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A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.

ity to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter. Bacon.

Same as Merostomata. [Written also Palæocarida.]

ss. Panel game, a method of stealing money in a panel house. -- Panel house, a house of prostitution in which the rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates. -- Panel saw, handsaw with fine teeth, -- used for cutting out panels, etc. -- Panel thief, one who robs in a panel house.…

easonable. Hooker. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. Shak. Hydrostatic paradox. See under Hydrostatic.

e hears the parson pray and preach. Longfellow. Parson bird (Zoöl.), a New Zealand bird (Prosthemadera Novæseelandiæ) remarkable for its powers of mimicry and its ability to articulate words. Its color is glossy black, with a curious tuft of long, curly, white feathers on each side of the throat. It is often kept as a…

like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious. Japanese persimmon, Diospyros Kaki and its red or yellow edible fruit, which outwardly resembles a tomato, but contains a few large seeds.

By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.

A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.

form of type or plates is curved around a cylinder, instead of resting on a flat bed. Hydrostatic press. See under Hydrostatic. -- Liberty of the press, the free right of publishing books, pamphlets, or papers, without previous restraint or censorship, subject only to punishment for libelous, seditious, or morally pe…

Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem.

To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.

dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden.

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

See Prosthesis. Dunglison.

Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

Frosty; pruinose.

To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously. I puff the prostitute away. Dryden.

A prostitute. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obsoles.] Shak.