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A jutting out beyond a surface.

A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.

To poke; to thrust. [Obs.] Holland.

To fall down or out; to protrude.

Prolapse. [ Written also prolaption.] [Obs.]

Prolapse.

out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate. Prolate cycloid. See the Note under Cycloid. -- Prolate ellipsoid or spheroid (Geom.), a figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. See Ellipsoid of revolution,…

The act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance; pronunciation. [Obs.] Ray.

A prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

awflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.

The deputy or substitute for a legate.

Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.

A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise. D. Stokes (1659). Sir W. Scott.

A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. Abp. Bramhall.

Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative. "A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom." De Quincey.

In a proleptical manner.

The art and science of predicting in medicine. Laycock.

One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.

Having a numerous offspring. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar. "Every citizen, if he were not a proletarian animal kept at the public cost." De Quincey. -- n.