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Prate
v. i.
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To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
Prate
v. t.
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To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
Prate
n.
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Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
Prateful
a.
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Talkative.
Prater
n.
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One who prates.
Pratic
n.
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See Pratique.
Pratincole
n.
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Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidae, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.
Pratingly
adv.
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With idle talk; with loquacity.
Pratique
n.
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Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.
Pratique
n.
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Practice; habits.
Prattled
imp. & p. p.
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of Prattle
Prattle
v. i.
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To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
Prattle
v. t.
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To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
Prattle
n.
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Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.
Prattlement
n.
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Prattle.
Prattler
n.
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One who prattles.
Pravity
n.
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Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.
Prawn
n.
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Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus.
Praxinoscope
n.
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An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.
Praxis
n.
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Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object.
Praxis
n.
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An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
Pray
n. & v.
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See Pry.
Prayed
imp. & p. p.
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of Pray
Praying
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Pray
Pray
v. i.
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To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
Pray
v. t.
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To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
Pray
v. t.
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To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
Pray
v. t.
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To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
Prayer
n.
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One who prays; a supplicant.
Prayer
v. i.
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The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.