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evailing; predominant; successful; victorious. Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent arms were as good as any title. Sir W. Raleigh.

In a prevalent manner. Prior.

Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.

Having five valves, as a pericarp.

Reprieve. Overbury.

The act retrieving.

The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent. Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him Coleridge.

Growing well; recovering strength.

A second or new valuation.

Large; strong; -- from the gigantic bones shown at Roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a sheriff.

y 28 Edward I that the people shall have election of sheriff in every shire where the shrievalty is not of inheritance. Blackstone.

The office or position of an undersheriff.

To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20.

A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics.

weat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

pents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).

Rife; common; prevalent. [Prov. Eng.] In brief. See under Brief, n.

licoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).