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Poodle(n.) A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks
Pooh(interj.) Pshaw! pish! nonsense!—an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.
Pool(n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities
(v. i.) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction
(v. t.) To put together
Poon(n.) A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C
Poop(n.) A deck raised above the after part of a vessel
(v. i.) To make a noise
(v. t.) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.
Poor(n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus)
(superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit
Pop(adv.) Like a pop
(n.) An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it
(v. i.) To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire
(v. t.) To cause to pop
Pope(n.) A fish
Popgun(n.) A child's gun
Popinjay(n.) A parrot.
Poplar(n.) Any tree of the genus Populus
Poplin(n.) A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted
Popliteal(a.) Of or pertaining to the ham
Popper(n.) A dagger.
Poppet(n.) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
Popple(n.) Tares.
(v. i.) To move quickly up and down
Poppyhead(n.) A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc
Populace(n.) The common people
Popular(a.) Adapted to the means of the common people
Populate(a.) Populous.
(v. i.) To propagate.
(v. t.) To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization
Population(n.) The act or process of populating
Populism(n.) The political doctrines advocated by the People's party.
Populist(n.) A member of the People's party.
Populous(a.) Abounding in people
Porbeagle(n.) A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail
Porcelain(n.) A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America
Porch(n.) A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof
Porcine(a.) Of or pertaining to swine
Porcupine(n.) Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long
Pore(v.) A minute opening or passageway
(v. i.) To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying
Porgy(n.) Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) of the West Indies, the grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons) of Florida, and the red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) of Europe
Poriferan(n.) One of the Polifera.
Pork(n.) The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.
Pornographic(a.) Of or pertaining to pornography
Pornography(n.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
Porosity(n.) The quality or state of being porous
Porous(n.) Full of pores
Porphyritic(a.) Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline
Porphyry(n.) A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated
Porpoise(n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P
Porrect(a.) Extended horizontally
Porringer(n.) A porridge dish
Port(n.) A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol
(v.) A place where ships may ride secure from storms
(v. t.) To carry
Pose(a.) Standing still, with all the feet on the ground
(n.) A cold in the head
(v. i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery
(v. t.) The attitude or position of a person
Posit(v. t.) To assume as real or conceded
Posology(n.) The science or doctrine of doses
Poss(v. t.) To push
Post(a.) Hired to do what is wrong
(adv.) With post horses
(n.) A messenger who goes from station
(v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting
(v. t.) To assign to a station
Posy(n.) A brief poetical sentiment
Pot(n.) A crucible
(v. i.) To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.
(v. t.) To drain
Potable(a.) Fit to be drunk
(n.) A potable liquid
Potash(n.) The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties
Potassium(n.) An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc
Potation(n.) A draught.
Potato(n.) A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food
Potboiler(n.) A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living
Potency(n.) The quality or state of being potent
Potent(a.) Having great authority, control, or dominion
(n.) A prince
Pother(n.) Bustle
(v. i.) To make a bustle or stir
(v. t.) To harass and perplex
Pothole(n.) A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock
Pothook(n.) An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.
Potion(n.) A draught
(v. t.) To drug.
Potlatch(n.) Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment
Potluck(n.) Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.
Potoroo(n.) Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania
Potpie(n.) A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.
Potpourri(n.) A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room.
Potsherd(n.) A piece or fragment of a broken pot.
Potstone(n.) A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.
Pott(n.) A size of paper.
Pouch(n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
(v. t.) To pocket
Poulard(n.) A pullet from which the ovaries have been removed to produce fattening
Poult(n.) A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.
Pounce(n.) A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone
(v. i.) To fall suddenly and seize with the claws
(v. t.) A punch or stamp.
Pound(n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4
(v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running
(v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating
Pour(a.) Poor.
(n.) A stream, or something like a stream
(v. i.) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream
(v. t.) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it
Poussette(n.) A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.
(v. i.) To perform a certain movement in a dance.
Pout(n.) A sullen protrusion of the lips
(v. i.) To protrude.
Poverty(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness
Powder(n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.
(v. i.) To be reduced to powder
(v. t.) To reduce to fine particles
Power(n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted
Powwow(v. i.) Hence: To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting.
Pox(n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases
(v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
Practicable(a.) Capable of being used
Practical(a.) Capable of being turned to use or account
Practice(n.) Actual performance
(v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment
(v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually
Practitioner(n.) A sly or artful person.
Praemunire(n.) The offense of introducing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom
Praenomen(n.) The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc
Pragmatic(n.) A solemn public ordinance or decree.
Pragmatism(n.) The quality or state of being pragmatic
Prairial(n.) The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18
Prairie(n.) A meadow or tract of grass
Praise(v.) Commendation for worth
Prakrit(n.) Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit
Praline(n.) A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp
Pralltriller(n.) A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale
Prance(v. i.) To ride on a prancing horse
Prandial(a.) Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.
Prank(a.) Full of gambols or tricks.
(n.) A gay or sportive action
(v. i.) To make ostentatious show.
(v. t.) To adorn in a showy manner
Prase(n.) A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.
Prate(n.) Talk to little purpose
(v. i.) To talk much and to little purpose
(v. t.) To utter foolishly
Pratincole(n.) Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidae, allied to the plovers
Pratique(n.) Practice
Prattle(n.) Trifling or childish tattle
(v. i.) To talk much and idly
(v. t.) To utter as prattle
Prawn(n.) Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae
Praxis(n.) An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
Pray(v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired
(v. t.) To address earnest request to
Preach(v.) A religious discourse.
(v. i.) To give serious advice on morals or religion
(v. t.) To advise or recommend earnestly.
Preadamite(n.) An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.
Preamble(n.) A introductory portion
(v. t. & i.) To make a preamble to
Prearrange(v. t.) To arrange beforehand.
Prebend(n.) A payment or stipend
Precarious(a.) Depending on the will or pleasure of another
Precaution(n.) A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success
(v. t.) To take precaution against.
Precede(v. t.) To cause to be preceded
Preceding(a.) Going before
Precentor(n.) A leader of a choir
Precept(v. t.) To teach by precepts.
Precession(n.) The act of going before, or forward.
Precinct(n.) A district within certain boundaries
Preciosity(n.) Fastidious refinement, esp. in language
Precious(a.) Of great price
Precipice(n.) A headlong steep
Precipitancy(n.) The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate
Precipitant(a.) Falling or rushing headlong
(n.) Any force or reagent which causes the formation of a precipitate.
Precipitate(a.) Ending quickly in death
(n.) An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold
(v. i.) To dash or fall headlong.
(v. t.) To separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate
Precipitation(n.) A deposit on the earth of hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow
Precipitous(a.) Hasty
Precise(a.) Having determinate limitations
Precisian(n.) An overprecise person
Precision(n.) The quality or state of being precise
Preclude(v.) To put a barrier before
Precocious(a.) Developed more than is natural or usual at a given age
Precognition(n.) A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.
Preconceive(v. t.) To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand
Preconception(n.) The act of preconceiving
Preconcert(n.) Something concerted or arranged beforehand
(v. t.) To concert or arrange beforehand
Precondition(n.) A previous or antecedent condition
Preconscious(a.) Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.
Precursive(a.) Preceding
Precursor(n.) One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach
Predate(v. t.) To date anticipation
Predation(n.) The act of pillaging.
Predatory(a.) Characterized by plundering
Predecease(n.) The death of one person or thing before another.
(v. t.) To die sooner than.
Predecessor(n.) One who precedes
Predella(n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar
Predestinarian(a.) Of or pertaining to predestination
(n.) One who believes in or supports the doctrine of predestination.
Predestinate(a.) Predestinated
(v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain
Predestination(n.) The act of predestinating.
Predestine(v. t.) To decree beforehand
Predeterminate(a.) Determined beforehand
Predetermine(v. i.) To determine beforehand.
(v. t.) To determine (something) beforehand.
Predial(a.) Attached to land or farms
Predicable(a.) Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something
(n.) Anything affirmable of another
Predicament(n.) A class or kind described by any definite marks
Predicant(a.) Predicating
(n.) One who predicates, affirms, or proclaims
Predicate(a.) Predicated.
(v. i.) To affirm something of another thing
(v. t.) That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink
Predicatory(a.) Affirmative
Predict(n.) A prediction.
(v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand
Predigest(v. t.) To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.
Predilection(n.) A previous liking
Predispose(v. t.) To dispose or incline beforehand
Predisposition(n.) Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose
Predominance(n.) The quality or state of being predominant
Predominant(a.) Having the ascendency over others
Predominate(v. i.) To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority
(v. t.) To rule over
Preeminent(a.) Eminent above others
Preempt(v. t. & i.) To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States
Preen(n.) A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.
Preestablish(v. t.) To establish beforehand.
Preexist(v. i.) To exist previously
Preface(n.) Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay
(v. i.) To make a preface.
(v. t.) To introduce by a preface
Prefatory(a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface
Prefect(n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc
Prefer(v. t.) To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one
Prefiguration(n.) The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.
Prefigure(v. t.) To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes
Prefix(n.) That which is prefixed
(v. t.) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing
Preform(v. t.) To form beforehand, or for special ends.
Prefrontal(a.) Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull
(n.) A prefrontal bone or scale.
Preglacial(a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Pregnable(a.) Capable of being entered, taken, or captured
Pregnancy(n.) Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc
Pregnant(a.) Affording entrance
(n.) A pregnant woman.
Prehensile(n.) Adapted to seize or grasp
Prehension(n.) The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.
Prehistoric(a.) Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins
Preignition(n.) Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed
Prejudge(v. t.) To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination
Prejudice(n.) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment
Prejudicial(a.) Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices
Prelacy(n.) The office or dignity of a prelate
Prelate(n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy
(v. i.) To act as a prelate.
Prelatism(n.) Prelacy
Prelect(v. i.) To discourse publicly
(v. t.) To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.
Prelibation(n.) A pouring out, or libation, before tasting.
Preliminary(a.) Introductory
(n.) That which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business
Prelude(v. i.) To play an introduction or prelude
(v. t.) An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter
Premature(a.) Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence
Premaxilla(n.) A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone
Premeditate(a.) Premeditated
(v. i.) To think, consider, deliberate, or revolve in the mind, beforehand.
(v. t.) To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand
Premeditation(n.) The act of meditating or contriving beforehand
Premier(a.) First
(n.) The first minister of state
Premillennial(a.) Previous to the millennium.
Premise(n.) A piece of real estate
(v. i.) To make a premise
Premiss(n.) Premise.
Premium(n.) A reward or recompense
Premolar(a.) Situated in front of the molar teeth.
(n.) An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar.
Premonition(n.) Previous warning, notice, or information
Prenatal(a.) Being or happening before birth.
Prenotion(n.) A notice or notion which precedes something else in time
Preoccupancy(n.) The act or right of taking possession before another
Preoccupation(n.) Anticipation of objections.
Preoccupy(v. t.) To prepossess
Preordain(v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain.
Preparation(n.) Accomplishment
Preparative(a.) Tending to prepare or make ready
(n.) That which has the power of preparing, or previously fitting for a purpose
Preparatory(a.) Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation
Prepare(n.) Preparation.
(v. i.) To make all things ready
(v. t.) To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition
Prepay(v. t.) To pay in advance, or beforehand
Prepense(v. i.) To deliberate beforehand.
(v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand
Preponderant(a.) Preponderating
Preponderate(v. i.) To exceed in weight
(v. t.) To cause to prefer
Preposition(n.) A proposition
Prepositive(a.) Put before
(n.) A prepositive word.
Prepossess(v. t.) To preoccupy, as ground or land
Preposterous(a.) Contrary to nature or reason
Prepotency(n.) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring
Prepotent(a.) Characterized by prepotency.
Prepuce(n.) The foreskin.
Prerequisite(a.) Previously required
(n.) Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.
Prerogative(n.) An exclusive or peculiar privilege
Presage(v. i.) To form or utter a prediction
(v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power
Presbyterate(n.) A presbytery
Presbyterial(a.) Presbyterian.
Presbyterian(a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters
(n.) One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters
Presbytery(n.) A body of elders in the early Christian church.
Prescience(n.) Knowledge of events before they take place
Prescient(a.) Having knowledge of coming events
Prescind(v. t.) To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis.
Prescribe(v. i.) To claim by prescription
(v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient
Prescript(a.) Directed
(n.) A medical prescription.
Preselect(v. t.) To select beforehand.
Presence(n.) An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility
Present(a.) A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense.
(n.) Anything presented or given
(v. i.) To appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination
Preservable(a.) Capable of being preserved
Preservation(n.) The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe
Preservative(a.) Having the power or quality of preserving
(n.) That which preserves, or has the power of preserving
Preserve(n.) A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.
(v. i.) To make preserves.
(v. t.) To keep or save from injury or destruction
Preside(v. i.) To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority
Presidio(n.) A place of defense
Presignify(v. t.) To intimate or signify beforehand
Press(n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
(v.) To drive with violence
(v. i.) To exert pressure
Prestidigitation(n.) Legerdemain
Prestige(v.) Delusion
Prestigious(a.) Practicing tricks
Prestissimo(adv.) Very quickly
Presto(a.) Quickly
Presumable(a.) Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true
Presumably(adv.) In a presumable manner
Presume(v. i.) To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof
(v. t.) To assume or take beforehand
Presumption(n.) Ground for presuming
Presumptive(a.) Based on presumption or probability
Presumptuous(a.) Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty
Presuppose(v. t.) To suppose beforehand
Presystolic(a.) Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart
Pretence(n.) Intention
Pretend(v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing
(v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else
Pretension(n.) A claim made, whether true or false
Pretentious(a.) Full of pretension
Preterhuman(a.) More than human.
Preterit(a.) Belonging wholly to the past
(n.) The preterit
Pretermit(v. t.) To pass by
Preternatural(a.) Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous
Pretext(n.) Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive
Pretor(n.) A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans.
Pretty(adv.) In some degree
(superl.) Affectedly nice
Pretzel(n.) A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.
Prevail(v. i.) To be in force
Prevalence(n.) The quality or condition of being prevalent
Prevalent(a.) Gaining advantage or superiority
Prevaricate(v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution
(v. t.) To evade by a quibble
Prevarication(n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it
Prevenient(a.) Going before
Prevent(v. i.) To come before the usual time.
(v. t.) To be beforehand with
Previous(a.) Going before in time
Previse(v. t.) To foresee.
Prevision(n.) Foresight
Prey(n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence
Priapism(n.) More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire
Price(n. & v.) Reward
(v. t.) To ask the price of
Pricker(n.) A priming wire
Pricket(n.) A buck in his second year.
Prickle(n.) A kind of willow basket
(v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.
Prickly(a.) Full of sharp points or prickles
Pride(n.) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one
(v. i.) To be proud
(v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem
Prier(n.) One who pries
Priest(n.) A presbyter
(v. t.) To ordain as priest.
Prig(n.) A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
(v. i.) To haggle about the price of a commodity
(v. t.) To cheapen.
Prill(n.) A nugget of virgin metal.
(v. i.) To flow.
Prim(a.) Formal
(n.) The privet.
(v. i.) To dress or act smartly.
(v. t.) To deck with great nicety
Prince(a.) A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only
(v. i.) To play the prince.
Principal(a.) Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree
(n.) A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund
Principate(n.) Principality
Principle(n.) A fundamental truth
(v. t.) To equip with principles
Prink(v. t.) To dress or adjust one's self for show
Print(n.) A core print.
(v. i.) To publish a book or an article.
(v. t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
Prior(a.) First, precedent, or superior in the order of cognition, reason or generality, origin, development, rank, etc
Prise(n.) An enterprise.
Prism(n.) A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis.
Prison(n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty
(v. t.) To bind (together)
Pristine(a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state
Prithee(interj.) A corruption of pray thee
Privacy(n.) A place of seclusion from company or observation
Private(a.) Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest
(n.) A common soldier
Privation(n.) The act of depriving, or taking away
Privative(a.) Causing privation
(n.) A privative prefix or suffix.
Privet(n.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges
Privilege(n.) A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor
(v. t.) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger
Privily(adv.) In a privy manner
Privity(a.) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction
Privy(a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction
(n.) A necessary house or place
Prize(n.) A contest for a reward
(v. t.) To move with a lever
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