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Absence of virility or manhood; effeminacy. Prynne.

ening; a loophole. And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence The eye of Reason may pry in upon us. Shak.

A pick with two prongs, to pry with.

To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.

Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome. "Mousing saints." L'Estrange.

To pry officiously into what does not concern one.

A salt of an octoic acid; a caprylate.

ically, to designate any one of a group of acids, the most important of which is called caprylic acid.

Excessively malapert or impudent. [Obs.] Prynne.

To pry about; to prowl. [Prov. Eng.]

To pry; to peep slyly. Shak. Peak arch (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch.

To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry. eep through the blanket of the dark. Shak. From her cabined loophole peep. Milton. Peep sight, an adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech.

One who peeps; a prying person; a spy. Who's there peepers, . . . eavesdroppers J. Webster.

To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.

gement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth. Play actor, an actor of dramas. Prynne. -- Play debt, a gambling debt. Arbuthnot. -- Play pleasure, idle amusement. [Obs.] Bacon. -- A play upon words, the use of a word in such a way as to be capable of double meaning; punning. -- Play of colors, prismatic…

Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.

See Pry. [Obs.] Spenser.

e; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. " A pregnant argument." Prynne. " A pregnant brevity." E. Everett.

One who betrays or abuses a trust. Prynne.

hat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles. [Written also pryan.]