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- English Word Proneness Definition The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.
- English Word Proneness Definition The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness.
- English Word Proneness Definition Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill.
- English Word Proneness Definition Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification.
- English Word Pronephric Definition Of or pertaining to the pronephros.
- English Word Pronephron Definition The head kidney. See under Head.
- English Word Pronephros Definition Alt. of Pronephron
- English Word Prong Definition A sharp-pointed instrument.
- English Word Prong Definition The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.
- English Word Prong Definition A sharp projection, as of an antler.
- English Word Prong Definition The fang of a tooth.
- English Word Prong-hoe Definition A hoe with prongs to break the earth.
- English Word Prongbuck Definition The springbuck.
- English Word Prongbuck Definition The pronghorn.
- English Word Pronged Definition Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.
- English Word Pronghorn Definition An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.
- English Word Pronity Definition Proneness; propensity.
- English Word Pronominal Definition Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.
- English Word Pronominalize Definition To give the effect of a pronoun to; as, to pronominalize the substantives person, people, etc.
- English Word Pronominally Definition In a pronominal manner/ with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.
- English Word Prononce Definition Strongly marked; decided, as in manners, etc.
- English Word Pronota Definition of Pronotum
- English Word Pronotary Definition See Prothonotary.
- English Word Pronotum Definition The dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
- English Word Pronoun Definition A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.
- English Word Pronounce Definition To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
- English Word Pronounce Definition To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
- English Word Pronounce Definition To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
- English Word Pronounce Definition To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
- English Word Pronounce Definition To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.