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Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.

The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship. Lowth.

sing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.

A pretext. [Obs.]

To torture beforehand. Fuller.

n the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue. Blackstone.

The state or privileges of the firstborn. Burke.

r of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct. "The true procedure of conscience." South.

r for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.

Efficient contrivance; management; agency. They think it done By her procurement. Dryden.

One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means.

A female procurer, or pander.

A begetting, or birth. [R.]

A jutting out beyond a surface.

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

A protosulphide. [Obs.]

The duct of a pronephros. Haeckel.

A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin. A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp. Rambler.

Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound.