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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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Monkery :: Monkery (n.) The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.

Disgrace :: Disgrace (n.) That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being..

Puritan :: Puritan (n.) One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.

Rout :: Rout (n.) A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.

Temper :: Temper (n.) Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.

Obloquious :: Obloquious (a.) Containing obloquy; reproachfu.

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..

Open :: Open (a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead..

Stalk :: Stalk (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game..

Unimpeachable :: Unimpeachable (a.) Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony..

Beacon :: Beacon (n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning..

Fricative :: Fricative (a.) Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc..

Believe :: Believe (v. i.) To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith..

Convicious :: Convicious (a.) Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting.

Scandalize :: Scandalize (v. t.) To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon..

Appropinquate :: Appropinquate (v. i.) To approach.

Scoff :: Scoff (n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach..

Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.

Proatlas :: Proatlas (n.) A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.

Stigmatical :: Stigmatical (a.) Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character..