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Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite. The Century.

Plutocracy; the rule of wealth. [R.]

Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North.

A division of Radiolaria. It includes those having one more central capsules.

A kind of sauce or pickle. King.

Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial. [Obs.]

The kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause. Quincy.

Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar. "Every citizen, if he were not a proletarian animal kept at the public cost." De Quincey. -- n.

The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.

The lower classes; beggars. "The Italian proletariate." J. A. Symonds.

A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.

See Prothonotary.

Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.

A chief notary or clerk. " My private prothonotary." Herrick.

Office of a prothonotary.

Same as Prothonotary.

Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.

or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of tartaric acid.

A salt of pyrotartaric acid.