Word Meanings - PROSER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A writer of prose. 2. One who talks or writes tediously. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to PROSER)

• PROSECUTE
  To institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to prosecute for public offenses. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To follow after. Latimer.
• PROSECUTRIX
  A female prosecutor.
• PROSENCEPHALON
  The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain. The cerebrum. Huxley.
• PROSELYTISM
  1. The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party. They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree. Burke. 2. Conversion to a religion,
• PROSECUTABLE
  Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• PROSENCHYMA
  A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.
• PROSEMAN
  A writer of prose.
• PROSELYTE
  A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye compass sea and land to make
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• PROSECTOR
  One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• PROSECUTOR
  The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government. Blackstone. (more info) 1. One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.
• PROSELYTIZER
  One who proselytes.
• PROSEMINATION
  Propagation by seed. Sir M. Hale.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• PROSEMINARY
  A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution. T. Warton.
• PROSENCEPHALIC
  Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.
• PROSECUTION
  1. The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war. Keeping a sharp eye on her domestics
• NON PROSEQUITUR
  A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• UNPROSELYTE
  To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte. Fuller.
• NOLLE PROSEQUI
  Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants.
• NEWS-WRITER
  One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.
• BEPROSE
  To reduce to prose. "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.