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To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.

A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner. As he sat in the school at his prymer. Chaucer.

A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd. Fairholt.

Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.

rd by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.

The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.

Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion. E. Darwin.

A cat; -- a fondling appellation.

An alkaloid extracted from the root of the pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).

To write " query" (qu., qy., or ) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quære.

d product. At the same time the light gas helium is formed; it probably consists of the expelled alpha particles. The heat effect mentioned above is ascribed to the impacts of these particles. Radium, in turn, is believed to be formed indirectly by an immeasurably slow disintegration of uranium.

A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

eizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay.

A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.

A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. Spenser.

A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. Cooper.

A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze. But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled. Milton.