Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The prow or fore part of a ship. [Poetical and rare.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Poetic The prow or fore part of a ship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun poetic, obsolete The
prow or fore part of aship .
Etymologies
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Examples
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DrewEnela, coma, averiioa to food or me - dicine, and Tominng, ia the confluent Imall* pox, generally prore mortal on or before the fourteenth day of the eruption.
Observations on the Small-pox and Inoculation: To which is Prefixed a Criticism Upon Dr. Robert ... 1791
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III. iii.260 (442,7) If I do prore her haggard] A _haggard_ hark, is a
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Your Majestie, that is soe create a schollek, and so juditious, cannot but know, how impossible it is to prore a negative; and therefore most humblie 'laying at your Majestie's feete this my humble pe - tition, I rest your Majesty's loyall subject, etc. "
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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