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The right of the youngest born. Mozley & W.

To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South.

Previous intimation; a suggestion beforehand. T. Scott.

dies, such are essential to and inseparable from them. -- Primary quills (Zoöl.), the largest feathers of the wing of a bird; primaries. -- Primary rocks (Geol.), a term early used for rocks supposed to have been first formed, being crystalline and containing no organic remains, as granite, gneiss, etc.; -- called al…

xhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow. What humble gestures! What profound reverence! Dupp

To suggest; to dictate. And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams. Pope.

Suggestion; incitement; prompting. [R.] Shak. Coleridge.

A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.

The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments.

One of a class of soluble products formed in the digestion of proteids with gastric and pancreatic juice, and also by the hydrolytic action of boiling dilute acids on proteids. Proteoses are divided into the two groups, the primary and secondary proteoses.

's mental history, stress being laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion. -- Psy*chan`a*lyt"ic (#), a. -- Psy`cha*nal"y*sist (#), n.

The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.

heir bodies when irritated. The common puff adder (Vipera, or Clotho, arietans) is the largest species, becoming over four feet long. The plumed puff adder (C. cornuta) has a plumelike appendage over each eye. (b) A North American harmless snake (Heterodon platyrrhinos) which has the power of puffing up its body. Calle…

Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.

on one's own prerogative or plan of action, by right of a higher rank than that of one suggesting a different plan

On the other hand; to the contrary of what was said or suggested; instead. Was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Mark v. 26.

scuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend. When they are clearly discovered, well digested, and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory. T. Burnet.

A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.

The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws. Bacon.

e; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.