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Profitable; advantageous; useful. [Obs.] Harvey.

An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

One who takes profiles.

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. Rambler.

Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. Arbuthnot. -- Prof"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Prof"it*a*bly, adv.…

Gain; advantage; profit. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15.

Without profit; unprofitable. Shak.

The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.

Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.

In a profligate manner.

The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

Defeat; rout; overthrow. [Obs.] Bacon.

Quality of being profluent; course. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Flowing forward, [R.] "In the profluent stream." Milton.

Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." Milton.

In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.

Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent. [Obs.] "Profulgent in preciousness." Chaucer.

The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc. "The vast profundity obscure." Milton.