Pro*sil"i*en*cy (?), n. [L. prosilere to leap forth.] The act of
leaping forth or forward; projection. "Such prosiliency of relief."
Coleridge.
Pros"i*ly (?), adv. In a prosy manner.
Pros`i*met"ric*al (?), a. [Prose + metrical.] Consisting both of prose
and verse. Clarke.
||Pro*sim"i*Ê (?), n. pl. [NL. See Pro-. and Simia.] (Zoˆl.) Same as
||Lemuroidea.
Pros"i*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness;
tiresomeness.
Pros"ing, n. Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy
manner. Sir W. Scott.
Pros"ing*ly, adv. Prosily.
Pro*si"phon (?), n. [Pref. pro- for + siphon.] (Zoˆl.) A minute tube
found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true
siphon.
Pro*slav"er*y (?), a. [Pref. pro- + slavery.] Favoring slavery. -- n.
Advocacy of slavery.
Pros"o*branch (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Prosobranchiata.
||Pros`o*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; forward, further +
||&?; a gill.] (Zoˆl.) The highest division, or subclass, of gastropod
||mollusks, including those that have the gills situated anteriorly, or
||forward of the heart, and the sexes separate.
Pros"o*cúle (?), n. [Gr. &?; forward + &?; hollow.] (Anat.) The entire
cavity of the prosencephalon. B. G. Wilder.
||Pros`o*cú"li*a (?), n.; pl. Prosocúlle (#), [NL.] (Anat.) Same as
||Prosocúle.
Pros`o*di"a*cal (?), a. Prosodical.
Pros`o*di"a*cal*ly, adv. Prosodically.
Pro*so"di*al (?), a. Prosodical.
Pro*so"di*an (?), n. A prosodist. Rush.
Pro*sod"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. prosodique, L. prosodiacus.] Of or
pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody. --
Pro*sod"ic*al*ly, adv.
Pros"o*dist (?), n. One skilled in prosody.
Pros"o*dy (?), n. [L. prosodia the tone or accent of a syllable, Gr.
&?; a song sung to, or with, an accompanying song, the accent
accompanying the pronunciation; &?; to + &?; song, ode: cf. F.
prosodie. See Ode.] That part of grammar which treats of the quantity
of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical
composition.
||Pro*so"ma (?), n.; pl. Prosomata. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; before + &?;,
||&?;, body.] (Zoˆl.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a
||cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod.
||Pros`o*pal"gi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; face + &?; pain.] (Med.)
||Facial neuralgia.
||Pros`o*po*ceph`a*la (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. pro`swpon face,
||appearance + &?; head.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Scaphopoda.
Pros`o*po*lep"sy (?), n. [Gr. &?;; pro`swpon a face, a person + &?; a
taking, receiving, &?; to take.] Respect of persons; especially, a
premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his
external appearance. [R.] Addison.
||Pros`o*po*pú"ia (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;; pro`swpon a face, a person
||+ &?; to make.] (Rhet.) A figure by which things are represented as
||persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated
||beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as
||speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present.
||It includes personification, but is more extensive in its
||signification.
||Pros`o*pul`mo*na"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; forward + L. pulmo
||a lung.] (Zoˆl.) A division of pulmonate mollusks having the
||breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.
Pros"pect (?), n. [L. prospectus, fr. prospicere, prospectum, to look
forward; pro before, forward + specere, spicere, look, to see: cf. OF.
prospect. See Spy, v., and cf. Prospectus.] 1. That which is embraced
by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view;
scene; outlook.
His eye discovers unaware The goodly prospect of some foreign land.
Milton.
2. Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape;
hence, a sketch of a landscape.