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Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.

Being or happening before birth.

The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.

See Prænomen.

Serving as a prefix in a compound name. Sir T. Browne.

Forenamed; named beforehand. [R.] "Prenominate crimes." Shak.

The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first. Sir T. Browne.

A prognostic; an omen. [Obs.] Gower.

To note or designate beforehand. Foxe.

A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. Bacon.

The act of seizing with violence. [Obs.] Barrow .

An apprentice. [Obs. or Colloq.] Piers Plowman. "My accuser is my prentice." Shak.

Apprenticehood. [Obs.] This jolly prentice with his master bode Till he was out nigh of his prenticehood. Chaucer.

Apprenticeship. [Obs. or Colloq.] He served a prenticeship who sets up shop. Pope.

The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand. [Obs.]

Announcing beforehand; presaging. [Obs.] Blount.

emporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.

Pronephric.

The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

A nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel of a drupe. Gray.