Prong (n.) The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.
Prong (n.) A sharp projection, as of an antler.
Prong (n.) The fang of a tooth.
Prongbuck (n.) The springbuck.
Prongbuck (n.) The pronghorn.
Pronged (a.) Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.
Prong-hoe (n.) A hoe with prongs to break the earth.
Pronghorn (n.) An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.
Pronity (n.) Proneness; propensity.
Pronominal (a.) Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.
Pronominalize (v. t.) To give the effect of a pronoun to; as, to pronominalize the substantives person, people, etc.
Pronominally (adv.) In a pronominal manner/ with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.
Prononce (a.) Strongly marked; decided, as in manners, etc.
Pronotary (n.) See Prothonotary.
Pronota (pl. ) of Pronotum
Pronotum (n.) The dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
Pronoun (n.) A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.
Pronounced (imp. & p. p.) of Pronounce
Pronounging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pronounce
Pronounce (v. t.) To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
Pronounce (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
Pronounce (v. t.) To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
Pronounce (v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
Pronounce (v. i.) To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
Pronounce (v. i.) To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
Pronounce (n.) Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
Pronounceable (a.) Capable of being pronounced.
Pronounced (a.) Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. [A Gallicism]
Pronouncement (n.) The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.
Pronouncer (n.) One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.
Pronouncing (a.) Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary.
Pronubial (a.) Presiding over marriage.
Pronuclei (pl. ) of Pronucleus
Pronucleus (n.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.
Pronuncial (a.) Of or pertaining to pronunciation; pronunciative.
Pronunciamento (n.) A proclamation or manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration.
Pronunciamiento (n.) See Pronunciamento.
Pronunciation (n.) The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.
Pronunciation (n.) The mode of uttering words or sentences.
Pronunciation (n.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.
Pronunciative (a.) Of or pertaining to pronunciation.
Pronunciative (a.) Uttering confidently; dogmatical.
Pronunciator (n.) One who pronounces; a pronouncer.
Pronunciatory (a.) Of or pertaining to pronunciation; that pronounces.
Proof (n.) Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
Proof (n.) That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
Proof (n.) The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
Proof (n.) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
Proof (n.) A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
Proof (n.) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.
Proof (v. t.) Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
Proof (a.) Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
Proof (a.) Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
Proof (a.) Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
Proof-arm (v. t.) To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself.
Proofless (a.) Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved.
Proof-proof (a.) Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong.
Proostraca (pl. ) of Proostracum
Proostracum (n.) The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone.
Prootic (a.) In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule.
Prootic (n.) A prootic bone.
Prop (n.) A shell, used as a die. See Props.
Propped (imp. & p. p.) of Prop
Propping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prop
Prop (v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.
Prop (v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.
Propaedeutic (a.) Alt. of Propaedeutical
Propaedeutical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing beforehand.
Propaedeutics (n.) The preliminary learning connected with any art or science; preparatory instruction.
Propagable (a.) Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.
Propagable (a.) Capable of being spread or extended by any means; -- said of tenets, doctrines, or principles.
Propaganda (n.) A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions.
Propaganda (n.) The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.
Propaganda (n.) Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles.
Propagandism (n.) The art or practice of propagating tenets or principles; zeal in propagating one's opinions.
Propagandist (n.) A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles.
Propagated (imp. & p. p.) of Propagate
Propagating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Propagate
Propagate (v. t.) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.
Propagate (v. t.) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.
Propagate (v. t.) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate; as, to propagate a story or report; to propagate the Christian religion.
Propagate (v. t.) To multiply; to increase.
Propagate (v. t.) To generate; to produce.
Propagate (v. i.) To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.
Propagation (n.) The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants.
Propagation (n.) The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything; diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation of the gospel.
Propagative (a.) Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.
Propagator (n.) One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.
Propagula (pl. ) of Propagulum
Propagulum (n.) A runner terminated by a germinating bud.
Propane (n.) A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series, occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.
Propargyl (n.) Same as Propinyl.
Proparoxytone (n.) A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.
Proped (n.) Same as Proleg.
Propelled (imp. & p. p.) of Propel
Propelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Propel
Propel (v. t.) To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
Propeller (n.) One who, or that which, propels.
Propeller (n.) A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel.
Propeller (n.) A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.