The insulting tyrant prancing o'er the field.
Addison.
3. To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike
parade. Swift.
Pran"cer (?), n. A horse which prances.
Then came the captain . . . upon a brave prancer.
Evelyn.
Pran"di*al (?), a. [L. prandium a repast.] Of or pertaining to a
repast, especially to dinner.
||Pran"gos (?), n. [From the native name in Afghanistan.] (Bot.) A
||genus of umbelliferous plants, one species of which (P. pabularia),
||found in Thibet, Cashmere, Afghanistan, etc., has been used as fodder
||for cattle. It has decompound leaves with very long narrow divisions,
||and a highly fragrant smell resembling that of new clover hay.
Prank (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pranked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pranking.]
[Cf. E. prink, also G. prangen, prunken, to shine, to make a show, Dan.
prange, prunke, Sw. prunka, D. pronken.] To adorn in a showy manner; to
dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up
the body. See Prink.
In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank.
Spenser.
Prank, v. i. To make ostentatious show.
White houses prank where once were huts.