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A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.

Belonging to one; one's own; individual. "His proper good" [i. e., his own possessions]. Chaucer. "My proper son." Shak. Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. Dryden.

To hasten, or press forward. [Obs.]

The act of hastening; haste. [Obs.] T. Adams.

Properispomenon.

A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.

In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton.

The quality of being proper.

Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar. Property is correctly a synonym for peculiar quality; but it is frequently used as coextensive with quality in general. Sir W. Hamilton.…

One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.

An instrument which exhibits objects with their proper relief reversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the stereoscope. Wheatstone.

A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under Garnet.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of heat radiating from a fire, or the cooling influence of bodies. It is a differential thermometer, having one bulb coated with gold or silver leaf. [R.]

To open again.

See Rheotrope.

An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity.

An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current. [Written also reotrope.]

A small mirror for use in rhinoscopy.

See Life line (a), under Life.