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A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.

A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made.

The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds.

One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.

Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.

The prostate gland.

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland. Prostatic catheter. (Med.) See under Catheter.

Inflammation of the prostate.

Dejection; depression. [Obs.] Wiseman.

The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.

The addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also prothesis.

Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious. [Obs.] Bale.

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29.

The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. Bp. Hurd.

That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth. -- Pro*sto"mi*al, a.

h, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton.

The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.

A prostyle portico or building.