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Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table. -- Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous d…

lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.

The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.

A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate. A protraction only of what is worst in life. Mallock.

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.

A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular.

A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.

Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.

d.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. -- To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. For the certain knowledge o…

A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.

An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. Specifically:

One who is subjected to playing rack-rent.

r a man horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. Racket court, a court for playing the game of rackets.

so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; -- called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue.

To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft. Raking course (Bricklaying), a course of bricks laid diagonally between the face courses in a thick wall, to strengthen.

together at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.

Cooling; allaying heat or fever. Bacon.

Cooling; allaying heat. -- n.

he presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. (c) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework. (d) The coat of plaster thus laid on. Gwilt. (e) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.

To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit. To renounce probate (Law), to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W.