PPage 629
- English Word Production Definition That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius.
- English Word Production Definition The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
- English Word Productive Definition Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.
- English Word Productive Definition Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.
- English Word Productive Definition Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.
- English Word Productivity Definition The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
- English Word Productress Definition A female producer.
- English Word Productus Definition An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
- English Word Proeguminal Definition Serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal cause of disease.
- English Word Proem Definition Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude.
- English Word Proem Definition To preface.
- English Word Proembryo Definition The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.
- English Word Proembryo Definition The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
- English Word Proemial Definition Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.
- English Word Proemptosis Definition The addition of a day to the lunar calendar.
- English Word Proface Definition Much good may it do you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome.
- English Word Profanate Definition To profane.
- English Word Profanation Definition The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God.
- English Word Profanation Definition The act of treating with abuse or disrespect, or with undue publicity, or lack of delicacy.
- English Word Profane Definition Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.