Privateered (imp. & p. p.) of Privateer
Privateering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Privateer
Privateer (v. i.) To cruise in a privateer.
Privateering (n.) Cruising in a privateer.
Privateersmen (pl. ) of Privateersman
Privateersman (n.) An officer or seaman of a privateer.
Privately (adv.) In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others.
Privately (adv.) In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.
Privateness (n.) Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy.
Privateness (n.) The state of one not invested with public office.
Privation (n.) The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.
Privation (n.) The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
Privation (n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
Privative (a.) Causing privation; depriving.
Privative (a.) Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.
Privative (a.) Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less.
Privative (n.) That of which the essence is the absence of something.
Privative (n.) A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
Privative (n.) A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.
Privatively (adv.) In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.
Privativeness (n.) The state of being privative.
Privet (n.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim.
Privilege (n.) A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
Privilege (n.) See Call, Put, Spread, etc.
Privileged (imp. & p. p.) of Privilege
Privileging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Privilege
Privilege (v. t.) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
Privilege (v. t.) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
Privileged (a.) Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.
Privily (adv.) In a privy manner; privately; secretly.
Privities (pl. ) of Privity
Privity (a.) Privacy; secrecy; confidence.
Privity (a.) Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.
Privity (a.) A private matter or business; a secret.
Privity (a.) The genitals; the privates.
Privity (a.) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.
Privy (a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
Privy (a.) Secret; clandestine.
Privy (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
Privy (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
Privies (pl. ) of Privy
Privy (n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
Privy (n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
Prizable (a.) Valuable.
Prize (n.) That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
Prize (n.) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
Prize (n.) An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
Prize (n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
Prize (n.) Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
Prize (n.) A contest for a reward; competition.
Prize (n.) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
Prize (v. t.) To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
Prized (imp. & p. p.) of Prize
Prizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prize
Prize (v. t.) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
Prize (v. t.) To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
Prize (n.) Estimation; valuation.
Prizemen (pl. ) of Prizeman
Prizeman (n.) The winner of a prize.
Prizer (n.) One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser.
Prizer (n.) One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger.
Prizing (n.) The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.
Pro- () A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of, in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for; pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.
Pro (a.) A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.
Pro (adv.) For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with con.
Proa (n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.
Proach (v. i.) See Approach.
Proatlas (n.) A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.
Probabiliorism (n.) The doctrine of the probabiliorists.
Probabiliorist (n.) One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.
Probabilism (n.) The doctrine of the probabilists.
Probabilist (n.) One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.
Probabilist (n.) One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable.
Probabilities (pl. ) of Probability
Probability (n.) The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood.
Probability (n.) That which is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth.
Probability (n.) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5.
Probable (a.) Capable of being proved.
Probable (a.) Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely.
Probable (a.) Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption.
Probably (adv.) In a probable manner; in likelihood.
Probacy (n.) Proof; trial.
Probal (a.) Approved; probable.
Probality (n.) Probability.
Probang (n.) A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.
Probate (n.) Proof.
Probate (n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved.
Probate (n.) The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.
Probate (a.) Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.
Probate (v. t.) To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.
Probation (n.) The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof.
Probation (n.) Any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a person on probation.
Probation (n.) The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule.
Probation (n.) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor.
Probation (n.) Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier state.
Probational (a.) Probationary.
Probationary (a.) Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.
Probationer (n.) One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.
Probationer (n.) A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach.
Probationership (n.) The state of being a probationer; novitiate.