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See Placophora.

Poor people; the poor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n.

Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.

See Precoracoid.

Same as Prefloration. Gray.

Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc.

The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.

Æstivation.

Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth; as, preoral bands.

Situated in front of the temporal bone.

The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.

r, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. "The fogging proctorage of money." Milton.

Capable of being prorated, or divided proportionately. [U.S.]

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

The office of prorector.

Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.

Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.

Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.