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aving power, to propel; driving on; urging. "[The] propulsive movement of the verse." Coleridge.

That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner. Coleridge.

se and poetry, that is; prose -- words in their best order; poetry -- the best order. Coleridge.

The act of leaping forth or forward; projection. "Such prosiliency of relief." Coleridge.

n. "Proud titles." Shak. " The proud temple's height." Dryden. Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud. Keble.

One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives. [R.] Coleridge.

Pertaining to, or embodying, psilanthropy. "A psilanthropic explanation." Coleridge.

Love of empty of empty talk or noise. Coleridge.

To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in wrinkles." Spectator.

Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).

etc.; to shudder; to tremble. Quaking for dread." Chaucer. She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. Sir P. Sidney.

trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble. We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now. Coleridge.

To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle. His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff. Goldsmith.

e seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.

M. Arnold. Burn's English, though not so racy as his Scotch, is generally correct. H. Coleridge. The rich and racy humor of a natural converser fresh from the plow. Prof. Wilson.

ings taken indiscriminately. [Slang, U. S.] "A whole raft of folks." W. D. Howells. Raft bridge.

To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge. [Eng.]

to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc. [They] rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins. Shak.

r ramparts. Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, Proudly ramparted with rocks. Coleridge. Rampart gun (Fort.), a cannon or large gun for use on a rampart and not as a fieldpiece.

A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.