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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
Prying
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Pry
Pry
v. t.
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To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.
Pry
v. i.
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To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.
Pry
n.
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Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
Pryan
n.
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See Prian.
Prying
a.
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Inspecting closely or impertinently.
Pryingly
adv.
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In a prying manner.
Prytaneum
n.
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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.
Prytanes
pl.
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of Prytanis
Prytanis
n.
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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.
Prytany
n.
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The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
Prythee
interj.
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See Prithee.