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A possessor; a property holder. [Obs.] "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney.

; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. His praise postponed, and never to be paid. Cowper.

The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.

The act of postponing, in sense 2. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who postpones.

A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. Crabbe.

The state of being predisposed; predisposition. [R.]

That which predisposes. Predisponent causes. (Med.) See Predisposing causes, under Predispose. Dunglison.

One who holds a prior to purchase certain public land. Abbott.

One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman.

One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice. While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven. Dryden.

The state of being a probationer; novitiate. Locke.

One who takes part in a procession.

Bending forward; inclined; not erect. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone. Milton.

In a prone manner or position.

The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

The head kidney. See under Head.

A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.