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A fortress. [Obs.] Howell.

Means of defense; defense. [Obs.] Shak.

A defender; a vindicator. "Zealous propugners." Gov. of Tongue.

The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To repel; to drive off or away. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.

Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging. "[The] propulsive movement of the verse." Coleridge.

Propulsive.

The hypothetical radical C3H7, regarded as the essential residue of propane and related compounds.

Any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure.

carbon (C3H6) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as, propylic alcohol.

See Propidene.

The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.

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

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

The prow or fore part of a ship. [Poetic] "Galleys with vermilion prores." Pope.

An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. Heyse.

The office of prorector.

Pronephric.