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A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Defending or preserving from disease; preventive. Coxe.

The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.

Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit. Points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing. W. Jay.

sition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade. Writ of protection. (Law) (a) A writ by which the king formerly exempted a person from arrest; -- now disused. [Eng.] Blackstone. (b) A judicial writ issued to a person required t…

future use or application; a making ready; preparation. Providence for war is the best prevention of it. Bacon.

A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.

To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.

ed offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. -- To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. For the certain knowledge of that knowledge…

An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb. Weale.

Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.

, the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; c…

A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.

One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.

rom a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.

n five years, or at the end of every five years; also, lasting five years. A quinquennial event.

mbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events. [Written also quipo.] Tylor. The mysterious science of the quipus . . . supplied the Peruvians with the means of communicating their ideas to one another, and of transmitting them to future generations. Prescott.…