opinion or doctrine.

Pseudofilaria

One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarin/.

Pseudograph

A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

Pseudohalter

One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.

Pseudomorphism

The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.

Pseudonavicula

One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of Gregarin/ and some other Protozoa.

Pseudoneuroptera

division of insects (Zool.) reticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some Zoologists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the Neuroptera.

Pseudonym

A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name; an alias.

Pseudonymous

Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work.

Pseudopod

Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.

Pseudopodial

Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa.

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