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m symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. -- Pre*sent"ive*ly, adv. -- Pre*sent"ive*ness, n.

With actual presence; actually . [Obs.] His precious body and blood presently three. Bp. Gardiner.

One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president.

Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison. There are three presidial castles in this city. Howell.

A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. Andr…

The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.

Principal axis. See Axis of a curve, under Axis. -- Principal axes of a quadric (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. -- Principal challenge. (Law) See under Challenge. -- Principal plane. See Plane of projection (a), under Plane. -- Principal of…

A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.

To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore. Sir T. Browne.

Proceeding from, as from a parent; derived, as from an ancestor. [R.] The threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional was ascertained. Gibbon.

ce which might arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for this article [tea] is three months. J. S. Mill.

The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.

Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.

e; well formed; handsome. [Archaic] "Thou art a proper man." Chaucer. Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child. Heb. xi. 23.

The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional. Continued proportion, Inverse proportion, etc. See under Continued, Inverse, etc. -- Harmonical, or Musical, proportion, a relation of three or four quantities, such that the first is to the last as the di…

The anterior of three principal cartilages in the fins of some fishes. -- Prop`ter*yg"i*al, a.

A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small.

ion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak.

The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.

Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long.