PPage 653
- English Word Pronunciator Definition One who pronounces; a pronouncer.
- English Word Pronunciatory Definition Of or pertaining to pronunciation; that pronounces.
- English Word Proocutorship Definition The office of a prolocutor.
- English Word Proof Definition Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
- English Word Proof Definition That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
- English Word Proof Definition The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
- English Word Proof Definition Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
- English Word Proof Definition A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
- English Word Proof Definition A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.
- English Word Proof Definition Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
- English Word Proof Definition Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
- English Word Proof Definition Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
- English Word Proof Definition Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
- English Word Proof-arm Definition To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself.
- English Word Proof-proof Definition Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong.
- English Word Proofless Definition Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved.
- English Word Proostraca Definition of Proostracum
- English Word Proostracum Definition The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone.
- English Word Prootic Definition In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule.
- English Word Prootic Definition A prootic bone.