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Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. Dryden.

expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.

To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters. The Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized in the famous Council of Nice. Waterland.

One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition. Macaulay.

g forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state. Locke. Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life Tillotson.

ritten one) expressive of opposition; -- with against; as, he protest against your votes. Denham. The conscience has power . . . to protest againts the exorbitancies of the passions. Shak.

eclaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.

Denoting the first or lowest of a series, or the one having the smallest amount of the element to the name of which it is prefixed; as protoxide, protochloride, etc.

Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape. -- Prov"i*den"tial*ly, adv.

contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso. He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception. Shak.

To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.

e genus Ceratopogon or allied genus of the family Chironomidæ, found in swarms in various densely wooded or mountaneous regions. [U. S.]

put back. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny. Coming from thee, I could not put him back. Shak.

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids. [Also written pyknometer.]

One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.

st determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence. Burke.

ting timbers fastened together. -- Raft duck. Etym: [The name alludes to its swimming in dense flocks.] (Zoöl.) (a) The bluebill, or greater scaup duck; -- called also flock duck. See Scaup. (b) The redhead. -- Raft port (Naut.), a large, square port in a vessel's side for loading or unloading timber or other bulky a…

ton. New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare. Dryden.

To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.