Prod (n.) A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd.
Prodded (imp. & p. p.) of Prod
Prodding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prod
Prod (v. t.) To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.
Prodd (n.) A crossbow. See Prod, 3.
Prodigal (a.) Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses.
Prodigal (n.) One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift.
Prodigality (n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.
Prodigalize (v. i.) To act as a prodigal; to spend liberally.
Prodigalize (v. t.) To expend lavishly.
Prodigally (adv.) In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated.
Prodigate (v. t.) To squander.
Prodigence (n.) Waste; profusion; prodigality.
Prodigious (a.) Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.
Prodigious (a.) Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.
Prodigiously (adv.) Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great.
Prodigiously (adv.) Very much; extremely; as, he was prodigiously pleased.
Prodigiousness (n.) The quality or state of being prodigious; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.
Prodigies (pl. ) of Prodigy
Prodigy (n.) Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.
Prodigy (n.) Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.
Prodigy (n.) A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.
Prodition (n.) Disclosure; treachery; treason.
Proitor (n.) A traitor.
Proditorious (a.) Treacherous; perfidious; traitorous.
Proditorious (a.) Apt to make unexpected revelations.
Proditory (a.) Treacherous.
Prodromal (a.) Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease.
Prodrome (n.) A forerunner; a precursor.
Prodromous (a.) Precursory.
Prodromus (n.) A prodrome.
Prodromus (n.) A preliminary course or publication; -- used esp. in the titles of elementary works.
Produced (imp. & p. p.) of Produce
Producing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Produce
Produce (v. t.) To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
Produce (v. t.) To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain.
Produce (v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.
Produce (v. t.) To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.
Produce (v. t.) To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.
Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.
Produce (v. t.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.
Produce (v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.
Produce (n.) That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors
Produce (n.) agricultural products.
Producement (n.) Production.
Producent (n.) One who produces, or offers to notice.
Producer (n.) One who produces, brings forth, or generates.
Producer (n.) One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
Producer (n.) A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel.
Producibility (n.) The quality or state of being producible.
Producible (a.) Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.
Product (n.) Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.
Product (n.) The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
Product (v. t.) To produce; to bring forward.
Product (v. t.) To lengthen out; to extend.
Product (v. t.) To produce; to make.
Productibility (n.) The state of being productible; producibility.
Productible (a.) Capable of being produced; producible.
Productile (a.) Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
Production (n.) The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.
Production (n.) That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius.
Production (n.) The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
Productive (a.) Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.
Productive (a.) Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.
Productive (a.) Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.
Productivity (n.) The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
Productress (n.) A female producer.
Productus (n.) An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
Proeguminal (a.) Serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal cause of disease.
Proem (n.) Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude.
Proem (v. t.) To preface.
Proembryo (n.) The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.
Proembryo (n.) The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
Proemial (a.) Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.
Proemptosis (n.) The addition of a day to the lunar calendar.
Proface (interj.) Much good may it do you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome.
Profanate (v. t.) To profane.
Profanation (v. t.) The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God.
Profanation (v. t.) The act of treating with abuse or disrespect, or with undue publicity, or lack of delicacy.
Profane (a.) Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.
Profane (a.) Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.
Profane (a.) Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.
Profane (a.) Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.
Profaned (imp. & p. p.) of Profane
Profaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Profane
Profane (a.) To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.
Profane (a.) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
Profanely (adv.) In a profane manner.
Profaneness (n.) The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.
Profaner (n.) One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language.
Profanity (n.) The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.
Profanity (n.) That which is profane; profane language or acts.
Profection (n.) A setting out; a going forward; advance; progression.
Profectitious (a.) Proceeding from, as from a parent; derived, as from an ancestor.
Profert (n.) The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.
Professed (imp. & p. p.) of Profess
Professing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Profess
Profess (v. t.) To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.
Profess (v. t.) To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
Profess (v. t.) To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.