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e sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue. Blackstone.

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.

A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. Swift.

A female procurer, or pander.

A female producer.

A female progenitor.

One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.

usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

A female prophet.

A female proprietor.

A female prosecutor.

Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra. -- n.

Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life. -- Pro*tan"trism, n.

Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals. Sir T. Browne.

An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvæ of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of Pædogenesis.

A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper.

earing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva.

A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl. Pullet sperm, the treadle of an egg. [Obs.] Shak.