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Prune
v. t.
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To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.
Prune
v. t.
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To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.
Prune
v. t.
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To preen; to prepare; to dress.
Prune
v. i.
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To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.
Prune
n.
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A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.
Prunella
n.
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Angina, or angina pectoris.
Prunella
n.
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Thrush.
Prunella
n.
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Alt. of Prunello
Prunello
n.
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A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.
Prunelle
n.
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A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.
Prunello
n.
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A species of dried plum; prunelle.
Pruner
n.
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One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.
Pruner
n.
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Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.
Pruniferous
a.
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Bearing plums.
Pruning
n.
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The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.
Pruning
n.
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That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings.
Prunus
n.
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A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.
Prurience
n.
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Alt. of Pruriency
Pruriency
n.
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The quality or state of being prurient.
Prurient
a.
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Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.
Pruriginous
a.
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Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo.
Prurigo
n.
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A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.
Pruritus
n.
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Itching.
Prussian
a.
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Of or pertaining to Prussia.
Prussian
n.
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A native or inhabitant of Prussia.
Prussiate
n.
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A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide.
Prussic
a.
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designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.
Prutenic
a.
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Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.
Pry
n.
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A lever; also, leverage.
Pried
imp. & p. p.
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of Pry