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Prisage
- - 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.
Prising
- verb - make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"
- regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity"
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
Prisons
- noun - a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
- a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
Pristis
- noun - type genus of the Pristidae
Prosaic
- adjective - Commonplace
- having or using the style or diction of prose as opposed to poetry; lacking imaginativeness or originality.
- lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "
- not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
Prosier
- adjective - lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
Prosily
- adverb - in a prosy manner; "somewhat prosily and repetitively expounded"
Prosing
- - Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
Prosody
- noun - (prosody) a system of versification
- the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
- the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
Prosoma
- - The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod.