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The office or dignity of a pretor. J. Warton

To torture beforehand. Fuller.

In a pretty manner.

The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense. A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness. Jeffrey.

ithout elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem. This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward. Shak.

Spoken or speaking prettily. [Colloq.]

Somewhat pretty. Walpole.

Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc. [R.] Ed. Rev.

To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type. Bp. Pearson.

A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province. [Written also proprætor.]

A protosulphide. [Obs.]

The duct of a pronephros. Haeckel.

ith, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called also Pyrethrum camphor.

An alkaloid extracted from the root of the pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).

Of or pertaining to fever; febrile.

A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers. Hooper.

Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.

Refrain. [Obs.] Bailey.

mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction. "A passionate regret at sin." Dr. H. More. What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe Macaulay. Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant. Clarendon. From its peaceful bosom [the g…