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Inflammation of the prostate.

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29.

The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. Bp. Hurd.

A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.

A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.

Divided into four parts.

In four parts.

on or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.

Relating to quantity. -- Quan"ti*ta*tive*ly, adv. Quantitative analysis (Chem.), analysis which determines the amount or quantity of each ingredient of a substance, by weight or by volume; -- contrasted with qualitative analysis.

Estimable according to quantity; quantitative. Sir K. Digby.

So as to be measurable by quantity; quantitatively.

etimes, a considerable amount; a large portion, bulk, or sum; as, a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities. The quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable, study. Macaulay. Quantity of estate (Law), its time of continuan…

Consisting of five parts.

r of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, and apteryx are examples.

Of or pertaining to the Ratitæ.

Of or pertaining to the Ratitæ. -- n.

Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement,2 (b). "Recrementitial fluids." Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross. Boyle.

Proctitis. Dunglison.