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To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

acia vera, which yields the pistachio nut; also, the nut itself and the flavoring extract prepared from it.

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster…

Platinum. Platina mohr, platinum black. -- Platina yellow, a pigment prepared from platinum.

known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.

One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or feathers.

One who prepared corpses for the funeral.

A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

A compound which exhibits, or from which may be prepared, a variety of colors, as certain solutions derived from vegetables, which display colors by fluorescence.

A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake.

A copy of a print, writing, etc., made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas which permeates the paper of the print, writing, etc.

A dish of broth, meat, and vegetables prepared by boiling in a pot, -- a dish esp. common among the French. Grant Allen.

rystalline powder obtained by heating mercuric nitrate, or by heating mercury in the air. Prepared in the latter manner, it was the precipitate per se of the alchemists. -- White precipitate (Old Chem.) (a) A heavy white amorphous powder (NH2.HgCl) obtained by adding ammonia to a solution of mercuric chloride or corro…

Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.

The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war.

Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory. Laborious quest of knowledge preparative to this work. South.

One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. Agassiz.

from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes. You can not preserve it from tainting. Shak.

To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.

Ready; prompt; prepared. [Obs.] All prest to such battle he was. R. of Gloucester.