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A fund for the support of a priest, without the title of a benefice. The patron in the collator.

Stiff and sharp; prickly. Holland.

Probability. [Obs.] "With as great probality." Holland.

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. [Obs.] Holland.

To poke; to thrust. [Obs.] Holland.

a charge. In proper, individually; privately. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Proper flower or corolla (Bot.), one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. -- Proper fraction (Arith.) a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator. -- Proper nectary (Bot.), a nectary separate f…

A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.

in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.

esigns or doings of others. Barrow. Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs. Holland.

Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] Holland.

according to purpose or design; purposely. A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war. Holland.

Pursy. [Obs.] Holland.

To curdle; to coagulate, as milk. [Obs.] Holland.

dies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant (Houstonia cærulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also called bluets, and little innocents.

Earnest desire or longing. [Obs.] Holland. To pick a quarrel. See under Pick, v. t.

hing is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. Hence, specifically:

Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial æstivation. Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Bot.), an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.…

y cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.

lfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.

A clerical linen collar.