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- 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.
- English Word Prytanes Definition of Prytanis
- English Word Prytaneum Definition A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.
- English Word Prytanis Definition A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
- English Word Prytany Definition The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
- English Word Prythee Definition See Prithee.
- English Word Psalm Definition A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
- English Word Psalm Definition Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.
- English Word Psalm Definition To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises.
- English Word Psalmist Definition A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.
- English Word Psalmist Definition A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.