Definition of prop

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Prop (v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building..

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Glucose :: Glucose (n.) The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc..
Chose :: Chose (n.) A thing; personal property.
Bedegar :: Bedegar (n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties..
Proposer :: Proposer (n.) One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.
Magnetical :: Magnetical (a.) Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle..
Prize :: Prize (n.) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel..
Voice :: Voice (v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ..
Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus..
Propination :: Propination (n.) The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another..
Repayable :: Repayable (a.) Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind..
Indicate :: Indicate (v. t.) To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants..
Weight :: Weight (v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc..
Discrete :: Discrete (a.) Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, I resign my life, but not my honor, is a discrete proposition..
Hyperboloid :: Hyperboloid (a.) Having some property that belongs to an hyperboloid or hyperbola.
Hagiographa :: Hagiographa (n. pl.) The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles..
Phalansterian :: Phalansterian (n.) One who favors the system of phalansteries proposed by Fourier.
Dilapidation :: Dilapidation (n.) Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention..
Expostulate :: Expostulate (v. i.) To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with..
Cryptogamia :: Cryptogamia (n.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds..
Evil :: Evil (a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days..
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