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- English Word Prunella Definition Alt. of Prunello
- English Word Prunelle Definition A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.
- English Word Prunello Definition A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.
- English Word Prunello Definition A species of dried plum; prunelle.
- English Word Pruner Definition One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.
- English Word Pruner Definition Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.
- English Word Pruniferous Definition Bearing plums.
- English Word Pruning Definition of Prune
- English Word Pruning Definition The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.
- English Word Pruning Definition That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings.
- English Word Prunus Definition A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.
- English Word Prurience Definition Alt. of Pruriency
- English Word Pruriency Definition The quality or state of being prurient.
- English Word Prurient Definition Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.
- English Word Pruriginous Definition Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo.
- English Word Prurigo Definition A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.
- English Word Pruritus Definition Itching.
- English Word Prussian Definition Of or pertaining to Prussia.
- English Word Prussian Definition A native or inhabitant of Prussia.
- English Word Prussiate Definition A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide.
- English Word Prussic Definition designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.
- English Word Prutenic Definition Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.
- English Word Pry Definition A lever; also, leverage.
- English Word Pry Definition To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.
- English Word Pry Definition To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.
- English Word Pry Definition Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
- English Word Pryan Definition See Prian.
- English Word Prying Definition of Pry
- English Word Prying Definition Inspecting closely or impertinently.
- English Word Pryingly Definition In a prying manner.