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A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.

A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.

A species of dried plum; prunelle.

One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.

Bearing plums.

That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings. Beau. & Fl. Pruning hook, or Pruning knife, cutting instrument used in pruning trees, etc. -- Pruning shears, shears for pruning trees, vines, etc.

A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.

To prune again or anew. Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew. Young.

Straight; direct.

One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.

To scranch; to crunch. Dickens.

, as of a court or other body. 'T is pity we have not Burn's own account of that long sederunt. Prof. Wilson. Acts of sederunt (Scots Law), ordinances of the Court of Session for the ordering of processes and expediting of justice. Bell.

from Shrink.

Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.

imp. & p. p. of Spring.

To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward. [Obs.] To sprunt up, to draw one's self up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up. [Local, U.S.]

In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]

imp. & p. p. of String.

Spirituous liquor. [Scot.] Burns.