Probationship (n.) A state of probation.
Probative (a.) Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence.
Probator (n.) An examiner; an approver.
Probator (n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.
Probatory (a.) Serving for trial; probationary.
Probatory (a.) Pertaining to, or serving for, proof.
Probed (imp. & p. p.) of Probe
Probing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Probe
Probe (v. t.) To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.
Probe (v. t.) Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.
Probe (n.) An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.
Probeagle (n.) See Porbeagle.
Probe-pointed (a.) Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.
Probity (n.) Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.
Problem (n.) A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.
Problem (n.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.
Problematic (a.) Alt. of Problematical
Problematical (a.) Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful.
Problematist (n.) One who proposes problems.
Problematize (v. t.) To propose problems.
Proboscidate (a.) Having a proboscis; proboscidial.
Proboscidea (n. pl.) An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons.
Proboscidean (a.) Proboscidian.
Proboscidial (a.) Proboscidate.
Proboscidian (a.) Pertaining to the Proboscidea.
Proboscidian (n.) One of the Proboscidea.
Proboscidifera (n. pl.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.
Proboscidifera (n. pl.) A subdivision of the taenioglossate gastropods, including the fig-shells (Pyrula), the helmet shells (Cassis), the tritons, and allied genera.
Proboscidiform (a.) Having the form or uses of a proboscis; as, a proboscidiform mouth.
Proboscides (pl. ) of Proboscis
Proboscis (n.) A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.
Proboscis (n.) By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.
Proboscis (n.) The nose.
Procacious (a.) Pert; petulant; forward; saucy.
Procacity (n.) Forwardness; pertness; petulance.
Procambium (n.) The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.
Procatarctic (a.) Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial.
Procatarxis (n.) The kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause.
Procedendo (n.) A writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there.
Procedendo (n.) In English practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment.
Procedendo (n.) A writ by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended.
Procedure (n.) The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
Procedure (n.) A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
Procedure (n.) That which results; issue; product.
Proceeded (imp. & p. p.) of Proceed
Proceeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Proceed
Proceed (v. i.) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
Proceed (v. i.) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.
Proceed (v. i.) To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
Proceed (v. i.) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
Proceed (v. i.) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
Proceed (v. i.) To have application or effect; to operate.
Proceed (v. i.) To begin and carry on a legal process.
Proceed (n.) See Proceeds.
Proceeder (n.) One who proceeds.
Proceeding (n.) The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.
Proceeding (n.) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law.
Proceeds (n. pl.) That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
Proceleusmatic (a.) Inciting; animating; encouraging.
Proceleusmatic (a.) Consisting of four short syllables; composed of feet of four short syllables each.
Proceleusmatic (n.) A foot consisting of four short syllables.
Procellarian (n.) One of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridae) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.
Procellous (a.) Stormy.
Procephalic (a.) Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.
Proception (n.) Preoccupation.
Procere (a.) Of high stature; tall.
Procerebrum (n.) The prosencephalon.
Proceres (n. pl.) An order of large birds; the Ratitae; -- called also Proceri.
Procerite (n.) The segment next to the flagellum of the antennae of Crustacea.
Procerity (n.) Height of stature; tallness.
Process (n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
Process (n.) A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
Process (n.) A statement of events; a narrative.
Process (n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
Process (n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
Procession (n.) The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.
Procession (n.) That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession.
Procession (n.) An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without.
Procession (n.) An old term for litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.
Procession (v. t.) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands.
Procession (v. i.) To march in procession.
Procession (v. i.) To honor with a procession.
Processional (a.) Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.
Processional (n.) A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.
Processional (n.) A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.
Processionalist (n.) One who goes or marches in a procession.
Processionary (a.) Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service.
Processioner (n.) One who takes part in a procession.
Processioner (n.) A manual of processions; a processional.
Processioner (n.) An officer appointed to procession lands.
Processioning (n.) A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession.
Processive (a.) Proceeding; advancing.
Proces verbal () An authentic minute of an official act, or statement of facts.
Prochein (a.) Next; nearest.
Prochordal (a.) Situated in front of the notochord; -- applied especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the skull.
Prochronism (n.) The dating of an event before the time it happened; an antedating; -- opposed to metachronism.
Prochronize (v. t.) To antedate.
Procidence (n.) Alt. of Procidentia
Procidentia (n.) A falling down; a prolapsus.
Prociduous (a.) Falling from its proper place.