PREYING
PREYING, participle present tense Plundering; corroding; wasting gradually.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PRICE
PRICE, noun [Latin pretium. See Praise.]1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market. A man often sets a pri...
PRICELESS
PRI'CELESS, adjective Invaluable; too valuable to admit of a price.1. Without value; worthless or unsalable.
PRICK
PRICK, verb transitive1. To pierce with a sharp pointed instrument or substance; as, to prick one with a pin, a needle, a thorn or the like.2. To erect a pointed thing, or with ...
PRICKED
PRICK'ED, participle passive Pierced with a sharp point; spurred; goaded; stung with pain; rendered acid or pungent; marked; designated.
PRICKER
PRICK'ER, noun A sharp pointed instrument.1. In colloquial use, a prickle.2. A light horseman. [Not in use.]
PRICKET
PRICK'ET, noun A buck in his second year.
PRICKING
PRICK'ING, participle present tense Piercing with a sharp point; goading; affecting with pungent pain; making or becoming acid.PRICK'ING, noun A sensation of sharp pain, or of b...
PRICKLE
PRICK'LE, noun In botany, a small pointed shoot or sharp process, growing from the bark only, and thus distinguished from the thorn, which grows from the wood of a plant. Thus t...
PRICKLE-BACK
PRICK'LE-BACK, noun A small fish, so named from the prickles on its back; the stickle-back.
PRICKLINESS
PRICK'LINESS, noun [from prickly.] The state of having many prickles.
PRICKLOUSE
PRICK'LOUSE, noun A low word in contempt for a taylor.
PRICKLY
PRICK'LY, adjective Full of sharp points or prickles; armed with prickles; as a prickly shrub.
PRICKMADAM
PRICK'MADAM, noun A species of house-leek.
PRICKPUNCH
PRICK'PUNCH, noun A piece of tempered steel with a round point, to prick a round mark on cold iron.
PRICKSONG
PRICK'SONG, noun A song set to music, or a variegated song; in distinction from a plain song.
PRICKWOOD
PRICK'WOOD, noun A tree of the genus Euonymus.
PRIDE
PRIDE, noun1. Inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, accomplishments, rank or elevation in office, which manifests ...
PRIDEFUL
PRI'DEFUL, adjective Full of pride; insolent; scornful.
PRIDELESS
PRI'DELESS, adjective Destitute of pride; without pride.
PRIDING
PRI'DING, participle present tense Indulging pride or self-esteem; taking pride; valuing one's self.
PRIDINGLY
PRI'DINGLY, adverb With pride; in pride of heart.
PRIE
PRIE, supposed to be so written for privet.PRIE, for pry.
PRIEF
PRIEF, for proof, obsolete.
PRIER
PRI'ER, noun [from pry.] One who inquires narrowly; one who searches and scrutinizes.
PRIEST
PRIEST, noun [Latin proestes, a chief, one that presides; proe, before, and sto, to stand, or sisto.]1. A man who officiates in sacred offices. Among pagans, priests were person...
PRIESTCRAFT
PRIE'STCRAFT, noun [priest and craft.] The stratagems and frauds of priests; fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management of selfish and ambitious priests to gain wealt...