Praseolite (n.) A variety of altered iolite of a green color and greasy luster.
Prasinous (a.) Grass-green; clear, lively green, without any mixture.
Prasoid (a.) Resembling prase.
Prated (imp. & p. p.) of Prate
Prating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prate
Prate (v. i.) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
Prate (v. t.) To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
Prate (n.) Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
Prateful (a.) Talkative.
Prater (n.) One who prates.
Pratic (n.) See Pratique.
Pratincole (n.) Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidae, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.
Pratingly (adv.) With idle talk; with loquacity.
Pratique (n.) Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.
Pratique (n.) Practice; habits.
Prattled (imp. & p. p.) of Prattle
Prattling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prattle
Prattle (v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
Prattle (v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
Prattle (n.) Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.
Prattlement (n.) Prattle.
Prattler (n.) One who prattles.
Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.
Prawn (n.) Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus.
Praxinoscope (n.) An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.
Praxis (n.) Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object.
Praxis (n.) An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
Pray (n. & v.) See Pry.
Prayed (imp. & p. p.) of Pray
Praying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pray
Pray (v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
Pray (v. t.) To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
Pray (v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
Pray (v. t.) To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
Prayer (n.) One who prays; a supplicant.
Prayer (v. i.) The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.
Prayer (v. i.) The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer.
Prayer (v. i.) The form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers.
Prayerful (a.) Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional.
Prayerless (a.) Not using prayer; habitually neglecting prayer to God; without prayer.
Praying () a. & n. from Pray, v.
Prayingly (adv.) With supplication to God.
Pre- () A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; preeminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent.
Preaccusation (n.) Previous accusation.
Preace (v. & n.) Press.
Preached (imp. & p. p.) of Preach
Preaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preach
Preach (v. i.) To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.
Preach (v. i.) To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.
Preach (v. t.) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
Preach (v. t.) To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.
Preach (v. t.) To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.
Preach (v. t.) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
Preach (v. t.) To advise or recommend earnestly.
Preach (v.) A religious discourse.
Preacher (n.) One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.
Preacher (n.) One who inculcates anything with earnestness.
Preachership (n.) The office of a preacher.
Preachify (v. i.) To discourse in the manner of a preacher.
Preaching (n.) The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice.
Preachmen (pl. ) of Preachman
Preachman (n.) A preacher; -- so called in contempt.
Preachment (n.) A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively.
Preacquaint (v. t.) To acquaint previously or beforehand.
Preacquaintance (n.) Previous acquaintance or knowledge.
Preact (v. t.) To act beforehand; to perform previously.
Preaction (n.) Previous action.
Preadamic (a.) Prior to Adam.
Preadamite (n.) An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.
Preadamite (n.) One who holds that men existed before Adam.
Preadamitic (a.) Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods.
Preadjustment (n.) Previous adjustment.
Preadministration (n.) Previous administration.
Preadmonish (v. t.) To admonish previously.
Preadmonition (n.) Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.
Preadvertise (v. t.) To advertise beforehand; to preannounce publicly.
Preamble (n.) A introductory portion; an introduction or preface, as to a book, document, etc.; specifically, the introductory part of a statute, which states the reasons and intent of the law.
Preamble (v. t. & i.) To make a preamble to; to preface; to serve as a preamble.
Preambulary (a.) Of or pertaining to a preamble; introductory; contained or provided for in a preamble.
Preambulate (v. i.) To walk before.
Preambulation (n.) A walking or going before; precedence.
Preambulation (n.) A preamble.
Preambulatory (a.) Preceding; going before; introductory.
Preambulous (n.) See Perambulatory.
Preannounce (v. t.) To announce beforehand.
Preantenultimate (a.) Being or indicating the fourth syllable from the end of a word, or that before the antepenult.
Preaortic (a.) In front, or on the ventral side, of the aorta.
Preappoint (v. t.) To appoint previously, or beforehand.
Preappointment (n.) Previous appointment.
Preapprehension (n.) An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge.
Prearm (v. t.) To forearm.
Prearrange (v. t.) To arrange beforehand.
Prease (v. t. & i.) To press; to crowd.
Prease (n.) A press; a crowd.
Preassurance (n.) Previous assurance.
Preataxic (a.) Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
Preaudience (n.) Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers.
Preaxial (a.) Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.
Prebend (n.) A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.
Prebend (n.) A prebendary.