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A salt of picric acid.

To pledge or pawn. [Obs.]

infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission. Pirate perch (Zoöl.), a fresh-water percoid fish of the United States (Aphredoderus Sayanus). It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots.

To consider; to ponder. [R.]

A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.

To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble. To prate and talk for life and honor. Shak. And make a fool presume to prate of love. Dryden.

Talkative. [R.] W. Taylor.

One who prates. Shak.

To prefigure. [R.] Grafton.

To show beforehand; to foreshow. [R.] Herbert.

One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St. Norbert at Prémontré, in France, in 1119. The members of the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants.

lance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes. Glanvill.

A presbytery; also, presbytership. Heber.

The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.

To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race. [R.] Landor.

To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.

To hasten, or press forward. [Obs.]

To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata. [U.S.]

The office of prorector.

r with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton.