Index of English words, starting with "pr"

(1) - Principle (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.
(2) - Principle (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.
(3) - Principle (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.
(4) - Principle (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.
(5) - Principle (n.) An original faculty or endowment.
(6) - Principle (n.) A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
(7) - Principle (n.) Beginning; commencement.

(1) - Principled (imp. & p. p.) of Principle

(1) - Prink (v. t.) To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically.
(2) - Prink (v. t.) To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.

(1) - Prinker (n.) One who prinks.

(1) - Print (n.) That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
(2) - Print (v. t.) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
(3) - Print (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.
(4) - Print (v. t.) To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
(5) - Print (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.
(6) - Print (v. i.) To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
(7) - Print (v. i.) To publish a book or an article.
(8) - Print (v. t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
(9) - Print (n.) A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
(10) - Print (n.) A core print. See under Core.
(11) - Print (n.) Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
(12) - Print (n.) That which is produced by printing.
(13) - Print (n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate.
(14) - Print (n.) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.
(15) - Print (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.
(16) - Print (n.) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.
(17) - Print (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.