Chapter 1210

Prin"prid`dle (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) The longtailed titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

Print <Xpage=1139>

Print (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Printed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Printing .] [Abbrev. fr. imprint . See Imprint , and Press to squeeze.] 1. To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.

A look will print a thought that never may remove. Surrey.

Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in that field young Edward's sword did print . Sir John Beaumont.

Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay. Roscommon.

2. To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.

Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod. Dryden.

3. Specifically: 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. To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico .

5. (Photog.) 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.

Printed goods , textile fabrics printed in patterns, especially cotton cloths, or calicoes.

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Print , v. i. 1. To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.

2. To publish a book or an article.

From the moment he prints , he must except to hear no more truth. Pope.

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Print , n. [See Print , v. , Imprint , n. ] 1. 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.

Where print of human feet was never seen. Dryden.

2. A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print .

3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter .

4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print ; large print ; this line is in print .

5. That which is produced by printing. Specifically: (a) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate . "The prints which we see of antiquities." Dryden . (b) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical . Addison . (c) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth . (d) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.

6. (Founding) A core print. See under Core .

Blue print , a copy in white lines on a blue ground, of a drawing, plan, tracing, etc., or a positive picture in blue and white, from a negative, produced by photographic printing on peculiarly prepared paper. <-- also blueprint. Long used for reproduction of architectural drawings, now also applied to an architectural plan of any color, and thus (Fig.) a plan, or outline of a plan of action; as, blueprint for action --> -- In print . (a) In a printed form; issued from the press; published . Shak. (b) To the letter; with accurateness. "All this I speak in print ." Shak. -- Out of print . See under Out . -- Print works , a factory where cloth, as calico, is printed.

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Print"a-ble (?) , a. Worthy to be published. [R.]

Printer <Xpage=1139>

Print"er (?) , n. One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.

Printer's devil , Printer's gauge . See under Devil , and Gauge . -- Printer's ink . See Printing ink , below.

Printery <Xpage=1139>

Print"er*y (?) , n. A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office. [R.]

Printing <Xpage=1139>

Print"ing , n. The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.

Block printing . See under Block . -- Printing frame (Photog.) , a shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which prints are made by exposure to light. -- Printing house , a printing office. -- Printing ink , ink used in printing books, newspapers, etc. It is composed of lampblack or ivory black mingled with linseed or nut oil, made thick by boiling and burning. Other ingredients are employed for the finer qualities. Ure . -- Printing office , a place where books, pamphlets, or newspapers, etc., are printed. -- Printing paper , paper used in the printing of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and the like, as distinguished from writing paper, wrapping paper, etc. -- Printing press , a press for printing, books, newspaper, handbills, etc. -- Printing wheel , a wheel with letters or figures on its periphery, used in machines for paging or numbering, or in ticket-printing machines, typewriters, etc.; a type wheel.

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Print"less , a. Making no imprint.

Milton.

Printless <Xpage=1139>

Print"less , a. Making no imprint.

Milton.

Printshop <Xpage=1139>

Print"shop` , n. A shop where prints are sold.

Prior <Xpage=1139>

Pri"or (?) , a. [L. prior former, previous, better, superior; compar. corresponding to primus first, and pro for. See Former , and cf. Prime , a. , and Pre- , Pro- .] Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.

Prior <Xpage=1139>

Pri"or , n. [OE. priour , OF. priour , prior , priur , F. prieur , from L. prior former, superior. See Prior , a. ] (Eccl.) The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.

Conventical , &or; Conventual , prior , a prior who is at the head of his own house. See the Note under Priory . -- Claustral prior , an official next in rank to the abbot in a monastery; prior of the cloisters.

Priorate <Xpage=1139>

Pri"or*ate (?) , n. [LL. prioratus : cf. F. priorat .] The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.

T. Warton.

Prioress <Xpage=1139>

Pri"or*ess , n. [OF. prioresse .] A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.

Priority <Xpage=1139>

Pri*or"i*ty (?) , n. [Cf. F. priorit\'82 . See Prior , a. ] 1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application .

2. Precedence; superior rank.

Shak.

Priority of debts , a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.

Syn. -- Antecedence; precedence; pre\'89minence.

Priorly <Xpage=1139>

Pri"or*ly (?) , adv. Previously. [R.]

Geddes.

Priorship <Xpage=1139>

Pri"or*ship , n. The state or office of prior; priorate.

Priory <Xpage=1139>

Pri"o*ry (?) , n. ; pl. Priories (#) . [Cf. LL. prioria . See Prior , n. ] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell , and obedience . See Cell , 2.

&hand; Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot.

Alien priory , a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country.

Syn. -- See Cloister .

Pris <Xpage=1139>

Pris (?) , n. See Price , and 1st Prize . [Obs.]

Prisage <Xpage=1139>

Pris"age (?; 48) , n. [OF. prisage a praising, valuing, taxing; cf. LL. prisagium prisage; or from F. prise a taking, capture, prize. See Prize .] (O. Eng. Law) (a) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. Blackstone . (b) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

Priscillianist <Xpage=1139>

Pris*cil"lian*ist (?) , n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Priscillian , bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

Prise <Xpage=1139>

Prise (?) , n. An enterprise. [Obs.]

Spenser.

Prise <Xpage=1139>

Prise , n. & v. See Prize , n. , 5. Also Prize , v. t.

Priser <Xpage=1139>

Pris"er (?) , n. See 1st Prizer . [Obs.]

Prism <Xpage=1139>

Prism (?) , n. [L. prisma , Gr. <?/, fr. <?/, <?/, to saw: cf. F. prisme .] 1. (Geom.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.

&hand; Prisms of different forms are often named from the figure of their bases; as, a triangular prism , a quadrangular prism , a rhombic prism , etc.

2. (Opt.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.

3. (Crystallog.) A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form , n. , 13.

Achromatic prism (Opt.) , a prism composed usually of two prisms of different transparent substances which have unequal dispersive powers, as two different kinds of glass, especially flint glass and crown glass, the difference of dispersive power being compensated by giving them different refracting angles, so that, when placed together so as to have opposite relative positions, a ray of light passed through them is refracted or bent into a new position, but is free from color. -- Nicol's prism , Nicol prism . [So called from Wm. Nicol , of Edinburgh, who first proposed it.] (Opt.) An instrument for experiments in polarization, consisting of a rhomb of Iceland spar, which has been bisected obliquely at a certain angle, and the two parts again joined with transparent cement, so that the ordinary image produced by double refraction is thrown out of the field by total reflection from the internal cemented surface, and the extraordinary, or polarized, image alone is transmitted.

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Pris*mat"ic (?) , Pris*mat"ic*al (?) , a. [Cf. F. prismatique .] 1. Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage .

2. Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism; as, prismatic colors .

3. (Crystallog.) Same as Orthorhombic .

Prismatic borax (Chem.) , borax crystallized in the form of oblique prisms, with ten molecules of water; -- distinguished from octahedral borax . -- Prismatic colors (Opt.) , the seven colors into which light is resolved when passed through a prism; primary colors. See Primary colors , under Color . -- Prismatic compass (Surv.) , a compass having a prism for viewing a distant object and the compass card at the same time. -- Prismatic spectrum (Opt.) , the spectrum produced by the passage of light through a prism.

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Pris*mat"ic*al*ly , adv. In the form on manner of a prism; by means of a prism.

Prismatoidal <Xpage=1139>

Pris`ma*toid"al (?) , a. [Gr. <?/, <?/, prism + -oid : F. prismato\'8bde .] Having a prismlike form.

Ure.

Prismoid <Xpage=1139>

Pris"moid (?) , n. [Cf. F. prismto\'8bde .] A body that approaches to the form of a prism.

Prismoidal <Xpage=1139>

Pris*moid"al (?) , a. Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids .

Prismy <Xpage=1139>

Pris"my (?) , a. Pertaining to a prism. [R.]

Prison <Xpage=1139>

Pris"on (?; 277) , n. [F., fr. L. prehensio , prensio , a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre , prendere , to lay hold of, to seize. See Prehensile , and cf. Prize , n. , Misprision .] 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o<?/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.

Bring my soul out of prison , that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. 7.

The tyrant \'92olus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds. Dryden.

2. Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.

Prison bars , &or; Prison base . See Base , n. , 24. -- Prison breach . (Law) See Note under 3d Escape , n. , 4. -- Prison house , a prison. Shak. -- Prison ship (Naut.) , a ship fitted up for the confinement of prisoners. -- Prison van , a carriage in which prisoners are conveyed to and from prison.

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Pris"on , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Prisoned (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prisoning .] 1. To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

The prisoned eagle dies for rage. Sir W. Scott.

His true respect will prison false desire. Shak.

2. To bind (together); to enchain. [Obs.]

Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led Together prisoned . Robert of Brunne.

Prisoner <Xpage=1139>

Pris"on*er (?) , n. [F. prisonnier .] 1. One who is confined in a prison.

Piers Plowman.

2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court .

Bouvier.

Prisoner of Hope thou art, -- look up and sing. Keble.

Prisoner's base . See Base , n. , 24.

Prisonment <Xpage=1139>

Pris"on*ment (?) , n. Imprisonment. [Obs.]

Shak.

Pristinate <Xpage=1139>

Pris"tin*ate (?) , a. Pristine; primitive. [Obs.] " Pristinate idolatry."

Holinshed.

Pristine <Xpage=1139>

Pris"tine (?) , a. [L. pristinus , akin to prior : cf. F. pristin . See Prior , a. ] Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

Pritch <Xpage=1139>

Pritch (?) , n. [See Prick .] 1. A sharp-pointed instrument; also, an eelspear. [Prov. Eng.]

2. Pique; offense. [Obs.]

D. Rogers.

Pritchel <Xpage=1139>

Pritch"el (?) , n. A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.

Prithee <Xpage=1139>

Prith"ee (?) , interj. A corruption of pray thee ; as, I prithee ; generally used without I . <-- = pray (interj.). See I pray, under pray, v.i. -->

Shak.

What was that scream for, I prithee ? L'Estrange.

Prithee , tell me, Dimple-chin. E. C. Stedman.

Prittle-prattle <Xpage=1139>

Prit"tle-prat`tle (?) , n. [See Prattle .] Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule. [Colloq.]

Abp. Bramhall.

Privacy <Xpage=1139>

Pri"va*cy (?) , n. ; pl. Privacies (#) . [See Private .] 1. The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.

2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.

Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe.

3. Concealment of what is said or done.

Shak.

4. A private matter; a secret.

Fuller.

5. See Privity , 2. [Obs.]

Arbuthnot.

Privado <Xpage=1139>

Pri*va"do (?) , n. [Sp., fr. L. privatus . See Private .] A private friend; a confidential friend; a confidant. [Obs.]

Fuller.

Private <Xpage=1139>

Pri"vate (?; 48) , a. [L. privatus apart from the state, peculiar to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward (hence, alone, single) and akin to prae before. See Prior , a. , and cf. Deprive , Privy , a. ] 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.

2. Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.

Reason . . . then retires Into her private cell when nature rests. Milton.

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3. Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.

Shak.

A private person may arrest a felon. Blackstone.

4. Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.

5. Having secret or private knowledge; privy. [Obs.]

Private act &or; statute , a statute exclusively for the settlement of private and personal interests, of which courts do not take judicial notice; -- opposed to a general law , which operates on the whole community<-- also, private law vs. public law -->. -- Private nuisance &or; wrong . See Nuisance . -- Private soldier . See Private , n. , 5. -- Private way , a right of private passage over another man's ground. <-- also, a road on private land, contrasted with public road. -->

Kent.

Private <Xpage=1140>

Pri"vate (?) , n.