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rnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving. And to his goddess pitously he preyde. Chaucer. When thou prayest, enter in…

One who prays; a supplicant.

Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional. "The prayerful man." J. S. Blackie. -- Prayer"ful*ly, adv. -- Prayer"ful*ness, n.

Not using prayer; habitually neglecting prayer to God; without prayer. "The next time you go prayerless to bed." Baxter. -- Prayer"less*ly, adv. -- Prayer"less*ness, n.

a. & n. from Pray, v. Praying insect, locust, or mantis (Zoöl.), a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis. -- Praying machine, or Praying wheel, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition…

With supplication to God.

Premature decay.

To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.

Payment in advance.

To furnish with quays.

Wharfage. [Also keyage.]

p. p. of Quail. [Obs.] Spenser.

A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

One who pays rates or taxes.

To array. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

olium perenne); -- called also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass. Italian ray, or rye, grass. See Darnel, and Grass.

A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax. [Turkey.]

Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.