Prosily (adv.) In a prosy manner.
Prosimetrical (a.) Consisting both of prose and verse.
Prosimiae (n. pl.) Same as Lemuroidea.
Prosiness (n.) The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.
Prosing (n.) Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
Prosingly (adv.) Prosily.
Prosiphon (n.) A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true siphon.
Proslavery (a.) Favoring slavery.
Proslavery (n.) Advocacy of slavery.
Prosobranch (n.) One of the Prosobranchiata.
Prosobranchiata (n. pl.) The highest division, or subclass, of gastropod mollusks, including those that have the gills situated anteriorly, or forward of the heart, and the sexes separate.
Prosocoele (n.) The entire cavity of the prosencephalon.
Prosocoelle (pl. ) of Prosocoelia
Prosocoelia (n.) Same as Prosocoele.
Prosodiacal (a.) Prosodical.
Prosodiacally (adv.) Prosodically.
Prosodial (a.) Prosodical.
Prosodian (n.) A prosodist.
Prosodical (a.) Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.
Prosdist (n.) One skilled in prosody.
Prosody (n.) That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
Prosomata (pl. ) of Prosoma
Prosoma (n.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod.
Prosopalgia (n.) Facial neuralgia.
Prosopocephala (n. pl.) Same as Scaphopoda.
Prosopolepsy (n.) Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance.
Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.
Prosopulmonata (n. pl.) A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.
Prospect (v.) That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
Prospect (v.) Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
Prospect (v.) A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
Prospect (v.) Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
Prospect (v.) The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.
Prospect (v.) That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.
Prospected (imp. & p. p.) of Prospect
Prospecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prospect
Prospect (v. t.) To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.
Prospect (v. i.) To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.
Prospection (n.) The act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants; foresight.
Prospective (n.) Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective.
Prospective (n.) Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; -- opposed to retrospective.
Prospective (n.) Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit.
Prospective (n.) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
Prospective (n.) A perspective glass.
Prospectively (adv.) In a prospective manner.
Prospectiveness (n.) Quality of being prospective.
Prospectless (a.) Having no prospect.
Prospector (n.) One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.
Prospectus (n.) A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work.
Prospered (imp. & p. p.) of Prosper
Prospering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prosper
Prosper (v. t.) To favor; to render successful.
Prosper (v. i.) To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
Prosper (v. i.) To grow; to increase.
Prosperity (n.) The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.
Prosperous (a.) Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.
Prosperous (a.) Being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything desirable; making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as, a prosperous voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or nation.
Prosphysis (n.) A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball.
Prospicience (n.) The act of looking forward.
Prostate (a.) Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra.
Prostate (n.) The prostate gland.
Prostatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.
Prostatitis (n.) Inflammation of the prostate.
Prosternation (n.) Dejection; depression.
Prosternum (n.) The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.
Prosthesis (n.) The addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also prothesis.
Prosthesis (n.) The prefixing of one or more letters to the beginning of a word, as in beloved.
Prosthetic (a.) Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word.
Prostibulous (a.) Of or pertaining to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious.
Prostituted (imp. & p. p.) of Prostitute
Prostituting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prostitute
Prostitute (v. t.) To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
Prostitute (v. t.) To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.
Prostitute (a.) Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
Prostitute (n.) A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
Prostitute (n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
Prostitution (n.) The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
Prostitution (n.) The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press.
Prostitutor (n.) One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes.
Prostomia (pl. ) of Prostomium
Prostomium (n.) That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.
Prostrate (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
Prostrate (a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
Prostrate (a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
Prostrate (a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Prostrated (imp. & p. p.) of Prostrate
Prostrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prostrate
Prostrate (v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
Prostrate (v. t.) to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
Prostrate (v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
Prostrate (v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
Prostration (n.) The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.
Prostration (n.) The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship.
Prostration (n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits.
Prostration (n.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.
Prostyle (a.) Having columns in front.
Prostyle (n.) A prostyle portico or building.
Prosy (superl.) Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.
Prosy (superl.) Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.
Prosylogism (n.) A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.