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shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay. Thackeray. Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed. Bacon. Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers. Milton.

Thrush. Prunella salt (Old Chem.), niter fused and cast into little balls.

A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.

A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.

A species of dried plum; prunelle.

One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.

To prune again or anew. Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew. Young.

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

One who plants or who prunes trees. [Obs.] Evelyn.

ly bore into the wood or bark of trees and shurbs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner.

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

To prune with the knife.

owth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage. Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. Pope. Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.

A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.

To trim or prune, as trees. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

To lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn. [Obs.] Chaucer. The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms. Chapman.

wn to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or glass, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.

To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line. With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated. Southey.

c salt, under Microcosmic. -- Sal plumbi Etym: [NL.] (Old Chem.), sugar of lead. -- Sal prunella. (Old Chem.) See Prunella salt, under 1st Prunella. -- Sal Saturni Etym: [NL.] (Old Chem.), sugar of lead, or lead acetate; -- the alchemical name of lead being Saturn. -- Sal sedativus Etym: [NL.] (Old Chem.), sedative…

To lop; to prune; to trim. [Obs.]