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A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. [Obs.] Camden.

eding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.

A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.

or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc. "Seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed." Gen. xli. 19.

ce, portasse, portesse, portise, porthose, portos, portus, portuse, etc.] [Obs.] Spenser. Camden. By God and by this porthors I you swear. Chaucer.

Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] "In post he came." Shak.

date assigned. Of these [predictions] some were postdate; cunningly made after the thing came to pass. Fuller.

A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.

Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.

Prairie chicken, above. -- Prairie hare (Zoöl.), a large long-eared Western hare (Lepus campestris). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack. -- Prairie hawk, Prairie falcon (Zoöl.), a falcon of Western North America (Falco Mexicanus). The upper parts are brown. The tail has transverse bands of white; the under parts, longit…

A horse which prances. Then came the captain . . . upon a brave prancer. Evelyn.

te from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol. The light vapor of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold. W. Irving.

lar command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

ich more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright.

First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister. Camden. Swift.

g ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.

overnment by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church. Reformed Presbyterians. See Cameronian.

ronoun) to come into the presence of a superior. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the lord. Job i. 6

orts of 1,000 men each. -- Pretorian gate (Rom. Antiq.), that one of the four gates in a camp which lay next the enemy. Brande & C.

The general's tent in a Roman camp; hence, a council of war, because held in the general's tent.