prince | adjective (a.) The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. |
| adjective (a.) The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. |
| adjective (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. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family. |
| adjective (a.) The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is preeminent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. |
| verb (v. i.) To play the prince. |
mince | noun (n.) A short, precise step; an affected manner. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat. |
| verb (v. t.) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of. |
| verb (v. t.) To affect; to make a parade of. |
| verb (v. i.) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner. |
| verb (v. i.) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner. |
quince | noun (n.) The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves. |
| noun (n.) a quince tree or shrub. |
| noun (n.) The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves. |
| noun (n.) a quince tree or shrub. |
province | noun (n.) A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy. |
| noun (n.) A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital. |
| noun (n.) A region of country; a tract; a district. |
| noun (n.) A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority. |
| noun (n.) The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere. |
| noun (n.) Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada. |
acceptance | noun (n.) The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. |
| noun (n.) State of being accepted; acceptableness. |
| noun (n.) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance. |
| noun (n.) The bill itself when accepted. |
| noun (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner. |
| noun (n.) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law. |
| noun (n.) Meaning; acceptation. |
advance | adjective (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. |
| verb (v. t.) To raise; to elevate. |
| verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote. |
| verb (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. |
| verb (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten. |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him. |
| verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods. |
| verb (v. t.) To extol; to laud. |
| verb (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me. |
| verb (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price. |
| verb (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted. |
| verb (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress. |
| verb (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office. |
| verb (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods. |
| verb (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. |
| verb (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand. |
allowance | noun (n.) Approval; approbation. |
| noun (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. |
| noun (n.) Acknowledgment. |
| noun (n.) License; indulgence. |
| noun (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. |
| noun (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. |
| noun (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. |
| noun (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced. |
appearance | noun (n.) The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me. |
| noun (n.) A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky. |
| noun (n.) Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. |
| noun (n.) Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. |
| noun (n.) The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. |
| noun (n.) Probability; likelihood. |
| noun (n.) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction. |
principal | noun (n.) A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant. |
| noun (n.) The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory. |
| noun (n.) A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety. |
| noun (n.) One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent. |
| noun (n.) A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous. |
| noun (n.) A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit. |
| noun (n.) The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing. |
| noun (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason. |
| noun (n.) A heirloom; a mortuary. |
| noun (n.) The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing. |
| noun (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned. |
| noun (n.) A principal or essential point or rule; a principle. |
| adjective (a.) Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. |
principle | noun (n.) Beginning; commencement. |
| noun (n.) A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause. |
| noun (n.) An original faculty or endowment. |
| noun (n.) A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate. |
| noun (n.) A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle. |
| noun (n.) Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill. |
print | noun (n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow. |
| noun (n.) A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print. |
| noun (n.) That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter. |
| noun (n.) Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print. |
| noun (n.) That which is produced by printing. |
| noun (n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate. |
| noun (n.) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical. |
| noun (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth. |
| noun (n.) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper. |
| noun (n.) A core print. See under Core. |
| verb (v. t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something. |
| verb (v. t.) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book. |
| verb (v. t.) To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico. |
| verb (v. t.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface. |
| verb (v. i.) To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like. |
| verb (v. i.) To publish a book or an article. |
price | noun (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost. |
| noun (n. & v.) Value; estimation; excellence; worth. |
| noun (n. & v.) Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry. |
| verb (v. t.) To pay the price of. |
| verb (v. t.) To set a price on; to value. See Prize. |
| verb (v. t.) To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. |
prick | noun (n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper. |
| noun (n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. |
| noun (n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off. |
| noun (n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. |
| noun (n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. |
| noun (n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. |
| noun (n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. |
| noun (n.) To render acid or pungent. |
| noun (n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. |
| noun (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. |
| noun (n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course. |
| noun (n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. |
| noun (n.) To nick. |
| verb (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. |
| verb (v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. |
| verb (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point. |
| verb (v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. |
| verb (v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin. |
| verb (v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. |
| verb (v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid. |
| verb (v.) The footprint of a hare. |
| verb (v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco. |
| verb (v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks. |
| verb (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback. |
| verb (v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. |
| verb (v. i.) To aim at a point or mark. |
pride | noun (n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper. |
| noun (n.) The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others. |
| noun (n.) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. |
| noun (n.) Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. |
| noun (n.) That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc. |
| noun (n.) Show; ostentation; glory. |
| noun (n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. |
| noun (n.) Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. |
| verb (v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively. |
| verb (v. i.) To be proud; to glory. |
practice | noun (n.) Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise. |
| noun (n.) Customary or constant use; state of being used. |
| noun (n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness. |
| noun (n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory. |
| noun (n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music. |
| noun (n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice. |
| noun (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense. |
| noun (n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. |
| noun (n.) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts. |
| verb (v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming. |
| verb (v. t.) To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine. |
| verb (v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music. |
| verb (v. t.) To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do. |
| verb (v. t.) To make use of; to employ. |
| verb (v. t.) To teach or accustom by practice; to train. |
| verb (v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano. |
| verb (v. i.) To learn by practice; to form a habit. |
| verb (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems. |
| verb (v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law. |
prejudice | noun (n.) Foresight. |
| noun (n.) An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge. |
| noun (n.) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment. |
| noun (n.) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment. |
| noun (n.) To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. |
| noun (n.) To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause. |
presence | noun (n.) The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence. |
| noun (n.) The place in which one is present; the part of space within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the intervention of anything that forbids intercourse. |
| noun (n.) Specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber. |
| noun (n.) The whole of the personal qualities of an individual; person; personality; especially, the person of a superior, as a sovereign. |
| noun (n.) An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility; noble company. |
| noun (n.) Port, mien; air; personal appearence. |
pretence | noun (n.) The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension. |
| noun (n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death. |
| noun (n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint. |
| noun (n.) Intention; design. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Pretenceless |
produce | noun (n.) That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors |
| noun (n.) agricultural products. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery. |
| verb (v. t.) To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares. |
| verb (v. t.) To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit. |
| verb (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore. |
| verb (v. t.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle. |
| verb (v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results. |
pronounce | noun (n.) Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. |
| verb (v. t.) To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly. |
| verb (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death. |
| verb (v. t.) To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration. |
| verb (v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud. |
| verb (v. i.) To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly. |
| verb (v. i.) To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence. |