Principle (v. t.) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.
Princock (n.) Alt. of Princox
Princox (n.) A coxcomb; a pert boy.
Prinked (imp. & p. p.) of Prink
Prinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prink
Prink (v. t.) To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.
Prink (v. t.) To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically.
Prinker (n.) One who prinks.
Prinpriddle (n.) The long-tailed titmouse.
Printed (imp. & p. p.) of Print
Printing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Print
Print (v. t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
Print (v. t.) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
Print (v. t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.
Print (v. t.) To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
Print (v. t.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.
Print (v. i.) To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
Print (v. i.) To publish a book or an article.
Print (n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.
Print (n.) A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
Print (n.) That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
Print (n.) Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
Print (n.) That which is produced by printing.
Print (n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate.
Print (n.) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.
Print (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.
Print (n.) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.
Print (n.) A core print. See under Core.
Printa-ble (a.) Worthy to be published.
Printer (n.) One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.
Printery (n.) A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office.
Printing (n.) The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.
Printless (a.) Making no imprint.
Printless (a.) Making no imprint.
Printshop (n.) A shop where prints are sold.
Prior (a.) Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.
Prior (a.) The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
Priorate (n.) The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.
Prioress (n.) A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
Priority (a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
Priority (a.) Precedence; superior rank.
Priorly (adv.) Previously.
Priorship (n.) The state or office of prior; priorate.
Priories (pl. ) of Priory
Priory (n.) A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.
Pris (n.) See Price, and 1st Prize.
Prisage (n.) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this.
Prisage (n.) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
Priscillianist (n.) A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.
Prise (n.) An enterprise.
Prise (n. & v.) See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.
Priser (n.) See 1st Prizer.
Prism (n.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.
Prism (n.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.
Prism (n.) A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.
Prismatic (a.) Alt. of Prismatical
Prismatical (a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage.
Prismatical (a.) Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism; as, prismatic colors.
Prismatical (a.) Same as Orthorhombic.
Prismatically (adv.) In the form or manner of a prism; by means of a prism.
Prismatoidal (a.) Having a prismlike form.
Prismoid (n.) A body that approaches to the form of a prism.
Prismoidal (a.) Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.
Prismy (a.) Pertaining to a prism.
Prison (n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
Prison (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
Prisoned (imp. & p. p.) of Prison
Prisoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prison
Prison (v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
Prison (v. t.) To bind (together); to enchain.
Prisoner (n.) One who is confined in a prison.
Prisoner (n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.
Prisonment (n.) Imprisonment.
Pristinate (a.) Pristine; primitive.
Pristine (a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.
Pritch (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument; also, an eelspear.
Pritch (n.) Pique; offense.
Pritchel (n.) A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.
Prithee (interj.) A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I.
Prittle-prattle (n.) Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.
Privacies (pl. ) of Privacy
Privacy (n.) The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.
Privacy (n.) A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.
Privacy (n.) Concealment of what is said or done.
Privacy (n.) A private matter; a secret.
Privacy (n.) See Privity, 2.
Privado (n.) A private friend; a confidential friend; a confidant.
Private (a.) Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.
Private (a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.
Private (a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.
Private (a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.
Private (a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.
Private (n.) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
Private (n.) Personal interest; particular business.
Private (n.) Privacy; retirement.
Private (n.) One not invested with a public office.
Private (n.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
Private (n.) The private parts; the genitals.
Privateer (n.) An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.
Privateer (n.) The commander of a privateer.