Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The prow or point of a cymba, or C-shaped sponge-spicule. When lobed or alate, the proræ are called
pteres . Seeptere. Sollas .
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Examples
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Bello victus, per tres dies sedit in prora navis, abstinens ab omni consortio, etiam Cleopatiae, postea se interfecit.
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Virro gives rancid oil to his poor guests as dressing to their salad: illud enim vestris datur alveolis quod canna Micipsarum prora subvexit acuta, propter quod Romae cum Boccare nemo lavatur, quod tutos etiam facit a serpentibus atris (v. 88).
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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At its sharp bow or prora there was a rostrum or beak of iron, like those of Roman and Carthaginian war-vessels, weighing forty thousand pounds.
Fagots from the campfire, Louis J Dupre 1881
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The boats themselves are long and narrow as now, but without the indented prora which has become universal; the sumptuary law of the Republic has not yet robbed them of colour, and instead of the present "coffin" we see canopies of gaily-hued stuffs supported on four light pillars.
Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860
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Didacticæ nostræ prora & puppis esto: Investigare, & invenire modum, quo
The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631
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Frangimtur rcmi: tum prora avcrtit, ct undis Dat latus: infcquitur cnmulo praeruptus aquae mons.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Talia jatenti ftridens aquilone procella dum adveria ferit, fludusque ad fidera tollit; nmguntnr remi: tum prora avertity et undis lat latos: infequitur cumulo praeruptus aqua mons.
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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IL 991. — cum —, in cuins prora Serapis ft. ni Im Neptuni columnae iropofira.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1793
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Impp.p. 279. fg - 8., ad cuius cltoum fedct fi« gnra, altera fl. in prora. n.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1793
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Has autcm iniagiiics tam in prora quam puppi coUocare confucverant. • quamvis nou ignorem viros niagnos, Scaligerum,
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