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To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs. The sloping sides and summits of our hills, and the extensive plains that stretch before our view, are studded with substantial, neat, and commodious dwellings of freemen. Bp. Hobart.

Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.

A member of the most prominent tribe of the Moro tribes, occupying the Sulu Archipelago; also, their language.

Having a prominent, overhanging belly. Shak.

A prominent, overhanging belly. Smollett.

a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.

Having four prominent longitudinal angles.

The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.

Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem.

Having three nerves. Three-nerved leaf (Bot.), a leaf having three distinct and prominent ribs, or nerves, extending from the base.

To stand out, or be prominent. [Obs.] Howell.

The chief person; the most prominent one. Other . . . aspired to be the top of zealots. Milton.

Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.

allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet.

above mean, fair complexion, dark, or sometimes gray, eyes, brachycephaly, and very long, prominent, and moderately narrow nose.

That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage; as, a man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turn-out.

- Unicorn moth (Zoöl.), a notodontian moth (Coelodasys unicornis) whose caterpillar has a prominent horn on its back; -- called also unicorn prominent. -- Unicorn root (Bot.), a name of two North American plants, the yellow-flowered colicroot (Aletris farinosa) and the blazing star (Chamælirium luteum). Both are used…

One of the prominent ridges or ribs extending across each of the whorls of certain univalve shells.

An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.

he alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman. [Written also jacare.]