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To act as a prodigal; to spend liberally. Sherwood.

In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.

To squander. Thackeray.

Waste; profusion; prodigality. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. [Obs. or R.] Spenser. It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. Sir T. Browne.

Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great.

The quality or state of being prodigious; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.

re, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies. So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign. Milton.

Disclosure; treachery; treason. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

A traitor. [Obs.]

Apt to make unexpected revelations. [Obs.] "Nature is proditorious." Sir H. Wotton.

Treacherous. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease.

A forerunner; a precursor.

Precursory. [R.]

A prodrome.

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court. Produce your cause, saith the Lord. Isa. xli. 21. Your parents did not produce you much into the world. Swift.

A race to be run by the produce of horses named or described at the time of entry.

Production. [Obs.]

One who produces, or offers to notice. [Obs.] Ayliffe.