Definition of prig

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Prig (n.) A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow..

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Priggish :: Priggish (a.) Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.
Catawba :: Catawba (n.) A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape..
Easel :: Easel (n.) A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition..
Justice :: Justice (a.) The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness.
Ledger :: Ledger (n.) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight..
Euphonon :: Euphonon (n.) An instrument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.
Striction :: Strict (a.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters..
Step :: Step (v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast..
Sprightliness :: Sprightless (a.) Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.
Riser :: Riser (n.) Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like..
Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty.
Approaching :: Approaching (n.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach..
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
Palmyra :: Palmyra (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts..
Sprigging :: Sprigged (imp. & p. p.) of Spri.
Deliver :: Deliver (v. t.) Free; nimble; sprightly; active.
Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything..
Battlement :: Battlement (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
Coranto :: Coranto (n.) A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion..
Palus :: Palus (n.) One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.
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