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Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.

Presupposition. [R.] "Presupposal of knowledge." Hooker.

or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage. "To put forth proposals for a book." Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A salt derived from a protoxide base. [Obs.]

g; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God. Humus devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly. Milton.

songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.

The use of psalms in devotion; psalmody.

Relating to psalmody.

One who sings sacred songs; a psalmist.

To practice psalmody. " The psalmodizing art." J. G. Cooper.

The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.

A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.

A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.

The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs.

The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.

Of or pertaining to the psalterium.

The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.

brews, the form of which is not known. Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Ps. xxxiii. 2.

Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.