Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 118

Pretty (adv.) In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.

Prettyish (a.) Somewhat pretty.

Prettyism (n.) Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc.

Pretty-spoken (a.) Spoken or speaking prettily.

Pretypified (imp. & p. p.) of Pretypify

Pretypifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pretypify

Pretypify (v. t.) To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.

Pretzel (n.) A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

Prevailed (imp. & p. p.) of Prevail

Prevailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevail

Prevail (v. i.) To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against.

Prevail (v. i.) To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day.

Prevail (v. i.) To persuade or induce; -- with on, upon, or with; as, I prevailedon him to wait.

Prevailing (a.) Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive.

Prevailing (a.) Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.

Prevailingly (adv.) So as to prevail.

Prevailment (n.) Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy.

Prevalence (n.) The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.

Prevalency (n.) See Prevalence.

Prevalent (a.) Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.

Prevalent (a.) Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.

Prevalently (adv.) In a prevalent manner.

Prevaricated (imp. & p. p.) of Prevaricate

Prevaricating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevaricate

Prevaricate (v. i.) To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.

Prevaricate (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

Prevaricate (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

Prevaricate (v. t.) To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.

Prevarication (n.) The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.

Prevarication (n.) A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

Prevarication (n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.

Prevarication (n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

Prevaricator (n.) One who prevaricates.

Prevaricator (n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.

Prevaricator (n.) One who betrays or abuses a trust.

Preve (v. i. & i.) To prove.

Preve (n.) Proof.

Prevenance (n.) A going before; anticipation in sequence or order.

Prevenancy (n.) The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness.

Prevene (v. t. & i.) To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent.

Prevenience (n.) The act of going before; anticipation.

Prevenient (a.) Going before; preceding; hence, preventive.

Prevented (imp. & p. p.) of Prevent

Preventing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevent

Prevent (v. t.) To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

Prevent (v. t.) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

Prevent (v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.

Prevent (v. i.) To come before the usual time.

Preventability (n.) The quality or state of being preventable.

Preventable (a.) Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.

Preventative (n.) That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.

Preventer (n.) One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another.

Preventer (n.) One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.

Preventer (n.) An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast.

Preventingly (adv.) So as to prevent or hinder.

Prevention (n.) The act of going, or state of being, before.

Prevention (n.) Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought.

Prevention (n.) The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.

Prevention (n.) Prejudice; prepossession.

Preventional (a.) Tending to prevent.

Preventive (a.) Going before; preceding.

Preventive (a.) Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.

Preventive (n.) That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.

Preventively (adv.) In a preventive manner.

Prevertebral (a.) Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.

Previous (a.) Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.

Previously (adv.) Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.

Previousness (n.) The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

Previse (v. t.) To foresee.

Previse (v. t.) To inform beforehand; to warn.

Prevision (n.) Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

Prevoyant (a.) Foreseeing; prescient.

Prewarned (imp. & p. p.) of Prewarn

Prewarning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prewarn

Prewarn (v. t. & i.) To warn beforehand; to forewarn.

Prey (n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.

Prey (n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.

Prey (n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

Preyed (imp. & p. p.) of Prey

Preying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prey

Prey (n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

Preyer (n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer.

Preyful (a.) Disposed to take prey.

Preyful (a.) Rich in prey.

Prezygapophyses (pl. ) of Prezygapophysis

Prezygapophysis (n.) An anterior zygapophysis.

Prial (n.) A corruption of pair royal. See under Pair, n.

Prian (n.) A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles.

Priapean (n.) A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.

Priapism (n.) More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire.

Priapulacea (n. pl.) A suborder of Gephyraea, having a cylindrical body with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills.

Pricasour (n.) A hard rider.

Price (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost.

Price (n. & v.) Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

Price (n. & v.) Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.

Priced (imp. & p. p.) of Price

Pricing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Price

Price (v. t.) To pay the price of.

Price (v. t.) To set a price on; to value. See Prize.

Price (v. t.) To ask the price of; as, to price eggs.

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