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The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. Clarendon.

An incision into the rectum, as for the division of a stricture.

A division of Turbellaria including those that have an intestine terminating posteriorly.

Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed." Cowper.

Capable of being procured; obtainable. Boyle.

The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another.

The act of procuring; procurement.

One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. Chaucer. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor. Ayliffe.

The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.

Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.

ring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.

The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.

One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means.

A female procurer, or pander.

a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Canis Minor, or the Little Dog.

A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd. Fairholt.

A crossbow. See Prod, 3.

t expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses. In fighting fields [patriots] were prodigal of blood. Dryden.

Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony."The prodigality of his wit." Dryden.