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To practice polygamy; to marry several wives. Sylvester. Coleridge.

Western; occidental. [R.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.

A bird of the Western United States (Phalænoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.

A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. "To be so pestered with a popinjay." Shak.

Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it.

A guide. [Cuba & Phil. Islands] D. C. Worcester.

Doing; active. [Obs.] Sylvester. -- Prac"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.] The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. Warner.

plant (Silphium terebinthaceum) with large rough leaves and yellow flowers, found in the Western prairies. -- Prairie dog (Zoöl.), a small American rodent (Cynomys Ludovicianus) allied to the marmots. It inhabits the plains west of the Mississippi. The prairie dogs burrow in the ground in large warrens, and have a sha…

Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. Chesterfield.

connection with its diurnal rotation; -- so called because either equinox, owing to its westerly motion, comes to the meridian sooner each day than the point it would have occupied without the motion of precession, and thus precedes that point continually with reference to the time of transit and motion.…

Ready; prompt; prepared. [Obs.] All prest to such battle he was. R. of Gloucester.

Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday. [R.] Thackeray.

Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer. Reason . . . then retires Into her private cell when nature rests. Milton.

Son, the Eastern Church affirming that the Spirit proceeds from the Father only, and the Western Church that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. Shipley. -- Procession week, a name for Rogation week, when processions were made; Cross-week. Shipley.

One who makes protestation; a protester.

A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.

To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises. Sylvester.

al modern education or prepare pupils for the universities. Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester are of this class.

ame given to certain strata belonging to the earliest Eocene. They are developed in Northwestern New Mexico, along the Rio Puerco, and are characterized by their mammalian remains.

or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit. [R.] -- Pul*pit"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.] Chesterfield.