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Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.

Prevertebral.

The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another. [Obs.] Abp. Potter.

g the cup. [Obs.] The lovely sorceress mixed, and to the prince Health, peace, and joy propined. C. Smart.

Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity.

A hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of propine and allied compounds.

An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

the quality or state of being pulpy.

a. & n. from pump. Pumping engine, a steam engine and pump combined for raising water. See Steam engine.

A child's game played with pins. L. Estrange.

oliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay.

Given to rapine. [Obs.]

To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. Spenser. What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind Pope.

One who repines.

With repening or murmuring.

Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

Resupinate.

The state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed. Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resupination of the figure. Sir H. Wotton.

Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.

= Rip cord.