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- English Word Prated Definition of Prate
- English Word Prateful Definition Talkative.
- English Word Prater Definition One who prates.
- English Word Pratic Definition See Pratique.
- English Word Pratincole Definition Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidae, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.
- English Word Prating Definition of Prate
- English Word Pratingly Definition With idle talk; with loquacity.
- English Word Pratique Definition Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.
- English Word Pratique Definition Practice; habits.
- English Word Prattle Definition To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
- English Word Prattle Definition To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
- English Word Prattle Definition Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.
- English Word Prattled Definition of Prattle
- English Word Prattlement Definition Prattle.
- English Word Prattler Definition One who prattles.
- English Word Prattling Definition of Prattle
- English Word Pravity Definition Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.
- English Word Prawn Definition Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus.
- English Word Praxinoscope Definition An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.
- English Word Praxis Definition Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object.
- English Word Praxis Definition An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
- English Word Pray Definition See Pry.
- English Word Pray Definition To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
- English Word Pray Definition To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
- English Word Pray Definition To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
- English Word Pray Definition To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
- English Word Prayed Definition of Pray
- English Word Prayer Definition One who prays; a supplicant.
- English Word Prayer Definition The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.
- English Word Prayer Definition The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer.