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Yellowish white; having a faint tint of dingy yellow. Gray.

t one's captors, to return to custody, or the like. This man had forfeited his military parole. Macaulay.

An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.

See Patrol, n. & v.

by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc. Petroleum spirit, a volatile liquid obtained in the distillation of crude petroleum at a temperature of 170° Fahr., or below. The term is rather loosely applied to a considerable range of products, including benzine and ligroin. The…

One who makes use of petroleum for incendiary purposes.

See Primrose. [Obs.] "She was a primerole." Chaucer.

One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvæ of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.

The deputy or substitute for a legate.

Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.

A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise. D. Stokes (1659). Sir W. Scott.

A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. Abp. Bramhall.

Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative. "A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom." De Quincey.

In a proleptical manner.

The art and science of predicting in medicine. Laycock.

One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.

Having a numerous offspring. [R.]

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.