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In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported. The victor knight, Bareheaded, popularly low had bowed. Dryden.

The quality or state of being popular; popularity. Coleridge.

Same as Postorbital.

Of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.

A pullet from which the ovaries have been removed to produce fattening; hence, a fat pullet.

See Premolar.

ertaining to a preamble; introductory; contained or provided for in a preamble. "A preambulary tax." [R.] Burke.

To declare or announce beforehand; to preannounce. Milman.

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxillæ; intermaxillary. -- n.

Situated in front of the molar teeth. --n.

Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennæ of certain insects. -- n.

Situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the preoperculum. -- n.

(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.

Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a Roman army. Barrow.

One of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridæ) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.

Of or pertaining of a proconsul; as, proconsular powers.

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

Of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.

Comprised in, or like, a point; exact. [Obs. & R.] Sir T. Browne.

The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.