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To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. "Provide us all things necessary." Shak.

One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.

One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, 6.

the stem; hence, the vessel itself. Wordsworth. The floating vessel swum Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow rode tilting o'er the waves. Milton.

A division of beetles having the fifth tarsal joint minute and obscure, so that there appear to be but four joints. -- Pseu`do*te*tram"er*al, a.

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

Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole. The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind. Latimer. O purblind race of miserable men. Tennyson. -- Pur"blind`ly, adv. -- Pur"blind`ness, n.

To procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot.

a procurer; a pimp; a bawd. Addison.

" To push his fortune." Dryden. Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor. Spectator. We are pushed for an answer. Swift.

A keeper of a brothel; a procurer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras.

To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons. [Obs.] In short space he has them qualified. Spenser.

To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy. L'Estrange.

uarters and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously.

ion of Seville, Spain. It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit; it is cured when green, keeps well, and has a delicate flavor. Loosely, any olive of similar character.

stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.

A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.

Herring taken and cured or smoked near Quoddy Head, Maine, or near the entrance of Passamaquoddy Ray.

To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. "He raised sheep." "He raised wheat where none grew before." Johnson's Dict.