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Definition of proa

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Proa (n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known..

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Approach :: Approach (v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near..

Access :: Access (n.) A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince..

Approachless :: Approachless (a.) Impossible to be approached.

Comet :: Comet (n.) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix..

Revile :: Revile (n.) Reproach; reviling.

Correption :: Correption (n.) Chiding; reproof; reproach.

Taunt :: Taunt (n.) Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.

Shend :: Shend (n.) To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame..

Coast :: Coast (v. t.) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of..

Door :: Door (n.) Passage; means of approach or access.

Formidable :: Formidable (a.) Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming..

Hubbub :: Hubbub (v. i.) A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar.

Approachability :: Approachability (n.) The quality of being approachable; approachableness.

Atwite :: Atwite (v. t.) To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid.

Ruction :: Ruction (n.) An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.

Disgrace :: Disgrace (n.) To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation.

Twit :: Twit (v. t.) To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood..

Hangman :: Hangman (n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office..

Puritanical :: Puritanical (a.) Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt.

Approximate :: Approximate (v. t.) To come near to; to approach.