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Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed." Cowper.

Capable of being procured; obtainable. Boyle.

The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another.

The act of procuring; procurement.

One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. Chaucer. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor. Ayliffe.

The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.

Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.

f or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.

The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.

One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means.

A female procurer, or pander.

a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Canis Minor, or the Little Dog.

A assistant proctor. Hook.

A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.

hey are in some respects intermediate between the pigeons and true grouse. Called also Pteroclomorphæ.

See Puddock, and Parrock.

A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, of the phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also catechol, oxyphenol. etc.

A niobate of calcium, cerium, and other bases, occurring usually in octahedrons of a yellowish or brownish color and resinous luster; -- so called from its becoming grass-green on being subjected to heat under the blowpipe.

Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively citraconic, itaconic, and mesaconic acid.