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or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.

To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of. Dryden.

rtaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape. Ruskin.

ies and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor. Landois & Stirling.

ized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of full age, one year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; -- now abolished. Blackstone.

To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands. [Local, U. S. (North Carolina and Tennessee).] "To procession the lands of such persons as desire it." Burrill.

An officer appointed to procession lands. [Local, U. S. (North Carolina and Tennessee).] Burrill.

A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. [ Local, U. S.] Bouvier.

To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race. [R.] Landor.

be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward. Promised land. See Land of promise, under Land. -- To promise one's self. (a) To resolve; to determine; to vow. (b) To be assured; to have strong confidence. I dare promise myself you will attest…

A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape. Like one that stands upon a promontory. Shak.

ous; inclined; not level. Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land. Blackmore.

n has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property.

gan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye [Scribes and Pharisees] compass sea and land to make one proselyte. Matt. xxiii. 15. Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrained proselyte he makes. Cowper.

time; view; scene; outlook. His eye discovers unaware The goodly prospect of some foreign land. Milton.

to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow. He protest that his measures are pacific. Landor. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Shak.

unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Addison.

ods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air- breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnæa and Planorbis.

A cold arid table-land, as in the Andes of Peru.

A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell. Coarctate, or Obtected, pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. -- Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.