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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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A salt of propiolic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called also propargylic acid) of the acetylene or tetrolic series, analogous to propionic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance.C3H2O2, CH.C.COOH

A salt of propionic acid.

The ketone of propionic acid, obtained as a colorless fragrant liquid.

alcium lactate, etc., and is obtained as a colorless liquid having a sharp, pungent odor. Propionic acid is so called because it is the first or lowest member of the fatty acid series whose salts have a fatty feel.

The hypothetical radical C3H5O, regarded as the essential residue of propionic acid and certain related compounds.

A genus including the long-tailed, or diadem, indris. See Indris.

Capable of being propitiated.

PROPITIATE v. 2 definitions

To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate. Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage. Pope.

PROPITIATION n. 2 definitions

f appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

One who propitiates or appeases.

PROPITIATORILY adv.

By way of propitiation.

PROPITIATORY a. 2 definitions

Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice. Sharp.

PROPITIOUS a. 2 definitions

Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze.

A mold; a matrix. [R.] Woodward.

Forming a mold.

The art of making molds for castings. [R.]

Same as Proleg.

Of or pertaining to the propodialia, or the parts of the limbs to which they belong.

The bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the propodialia being the humerus and femur.