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

A crossbow. See Prod, 3.

ssity; 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.

essive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony."The prodigality of his wit." Dryden.

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.