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  • English Word Probationership Definition The state of being a probationer; novitiate.
  • English Word Probationship Definition A state of probation.
  • English Word Probative Definition Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence.
  • English Word Probator Definition An examiner; an approver.
  • English Word Probator Definition One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.
  • English Word Probatory Definition Serving for trial; probationary.
  • English Word Probatory Definition Pertaining to, or serving for, proof.
  • English Word Probe Definition To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.
  • English Word Probe Definition Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.
  • English Word Probe Definition An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.
  • English Word Probe-pointed Definition Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.
  • English Word Probeagle Definition See Porbeagle.
  • English Word Probed Definition of Probe
  • English Word Probing Definition of Probe
  • English Word Probity Definition Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.
  • English Word Problem Definition A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.
  • English Word Problem Definition Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.
  • English Word Problematic Definition Alt. of Problematical
  • English Word Problematical Definition Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful.
  • English Word Problematist Definition One who proposes problems.
  • English Word Problematize Definition To propose problems.
  • English Word Proboscidate Definition Having a proboscis; proboscidial.
  • English Word Proboscidea Definition An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons.
  • English Word Proboscidean Definition Proboscidian.
  • English Word Proboscides Definition of Proboscis
  • English Word Proboscidial Definition Proboscidate.
  • English Word Proboscidian Definition Pertaining to the Proboscidea.
  • English Word Proboscidian Definition One of the Proboscidea.
  • English Word Proboscidifera Definition An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.
  • English Word Proboscidifera Definition A subdivision of the taenioglossate gastropods, including the fig-shells (Pyrula), the helmet shells (Cassis), the tritons, and allied genera.