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An extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the preaxial side of the hallux.

To lay hold of; to seize. [Obs.] Middleton.

Capable of being seized.

Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.

The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.

Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile.

Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.

A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

called from the resemblance of the wartlike crystals to the mammillæ on the surface of prehnite.

Apprenticehood. [Obs.] This jolly prentice with his master bode Till he was out nigh of his prenticehood. Chaucer.

Princeliness. [Obs.] E. Hall.

A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.

a debauchee; a rake. It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

An empty, noisy talker.

A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.

t, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law. Restoring and rehabilitating the party. Burke.

The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated. Bouvier. Walsh.

To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.

To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.