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Dejection; depression. [Obs.] Wiseman.

The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.

The addition to the human body of 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.

, 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.

d, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.

The office of a provost.

Any starlike meteor or phenomenon. [R.]

A group of cells resembling a stoma, but without any true aperture among them.

A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain insects.

A pycnostyle colonnade.

The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebræ, and supports the uropigium.

pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena.