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Inflammation of the prostate.

Dejection; depression. [Obs.] Wiseman.

The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.

some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also prothesis.

Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious. [Obs.] Bale.

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29.

The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. Bp. Hurd.

That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth. -- Pro*sto"mi*al, a.

th, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton.

The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.

A prostyle portico or building.

Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.

A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.

Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory. = 32,500 yrs.) Also called brevium, Uranium X2 and UX2.

A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.

e who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like. Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great of modern poetry. De Quincey.

An amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic fluid of salmon. It is soluble in water, which an alkaline reaction, and unites with acids and metallic bases.

Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life. -- Pro*tan"trism, n.