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Treatment for restoring or improving the voice.

ition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.

The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. [Obs.] When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor.

Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table. -- Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous d…

Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.

Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey. "A prowling wolf." Milton. -- Prowl"ing*ly, adv.

Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.

Roving; rambling. [Scot.]

A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard. Counsels, when they fly At random, sometimes hit most happily. Herrick. O, many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark…

A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition. He may take a range all the world over. South.

One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.

lined or able to range, or rove about, for considerable distances; apt or suited for much roving, --chiefly used of cattle.

Wild; roving; rakish. [Low]

The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation. Macaulay.…

a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.

kes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton.

To wander over or through. Roving the field, i chanced A goodly tree far distant to behold. milton.

One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.

The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.