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oard, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.

ces of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally.

A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain. Homans.

In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.

Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction. The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. Bp. Stillingfleet.

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.

Originally; at first.

Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell. Primordial utricle (Bot.), the interior lining of a young vegetable cell.

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

ighest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. Wyclif (Rev. i. 5). Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. Milton. Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. Camden.

In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.

A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.

are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.

A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.

Proportionally. Locke.

In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.

The act or process of dividing out proportionally.

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

A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name. Protein crystal. (Bot.) See Crystalloid, n., 2.

One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Chris…