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An alehouse. T. Warton.

The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. Bk. of Com. Prayer.

Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; - - opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. Their countenances had the true prognathous character. Kane.

Having flowers appearing before the leaves; -- said of certain plants. Gray.

A chief notary or clerk. " My private prothonotary." Herrick.

Office of a prothonotary.

Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

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

Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.

A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.

A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent. Dunglison.

Producing decomposition, as diseases which are supposed to be accompanied or caused by decomposition.

Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidæ. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.

The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.

A conjurer; a diviner.

Same as Mosasauria.

A radioactive substance apparently formed as a product from thorium.