Index of English words, starting with "pr"

(1) - Prostomium (n.) That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.

(1) - Prostrate (v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
(2) - Prostrate (v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
(3) - Prostrate (v. t.) to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
(4) - Prostrate (v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
(5) - Prostrate (a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(6) - Prostrate (a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
(7) - Prostrate (a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
(8) - Prostrate (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.

(1) - Prostration (n.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.
(2) - Prostration (n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits.
(3) - Prostration (n.) The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship.
(4) - Prostration (n.) The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.