Progenitress (n.) A female progenitor.
Progeniture (n.) A begetting, or birth.
Progeny (n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.
Proglottid (n.) Proglottis.
Proglottides (pl. ) of Proglottis
Proglottis (n.) One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.
Prognathi (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.
Prognathic (a.) Prognathous.
Prognathism (n.) Projection of the jaws.
Prognathous (a.) Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; -- opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.
Progne (n.) A swallow.
Progne (n.) A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin.
Progne (n.) An American butterfly (Polygonia, / Vanessa, Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma.
Prognosis (n.) The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.
Prognostic (a.) Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.
Prognostic (a.) That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction.
Prognostic (a.) A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease.
Prognostic (v. t.) To prognosticate.
Prognosticable (a.) Capable of being prognosticated or foretold.
Prognosticated (imp. & p. p.) of Prognosticate
Prognosticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prognosticate
Prognosticate (v. t.) To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
Prognostication (n.) The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.
Prognostication (n.) That which foreshows; a foretoken.
Prognosticator (n.) One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.
Program (n.) Same as Programme.
Programmata (pl. ) of Programma
Programma (n.) Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to its being proposed to the general assembly of the people.
Programma (n.) An edict published for public information; an official bulletin; a public proclamation.
Programma (n.) See Programme.
Programma (n.) A preface.
Programme (n.) That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.
Progress (n.) A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
Progress (n.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
Progress (n.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
Progress (n.) In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
Progress (n.) In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
Progress (n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.
Progress (n.) A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
Progressed (imp. & p. p.) of Progress
Progressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Progress
Progress (v. i.) To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.
Progress (v. i.) To make improvement; to advance.
Progress (v. t.) To make progress in; to pass through.
Progression (n.) The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.
Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.
Progression (n.) Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic.
Progression (n.) A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.
Progressional (a.) Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
Progressionist (n.) One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection.
Progressionist (n.) One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian.
Progressist (n.) One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
Progressive (a.) Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.
Progressive (a.) Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
Progue (v. i.) To prog.
Progue (n.) A sharp point; a goad.
Progue (v. t. ) To prick; to goad.
Proheme (n.) Proem.
Prohibited (imp. & p. p.) of Prohibit
Prohibiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prohibit
Prohibit (v. t.) To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.
Prohibit (v. t.) To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.
Prohibiter (n.) One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.
Prohibition (n.) The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
Prohibition (n.) Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
Prohibitionist (n.) One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.
Prohibitionist (n.) One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
Prohibitive (a.) That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.
Prohibitory (a.) Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price.
Proin (v. t.) To lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn.
Proin (v. i.) To employed in pruning.
Project (n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
Project (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
Project (n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
Projected (imp. & p. p.) of Project
Projecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Project
Project (v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
Project (v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
Project (v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.
Project (v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
Project (v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.
Projectile (a.) Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
Projectile (a.) Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.
Projectile (n.) A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
Projectile (n.) A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.
Projection (n.) The act of throwing or shooting forward.
Projection (n.) A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
Projection (n.) The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
Projection (n.) The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.
Projection (n.) Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
Projectment (n.) Design; contrivance; projection.
Projector (n.) One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.
Projecture (n.) A jutting out beyond a surface.
Projet (n.) A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.
Proke (v. i.) To poke; to thrust.
Prolapse (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum.
Prolapse (v. i.) To fall down or out; to protrude.
Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.
Prolapsus (n.) Prolapse.
Prolate (a.) Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.