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See Purpresture.

h should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc. [Written also pourpresture.]

The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage. Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

men come nearer the saints of God than others; they come within a step or two of heaven. Preston

An established law. [Obs.] T. Preston.

gueste, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope.

One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.

But; -- used in cautionary phrases; as, "Vivace, ma non troppo presto" (i. e., lively, but not too quick). Moore (Encyc. of Music).

A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus.

The common people; the mob. [Obs.] The plebe with thirst and fury prest. Sylvester.

ng, under Impress. -- Press money, money paid to a man enlisted into public service. See Prest money, under Prest, a.

xterity; skill. Chaucer. "The juggler's sleight." Hudibras. Sleight of hand, legerdemain; prestidigitation.

Mischief; injury; calamity. [Obs.] That had them long opprest with tort. Spenser.

arva of any one of numerous species of boring beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles, buprestidans, and certain weevils. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Pine weevil, under Pine. (b) The larva of any one of various species of lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing moths, as the peach-tree borer (see unde…