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measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition. I speak in prose, and let him rymes make. Chaucer. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry, that is; prose -- words in their best order; poetry…

One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

ecute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim. I am beloved Hermia; Why should not I, then, prosecute my right Shak.

The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war. Keeping a sharp eye on her domestics . . . in prosecution of their various duties. Sir W. Scott.…

One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.

A female prosecutor.

r party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye [Scribes and Pharisees] compass sea and land to make one proselyte. Matt. xxiii. 15. Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrained proselyte he makes. Cowper.

The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party. They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree. Burke.

vert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte. One of those whom they endeavor to proselytize. Burke.

One who proselytes.

A writer of prose. [R.]

A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution. T. Warton.

Propagation by seed. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.

The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain.

A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.

A writer of prose. [Obs.]

To reduce to prose. [R.] "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.

Covered with thin, scurfy scales.