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Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.

The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness.

Lying at length, or 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.

nspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach. " To pry upon the stars." Chaucer. Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, To pry into the secrets of the state. Shak.

An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.

An extinct order of flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli, and Ornithosauria.

Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar. [India]

Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc. But pump not me for politics. Otway.

trict; environs; neighborhood. "The purlieus of St. James." brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court. Macaulay.

Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " Quadrate and cubical numbers." Sir T. Browne.

To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.

he square of a number. Tables of quarter squares have been devised to save labor in multiplying numbers. -- Quarter turn, Quarter turn belt (Mach.), an arrangement in which a belt transmits motion between two shafts which are at right angles with each other. -- Quarter watch (Naut.), a subdivision of the full watch (…

Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. Shak. The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, . . . pass without noise. Bacon. And the night rack came rolling up. C. Kingsley.

The act of rallying.

The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).

The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.

In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.

The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.

A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.