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The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness. Such pride is praise; such portliness is honor. Spenser.

Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing.

ene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality.

coating the inside of glass vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance of painted ware.

or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance. Lectorides's memory is ever . . . presenting him with the thoughts of other persons. I. Watts.

exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show. Under the presentation of the shoots his wit. Shak.

Setting forth to view; delineation; appearance; representation; exhibition. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion, And give it false presentment. Milton.

To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence. To preserve game, to protect it from extermination.

To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep. "[He] pretended to drink the waters." Macaulay.

Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.

A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship. This was but an invention and pretension given out by the Spaniards. Bacon. Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. L'Estrange.…

strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor. This vile and preternatural temper of mind. South.

At first view; on the first appearance. Prima facie evidence (of a fact) (Law), evidence which is sufficient to establish the fact unless rebutted. Bouvier.

tem; - - denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1. Prime of the moon, the new moon at its first appearance.

The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood. Probability is the appearance of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears for the most part to be so. Locke.…

To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of. I do profess to be no less than I seem. Shak.

Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome. [Archaic] "Thou art a proper man." Chaucer. Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child. Heb. xi. 23.

; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance. [R.] Addison.

ervice of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.

Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.