Black cherry trees prosper even to considerable timber.
Evelyn.
Pros*per"i*ty (?), n. [F. prospÈritÈ, L. prosperitas. See Prosperous.]
The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or
desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise;
attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial
prosperity; national prosperity.
Now prosperity begins to mellow.
Shak.
Prosperities can only be enjoyed by them who fear not at all to
lose them.
Jer. Taylor.
Syn. -- Prosperousness; thrift; weal; welfare; well being; happiness.
Pros"per*ous (&?;), a. [L. prosperus or prosper, originally, answering
to hope; pro according to + the root of sperare to hope. See Despair.]
1. Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.
A happy passage and a prosperous wind.
Denham.
2. Being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything desirable;
making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as, a prosperous
voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or nation.
By moderation either state to bear Prosperous or adverse.
Milton.
Syn. -- Fortunate; successful; flourishing; thriving; favorable;
auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate.
-- Pros"per*ous*ly, adv. -- Pros"per*ous*ness, n.
||Pros"phy*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; to + &?; to grow.] (Med.)
||A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the
||eyelids to each other or to the eyeball. Dunglison.
Pro*spi"cience (?), n. [L. prospicientia, fr. prospiciens, p. pr. of
prospicere. See Prospect.] The act of looking forward.
Pros"tate (?), a.[Gr. &?; standing before, fr. &?; to set before; &?;
before + &?; to set: cf. F. prostate.] (Anat.) Standing before; --
applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is
situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra. -- n.
The prostate gland.
Pro*stat"ic (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.
Prostatic catheter. (Med.) See under Catheter.
||Pros`ta*ti"tis (?), n. [NL. See Prostate, and -itis.] (Med.)
||Inflammation of the prostate.
Pros`ter*na"tion (?), n. [F. See Prostration.] Dejection; depression.
[Obs.] Wiseman.
Pro*ster"num (?), n. [NL. See Pro- and Sternum.] (Zoˆl.) The ventral
plate of the prothorax of an insect.
||Pros"the*sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?; an addition, fr. &?; to put to,
||to add; &?; to + &?; to put, place.] 1. (Surg.) The addition to the
||human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting,
||as a log or an eye; -- called also prothesis.
2. (Gram.) The prefixing of one or more letters to the beginning of a
word, as in beloved.
Pros*thet"ic (?), a. [Cf. Gr. &?; disposed to add, &?; put on.] Of or
pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word.
Pros*tib"u*lous (?), a. [L. prostibulum prostitute.] Of or pertaining
to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious. [Obs.] Bale.
Pros"ti*tute (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prostituted (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Prostituting.] [L. prostitutus, p. p. of prostituere to prostitute; pro
before, forth + statuere to put, place. See Statute.] 1. To offer, as a
woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not
prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29.
2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or
indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official
powers. Milton.
Pros"ti*tute, a. [L. prostitutus, p. p.] Openly given up to lewdness;
devoted to base or infamous purposes.
Made bold by want, and prostitute for bread.