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to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden.

Producing young by budding.

Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.

Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific. -- Pro*lif"ic*al*ly, adv.

The generation of young.

To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly. No need that thou Should'st propagate, already infinite. Milton.

A mantis. School of the prophets (Anc. Jewish Hist.), a school or college in which young men were educated and trained for public teachers or members of the prophetic order. These students were called sons of the prophets.

rymes make. Chaucer. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry, that is; prose -- words in their best order; poetry -- the best order. Coleridge.

Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life. -- Pro*tan"trism, n.

One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinæ.

birds whose young at first have down on the pterylæ only; -- called also Gymnopædes.

Having down upon the pterylæ only; -- said of the young of certain birds.

A minute parasite, usually the young of Gregarinæ, in the pseudonavicula stage.

Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypædic; -- said of the young of certain birds.

Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. Blackstone.

Puisne; younger; inferior; petty; unskilled. [R.] A puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side. Shak.

A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl. Pullet sperm, the treadle of an egg. [Obs.] Shak.

A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

isting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.

A young strumpet. [Obs.]