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See Price, and 1st Prize. [Obs.]

PRISAGE n. 2 definitions

A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. Blackstone.

PRISCILLIANIST n.

A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

PRISE n. 2 definitions

An enterprise. [Obs.] Spenser.

See 1st Prizer. [Obs.]

PRISM n. 3 definitions

form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13. Achromatic prism (Opt.), a prism composed usually of two prisms of different transparent substances which have unequal dispersive powers, as two different kinds of glass, especially flint glass and crown glass, the difference of dispersive p…

Glass with one side smooth and the other side formed into sharp-edged ridges so as to reflect the light that passes through, used at windows to throw the light into the interior.

PRISMATIC; PRISMATICAL a. 3 definitions

Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage.

PRISMATICALLY adv.

In the form on manner of a prism; by means of a prism.

PRISMATOIDAL a.

Having a prismlike form. Ure.

A body that approaches to the form of a prism.

Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.

Pertaining to a prism. [R.]

PRISON n. 4 definitions

nfined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. 7. The tyrant Æolus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds. Dryden.

PRISONER n. 2 definitions

One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman.

Imprisonment. [Obs.] Shak.

Pristine; primitive. [Obs.] "Pristinate idolatry." Holinshed.

Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

APPRISE v. 2 definitions

To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.

BIPRISM n. 2 definitions

A prism whose refracting angle is very nearly 180 degrees.