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A type of concert in which a considerable portion of the audience stand in an open area in the concert-room floor. Promenade Concerts (Proms, as they are familiarly called) were started at Drury Lane and Covent Garden in 1840, but it was not until 1895 that they became a feature of London musical life under the conductorship of Sir Henry Wood (1869-1944) at the Queen's Hall.
The vital principle ; the fire with which Prometheus quickened into life his clay images.
A place or situation of great happiness or prosperity
The best ale at Magdalen College, Oxford.
A term of great endearment, when, after the battle of Waterloo, the Prussians were immensely popular in England. Sam Weller, in Pickwick Papers, addresses his father as "Veil, my Prooshan Blue.
A protogen.
A blow. As, "a PROP on the nose,"—more street slang than pugilistic.
Support or hold something up to prevent it from falling or failing
To drink at a bar, typically for an extended period
A man who "sneaks," or rather snatches, pins from gentlemen’s scarves.
Very, exceedingly, sometimes used ironically; "you are a PROPER nice fellow," meaning a great scamp. A "PROPER man" generally means a perfect man, as far as can be known.
To make a property of any one; to make him a conveniency, tool, or cat's paw; to use him as one's own.
The prophet; the Cock at Temple Bar: so called, in 1788, by the bucks of the town of the inferior order.
Someone who predicts or warns of bad things happening
Stage properties.—Theatrical.
A water-closet. Abbreviated form of πρὸς τινα τόπον. Some say, πρὸς τον τόπον.—Oxford University.
Advantages and disadvantages of something
F. J. Robinson, Earl of Ripon (1782-1859), Chancellor of the Ex- chequer in 1823, so called by Cobbett. In 1825 he boasted in the House of the prosperity of the nation, and his boast was not yet cold when a great financial crisis occurred.
To break in or instruct a stage-infatuated youth. Also, to spunge upon a comrade or stranger for drink. In this latter capacity the word is in connexion with prostitute, a PROSSER being considered a most degraded being, and the word being supposed by many to represent a man who lives on a woman’s prostitution.
prostitute
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
It carried a rude likeness of the cardinal. Cp. GREYBEARD. Belle (bel) (Fr.). A beauty.
A protogen.
The cock was sacred to Minerva, and also to the sun and moon, and it would be impious to offer a sacrilegious offering to the gods. What is already consecrated to God cannot be em- ployed in sacrifice.
Desirous of copulation. A proud bitch; a bitch at heat, or desirous of a dog.
Extremely proud and satisfied with oneself
Very proud.
Show oneself to be a certain thing through experience or evidence
He from whom any money is taken on the highway: perhaps provider, or provider. CANT.
Rural deans are subsidiary officers of archdeacons. The title ~Dean" is also borne by certain resident Fellows at English Universities who have special functions; by the head of Christ Church, Oxford, and, in Scotland, by the President of the Faculty of Advocates (Dean of Faculty), and certain magistrates (Dean of Guild). In the U.S.A.
Mr. Prunella; a parson: parson's gowns being frequently made of prunella.
So called because it was dis- covered by a Prussian, viz. Diesbach, a colour- man of Berlin, in 1704.
And in the same hall was also drawn up The Treaty of Versailles, the treaty made after World War I between the Allied states, 26 in number, on the one part, and Germany on the other.
to be careful with details and manners
See ACROSTIC POETRY. Abelites (ab'elltz), Abelians, or Abelonians.
A "Ranter," one who sings at a conventicle. See BRISKET-BEATER.
To outsmart.
Excited or motivated, often for a challenge or performance
Tactics used to demoralize or intimidate an enemy
Or PUBLIC, a public-house; "what PUB do you use?" i.e., which inn or public-house do you frequent?
Short for Lat. infra dig- nitatem, beneath (one's) dignity.
A person who shares expert knowledge with the general public
A prostitute: because, like that paper, she is open to all parties.
Swell mobsmen who pretend to be Dissenting preachers, and harangue in the open air to attract a crowd for their confederates to rob.
Government funds or money
Northumberland, Cum- berland, Westmorland, and Durham are not included, though parts of Westmorland and Cumberland are taken.
Transportation services available to the general public
Much of a nation's his- tory, and more of its manners and feelings,, may be gleaned from its public-house signs. A very large number of them are selected out of compliment to the lord of the manor, either because he is the "great man" of the neigh- bourhood, or because the proprietor is some servant whom "it delighted the lord to honour.
Someone who seeks and enjoys public attention
Produce research or be terminated
buddy.
The anus.
All in a pucker; in a dishabille. Also in a fright; as, she was in a terrible pucker.
Poor or bad temper, difficulty, déshabillé. PUCKER UP, to get in a bad temper.
Water impregnated with alum, or other astringents, used by old experienced traders to counterfeit virginity.
To seize, to take hold of. From the Hindostanee, PUCKERNA.—Anglo-Indian.
Penis.
In good time, or at the beginning of a meal: pudding formerly making the first dish. To give the crows a pudding; to die. You must eat some cold pudding, to settle your love.
A stupid fellow, one whose brains are all in confusion.