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A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like. King. Chapman. Starling the heath poults or black game. R. Jefferise.

To announce beforehand. Coleridge.

Previous assurance. Coleridge.

One who prays. [R.] Coleridge.

A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.

Anticipative or antecedent conformity. Coleridge.

Preceding; introductory; precursory. "A deep precursive sound." Coleridge.

Determining beforehand; predestinating. [R.] Coleridge.

Capable of being determined beforehand. Coleridge.

ord; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.

Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. [R.] Coleridge.

To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.

Priming wire, a pointed wire used to penetrate the vent of a piece, for piercing the cartridge before priming.

Glass with one side smooth and the other side formed into sharp-edged ridges so as to reflect the light that passes through, used at windows to throw the light into the interior.

Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.

ss. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.

Suggestion; incitement; prompting. [R.] Shak. Coleridge.

tites. Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which constitute our proper humanity. Coleridge.

The state of being in proportion. Coleridge.

nge folly to set ourselves no mark, to propound no end, in the hearing of the gospel. Coleridge.