Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 140
Prudent (a.) 審慎的，小心的；節儉的；精明的；善於經營的 Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.
Syn: Cautious; wary; circumspect; considerate; discreet; judicious; provident; economical; frugal.
Prudent (a.) Careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight" [ant: {imprudent}].
Prudential (a.) 謹慎的；明辨的；細心的 Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives. " A prudential line of conduct." -- Sir W. Scott.
Prudential (a.) Exercising prudence; discretionary; advisory; superintending or executive; as, a prudential committee.
Prudential (n.) That which relates to or demands the exercise of, discretion or prudence; -- usually in the pl.
Many stanzas, in poetic measures, contain rules relating to common prudentials as well as to religion. -- I. Watts.
Prudential (a.) Arising from or characterized by prudence especially in business matters; "he abstained partly for prudential reasons".
Prudentialist (n.) 謹慎小心的人 One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Prudentiality (n.) The quality or state of being prudential. -- Sir T. Browne.
Prudentially (adv.) 謹慎地；細心地 In a prudential manner; prudently. -- South.
Prudently (adv.) In a prudent manner.
Prudently (adv.) In a prudent manner; "I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom." [syn: prudently, providentially] [ant: imprudently].
Pruderies (n. pl. ) of Prudery
Prudery (n.) The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness. -- Cowper.
Prudery (n.) Excessive or affected modesty [syn: primness prudishness, prudery, Grundyism].
Prudhomme (n.) A trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman. See Citation under 3d Commune, 1.
Prudish (a.) Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.
A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face. -- Garrick.
Prudish (a.) Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian].
Prudishly (adv.) In a prudish manner.
Prudishly (adv.) In a prudish manner; "she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste" [syn: prudishly, puritanically].
Pruinate (a.) Same as Pruinose.
Pruinose (a.) Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.
Pruinous (a.) Frosty; pruinose.
Pruned (imp. & p. p.) of Prune
Pruning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prune
Prune (v. t.) To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or 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.
Prune (v. t.) To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.
Horace will our superfluous branches prune. -- Waller.
Prune (v. t.) To preen; to prepare; to dress. -- Spenser.
His royal bird Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak. -- Shak.
Prune (v. i.) To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.
Prune (n.) A plum; esp., a
dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes;
Pruning (n.) The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.
Pruning (n.) (Falconry) That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings. -- Beau. & Fl.
Pruning hook, or Pruning knife, Cutting instrument used in pruning trees, etc.
Pruning shears, Shears for pruning trees, vines, etc.
Pruning (n.) Something that has been pruned off of a plant.
Pruning (n.) The act of trimming a plant..
Prunella (n.) Angina, or angina pectoris.
Prunella (n.) Thrush.
Prunella (n.) Alt. of Prunello
Prunellidae (n.) 岩鷚科 Hedge sparrow [syn: {Prunellidae}, {family Prunellidae}]
Prunello (n.) A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.
Prunelle (n.) A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.
Prunello (n.) A species of dried plum; prunelle.
Pruner (n.) One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.
Pruner (n.) Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.
Pruniferous (a.) Bearing plums.
Pruning (n.) The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.
Pruning (n.) That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings.
Prunus (n.) (Bot.) A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.
Note: Originally, this genus was limited to the plums, then, by Linn[ae]us, was made to include the cherries and the apricot. Later botanists separated these into several genera, as Prunus, Cerasus, and Armeniaca, but now, by Bentham and Hooker, the plums, cherries, cherry laurels, peach, almond, and nectarine are all placed in Prunus. Prurience
Prunus (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions [syn: Prunus, genus Prunus].
Prurience (n.) Alt. of Pruriency
Pruriency (n.) The quality or state of being prurient.
The pruriency of curious ears. -- Burke.
There is a prurience in the speech of some. -- Cowper.
Pruriency (n.) Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness [syn: prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity].
Prurient (a.) Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful. -- Pru"ri*ent*ly, adv.
The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object to object of illicit attraction. -- I. Taylor.
Prurient (a.) Characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious, lustful, prurient, salacious].
Pruriginous (a.) (Med.) Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo.
Prurigo (n.) (Med.) A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.
Prurigo (n.) Chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching.
Pruritus (n.) [L.] (Med.) Itching.
Pruritus (n.) An intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.).
Prussian (a.) Of or pertaining to Prussia.
Prussian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Prussia.
Prussian blue (Chem.), Any one of several complex double cyanides of ferrous and ferric iron; specifically, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, obtained by adding a solution of potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate of potash) to a ferric salt. It is used in dyeing, in ink, etc. Called also Williamson's blue, insoluble Prussian blue, Berlin blue, etc.
Prussian carp (Zool.) See Gibel.
Prussian green. (Chem.) Same as Berlin green, under Berlin.
Prussian (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of Prussia or its inhabitants; "Prussian officers"; "Prussian aristocracy".
Prussian (n.) A German inhabitant of Prussia.
Prussiate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide.
Red prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferricyanide, under Ferricyanide.
Yellow prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferrocyanide, under Ferrocyanide.
Prussic (a.) (Old Chem.) Designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.
Prutenic (a.) (Astron.) Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.
Pry (n.) A lever; also, leverage. [Local, U. S. & Eng.]
Pry pole, The pole which forms the prop of a hoisting gin, and stands facing the windlass.
Pried (imp. & p. p.) of Pry
Prying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pry
Pry (v. t.) To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize. [Local, U. S. & Eng.]
Pry (v. i.) To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach. " To pry upon the stars." -- Chaucer.
Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, To pry into the secrets of the state. -- Shak.
Pry (n.) Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
Pry (n.) A heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge [syn: crowbar, wrecking bar, pry, pry bar].
Pry (v.) To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prise, prize, lever, jimmy].
Pry (v.) Be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
Pry (v.) Search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office" [syn: intrude, horn in, pry, nose, poke].
Pry (v.) Make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him" [syn: pry, prise].
Compare: Prian
Prian (n.) [Cornish, clayey ground, from pri clay.] (Mining) A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles. [Written also pryan.]
Pryan (n.) (Mining) See Prian.
Prying (a.) Inspecting closely or impertinently.
Syn: Inquisitive; curious. See Inquisitive.
Prying (a.) Offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day" [syn: nosy, nosey, prying, snoopy].
Prying (n.) Offensive inquisitiveness [syn: nosiness, prying, snoopiness].
Pryingly (adv.) In a prying manner.
Pryingly (adv.) In a curious and prying manner; "`Do you have a boyfriend,' she asked her prospective tenant pryingly".
Prytaneum (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.
Prytanes (n. pl. ) of Prytanis
Prytanis (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
Prytany (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
Prythee (interj.) See Prithee.
Psalm (n.) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
Humus devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly. -- Milton.
Psalm (n.) Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.
Psalm (v. t.) 唱讚美詩祝禱 To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises. -- Sylvester.
Psalm (n.) One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament; said to have been written by David.
Psalm (n.) Any sacred song used to praise the deity.
Psalm (v.) Sing or celebrate in psalms; "He psalms the works of God".
Psalm (n.) [ C ] 聖詩，聖歌，讚美詩；（尤指《聖經•詩篇》中的一篇）詩篇 A holy poem or song, especially one of the 150 collected together in the Bible.
Psalmist (n.) A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.
Psalmist (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.
Psalmist (n.) A composer of sacred songs; "David is called The Psalmist because he is believed to be the author of the Book of Psalms".
Psalmistry (n.) The use of psalms in devotion; psalmody.
Psalmodic (a.) Alt. of Psalmodical
Psalmodical (a.) Relating to psalmody.
Psalmodist (n.) One who sings sacred songs; a psalmist.
Psalmodize (v. i.) To practice psalmody. " The psalmodizing art." -- J. G. Cooper.
Psalmody (n.) The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.
Psalmody (n.) The act of singing psalms or hymns [syn: psalmody, hymnody].
Psalmograph (n.) A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.
Psalmographer (n.) Alt. of Psalmographist
Psalmographist (n.) A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.
Psalmography (n.) The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs.
Psalter (n.) The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.
Psalter (n.) Specifically, the Book of Psalms as printed in the Book of Common Prayer; among the Roman Catholics, the part of the Breviary which contains the Psalms arranged for each day of the week.
Psalter (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms.
Psalter (n.) A collection of Psalms for liturgical use [syn: Psalter, Book of Psalms].
Psalterial (a.) Of or pertaining to the psalterium.
Psalteria (n. pl. ) of Psalterium
Psalterium (n.) (Anat.) The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.
Psalterium (n.) The lyra of the brain.
Psalterium (n.) The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant [syn: psalterium, omasum, third stomach].
Psalteries (n. pl. ) of Psaltery
Psaltery (n.) A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known.
Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. -- Ps. xxxiii. 2.
Psaltery (n.) An ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings.
Psaltery, () A musical instrument, supposed to have been a kind of lyre, or a harp with twelve strings. The Hebrew word nebhel, so rendered, is translated "viol" in Isa. 5:12 (R.V., "lute"); 14:11. In Dan. 3:5, 7, 10, 15, the word thus rendered is Chaldaic, pesanterin, which is supposed to be a word of Greek origin denoting an instrument of the harp kind.
Psammite (n.) (Min.) A species of micaceous sandstone. -- Psam*mit"ic, a.
Psarolite (n.) (Paleon.) A silicified stem of tree fern, found in abundance in the Triassic sandstone.
Psellism (n.) Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.
Psephism (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute. -- J. P. Mahaffy.
Psephology (n.) 選舉學〔對選舉結果的統計估價〕 The branch of sociology that studies election trends (as by opinion polls).
Pseudaesthesia (n.) (Physiol.) False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.
Pseudembryo (n.) (Zool.) A false embryo.
Pseudembryo (n.) (Zool.) An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding. Pseudepigraphic
Pseudepigraphic (a.) Alt. of Pseudepigraphic
Pseudepigraphic (a.) Of or pertaining to pseudepigraphy.
Pseudepigraphous (a.) Inscribed with a false name. -- Cudworth.
Pseudepigraphy (n.) The ascription of false names of authors to works.
Pseudhaemal (a.) Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids.
Pseudo- () A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively.
Pseudobacteria (n. pl.) (Biol.) Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria.
Note: The globules which divide and develop in form of chains are organized beings; when this does not occur, we are dealing with pseudobacteria. -- Sternberg.
Pseudoblepsis (n.) (Med.) False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects. -- Forsyth.
Pseudobranch (n.) (Anat.) Same as Pseudobranchia.