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A meeting; a clash; a collision. [Obs.] Boyle.

A current alternating in direction.

Too curious.

One who cares for the feet and nails; a chiropodist. -- Ped"i*cure, v. t. --Ped"i*cur*ism (#), n. --Ped"i*cur*ist (#), n.

Running through the entire length.

Running over slightly or in haste; cursory. [R.]

The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.

A careless person; a trifler. [R.]

Carelessness; apathy; indifference. [R.] Carlyle.

A precursor. [Obs.] Shak.

A forerunning. [Obs.] Shak.

Preceding; introductory; precursory. "A deep precursive sound." Coleridge.

dicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger. Evil thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul. Buckminster.

The position or condition of a precursor. Ruskin.

Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.

Capable of being procured; obtainable. Boyle.

The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another.

The act of procuring; procurement.

the emperors; also, one who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the procurator of Judea. Procurator fiscal (Scots Law), public prosecutor, or district attorney.

Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor. Ayliffe.