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- English Word Prickpunch Definition A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
- English Word Prickshaft Definition An arrow.
- English Word Pricksong Definition Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down.
- English Word Prickwood Definition A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.
- English Word Pricky Definition Stiff and sharp; prickly.
- English Word Pride Definition A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
- English Word Pride Definition The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
- English Word Pride Definition A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
- English Word Pride Definition Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
- English Word Pride Definition That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
- English Word Pride Definition Show; ostentation; glory.
- English Word Pride Definition Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
- English Word Pride Definition Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
- English Word Pride Definition To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
- English Word Pride Definition To be proud; to glory.
- English Word Prided Definition of Pride
- English Word Prideful Definition Full of pride; haughty.
- English Word Prideless Definition Without pride.
- English Word Pridian Definition Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday.
- English Word Priding Definition of Pride
- English Word Pridingly Definition Proudly.
- English Word Prie Definition The plant privet.
- English Word Prie Definition To pry.
- English Word Pried Definition imp. & p. p. of Pry.
- English Word Pried Definition of Pry
- English Word Priedieu Definition A kneeling desk for prayers.
- English Word Prief Definition Proof.
- English Word Prier Definition One who pries; one who inquires narrowly and searches, or is inquisitive.
- English Word Priest Definition A presbyter elder; a minister
- English Word Priest Definition One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.