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.

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.

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.

False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects.

Same as Pseudobranchia.

A rudimentary branchia, or gill.

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

Same as Pseudoc/lia.

The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle.

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

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

A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

False writing; forgery.

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

One who utters falsehoods; a liar.

Falsehood of speech.

An irregular or deceptive form.

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

Not having the true form.

Same as Pseudonavicula.

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

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.

Of or pertaining to the Pseudoneuroptera.

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

The using of fictitious names, as by authors.

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

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

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

Same as Pseudopod.

A stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and certain other hymenopterous insects.

One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

An instrument which exhibits objects with their proper relief reversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the stereoscope.

Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a pseudoscope; having its parts appearing with the relief reversed; as, a pseudoscopic image.

An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book.

The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.

A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi.