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- English Word Protuberation Definition The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface.
- English Word Protuberous Definition Protuberant.
- English Word Protureter Definition The duct of a pronephros.
- English Word Protyle Definition The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements.
- English Word Proud Definition Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense
- English Word Proud Definition Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
- English Word Proud Definition Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.
- English Word Proud Definition Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.
- English Word Proud Definition Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.
- English Word Proudish Definition Somewhat proud.
- English Word Proudling Definition A proud or haughty person.
- English Word Proudly Definition In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully.
- English Word Proudness Definition The quality of being proud; pride.
- English Word Proustite Definition A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.
- English Word Provable Definition Capable of being proved; demonstrable.
- English Word Provand Definition Alt. of Proant
- English Word Provant Definition To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for.
- English Word Provant Definition Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior.
- English Word Prove Definition To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
- English Word Prove Definition To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
- English Word Prove Definition To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
- English Word Prove Definition To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
- English Word Prove Definition To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.
- English Word Prove Definition To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
- English Word Prove Definition To make trial; to essay.
- English Word Prove Definition To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
- English Word Prove Definition To succeed; to turn out as expected.
- English Word Provect Definition Carried forward; advanced.
- English Word Provection Definition A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename.
- English Word Proved Definition of Prove